598 horses from the racing industry were sent to slaughter in England in 2024 - Animal Aid
The Cheltenham Festival kicks off next week, as will the inevitable ‘welfare propaganda’ pushed by the racing industry. We know this to be nothing more than empty marketing rhetoric, peddled by the industry to convince the public of their commitment to ‘good welfare’ and the fairy-tale lives of race horses. The shocking new figures from the Food Standards Agency speak of a far more disturbing reality, one in which horses are not treated as valuable or beloved, but as disposable commodities whose lives are exploited for every last penny of profit that can be made from their flesh and bones.
