Bingham Bulletin | 1949-07-22 | Page 7 | Britain Charges Belgians with Eating Work Horses

Britain Charges Belgians With Eating Work Horses LONDON. Despite Belgian importers' im-porters' guarantees, the 2,000 British Brit-ish horses shipped there annually practically all are slaughtered for food, instead of being worked as agreed, Arthur W. Moss, of the Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, charged. "The meat is processed and mostly sold in the form of Antwerp Ant-werp sausages," he said, after returning re-turning from Belgium. "Immediately the horses on my ship were disembarked, they were branded on the neck with a hot iron and a hole was punched in the right ear to insert a number peg. The following day they were slaughtered."