A Times editorial makes the troubling assumption that mustangs are pests that irrevocably damage our public lands. By Stephanie Boyles July 31, 2009 The Los Angeles Times’ July 27 editorial “Wild horse sense,” which weighs in on proposals to handle the growing wild horse population in the western United States, makes at least one good [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Wild Horses are NOT ecological villains
Posted: July 31, 2009 by R.T. Fitch in Wild Horses/MustangsTags: BLM, Humane Society of the United States, Wild Horse, Wild Mustang
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Another Butchered Horse Found In Miami-Dade
Posted: July 29, 2009 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse SlaughterTags: animal cruelty, Horse Slaughter
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY (CBS4) — Mutilated, and cut up, the body of another horse has been found dead along a northwest Miami-Dade road. Miami-Dade Police say this is the 17th horse butchered in the county since mid-January. The latest one was slaughtered Sunday at a farm along the 12-thousand block of NW 157th Street. According to [...]
Blind woman uses tiny horse as guide
Posted: July 28, 2009 by R.T. Fitch in Horse NewsTags: Guide Animal, Horse, Pony
DEARBORN, Michigan – Mona Ramouni’s fingers fly across the text as she proofreads yet another page of a calculus textbook to be published in Braille — with her guide pony sitting patiently by. It is dull work for tiny Cali who serves as Ramouni’s eyes through a world she cannot see, and the pony keeps [...]
Room for Emotion in Wild Horse Debate
Posted: July 27, 2009 by R.T. Fitch in Wild Horses/MustangsTags: Wild Horse, Wild Mustang
Editor: Concerning the Star-Tribune Editorial Board’s comments titled “Emotion shouldn’t rule debate on wild horses” (July 19), I contend that a healthy dose of passion may be priceless, when combined with improved federal law (Restore Our American Mustangs Act, or H.R. 1018), and data-run scientific management. Politics and zeal walk hand in hand, while hard [...]
Native Americans Refute Claims as Bogus Author Says
Posted: July 23, 2009 by R.T. Fitch in Horse Slaughter, The Force of the HorseTags: animal cruelty, Chris Hyde, Horse Slaughter, Native Americans, R.T. Fitch, Warm Springs Tribe, Wild Horse, Wild Mustang
Washington Activist Blasts Political Opportunists Using Issue By R.T. Fitch HOUSTON (SFHH) – On July 18th, 2009 an Associated Press story hit the internet quoting sources saying the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Oregon would attempt to reintroduce horse slaughter into the United States. The headline, “Groups Push to Slaughter Horses for Meat Possibly in [...]
Opinion: Unwanted Horses set Free – Where’s the Proof?
Posted: July 23, 2009 by R.T. Fitch in Horse Slaughter, The Force of the HorseTags: Horse News, Horse Rescue, Horse Slaughter, R.T. Fitch
Alright, it has finally happened, I have reached the tipping point. Day after day the American public is bombarded with main stream media stories about all of the “unwanted” horses that are set free and running all over the US. To take the stories for their word there should be a horse on every street [...]
