Chicago (EWA) – Sue Wallis, Executive Director of United Organizations of the Horse (UOH) and organizer of an upcoming meeting of horse slaughter proponents in Las Vegas has launched an eleventh hour attack on not just horses, but floats showing horses.
Archive for December, 2010
Horse Slaughter Proponents attack Rose Parade Mustang Float
Posted: December 31, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: Animal welfare, Dave Duquette, Death, Equine Welfare Alliance, fraud, Horse, Horse Slaughter, Lack of Ethics, Madeleine Pickens, Sue Wallis, Temple Grandin, Tournament of Roses Parade, United States, Wyoming
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BLM Helicopter Stampede Contractor Sues Citizen Journalist
Posted: December 31, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: Bureau of Land Management, Dave Cattoor, Death, Equine, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, government corruption, Horse, Horseback Magazine, Maureen Harmonay, stampede, Steven Long, Sue Cattor, United States, Wild Horse
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – A citizen journalist working for The Examiner.com has been sued by the government’s largest BLM “gather” contractor. The suit filed in a rural Juab County, Utah district court charges Maureen Harmonay routinely misrepresented the facts in a series of stories on wild horse roundups in several western states.
Summit of the Horse Comes Under Friendly Fire
Posted: December 30, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse SlaughterTags: Cruelty to animals, Dave Duquette, Equine, Equine Welfare Alliance, fraud, Horse, Horse Meat, Horse Slaughter, John Holland, Las Vegas Nevada, Sue Wallis, Temple Grandin
We have all shot ourselves in the foot, but seldom does an entire organization take up automatic weapons and form itself into a firing squad for that purpose. Such is the case with the organizers and sponsors of the upcoming Summit of the Horse to be held the first week of January in Las Vegas.
Equine Rescue Group Publicly Challenges Horse Eaters
Posted: December 30, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: Angel Acres Horse Haven Rescue, BLM, Bob Abbey, Bureau of Land Management, Cruelty to animals, David Cattoor, Death, Equine, fraud, Horse, Horse Meat, Horse Rescue, Horse Slaughter, Jo Deibel, Sue Wallis, United States
GLENVILLE, PA (Angel Acres) – With the US press awash with misinformation regarding the plight of the American horse, Angel Acres Horse Haven Rescue is stepping up to educate the public about horse slaughter via a billboard & internet campaign. Two billboards are up in Baltimore that display 2 horses with the statement, “Stop Killing Us” and a new website www.stopslaughteringus.com has been launched.
Absence of Logic
Posted: December 29, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter, The Force of the Horse, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: Animal welfare, Colorado State University, Cruelty to animals, Death, Equine, Equine Welfare Alliance, fraud, Horse, Horse Slaughter, Sue Wallis, Temple Grandin, Viki Tobin, Wild Horse
It is said that you cannot teach someone Common Sense.
This is the case with the mantra of illogical statements we hear from horse slaughter supporters. The statements, spoken with such authority, in fact either lack common sense or amount to nothing more than finding a piece of jello they can nail to the wall.
Hey Bob Abbey, This One’s for YOU!
Posted: December 28, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: BLM, Bob Abbey, Bureau of Land Management, Death, Equine, government corruption, Horse, Horse Slaughter, Mustang, Nevada, Nevada Revised Statutes, Public land, United States, United States Congress, Wild Horse, Wild Mustang
Hey Bob, I thought about titling this post to you. I thought you might want to know. At first, I toyed with Dear Bob or Dear Director Abbey or something that would speak directly from one interested stakeholder to your ears, but as you can see decided against such a simple framing for the massive subject I wanted to tackle.
Temple Grandin Talks to Horseback Magazine
Posted: December 28, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse SlaughterTags: Cruelty to animals, Dave Duquette, Death, Equine, fraud, Horse, Horse Meat, Horse Slaughter, Sue Wallis, Temple Grandin, Wyoming
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – A group of livestock breeders and breeder wannabes who would build a legal abattoir in Wyoming for horses will face stringent guidelines for their proposed facility set by one of their speakers, the famed animal behaviorist Dr. Temple Grandin of Colorado State University. She outlined her speech to the group in an exclusive interview with Horseback Online.
