CHICAGO, (EWA) – The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has issued the long awaited health requirements for all horses bound for slaughter in Canada. In 2009, 56% of the 93,812 horses slaughtered in Canada were U.S. exports. The requirements posted on the CFIA website state, “Effective July 31, 2010, it will be mandatory for all [...]
Archive for January, 2010
New Canadian Regulations will Curtail Slaughter of North American Horses
Posted: January 31, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse SlaughterTags: Canada, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, CFIA, Equine Welfare Alliance, equines, European Union, Food and Drug Administration, Food safety, horse sluaghter, horses, United States, United States Department of Agriculture
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Canadian Food Inspection Agency may have dealt death blow to Horse Slaughter in North America
Posted: January 31, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse SlaughterTags: Add new tag, Animal welfare, Canada, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Health, Horse, Horse Meat, Horse Slaughter, United States
[Eye of the innocent]
New requirements give hope for U.S. Horses
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued new requirements for horse meat destined for human consumption.
BLM Contractors Stick a Cattle Prod in the First Amendment
Posted: January 28, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse Rescue, The Force of the Horse, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: Bureau of Land Management, Cruelty to animals, equines, First Amendment, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Freedom of speech, horses, Iraq, mustangs, President of the United States, pryor mountains, R.T. Fitch, roundup, sue cattooor, The Cloud Foundation, United States, United States Constitution, wildhorses, wildmustangs
Op-Ed by R.T. Fitch 26 Horses Now Dead at Calico Round-up and Counting While the world watched another living soul being pulled from the Haitian rubble, a bomb go off in Iraq and a U.S. President hit the reset button; the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) wild horse contractors, the Cattoors, were quietly shoving [...]
The Death of the Calico Colt
Posted: January 28, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in The Force of the Horse, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: BLM, Carol Walker, equines, ginger Kathrens, horses, mustangs, The Cloud Foundation, wildhorses, wildmustangs
An Essay by Ginger Kathrens From our very good friends at The Cloud Foundation He was wild and free, roaming the vast expanses of the rugged Calico Mountains with his mother and father and the other members of his family. This would be his first winter, a time when life slowed down for all the [...]
Montana’s Rep. “Red” Ed Butcher Painting Red on Red
Posted: January 27, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse SlaughterTags: Billings Gazette, Cruelty to animals, Ed Butcher, equines, Horse Slaughter, montana, mustangs
Bloody “Red” Ed Butcher still trying to promote “Flicka Fillets” in Montana through Communism Hot off the press from the Billings Gazette’s Tom Lutley Foreign investors are considering Hardin, MT for a horse-slaughtering plant, according an economic development official who recently toured a potential site with interested parties. Jeff McDowell, Two Rivers Authority executive director, [...]
Sen. Mary Landrieu speaks on the State of the Union’s Horses
Posted: January 27, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: Animal welfare, Bureau of Land Management, equines, Horse racing, horse slaguther, horses, Humane Society of the United States, Mexico, mustangs, United States, United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Wayne Pacelle, Wild Horses, Wild Mustangs
At a press conference on Tuesday, the eve of the Presidents speech, representatives from The Humane Society of the United States, members of Congress, celebrities, and representatives from agriculture and the horse industry showed their support of the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. 503/S. 727), a federal bill to prohibit the trafficking in horses for slaughter for human consumption in the United States and the export of horses for this purpose.
