The owners of Paradise Stable Horse Rescue do not have room for all the horses they'd like to save, so they make it as expensive as possible for people at auctions buying livestock for slaughter.
Bunnie and Lawrence Harasym, who have operated the horse rescue for 11 years, can only house so many horses, so when they go to horse auctions they will bid on horses they have no intention of buying to drive up the price for people looking to slaughter horses for European food markets.
"People aren't always aware what happens when their horses go to auction," Bunnie said in an interview at her acreage northwest of Saskatoon. "They're not always going to homes. They're being sent to the meat man."...Continue reading...
Photograph by: Gord Waldner, The StarPhoenix
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