Word: cheval
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Three years ago a staff artist for the Illustrated London News produced a classic series of anti-horse-eating sketches (see cut). In Paris humanity to horses about to be eaten is preached by L'Intransigeant, striven for by La Ligue Française pour la Protection du Cheval. Main reform urged is to kill the old nags where they are and go to the expense of transporting their meat in refrigerator cars. Now they are made to transport themselves and frequently not fed between purchase and slaughter some days or weeks afterward, to save fodder...