‘It’s not Canadian’: Jann Arden ramps up campaign against live horse exports for meat

Canadian singer, songwriter, histrion and writer Jann Arden is ramping up her run against the export and slaughter of horses.

Every year, astir 2,500 unrecorded horses are shipped from Canada overseas to beryllium fattened up earlier slaughter.

“The Canadian Horse Defense Coalition doesn’t attraction what you eat,” Arden with the radical HORSESHIT told Global News.

“This isn’t astir depletion oregon monitoring people’s dietary desires. That’s nary of our business. This is astir terrifying horses, mistreating them. I mean, the connection inhumane doesn’t adjacent travel adjacent to what they endure.”

Many of the horses are shipped to Japan wherever basahi, a earthy dish, is simply a pricey delicacy.

Animal payment organizations successful Canada and Japan released a study earlier this month saying authorities officials are being misled by the manufacture astir the export of unrecorded horses.

Canada’s Animal Justice and Japan’s Life Investigation Agency teamed up for the study, which they accidental reveals that the fig of horses who person died arsenic a effect of the travel betwixt the 2 countries is drastically higher than records reported by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).

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Arden said they person reports of horses passing retired connected planes and past dying oregon suffering injuries specified arsenic breached legs.

Global News tried to scope retired to the institution that is exporting the horses but did not perceive back.

Opponents of the commercialized said the main institution is an American-based 1 that lone came to Canada aft the U.S. banned the signifier much than 2 decades ago.

“It’s not hundreds of people, its not feeding Canadians, its not serving Canadians,” Arden said.

“It’s a radical of businessmen calling themselves farmers who are cashing successful connected innocent, terrified horses.”

Arden is successful Vancouver to host a nationalist forum connected Friday night, to rise consciousness of the issue.

“It’s conscionable a truly unsavoury, sinister practice,” Arden said.

“And we person to extremity it. It’s not Canadian.”

— with files from Sam Thompson