Animals' Angels investigators observed harsh conditions in EU approved Mexican slaughterhouses during an intensive investigation conducted in September 2012. The goal of this follow up investigation was to check if any improvements had been made since the 2007/2008 investigations had revealed abhorrent conditions. Animal welfare investigators are accustomed to observing the most egregious treatment of animals. Even the slightest improvements are welcome, but do not bring a cease fire to the battle for humane treatment of all animals transported to slaughter.

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It is a pleasure to invite you to take part in Animals' Angels fourth annual Light the Sky event on Saturday, December 1, 2012. We will meet on this night with thousands of candles to Light the Sky for the animals - to cast a light against the darkness and symbolically alleviate suffering. This is a time to step back and reflect on our purpose and our respect for the animals, their fates and the conditions.

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September 2012, Animals Angels revisited Presidio's export pens in  Texas just a short, six-minute drive from the Mexican border. After days of filming and surveillance, investigators verified that the same problems exist as were seen in 2011 and again in March of this year, with one change:

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AA has just returned from a ten day investigation of multiple export facilities & feedlots in Texas. A vastly increased number of slaughter-bound horses was observed, proving the known horse slaughter figures to be disturbingly underestimated. Equine protection laws and regulations continue to be broken and violated, with little regard given to horses embarking a slaughter house death.

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Last month, Animals' Angels conducted an extensive two-week investigation across the Midwest leading them through Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota. Large scale kill buyers, so far widely unknown to the public, were found. These buyers have been quietly operating under the radar, violating the Commercial Transport of Equines for Slaughter Regulations, while shipping thousands of horses to their deaths each year. Animals' Angels decided it was time for their close-up.

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The Knoxville Livestock Center in Mascot, TN, holds a monthly horse sale every 2nd Sat of the month at 4:00pm. When investigators arrived for the July 14th sale, they immediately noticed pens so packed full of horses that there was a lot of fighting and kicking. Investigators counted more than 400 horses in the vast pen area.

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Dennis Chavez, owner of Southwest Livestock Auction in Los Lunas, NM has been charges with 12 counts of misdemenor charges, which could add up to nearly 11 years in prison.  District Attorney Lemuel Martinez charged Chavez with animal cruelty, failure to treat an animal that can't walk and for not having a bill of sale for the horses.

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AA supporters for the huge response to our NM investigation of the Dennis Chavez auction in March in which AA found dying horses and hundreds of horses in poor condition, and the livestock inspector reluctant to act.  The timing could not have been better. Thanks to your voluminous(!) responses, telling the Attorney General, the Governor and other NM officials that this kind of treatment of animals should not be tolerated, pro slaughter interests discovered to be planning to begin operations in NM have been dealt a serious setback. Pro slaughter interests have applied for permits to begin slaughtering horses in Roswell, NM. AA believes that your phone calls have been extremely helpful.

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Six years of cruelty investigations have made it absolutely clear: Horse slaughter means a free pass, in effect, kill buyer amnesty for abuse, neglect and animal cruelty. But never has one single location screamed horse slaughter's cruelty more than at our March 10 investigation. Horse after horse after horse - yet completely typical of what goes on unabated in the slaughter pipeline. No feeling person could help but be heartbroken, and very angry.

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