Animal Activists Attend Michigan Farmer's Market to Protest Mistreatment of Budweiser’s Famed Clydesdale Horses
Horses and Budweiser, one of America's most popular beers, go hand in hand like peanut butter and jelly. The beer has been using Clydesdale horses as part of its advertising since the 1930s and you've most likely seen one of these horses during a Super Bowl commercial.
But recently, animal activists took to the streets in Michigan where a Budweiser horse was doing a meet-n-greet. The protestors claimed these horses are getting abused. Take a look at the August 17 report from MLive.
About 100 people came out to the farmer's market to get a picture of the iconic horse. The horse made its appearance to promote Folds of Honor, a nonprofit organization that provides scholarships to families of America's fallen or disabled military and first responders.
But these people were met with protestors who stood outside the Flint, Michigan farmer's market. The PETA protestors held up signs saying, "Budweiser Mutilates Clydesdales: Stop Severing Horses’ Tailbones," as well as pictures of Clydesdale horses. One PETA protestor told MLive that the beer company is mutilating their horses by inhumanely amputating a portion of their tailbones, adding that the procedure is very traumatizing and painful for the horses.
Prior to Super Bowl LVII, PETA went undercover at a Missouri ranch where the famed horses are bred. The nonprofit claimed to have found evidence that the beer company does in fact amputate the tailbones of the horses so they look a certain way, according to an article from The Drum. These protestors went to the meet-n-greet as a way to call out the company for inhumanely treating their animals.
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