{"id":70987,"date":"2021-03-10T08:32:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T13:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=70987"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:54:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:54:58","slug":"coulter-horse-slaughter-is-a-national-disgrace-we-can-and-must-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/03\/coulter-horse-slaughter-is-a-national-disgrace-we-can-and-must-end\/","title":{"rendered":"COULTER: Horse slaughter is a national disgrace we can and must end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kendra Coulter, Chair of the Department of Labour Studies at Brock University, wrote a piece recently published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/horse-slaughter-is-a-national-disgrace-we-can-and-must-end-155845?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%2010%202021&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%2010%202021+CID_1cbb06e383995b602274a01af0851c01&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Horse%20slaughter%20is%20a%20national%20disgrace%20we%20can%20and%20must%20end\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> where she advocates for Canada to put an end to its export of live horses shipped for meat.<\/p>\n<p>She writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis story is not graphic, but what happens to horses shipped for meat sure is.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You might have believed horses were cherished and protected in Canada. Unfortunately, the truth is more complicated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Extra-large horses (like the beer commercial Clydesdales) are lovingly called gentle giants because they are calm, kind and co-operative. Yet those born into the meat trade are put in boxes and\u00a0shipped across the ocean\u00a0without food or water on a long, one-way flight to their unceremonious deaths. Then they are eaten by the wealthy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Often three or four\u00a0horses are crammed into crates that barely offer enough room for one. About\u00a040,000 horses\u00a0have been shipped to slaughter from Canada since 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s a gruesome national disgrace. And it\u2019s perfectly legal, although hopefully not for much longer.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/horse-slaughter-is-a-national-disgrace-we-can-and-must-end-155845?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%2010%202021&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%2010%202021+CID_1cbb06e383995b602274a01af0851c01&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Horse%20slaughter%20is%20a%20national%20disgrace%20we%20can%20and%20must%20end\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kendra Coulter, Chair of the Department of Labour Studies at Brock University, wrote a piece recently published in The Conversation where she advocates for Canada to put an end to its export of live horses shipped for meat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,38],"tags":[110,522,3126,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70993,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70987\/revisions\/70993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}