(Picasso, wild mustang stallion of Sand Wash Basin in northwest Colorado. Photo by Carol J. Walker) By Gayle Hunt, Central Oregon Wild Horse Coalition U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management Little Snake Field Office 455 Emerson St., Craig, CO 81625 DOI-BLM-CO-N010-2018-0025-DNA July 5, 2018 To […]
by Rebecca Harrington as published in the Tech Insider The uniform coat-colors of these domesticated horses seem to have cropped up just around the time we started using them on our farms. When humans first started domesticating wild horses around 5,000 years ago, their coats were likely closer […]
As published on HorseTalk Scientists who sequenced the genome of two donkeys named Peppe and Pippo found more similarities with the horse genome than previous research has suggested. The Italian research involved one of the first uses of an Ion Proton sequencer – a next-generation semiconductor-based sequencing platform […]
Source: U.S. Reuters story by James Davey “Everything that touches predatory horse slaughter is rooted in crime and corruption!” LONDON, July 16 (Reuters) – The contamination of meat products with horse DNA was most likely due to fraud and prosecutions should be pursued, a second British parliamentary report […]
SOURCE: News.sciencemag.org by Gisela Telis Wild horses. A genome sequence derived from a 700,000-year-old horse fossil (inset) sheds new light on equine evolution and confirms that Przewalski’s horse (pictured) is indeed genetically distinct from domesticated breeds. Credit: Claudia Feh/Association pour le cheval de Przewalski, France; (inset) Ludovic Orlando […]
Source: Multiple “EVERYTHING about Horse Slaughter is either corrupt or illegal!” THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch authorities on Thursday arrested the director of a meat-processing and wholesale company whose business is at the center of an investigation into undeclared mixing of horse meat with beef. Investigators from the […]
Source: Reuters – Reporting by Charlie Dunmore; editing by Rex Merrifield New rules would force member states to impose fines equal to the financial gains from proven cases of food fraud BRUSSELS – The European Commission proposed more unannounced inspections of food companies and tougher fines for labeling […]
Source: REUTERS written by Padraic Halpin ABP Foods blamed suppliers it said appeared to have delivered mislabeled beef from Poland… The Irish company at the center of a scandal in Europe over horsemeat in beef products, said on Thursday it is leaving the frozen burger market after selling […]
Source: By STEPHEN CASTLE of the New York Times “Eight horses slaughtered in Britain for human consumption tested positive for bute…” LONDON — After disappearing briefly from public view, the scandal over horse meat sold as beef re-emerged on Wednesday with an alert over 50,000 tons of meat […]
Source: By Auslan Cramb, Scottish Correspondent for The Telegraph PARENTS of children at an Edinburgh primary school have reacted angrily after a batch of frozen mince was found to contain between one and five per cent horse meat. Six schools received the same batch of mince, and it […]
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