Although it is a moot point, as horse slaughter is dead in the U.S. for the next two years, the beleaguered, wanna-be horse butcher Ricardo De Los Santos, owner of Valley Meats in Roswell New Mexico, will have to wait until March 21, 2014 to hear from the New Mexico Secretary of the Environment if his application for a ground water discharge permit renewal has been denied or approved.
Marsha (not her real name), is an undercover cruelty investigator for the Equine Welfare Alliance.
“Horse slaughter is one of the biggest cruelty to animals that there is,” she said. “From the transportation to the auctions all the way to the slaughter plant.”
Reports say as many as 170,000 are transported to Mexico and Canada each year for slaughter. The meat is then shipped to Japan and Europe for consumption.
“They don’t really care for these animals that much. It’s just a dollar sign to them, it’s a carcass weight, it’s a pound.”
By BARBARA HOBEROCK World Capitol Bureau as published in Tulsa World Last year, lawmakers passed and Gov. Mary Fallin signed a measure to lift the state ban on horse slaughtering. “I don’t get it but has Oklahoma left the Union or do it’s State Legislators truly have their […]
SOURCE: The Week Why the Interior Department desperately needs beat reporters The federal agency’s treatment of wild horses has been scandalously poor. But you wouldn’t know it from reading the newspaper. by Andrew Cohen The wild horses need all the help they can get, too. […]
by Debbie Coffey, V.P. and Director of Wild Horse Affairs, Wild Horse Freedom Federation Copyright 2014 All Rights Reserved. As the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) facilitates unprecedented “uses” on public lands that use vast amounts of water from aquifers and drop the water table, Joan Guilfoyle, BLM’s […]
By Katie Schneider as published in the Calgary Sun “What I saw looking over that land, the thousands and thousands and thousands of acres, nothing is being ruined,” she said. Calgary songstress Jann Arden is adding her voice to the list of opponents of a wild horse capture […]
Lovely, little Elko, Nevada has announced, according to a recent AP story, that the county will donate $10,000 to a law suit that was brought forward in December by the Nevada Association of Counties and the Nevada Farm Bureau Federation against the BLM charging that the well-known federal grazing and special interest agency is not doing its job and should round up ALL of the federally protected wild horses and burros and send them to slaughter along with the 55,000+ captured horses forced into confinement in contracted long term holding.
Ain’t that just so darn sweet and dandy.
Eyewitness Report by Carol Walker ~ Director of Field Documentation for Wild Horse Freedom Federation Photos by Carol Walker music by Opus Moon’s “Wild Horse Anthology” available on iTunes On this early morning in Adobe Town, I have one of the encounters that I always hope for. I […]
Source: Multiple “Now granted, this is “Feel Good Sunday” but today we may have to dub this installment as “Feel Really Weird Sunday”. We’re sorry but this story is spreading like wild fire across the pond so we thought that we would share it with you here, in […]
Range Observation by Carol Walker ~ Director of Field Documentation for Wild Horse Freedom Federation Part One is located (HERE) Photos by Carol Walker music by Opus Moon (available on iTunes) The next cold morning I head into Adobe Town before dawn. The light is starting to color […]
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