Celebrities ride horses to Parliament to raise awareness of horse smuggling

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  • Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
  • Write to the Prime Minister bit.ly/3LdzjWz - Donate to help get the Kept Animals Bill over the line and ban live exports to slaughter bit.ly/43Jdd5q #StopHorseSmuggling
    Central London echoed to the sound of clattering hooves as a group of horses and riders from World Horse Welfare, joined by familiar faces from the worlds of entertainment and equestrianism, Rode to Parliament in a bid to press for the passage of the Kept Animals Bill and raise awareness of the live export to slaughter of horses.
    Tourists and passers-by were transfixed by the sight of the horses and their riders, including Radio 2 DJ, horse lover and World Horse Welfare Patron Sara Cox; equestrian influencer and World Horse Welfare Rehomer This Esme and equestrian legend Jane Holderness-Roddam. The ride took just over 45 minutes from South Carriage Drive in Knightsbridge, through Hyde Park to Constitution Hill and along The Mall before arriving at Parliament.
    The ride marked the start of the charity’s #StopHorseSmuggling appeal to help finish what Ada Cole started and ensure that no horse from Britain is transported abroad live for slaughter.
    The superbly behaved horses, supplied and led by Carol Andrews, owner of Wimbledon Village Stables, were flanked by Mounted Police for safety before coming to a halt in the very heart of the city, at Victoria Gardens South just outside the Houses of Parliament.
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Комментарии • 124

  • @worldhorsewelfare
    @worldhorsewelfare  Год назад +21

    Thanks for watching our video on the Kept Animals Bill, you can support us by making a donation to our appeal here: bit.ly/3LkszGv - UK residents can help further support us by writing to the Prime Minister here: bit.ly/3HpKDwz

  • @janw491
    @janw491 Год назад +53

    AMERICA 🇺🇸 and CANADA🇨🇦 pay attention this needs to be done here as well as UK 🇬🇧

  • @annepettit3855
    @annepettit3855 Год назад +104

    People’s around the world are horrified at the slaughter pipeline in the U.S. and the lack of welfare protection here. It’s shocking to find that the UK is facing the same issue and having an equally difficult time passing equally popular legislation! Pass the Kept Animals Act! Pass the SAFE Act! Something both sides of the pond can get together around!

  • @ridinnvibin1
    @ridinnvibin1 Год назад +42

    I wish I could sign the petition but I don't live in the UK 🥺 Best of luck to everyone involved, this bill better be passed! PUSH FOR THOSE RIGHTS ❤

    • @cqral4229
      @cqral4229 Год назад

      Awww, I will literally go sign the petition because I literally need to..

  • @Kim-lc3fv
    @Kim-lc3fv Год назад +62

    Good going, world horse welfare! 👍❤️🐴❤ As an American, I wish you success. 🤞

    • @KateFergeson
      @KateFergeson Год назад +4

      Amen

    • @ann.ask.
      @ann.ask. Год назад +11

      As a fellow American, we have a long way to go with our banning horse export to Mexico and, yes...Canada! It would be lovely to know this would "kill" the slaughter trade in Canada with it, yet, likely not. I hope this passes and can at least set a precedent for our mission to ban slaughter export from the USA. Thanks for the awareness and fight!

  • @shermoore1693
    @shermoore1693 Год назад +12

    Good luck! I hope with all my heart that parliament bans ALL live animal exports for fattening and butchery. Well done, I hope your ride is successful.

  • @gardengnome132
    @gardengnome132 Год назад +60

    Thank you all for doing this, I hope you can help get the legislation passed. I've been anxiously awaiting another video for weeks, cheering you on in the USA.

  • @victorialawrence4782
    @victorialawrence4782 Год назад +87

    What about breeding? 25,000 + thoroughbreds are bred every 12 months. The "best" are plucked off the top and the rest are discarded or raced to literal death in smaller stake races. Not only thoroughbreds. That's the root of the problem. The rest of us are left the responsibility of adopting them and keeping them from slaughter.

    • @janw491
      @janw491 Год назад +21

      Well said. This needs the racing community to take responsibility for the breeding of thoroughbreds, I don’t hold my breath because there are so many countries breeding so many all for the greed of money. Maybe a rule is made that every registered thoroughbred is tracked through its microchip and ensured a reasonable life whether racing or not.

    • @MerelyGifted
      @MerelyGifted Год назад

      What about the way racehorses are allowed to be drugged in the US but nowhere else?
      What about all the third world donkeys who are worked to death and rarely get their feet properly trimmed?
      What about horse hoarders who no longer provide proper care for their too-large herds?
      What about the worldwide disappearance of safe, well-maintained bridle paths?
      What about the poor "big lick" Tennessee Walkers who are abused for show?
      What about the Arabians who are bred for halter classes yet lack the conformation to do anything else? What about the way Arabian halter classes involve terrifying the horses?
      What about dressage riders abusing their horses with rollkur?
      There are many aspects of horse welfare that need attention and donations of time, money, and supplies. This particular video has to do with a bill that's been sitting in parliament for almost two years, a bill which would help end horses being smuggled for slaughter.
      Every group working to improve the lot of equines everywhere is worthy. There's no good reason to indulge in whataboutery, nor to belittle any of them nor the issues upon which they focus.

    • @nickygentle9246
      @nickygentle9246 Год назад +1

      Yes this ❤

    • @Red.Equestrian
      @Red.Equestrian Год назад +6

      We can't do everything at once, can we? I completely agree with you, but banning the live export of horses is extremely important.

    • @sarahbarton2089
      @sarahbarton2089 Год назад

      Very true.

  • @rebeckaevans1225
    @rebeckaevans1225 Год назад +1

    We need the same bill in Canada!!!!!!!
    Best wishes UK!!! We need to treat all animals better!

  • @dberr1509
    @dberr1509 Год назад +10

    Please pass the Bill to save innocent horses 🐴

  • @gayleecker5023
    @gayleecker5023 Год назад +36

    Great work being done by World Horse Welfare to improve the health and welfare of horses! Well done on this important initiative.

  • @martylesnick2032
    @martylesnick2032 Год назад +20

    PLEASE TELL THEM THAT BILL MUST PASS! IN HONOR OF THE LATE HM QUEEN ELIZABETH, A HORSE LOVER AND PRINCE PHILLIP WHO'S NAME MEANS HORSE LOVER. HOPE THEY PASS IT FOR ALL THE HORSES IN GREAT BRITAIN Susan

  • @christinalazar4155
    @christinalazar4155 Год назад +4

    W.H.W.- wonderful organization! Horses are such terrific creatures.Please pass this legislation.

  • @mataform
    @mataform Год назад +1

    I did this for world horse welfare some years ago with Anthony head . I am an actress and was in a very popular series with my mate . We went from St. John’s wood barracks in Winston Churchill s mothers coach to Downing Street to hand in a petition to stop the live transport of horses yet here we still are asking the muppets to stop this monstrous trade. What is the problem? Humans have used these amazing animals in their disgusting wars and if you have ever heard a horse scream you will never forget it . Stop the filthy trade now!

  • @ShortOrderCook
    @ShortOrderCook Год назад +22

    I really pray you get this Bill done and dusted. Fantastic that you made such a statement with the ride to Parliament - I hope you succeed!

  • @ForceFreeTrainergirl06
    @ForceFreeTrainergirl06 Год назад +15

    I'm in Canada and unfortunately it's one of the worst offenders when it comes to horses being sold for slaughter. The Canadian government really isn't interested in any sort of animal welfare, including horses. The Animal welfare laws in Canada are literally in some cases Dickensian and haven't changed for over 100 years. It's disgusting.

  • @JMCass-bp3sb
    @JMCass-bp3sb Год назад +8

    Wonderful to see these magnificent Horses who represent every Horse that is treated in so many cruel ways, subjected to the distress of live export, left to starve, used for pony rides until they are worn out then discarded with no regard.
    Each one is valuable & also must be protected from unscrupulous dealers at horse fairs where they are traded & sold on for slaughter.
    It is so distressing to know so much cruelty continues when lawmakers can change laws & regulations for the betterment of every Animal.
    World Horse Welfare & so many other Welfare Organizations deserve Governmental financial support for their continued hard work on behalf of the Equines that have been overlooked & suffer at the hands of traders, dealers & illegal shipment.
    God save & protect All His Creatures.

  • @tamijapink6671
    @tamijapink6671 Год назад +2

    Bless your hearts for standing up for our horses.
    They are part of our history.

  • @MarieClaude
    @MarieClaude Год назад +13

    This Esme not on a gray???? What’s going on?
    In all seriousness, great work to raise awareness. Thanks World Horse Wellfare!

  • @lindawalker5719
    @lindawalker5719 Год назад +20

    My companion connie was knackered in her jumping home, they got their insurance money and sent her off for meat money, thankfully she was snapped up by a dealer and thrn I bought her to live her life in luxury safe forever ❤️

    • @suemaher5282
      @suemaher5282 Год назад +1

      This is happening far too much Connie is so lucky many are not. U have raised a real problem here and it needs looking at. U and Connie have hilighted it well done.

  • @richardpitman9996
    @richardpitman9996 Год назад +5

    That was so superbly executed to get the message across and in stark contrast to The mob at Aintree !

  • @patriciaruth2894
    @patriciaruth2894 Год назад +17

    Thank you all for doing this ❤

  • @heatherjohn2047
    @heatherjohn2047 Год назад +39

    We need to do this here in America as Well because horses here are transported to Mexico and Canada for slaughter it makes me sick to my stomach knowing that Horses are being slaughter and transported for that God Bless You Guys very much

    • @arribaficationwineho32
      @arribaficationwineho32 Год назад +1

      Agree

    • @lizzegerius9642
      @lizzegerius9642 Год назад +1

      This is to stop horses being transported to Europe to be slaughtered.. the only way to do this is gor whw to campaign for more slaughterhouses to start doing horses again in the UK.

    • @charlotterockel-kennedy8913
      @charlotterockel-kennedy8913 Год назад +1

      ​@@lizzegerius9642 in Swindon horses are still slaughtered 😢

  • @stevegreat7193
    @stevegreat7193 Год назад +9

    Kindness is all we need. Thank you for being kind.

  • @karenlee8068
    @karenlee8068 Год назад +4

    I find it abhorrent that it is thought ok and accepted that live animal export is a humane way to treat any animal, they are capable of feeling fear, pain and distress and are treated with total disregard of their welfare needs.
    As a horse owner it breaks my heart to see them at slaughter markets, these are animals that have given their all for humans and to be treated in this way is sickening. A total ban is needed on all live animal exports and imports. I hope that our Government will listen and act, but I won't be holding my breath 😢

  • @marlenedavis6322
    @marlenedavis6322 Год назад +14

    I hope this bill gets through. I have just donated to a fantastic cause . Keep the good work up.

  • @JA51711
    @JA51711 Год назад +3

    Thank you so much 🙏 Here in America I have been against horse slaughter since the 1970s as a child after reading Anna Sewell's "Black beauty". Unfortunately the horrors of the slaughter pipeline are increasingly getting worse. with the Belgian horses going to Asia for meat thoroughbreds, historical mustangs, and any equine are being heavily affected by this tragic and inhumane process. I t just doesn't stop. There are even Federal animal cruelty laws not enough law enforcement officers that are trained and how to detect and how to enforce the laws. Consider that what is included in the bill is law enforcement officers get trained in identifying horses going to slaughter and how to create the case and how to press the charges and have an after-care setup for the rescues. these poor horses are starved abused neglected and put on some of the most horrific journeys before they are tortured and slaughtered. These beings are very incredible souls they are not machines to be used and thrown away and disrespected. Horses are our friends our soldiers and our officers they are our companions and they do have emotions and they do matter.

  • @susanphillips6791
    @susanphillips6791 Год назад +6

    Thankyou for your effort to save the horses❤

  • @lisacooney1278
    @lisacooney1278 Год назад +17

    Lovely to see such contented happy healthy horses! XXX

  • @millymay0025
    @millymay0025 Год назад +2

    Signed, sent and shared, thank you for bringing this to my attention!

  • @catherinebrown7299
    @catherinebrown7299 Год назад +2

    We need this here in the US too. I hope all of it passes legislation, and y'all can move on to helping other countries ban exporting hoses for slaughter and harm.

  • @julzhepburn3688
    @julzhepburn3688 Год назад +12

    Absolutely essential bill,, its cruel and unnessasery ,, years overdue ,,Thankyou Guys for making a stand ,, let everyone remember the dept all cultures Owe the horse ..🙏♥️🐴

  • @Chloe_L_
    @Chloe_L_ Год назад +4

    Anyone else see this after seeing This Esme's post?

  • @natashakate5687
    @natashakate5687 Год назад +2

    This bill needs to get passed, I hope it does. Thank you so much for doing this ❤️ I wish the states would to.

  • @nikkiisrael2708
    @nikkiisrael2708 Год назад +3

    This is wonderful what you are doing to save the horses, worldwide.
    Great job!
    I will be praying 🙏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🐎

  • @447L
    @447L Год назад +2

    I firmly stand against export of horses, it's beyond cruel and we in Canada have this problem too.

  • @lehavredechiron1312
    @lehavredechiron1312 Год назад +6

    Wish you are heard! A great fan of your work from France.

  • @maggiefreeman6513
    @maggiefreeman6513 Год назад +6

    Thank you so much for doing this.

  • @stormmary1
    @stormmary1 Год назад +7

    Praying for this to succeed, and hoping the United States will follow suit...

  • @erynd2524
    @erynd2524 Год назад +3

    I back you 100 percent! Thank you for making people aware of this.

  • @KateFergeson
    @KateFergeson Год назад +6

    Huzza! Thank you chaps for this. Cheers.
    God Bless ❤

  • @constancesmith8881
    @constancesmith8881 Год назад +1

    Thank you!

  • @kristenkaz3080
    @kristenkaz3080 Год назад +1

    As a concerned American, I am wishing you the best of luck, well wishes & a lot of love that the legislation is successfully passed. In 2019 it was reported that the Queen’s own older-than-average horses in the Household Calvary were sold to slaughter. My hope is that this is an incorrect report. Especially with the Coronation so soon to take place!!!

  • @yvonneFazackerley
    @yvonneFazackerley Год назад +1

    Thankyou for making us aware and good luck.x

  • @hazeltaylor182
    @hazeltaylor182 Год назад +2

    Bless you all for your protest today 🙏 🙏🙏 from horse liver & G Gran NZ formally UK

  • @PLS.54
    @PLS.54 Год назад +4

    Thank you 🙏

  • @snowysnowyriver
    @snowysnowyriver Год назад +2

    @00:48. What a BEAUTIFUL horse. Absolutely gorgeous ❤

  • @sherissaelise
    @sherissaelise Год назад +3

    who else is waiting for this esme's video about this to premiere.

  • @lindawalker5719
    @lindawalker5719 Год назад +3

    Thank you

  • @stardust949
    @stardust949 Год назад +6

    Good Luck over there, Go BRITISH HORSES and lots of love from the USA!

  • @judygregoire5473
    @judygregoire5473 Год назад +1

    Thank you so very much for doing this

  • @berylemeraldnose1359
    @berylemeraldnose1359 Год назад +5

    thank you, what a wonderful thing

  • @Guardian_Animator
    @Guardian_Animator Год назад +2

    Just sent my email now, my young newforest almost lost his passport at auction but he was lucky enough to keep it.

  • @caughtredhanded0
    @caughtredhanded0 Год назад

    Esme, a very famous RUclipsr was there. Heart to her.

  • @soraark1342
    @soraark1342 Год назад +8

    Canada needs to do this too!!

  • @dxniella_
    @dxniella_ Год назад +5

    that's amazing, just amazing. I really hope it was successful 👍❤🐴

  • @pjk1714
    @pjk1714 Год назад +3

    Wish you were helping Canada and USA too for same concern.
    Canada Trudeau told Agriculture Minister to stop December 2021.
    Now she is concerned for economy and must plan.
    We have both export from few farms to Japan but we are concerned for kill buyers pipeline for slaughter
    They buy cheap $$ and cross back dumping on the way to Mexico.
    Pet's, Racing and working horses without standard of care.

  • @sharonlivingstone7163
    @sharonlivingstone7163 Год назад

    I owe horses my life. This legislation needs to be passed. I support the ban whole heartedly. This will be a dream come true for me, to stop these beautiful, faithful, honest and majestic animals being taken and slaughtered, it's barbaric. Bless everyone involved. Thank you all with love. ❤xxx

  • @Hellzangel115
    @Hellzangel115 Год назад +1

    I may not be a citizen of UK but i think her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II would be deeply moved by the effort to stop such practices as horse smuggling and slaughter. Its rather a large problem here in the states. 😢

  • @paulabears7882
    @paulabears7882 Год назад +1

    Wish the Americans and canadians would be this kind to animals that served them do well

  • @lovepet4565
    @lovepet4565 Год назад +13

    It's absolutely sickening
    Usa needs same
    We send them to Japan
    Raw sushi made of poor horses
    Pets, old race horses
    They are abused in process

    • @janc8199
      @janc8199 Год назад

      It's not only Japan..Many Countries eat horse meat including France. What I don't get is that many horses that get sent to slaughter are sick and skinny..what meat are they getting from them? It's disgusting.

    • @charlotterockel-kennedy8913
      @charlotterockel-kennedy8913 Год назад

      How sickening 😢

  • @erinfletcher9060
    @erinfletcher9060 Год назад +1

    We need this in Canada

  • @nickygentle9246
    @nickygentle9246 Год назад +1

    Written and will share

  • @sherrieshatzen3801
    @sherrieshatzen3801 Год назад +4

    This a piece of legislation & a campaign that is desperately needed in the US. Dogs & cats have much more protection against abuse & cruelty than horses do. Horses are considered to be livestock in the US & laws are on a county to county basis, state by state. In my area there are 5 horses living in a mud pit lot without proper shelter from storms or heat from the sun, without any protection from the weather through the use of blankets (rugs), without proper regular grooming, without access to a pasture--basically without any kind of standard equine care. The owner of the horses is a backyard breeder who breeds mares & sells horses.I have no idea who is buying them but there is a good possibility that they are going to killer pens or being exported to other countries where horsemen is commony consumed by people. The US needs to pass laws to protect horses & to insure that they are entitled to a good quality of life. I am not naive enought to believe that laws will guarantee this. After all even with the exising laws for the treatment of dogs & cats, thousands are abandoned or otherwise subjected to cruelty of all sorts every year. But the laws help.

  • @kitdorri7113
    @kitdorri7113 Год назад +1

    Well done to you all xxx

  • @barbaradyson6951
    @barbaradyson6951 Год назад +1

    My mother was involved with this BACK IN THE 60S. NOTHING CHANGED. HORSE GOES DOWN IN THE TRANSPORTER BREAKS LEG SO THE PUT A HOOK THROUGH ITS HOCK AND E
    WINCH IT OUT THAT WAY.

  • @pamelawing5747
    @pamelawing5747 Год назад +1

    I wish something like that would pass here in the US. JMHO, there are too many foals born every year. There is for sure a surplus and the outcomes are not good. I'm not really sure what could or can be done about that. How do you tell people they can't breed their horse?

  • @sphhyn
    @sphhyn Год назад +4

    I Hope you succeed ! Greetings from Germany 🐴

  • @margaretfleming3554
    @margaretfleming3554 Год назад

    This Bill needs to pass!

  • @carol2336
    @carol2336 Месяц назад

    God bless you all ❤️

  • @Runningfromtheherd
    @Runningfromtheherd Год назад +2

    Where's Princess Anne when you really need her?

    • @deniseunterman9652
      @deniseunterman9652 Год назад

      Oh stop it. How long have you been skulking around, waiting for a "reason" to bash her. You're a ridiculous person.

  • @ChloeJoness21
    @ChloeJoness21 Год назад

    that’s so amazing!! ❤ I love how people are doing that! that looks so fun ❤❤

  • @maramakesjournals2319
    @maramakesjournals2319 Год назад +3

    The police riders helped swell your numbers. Cool! I hope the bill is passed.

  • @joannesmartens9442
    @joannesmartens9442 Год назад +2

    Esme higgs also on a ride i london together wth other celebrities👍💖

  • @MerelyGifted
    @MerelyGifted Год назад +1

    You know damn well all but a very few of the parliamentarians' children have ponies and horses! WTF?!

  • @anitawiseman5455
    @anitawiseman5455 Год назад

    Brilliant cause❤❤

  • @Red.Equestrian
    @Red.Equestrian Год назад

    Thank you so much for doing this. Everyone who was involved in this protest is absolutely amazing. Thank you so much for standing up to this ❤️

  • @juliehughes4623
    @juliehughes4623 Год назад +1

    I thought this was put through in 2018!!!! They do like to drag everything out that doesn't provide them with individual profit.

  • @inkssz
    @inkssz Год назад

    I saw the one w “this esme” it was awesome

  • @Lunniah
    @Lunniah Год назад

    Came here from Esmes channel

  • @omgaming9337
    @omgaming9337 Год назад +2

    Omg it’s this esme

  • @ann-mariesantos7940
    @ann-mariesantos7940 Год назад +1

    God You All!!! ❤

  • @melissawarfield
    @melissawarfield Год назад

    Each Country is having problems to be corrected with our government and the Parliament. Horses need to live. Horses being slaughtered and smuggled in both Countries. I am sending well wishes to England on their horse issues. I would like to see both issues pass both in England the U.S.

  • @sussijensen6977
    @sussijensen6977 Год назад +3

    Hi from Danmark ❤
    🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎
    Dear King Charles
    please do something ❤

  • @AtkaNova
    @AtkaNova Год назад

    Yyyyyeessss, let's end this!

  • @skr8674
    @skr8674 7 месяцев назад

    STOP EATING HORSE MEAT!!! 😡😡😡

  • @katelynmaples3276
    @katelynmaples3276 Год назад

    Yes and hi Esme and everyone

  • @whosnikzz
    @whosnikzz Год назад

    Esmeee was there❤❤❤😊😊😊😊

  • @sinnombre4357
    @sinnombre4357 Год назад +2

    Even though it's sad, I'd rather humanely euthanize animals than having them starved or worked to death. It's impossible to believe that all of them can be adopted. People need to stop breeding and start adopting.

    • @Flash3-22
      @Flash3-22 2 месяца назад

      The reality of the equine industry is there are more horses than homes.
      Senior horses are living into their 20-30s making it challenging to
      find good retirement options.

  • @sedg03
    @sedg03 Год назад

    Queen elizabeth would see this as a tribute to her love of the horse.. ;)

  • @huianxing3782
    @huianxing3782 Год назад

    GO ESMEE

  • @AnnyOKtoday
    @AnnyOKtoday Год назад +2

    Where are these horses coming from to smuggle? Are owners not giving their horses the last act of kindness. 😢

    • @juliaforsyth8332
      @juliaforsyth8332 Год назад +1

      Why don't you just say "put down"? Like in the US, if you don't own the land you graze on or there may be burying restrictions, most people can't afford to cremate them.

    • @AnnyOKtoday
      @AnnyOKtoday Год назад

      @@juliaforsyth8332 yes I can say put them down or put to sleep. As a responsible horse owner in the UK, I have had to say goodbye to one of our ponies and two of our horses due to various illnesses. Sadly it is putting them to sleep, responsibly in their own field with the family with them. What we didn’t do was send them off to slaughter to be turned into meat 😢

  • @7Cherubim
    @7Cherubim Год назад

    I wish you luck, but if you seriously think the government will be interested you will be very fortunate.

  • @Aceandgrace2
    @Aceandgrace2 Год назад

    go esme

  • @Someone-zh7gc
    @Someone-zh7gc Год назад

    ❤❤

  • @trevinize
    @trevinize Год назад

    What is the problem?

  • @MIRIAM-bm5sn
    @MIRIAM-bm5sn Год назад

    I hope you will it is so disgusting to export live horses why the hell people eat any meat let alone horses