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Animal Equality is taking a stand against the deregulation of Brazil's meat industry by exposing the cruel practices occurring within 'backyard' slaughterhouses. Investigators have documented severe animal mistreatment at the time of their slaughter as well as unsanitary environments which present a health hazard.
These images show a future where slaughterhouses are left to regulate themselves under Brazil’s Self-Control Bill. This harmful bill will put nearly 7 billion of Brazil’s farmed animals will be at an even greater risk of cruelty, and public health at risk.
In Chinese northeast，people have a custom that each will kill a pig at the end of the year， aim is to have the Spring Festival.
Tape Club Records concert in the Slaughtered Lamb, London. In order to match the ideas of Tape Club Records, I did process them a bit to give these distorted feelings. There was very little light, which meant shooting at 1600 ISO, 2.8 and about 1/20 of exposure time.
Worth seeing on black.
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This is Slaughter Mesa, near Quemado Lake in Catron County, NM. It's named after the Slaughter family who got into a range war with another family back in the day. If I remember the story correctly, there's even a gravesite near here for one of the Slaughter boys killed in the feud.
These photos were taken in a slaughterhouse in rural Tennessee over a two year period. They show the hard work of a family owned slaughterhouse competing with industrial based slaughterhouses. I used many different film and camera setups. These are from the many rolls of black and white film shot with either a Nikon FM2 or a Yashica T4. I shot in either Tri-X 400 or T-Max 400. The shots were taken on breaks or at the homes of the workers. All Rights Reserved, Copyright Joshua Harriman 2008.
The Icelandic horses boast a lot of blowy blonde bangs like supermodels.
The ancestors of the Icelandic horse were probably brought to the country by Viking Age Scandinavians between 860 and 935 AD. These settlers were followed by immigrants from Norse colonies in Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Western Isles of Scotland, who brought the ancestors of what would elsewhere become Shetland, Highland, and Connemara ponies. There may also be a connection with the Yakutian pony and the Nordlandshest of Norway. Breeds with similar characteristics include the Faroe pony and the Norwegian Fjord horse. Genetic analyses have revealed a link to the Mongolian horse (believed to have been originally imported from Russia by Swedish traders and subsequently contributing to the Fjord, Exmoor, Highland, Shetland, and Connemara breeds, all of which have been found to be genetically linked to the Icelandic horse). About 900 years ago, attempts were made to introduce eastern blood into the Icelandic, resulting in a degeneration of the stock. In 982 AD, the Icelandic Althing (parliament) passed laws prohibiting the importation of horses into Iceland, thus ending crossbreeding. The breed has now been bred pure in Iceland for more than 1,000 years.
The earliest Norse people venerated the horse as a symbol of fertility, and white horses were slaughtered at sacrificial feasts and ceremonies. Horses played a significant part in Norse mythology, among them Odin's eight-footed pacer Sleipnir. The first Icelandic horse known by name is the mare Skalm from the Book of Settlements from the 12th century: a chieftain named Seal-Thorir founded a settlement at the place where Skalm stopped and lay down with her pack. Horses also play key roles in the 13th-century Icelandic sagas Hrafnkel's Saga, Njal's Saga, and Grettir's Saga, set as far back as the 9th century.
Horses were often considered the most prized possession of a medieval Icelander and war horses were sometimes buried alongside their fallen riders. Icelanders also arranged for bloody fights between stallions; these were used for entertainment and to pick the best animals for breeding, and they were described in both literature and official records from the Commonwealth period of 930 to 1262 AD. Stallion fights were an important part of Icelandic culture; and the sometimes-serious physical and verbal brawls among the spectators had wide social and political repercussions that could even restructure political alliances. Courting between young men and women was also common at horse fights.
At first, natural selection played a major role in the development of the breed, as large numbers of horses died from lack of food and exposure to the elements. Between 874 and 1300 AD, during the more favorable climatic conditions of the medieval warm period, Icelandic breeders selectively bred horses according to special rules of color and conformation. From 1300 to 1900, selective breeding became less of a priority, as the climate was often severe and many horses and people died. Between 1783 and 1784, around 70% of the horses in Iceland were killed by volcanic-ash poisoning and starvation after the 1783 eruption of LakagÃgar. The eruption lasted eight months, covered hundreds of square miles of land with lava, and rerouted or dried up several rivers. The population slowly recovered over the next hundred years, and from the beginning of the 20th century selective breeding again became important.
Despite increasing mechanization and road improvements, these horses still play a large part in Icelandic life. Farmers still use the breed to round up sheep in the Icelandic highlands, but most horses are used for competition and leisure riding. The first official race was held at Akureyri in 1874, and many competitions--gallop and pace races as well as performance classes showcasing the breed's unique gaits--are still held throughout the country from April through June. Winter events are often held, including races on frozen bodies of water (in 2009, both horses and riders needed to be rescued after falling through the ice at such an event). The first shows, focused on the quality of animals as breeding stock, were held in 1906. The Agricultural Society of Iceland, along with the National Association of Riding Clubs, now organizes regular shows with a wide variety of classes. Some horses are still bred for slaughter, and much of the meat is exported to Japan.
The first Icelandic breed societies were established in 1904, and the first breed registry in Iceland was established in 1923. In 2000, WorldFengur was established by the Icelandic government in cooperation with the FEIF as an official registry for Icelandic horses: this web database program is used as a studbook to track contains information on the pedigree, breeder, owner, offspring, photo, breeding evaluations, and assessments, and unique identification of each horse registered. Around 300,000 Icelandic horses, living and dead, have been registered worldwide.
There are now about 80,000 Icelandic horses in Iceland (compared to a human population of 317,000), and around 100,000 abroad. Because of their strength and small size, Icelandics were exported to Great Britain before the 20th century to work as unregistered pit ponies in the coal mines. The first formal exports of Icelandic horses were to Germany in the 1940s (almost 50,000 horses are in Germany, which has many active riding clubs and breed societies). Great Britain's first official imports started in 1956 with a Scottish farmer, Stuart McKintosh, and the Icelandic Horse Society of Great Britain was formed in 1986. The number of Icelandic horses exported to other nations has steadily increased and it's especially popular in western Europe, Scandinavia, and North America.
Though Icelandic horses are small (330-380 kg and 13-14 hands), breed registries always refer to them as horses. One theory says this is because of their spirited temperament and large personality, and another suggests that their weight, bone structure, and weight-carrying abilities let them be classified as horses. Some breeders focus on animals for pack and draft work, which are conformationally distinct from those bred for their ability to perform the traditional Icelandic gaits. Others are bred solely for meat.
The hardy Icelandic horse comes in many coat colors, including chestnut, dun, bay, black, gray, palomino, pinto, and roan, and there are over 100 names for various colors and color patterns in the Icelandic language. Their double coat offers extra insulation in cold temperatures. They have well-proportioned heads with straight profiles and wide foreheads. The neck is short, muscular, and broad at the base; they have broad, low withers, a deep chest, muscular and slightly sloping shoulders, a long back, and broad, muscular, short, and slightly sloping croup. Their legs are strong and short, with relatively long cannon bones and short pasterns. The mane and tail are full, with coarse hair, and the tail is set low.
Members of this long-lived breed are not usually ridden until they are four or five years old and structural development is not complete until age seven. Their most productive years are between eight and eighteen, and they retain their strength and stamina into their twenties. An Icelandic mare that lived in Denmark reached a record age of 56, while another horse, living in Great Britain, reached the age of 42. The horses are highly fertile, and both sexes are fit for breeding up to age 25; mares have been recorded giving birth at age 27. The horses are social and not easily spooked, probably the result of not having any natural predators in their native Iceland. Icelandics tend to be friendly, docile, enthusiastic, and self-assured.
As a result of their isolation from other horses, disease in the breed within Iceland is mostly unknown except for some kinds of internal parasites. This is maintained by laws forbidding horse imports and exported horses from returning to Iceland, and by requiring that all equine equipment taken into the country be either new and unused or fully disinfected. As a result, native horses have no acquired immunity to disease; an outbreak on the island would be likely to be devastating to the breed. This makes it difficult to enter Icelandic horses into competitions outside of the country.
The Icelandic is a "five-gaited" breed, known for its sure-footedness and ability to cross rough terrain. As well as the typical gaits of walk, trot, and canter/gallop, the breed is noted for its ability to perform two additional gaits. The comfortable, ground-covering four-beat lateral ambling gait known as the tölt is known for its explosive acceleration and speed. There is considerable variation in style within the gait, and so the tölt is variously compared to similar lateral gaits such as the rack of the Saddlebred, the largo of the Paso Fino, or the running walk of the Tennessee Walking Horse. Like all lateral ambling gaits, the footfall pattern is the same as the walk (left hind, left front, right hind, right front), but differs from the walk in that it can be performed at a range of speeds. Some Icelandic horses prefer to tölt while others prefer to trot; correct training can improve weak gaits, but the tölt is a natural gait present from birth. There are two uncomfortable, incorrect varieties of the tölt: the first is an uneven gait called a "Pig's Pace" or "Piggy-pace" that is closer to a two-beat pace than a four-beat amble. The second, Valhopp, is a tölt-and-canter combination most often seen in untrained young horses.
The fast, smooth skeið, flugskeið, or "flying pace" allows some horses to reach 48 km/h. Not all Icelandic horses can perform this gait; animals that perform both the tölt and the flying pace in addition to the traditional gaits are considered the best of the breed. The flying pace is a two-beat lateral gait with a moment of suspension between footfalls; each side has both feet land almost simultaneously (left hind and left front, suspension, right hind and right front). Not a gait used for long-distance travel, it's uncomfortable for the rider when slow. Although most pacing horses are raced in harness using sulkies, in Iceland horses are raced while ridden.
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J. B. Slaughter was a Virginia State Trooper for 32-years. When he retired from the State Police he worked for the United States Marshall Service as a Court Security Officer for the United States District Court in Roanoke Virginia. He was a dedicated public servant and a True Southern Gentleman. He is resting at the Sherwood Memorial Park in Salem, Virginia
These photos were taken in a slaughterhouse in rural Tennessee over a two year period. They show the hard work of a family owned slaughterhouse competing with industrial based slaughterhouses. I used many different film and camera setups. These are from the many rolls of black and white film shot with either a Nikon FM2 or a Yashica T4. I shot in either Tri-X 400 or T-Max 400. The shots were taken on breaks or at the homes of the workers. All Rights Reserved, Copyright Joshua Harriman 2008.
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