Every week it's estimated that as many as 1,000 horses and ponies are slaughtered in this country for human consumption abroad. It's a controversial trade whose opponents claim is open to abuse and cruelty. The programme looks at the campaign being waged by the Horse Rescue Fund in Suffolk to save some of these ponies from starvation and slaughter.
Narrator Ian Holm
Film editor MICHAEL STOKES Written and produced by DICK MEADOWS