Every year thousands of horses are bred in the uk for export to the European meat industry. These horses are kept on road side verges on waste ground and sometimes with the permission of greedy landowners. The horses are not chipped or passported as per the law and the owners are hard to identify and often move from place to place. Animal welfare charities do not get involved if the horses have access to water and grass but don’t check their other conditions such as parasites and disease. Horses are dying in flood water and through infection from grazing infected pasture. Foals  are born with little or no intervention and carcasses are left to rot near water sources. This petition should make stricter laws on the protection of these animals and make mass breeding and live export completely illegal including to Southern Ireland as a loophole. An outside of the uk license should be applied for with a recordable destination. Abattoirs should be checked for horses details. All horses should be chipped by law. Police and animal welfare charities should be given better powers and anyone making contact with the horses should be liable to prosecution even if they are not the owner. They must be banned from horse ownership and contact. There are better powers for dealing with failing to tax your car than a horse dying in a flooded field. 
Stop this disgusting mistreatment of horses and ponies by signing this petition. Please stop their suffering and eradicate this business from the Uk. Visit this page https://youtu.be/vvnhSxXqaHo

or look at this FB page Help for Wellingborough Horses. 

if we can get legislation through it will be a start to stop this! If we lose then 100s 1000s of poor horses and ponies destined for slaughter for the European meat market and your pet food will continue. 
shelters and sanctities are at breaking point. 
if you were a farmer and you did this to your animals you would be prosecuted. As an owner of a single horse I would be visited by the Welfare organisations and prosecuted. We are out of Europe now we must, must stamp it out.