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THE SHAME OF MEXICO, LA VERGUENZA DE MEXICO – Sign Petition NOW

April 6, 2011 by thepersianhorse

Dedicated to the Horses who have Shed their Blood, Lost their Freedom, and Given their Lives for B.L.M.

: Animals are treated as “waste” in San Bernabe Mercado.

Seen for sale on site at the Mercado de San Bernabe in Mexico are donkeys, horses, mules, dogs and wildlife, whose origins are uncertain and many are visibly sick, arrive and depart transported in sadistic and deplorable conditions with exposed fractures, bleeding open wounds and ulcers. Others are hung with ropes, when they no longer have the strength to stand upright. These suffering “animal waste” are kept alive just because a kilo of live meat costs twice that of a dead one. If an animal finally ends its agony and dies it is cut open right there and its vescera is extracted and thrown on the ground in the middle of the market.

PLEASE CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINK TO SIGN THE PETITION TO CLOSE MERCADO DE SAN BERNABE’

http://www.change.org/petitions/close-mercado-de-san-bernabe-the-shame-of-mexico#?opt_new=t&opt_fb=t

: Horse being kept alive so his Meat will bring More Money.

There is no animal health control. Animals are sold directly for two purposes either privately as live animals (for work or food) or to a slaughterhouse (called the “rastro”). Obviously, the sale of live animals is done in less cruel way than that of animals that are sold to the rastro, since the horses going to the slaughterhouse are considered waste and therefore are treated in a very brutal manner, they are kicked, poked with electric barbs that are prohibited for horses. Bats and pipes are used to hit animals, they are tied with ropes. Animals suffer fractures or they fall dead, others arrive with broken limbs because the owners want to get some extra money by selling them and the animals are forced to walk down to the transport truck in these conditions. In the best case, the animals are transported sick, infected with tumors or open wounds, and later sold to the highest bidder. At worst, their corpses are left on the ground without being buried, with animal viscera strewn about in violation of standard NOM-024-ZOO-1995.

Water troughs often don’t contain water, the pens are underutilized – some are overcrowded, others are empty. There is a shed that was scheduled to install a sacrifice room for broken or injured animals that cannot continue the trip. It is important to mention that it is a living sacrifice room and not a slaughterhouse, and has created problems of assessment with the authorities i.e. the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA) because they do not accept the installation of a slaughterhouse, in the absence of the necessary infrastructure to do so.

PLEASE CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINK TO SIGN THE PETITION TO CLOSE THE MERCADO DE SAN BERNABE’

http://www.change.org/petitions/close-mercado-de-san-bernabe-the-shame-of-mexico#?opt_new=t&opt_fb=t