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British horses ending up in French meals

LONDON, May 19 (UPI) -- An animal protection group says nearly 5,000 horses are killed annually in Britain for shipment to France where the meat is embraced as healthy cuisine.

The Daily Mail said Saturday that thousands of carcasses of slain horses transported each year from Britain to France to feed the growth of that nation's obsession with horse meat.

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Horse meat recently has been promoted as a healthy culinary alternative by a Web site funded by the French government and celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey's TV series "The F Word."

Activists have come out in opposition of the popular movement, blaming such promotions with fueling the slaughter of scores of horses.

"The horse meat trade is undoubtedly the largest general abuse of horses in Europe," Jo White, an official with the International League for the Protection of Horses, told the British newspaper.

"It involves the transportation to slaughter of thousands of horses, traveling thousands of miles in inhumane and pitiful conditions."

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