Source: by Holly Gann as published in the Alamogordo Daily News Horse slaughter is a cause of, not a solution to, any surplus of horses in this country. The option to send horses to slaughter perpetuates overbreeding of horses, and more than 100,000 horses are sentenced to die […]
Source: Multiple “Ruling complicates recent win to save American horses from slaughter” ALBUQUERQUE — A federal magistrate on Thursday ordered equine advocacy groups that won a temporary ban on domestic horse slaughter to post a bond of nearly $500,000 as they continue their legal fight to save America’s […]
Source: By Stephen Dinan – The Washington Times “The U.S. Forest Service has decided to postpone the removal of horses on the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in Nevada tomorrow (today)” The advocates said the Forest Service failed to give proper public notice of the roundup and was using an […]
Source: By BETSY SIMON of The Cody Enterprise Dazzle was no fool. Sensing an approach by humans Thursday, the chocolate brown mare on the McCullough Peaks Herd Management Area east of Cody slipped past BLM wild horse specialist Tricia Hatle and volunteer Ada Inbody of Cody, avoiding a […]
Source: News-Leader.com “four horse veterinarians provided information that horses can receive more than 100 different drugs that are not authorized for use in humans, cattle, hogs or poultry” A judge has blocked a Missouri company from obtaining a permit for a horse slaughter facility, at least temporarily. Cole […]
Source: Written by Adam Rasmussen of KTVN.com “This BLM facility is denying that the horses need any shade,” The debate continued on Tuesday, over how wild horses and burros are being treated at the Bureau of Land Management‘s (BLM) Palomino Valley holding facility. Wild horse advocates claim the […]
Source: HorseTalk “Not only did the GAO misrepresent the data, they completely missed the importance of hay prices and availability,” American horse advocates have called into question the reliability of a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) which it said helped open the way for the resumption […]
Source: Multiple ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A federal judge in Albuquerque has postponed until Thursday a bond hearing for the equine advocacy groups who won a temporary ban on domestic horse slaughter. Front Range Equine Rescue, the Humane Society of the United States and others on Friday won a […]
Source: By BARBARA HOBEROCK of Tulsa World “…the record of environmental damage from previously existing horse-slaughter facilities is horrific…” OKLAHOMA CITY – A controversial law allowing for the slaughtering of horses takes effect Nov. 1, but whether or not the state will be home to such a facility […]
Source: By Megan Gannon, News Editor for Live Science “It’s ‘feel good Sunday’ and not many things are as near and dear to Terry and myself as the wild horses “Takhi” of Outer Mongolia and China; so today’s installment is special in so many ways. Let’s just hope […]
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