Press Release from Front Range Equine Rescue Horse Protection Group Will Sue New Mexico Horse Slaughterhouse For Failure to Protect New Mexico Water Supply (April 30, 2013)— Front Range Equine Rescue (“FRER”) notified Valley Meat Company of Roswell, New Mexico (“Valley Meat”) and the federal Environmental Protection Agency […]
Wild Horse Freedom Federation partners with the ASPCA and others in a CAll TO ACTION! Tuesday is National Call-In Day NEW: S. 541/H.R. 1094—The Safeguard American Food Exports (SAFE) Act Sponsors: Senators Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Representatives Patrick Meehan (R-PA) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL). ASPCA/WHFF […]
Source: Albany‘s News Center 10~ABC “We shouldn’t be killing our horses” CHATHAM, N.Y. — Speakers at the Equine Advocates’ 2013 American Equine Summit are voicing concerns and begging for government leaders to take action against horse slaughtering in the U.S. The nonprofit organization Equine Advocates rescues, protects and […]
Source: Ned Cantwell / For the Las Cruces Sun-News “…seven of 10 registered voters in New Mexico disapprove of allowing American horses to be slaughtered for human consumption” The answering machine blinked ominously. “Hey, little feller, we need to chat. Heh. Heh. Heh.” Just my luck. It was […]
by R.T. Fitch ~ president of Wild Horse Freedom Federation Howdy gang, it’s feel good Sunday as Terry and I are in upstate New York participating in the Equine Advocates Summit Against Horse Slaughter. Although the topic is painful we have heard a LOT of Good News with […]
Source: CMS Cameron McKenna , Sarah Hanson and Jessica Burt of the Association of Corporate Counsel …thresholds could not be identified and therefore no maximum residue limits established. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA) have published a joint statement (click here) on the risk […]
Source: By Dennis Hoey dhoey@mainetoday.com as published in the Portland Press Herald The plan also would prevent transport of horses through Maine to plants in Canada that would turn them into food. A legislative committee will hear public testimony Tuesday on a bill to prohibit the slaughter of […]
Source: PublicNewsService.org ~Renee Blake, “It doesn’t at all mean that there’s an approval of horse slaughter.” ROSWELL, N.M. – Agents of the U.S. Department of Agriculture conducted a walk-through of Valley Meat Co. on Tuesday, days after the Humane Society of the United States and Front Range Equine […]
Source: By Nancy Lofholm of the Denver Post Spaying mares in the field would amount to “mutilation.” GRAND JUNCTION — The Bureau of Land Management has no new wild-horse roundups planned for the remainder of this year and, in that lull, will be researching a new population-control measure — […]
Source: By STEPHANIE STROM of the New York Times “We need to oppose this unspeakable practice with all our might,” Amid the unfolding horse-meat scandal, a New Mexico slaughterhouse has moved closer to becoming the first in the United States since 2007 to be allowed to process horses for […]
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