The end of the journey. In Antwerp, a horse is now three times more valuable dead than

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The end of the journey. In Antwerp, a horse is now three times more valuable dead than

The end of the journey. In Antwerp, a horse is now three times more valuable dead than alive - and a handful of Belgium butchers are making £ 1, 000, 000 a year by the mass slaughter of an animal which for centuries has been mans most faithful servant. The horses - shipped as working animals - are imported in thousands chiefly from Eire. But, although most of them are in their prime, they are slaughtered almost immediately after they are landed and sold - at luxury prices - to well-fed Belgiums. The stick and the rope urge four " essential imports" on to the bloodstained knife of the butcher. The law is evaded and more horse-flesh is turned into money. May 1948

Daily Mirror
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Antwerp
Belgium

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