FLORIDA — (Scroll down for video) — The organization Animal Recovering Mission is working with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office in a raid of multiple alleged illegal animal slaughter farms.
ARM claims the farms are involved in the underground slaughter of horses and illegal sales of their meat for human consumption.
“Stabbing them to death, boiling to death, skinning them alive, beating them, really disgusting barbaric treatment of animals,” said ARM investigator Richard Couto.\
**WARNING: Extremely Disturbing Video**
Located just minutes outside of Wellington, one of Florida’s most prestigious equestrian towns, the illegal animal slaughter farm (titled as G.A Paso Fino Farms by ARM investigators) was quickly infiltrated by undercover investigators who posed as customers and spent several months witnessing, documenting and exposing the heinous crimes that were being committed on the property, owned by Orlando Guzman.
In addition to the slaughter operation, Guzman had also been operating a Paso Fino breeding and training business. However during ARM’s undercover buys, it was revealed that the horses were also falling victim to being slaughtered and sold for human consumption. Paso Fino farm employees, Edgar Snr Bicca, Edgar Jnr. Bicca and another ‘John Doe’ employee slaughtered and sold horse meat, an action considered to be a third degree felony in the state of Florida. The duo were not only selling horse meat locally but spread into the underground market of the greater Miami area.
