Horse-racing bosses condemn abattoir practices

Horse-racing bosses condemn abattoir practices
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media captionInside the abattoir slaughtering racehorses
Irish and British horse-racing authorities have condemned footage that revealed evidence of a UK abattoir breaking welfare rules when slaughtering former racehorses.
Horse Racing Ireland said the footage - which featured in a BBC Panorama investigation - was abhorrent.
The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) met welfare experts earlier to discuss the issue "as a matter of urgency".
The abattoir told the BBC it did not accept any form of animal abuse.
The covert footage, recorded by the anti-horse racing campaign group Animal Aid, showed horses being killed in front of each other and being shot from a distance at Drury and Sons - one of the UK's biggest abattoirs and one of the few licensed to slaughter horses.

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