In an internationally award-winning documentary aired in 2005, local television programme Carte Blanche and the HET revealed to the public exactly what animals in South Africa are forced to endure at the hands of humans.
To me, one of the most horrifying scenes was of half-dead horses being carted off for slaughter in the back of a truck. There were three layers of the beleaguered beasts. A layer of corpses at the bottom, a second layer of those too weak to stand and a third who had survived the ordeal, trampling the others. They were subject to further physical abuse by workers. “We constantly delude ourselves we are proudly South Africans, but we cannot even be proudly human in this type of treatment of animals. They’re as vulnerable as small children. But children have our instant outrage when they’re hurt or abused”.
I was appalled at the treatment of South African farm animals. Until I watched this movie, I had no idea it was this bad. This movie is inspiration to all of us to stand up for farm animals rights.
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