Featured Non-Profit: SAFE
by Polly Keary
Published Dec 16 2010
Editor’s Note: Each week through the holiday season, the Monroe Monitor features a local non-profit, as many non-profits depend on the donations they get during the season of giving. This week we go to a horse rescue operation in Monroe that rescues horses that might otherwise go to slaughter, rehabilitates them and finds them good homes.
For people who love horses, buying horses from auction houses to spare them from slaughter used to make sense.
But then auction houses caught on and started jacking up prices to rescues, charging as much as $400 for a horse for which a slaughterhouse might only pay $50.
Rather than enrich the slaughterhouse industry, Monroe’s Save A Forgotten Equine, or SAFE, was formed to find other ways to keep horses from going to slaughter. Read the full article at the Monroe Monitor
