Major protest planned outside factory over ‘abhorrent’ horse abuse footage
A protest is being held on Saturday outside a factory in Co Kildare where serious animal welfare abuses are alleged to have taken place.
The abuses were uncovered in the RTÉ Investigates documentary which aired on Wednesday night, prompting an investigation by the Department of Agriculture and gardaí.
The documentary also revealed that illegal methods were used to launder the identities of horses at the site in Ireland’s only equine abattoir.
The welfare abuse was filmed in a building used by Shannonside Foods Ltd in Straffan.
Campaign group My Lovely Horse Rescue (MLHR) is now calling for the facility to be shut down.
Martina Kenny, co-founder of MLHR, told Newstalk radio that it was time for the authorities to take action. “The whole country is in uproar about this,” she said.
The Minister for Agriculture, Charlie McConalogue, said those responsible will face the “full rigours of the law”.
Horse Racing Ireland said it will “actively support” the Department of…
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