Here is the long promised analysis of the shipping paperwork
of Brian Moore, kill buyer and horse dealer from Jonestown, Pennsylvania. While the most recent information was
requested, it is difficult to be sure of some of the shipping dates as Moore
seems to submit paperwork that isn’t dated, by and large, and apparently the Canadian
Food Inspection Agency is unbothered by that detail.
(you’ll need to download it and it’s a large file)
The sobering note is, that these 790 pages of paperwork
document the slaughterhouse deaths of 7,140 equines.
Rest in peace.
Of those 7,100 plus horses, only 18 were documented as
ponies.
38 were gray horses. That
translates into 1% of the horses Moore ships.
153 were documented as drafts, which is 2% of his shipping
numbers.
The number of Thoroughbreds he’s shipping is
significant. He listed 800. That amounts to 11% of what he ships.
Most folks know Moore and other local kill buyers have their
direct to kill pens – the horses that come off that backside and never get run
through auctions. And Moore’s farm is in
very close proximity to Penn National.
Of course not all of those TBs came directly off the track, but
considering Penn Gaming’s zero tolerance policy, makes you wonder how many did,
doesn’t it?
A few other things of note.
We’ve all heard dozens of times that once the horses are tagged and on
the manifest, they cannot be pulled off.
In this particular case there are numerous cases where a horse is
listed, then a line is put through the listing and it says “not on the load.” Take a look at pages 476, 505, 546, 629, 638,
709, 713 – and there are others.
On page 534 they slipped in a page from Leroy Baker. Note he shipped a mustang, and four horses listed
on his load didn’t get shipped.
Now it’s possible these horses were rejected at the border,
but it certainly belies the assertion that they are absolutely gone once
tagged, or written up – you know the mantra.
We can’t be sure why those horses were removed from the load.
So repeat after me --- Brian Moore doesn’t ship ponies to
slaughter, especially minis, week after week after week as the broker owned
programs are telling you. And he rarely
ships gray horses – one in one hundred. Very
few drafts are shipped by him – two out of a hundred.
What he does like is the big, healthy, beefy quarter horses. And lots of horses listed in the “other”
category, which is likely a lot of Standardbreds and Paints, breeds of good
flesh and less bone. The horses you
never see on the broker owned pages.
Consigned to their deaths without a chance because they are healthy and
will yield lots of good meat.
Lots of thoughts swirl through your head after looking over
the documentation. But horse dealers
are horse dealers, right? Some folks
call them unwanted horses, but for these dealers they are very much wanted, and
will make good use of them, dead or alive.
They dont like greys because of the melanoma issue. By the time you see it on the outside it is all through the horse on the inside. I was told this by a horse dealer friend of mine. Yes many many years ago she would take horses to slaughter, but that was when there was no waiting around. The slaughter houses were local. When things changed she started saving them, especially the OTTB's and finding them new homes. She has always told me they do not ship ponies. There's no money in it.
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