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Help Stop Budweiser Using Horses With Amputated Tailbones
(February 12, 2023)
Help Stop Budweiser Using Horses With Amputated Tailbones
PETA have a petition at the moment. It’s going to Budweiser’s parent company, Anheuser-Busch Companies, who use Clydesdale horses in their promotions and adverts, often during the Super Bowl.
PETA US have gone behind the scenes of the famous Super Bowl adverts and their investigation has revealed horse mutilation. The end result is that they discovered that horses’ tails are amputated so that the beautiful Clydesdales look a certain way, as they pull the wagon.
Horses need their tails to protect themselves from insects, who may bite them and who may carry West Nile virus and other pathogens, and to help them with balance, motbility and communication.
Help Stop Budweiser Using Horses With Amputated Tailbones
Amputating the tail of a horse (often called tail docking) is so cruel that this procedure is illegal in the UK, unless a vet performs it for medical reasons.
Whilst the Budweiser Clydesdales are still foals, the bones of their tails (which are part of their spines) are completely are partially amputated, either with a scalpel or by putting a band around the tail to stop blow flow – until the tail just drops off. Either way, vets say this is very painful, especially the band method.
Join PETA’s Campaign
PETA US contacted Anheuser-Busch, urging the company to stop using horses with amputated tailbones immediately. The company hasn’t responded.
So PETA US launched its own Clydesdale advert which you can see here.