VIA PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release:
February 13, 2023
Contact:
David Perle 202-483-7382
St. Louis. Mo. — Wearing realistic horse masks and “bloody” tails and holding aloft a giant can of beer emblazoned with the message “Budweiser Has Blood on Its Cans,” PETA supporters will descend on the Anheuser-Busch brewery on Wednesday to challenge the company to stop mutilating the “World-Famous Budweiser Clydesdales.”
As recently revealed in PETA’s video exposé, Budweiser severs the horses’ tailbones or painfully cuts off the blood supply to the tail with a tight band, eventually causing it to die and fall off—all so the Clydesdales will look a certain way when hitched to the beer wagon.
When: Wednesday, February 15, 12 noon
Where: Budweiser Brewery Experience, 1200 Lynch St. (at the intersection with S. 12th Street), St. Louis
“Horses need their tails, and cutting them off causes immense pain, affects their balance, and removes their first line of defense against biting and disease-spreading insects,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “Budweiser is the King of Tears for disfiguring the Clydesdales, and PETA is calling on the company to let these horses keep the tails nature gave them.”
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.
Featured Image: USA Clydesdale Preservation Foundation & Clydesdale Drill Team.
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I’ll never drink Budweiser again.I hope this expose destroys their beer sales.
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PETA is right but it’s for the wrong reason. Historically, and from a safety standpoint, docking tails was not for looks (and isn’t just for looks even today). It was to lower the danger of long thick tails becoming tangled in harness. If you are driving eight tons of horses to a two-ton beer wagon in front of a crowd you DO.NOT.EVER want to find out just exactly what can happen when a tail gets tangled up in harness. There is a simpler solution. Have the army of grooms already paid for caring for these magnificent drafties get paid for an extra hour or two of work and clean, braid, and “mud wrap” tails.
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Thank you Rox. We appreciate your comment. That is what we have been discussing around here too — plaiting their tails.
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I’m so sorry that type of torture is being done to such beautiful horses. These animals make money for the owners. Me and over a hundred are never going to drink Budweiser, ever. All bars shouldn’t buy any Budweiser products until all amputations are stopped on these beautiful horses, they should be arrested for cruelty to animals!!!!!no excuse!! They can braid their tails when pulling wagons-no excuse for their cruelty!!!!
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They also send many unwanted Clydesdales to slaughter if they do not match the team. If they are colored wrong or wrong markings off to slaughter they go.
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THIS IS ABSOLUTELY SICKENING TO ME… THESE HORSES ARE GOD’S CREATURES, NOT FOR MAN TO MISTREAT. THIS IS DISPICABLE & ALL THAT IS INVOLVED SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF…
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The slaughter of any horse is heartbreaking, horrific and immoral, but this is shocking — because it is unsuspected. These people have millions and millions, maybe make billions, but Budweiser has no retirement program for their Clydesdales?
Not sure why we find it shocking, considering what we see day in and day out, year after year. Do you know what happens to the horses who can no longer work? Off to slaughterhouse for them too?
Thank you for posting this.
PS For those interested view this IDA link: https://www.idausa.org/campaign/justice-for-animals/latest-news/stop-budweiser-horses-ending-up-in-kill-pen/.
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