Saved From the Dinner Table ; Scores of Horses Dead Amid Scenes of Appalling Cruelty On Farm Selling Animals to French Butchers. This Is One of the Survivors...Shocked Animal Lovers Describe Horror of Spindles Farm

Daily Mail (January 10, 2008)

Author: Julie Moult, Arthur Martin, Anna Roberts, Dan Newling

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THEY were crammed into tiny, stinking pens with barely room to move.

Eighty-four horses, ponies and donkeys were standing on the rotting remains and skeletons of animals which had starved to death..

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Saved From the Dinner Table ; Scores of Horses Dead Amid Scenes of Appalling Cruelty On Farm Selling Animals to French Butchers. This Is One of the Survivors...Shocked Animal Lovers Describe Horror of Spindles Farm

And the reason for their suffering? A farmer who had paid just Pounds 1 a piece for them was planning to sell them on the Continent for food.

The abuse of animals including the bedraggled horse pictured here is one of the worst cases of animal c...

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