Join us for Wild Horse Wednesdays®, this Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017
5:00 p.m. PST … 6:00 p.m. MST … 7:00 p.m. CST … 8:00 p.m. EST
This radio show was hacked. Our apologies to people who were unable to listen to the show.
You can also listen to the show on your phone by calling (917) 388-4520.
You can call in with questions during the 2nd half hour, by dialing (917) 388-4520, then pressing 1.
This show will be archived so you can listen to it anytime.
Our guest tonight is Ann Marini, Ph.D., M.D. and she will be talking about the drugs that the Bureau of Land Management gives to wild horses and burros. We compiled a list of drugs from information on FOIA requests and from verification by BLM staff.
Dr Marini earned both her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Biochemistry, 1978, and her medical degree from the Georgetown School of Medicine in 1980. She completed a residencies in medicine at UMASS Worcester, Massachusetts; 1980-1983; and in Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, 1983-1986. She was a Senior Staff Fellow at NINDS/NIMH, 1986-1993. Her research interests include neuropharmacology, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, Mechanisms of Neuronal Cell Death and Neuronal Intrinsic Survival Pathways. Dr. Marini’s group published the peer-review article: Association of phenylbutazone usage with horses bought for slaughter: A public health risk authored by Nicholas Dodman, Nicolas Blondeau and Ann M. Marini and this manuscript was published in the peer-review journal Food and Chemical Toxicology in 2010.
This show will be hosted by Debbie Coffey (V.P. and Dir. of Wild Horse Affairs) of Wild Horse Freedom Federation.
To contact us: ppj1@hush.com
TO LISTEN TO ALL ARCHIVED WILD HORSE & BURRO RADIO SHOWS, CLICK HERE.
To find out more about Wild Horse Freedom Federation and our work to keep wild horses and burros wild and free on our public lands visit www.WildHorseFreedomFederation.org
Donate Here: http://wildhorsefreedomfederation.org/donate/
4/12/17 – Dawn Vincent, Head of Communications for The Donkey Sanctuary UK, and Marjorie Farabee, Dir. of Wild Burro Affairs for Wild Horse Freedom Federation. In January 2017, The Donkey Sanctuary (UK) issued a report titled “Under the Skin,” about millions of donkeys around the world being killed to produce a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) called ejiao. Listen HERE.
6/21/17 – Bonnie Gestring, Northwest Circuit Rider for Earthworks, on contamination of U.S. waters in perpetuity, caused by mining. Bonnie is co-author of the report Polluting the Future: How mining companies are polluting our nation’s waters in perpetuity. Listen HERE.
8/23/17 – Terri Farley, best selling author of the Phantom Stallion series for young readers and Susan Wagner, President & Founder of Equine Advocates, on the 2018 Budget threat to kill over 46,000 wild horses and burros, the National Horse and Burro Rangeland Management Coalition Summit (aka the “Slaughter Summit”), Protect the Harvest, secret spaying and more. Listen HERE.
9/6/17 – Russ Mead, Esq., the Vice President & General Counsel of Animal Law Coalition, lobbies for support of animal welfare. Russ talks about wild horses, advocacy, legislation and his efforts to stop horse tripping at rodeos in Oregon. Listen HERE.
9/20/17 – Cathy Liss (Pres.) and D.J. Schubert (Wildlife Biologist) of Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) on the USDA’s Wildlife Services’ out of control killing program that kills approximately 5 million animal each year, endangered species, wildlife and wild horse & burro issues. Read AWI brochure (2011) Managing for Extinction, & AWI Report (2012) Overview of the Management of Wild Horses & Burros. Listen HERE.
9/27/17 – Stephen Nash, the author “Grand Canyon for Sale.” An extraordinarily powerful few are controlling public lands that belong to all Americans. Grand Canyon For Sale is a carefully researched investigation of the precarious future of America’s public lands: our national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, monuments, and wildernesses. Listen HERE.
10/4/17 – Sam Jojola, a former Deputy Resident Agent-in-Charge for U.S. Fish and Wildlife (USFWS) Office of Law Enforcement, on wildlife trafficking, trophy hunting, Safari Club International, the poisoning of birds by the mining industry and kill permits for the wind energy industry. Listen HERE.
10/18/17 – Ginger Kathrens, Founder and Exec. Dir. of The Cloud Foundation, and Carol Walker, Dir. of Field Documentation, Wild Horse Freedom Federation, on BLM’s National Wild Horse & Burro Advisory Board meeting and the roundups of wild horses in Wyoming. Listen HERE.
11/1/17 – George Wuerthner, Exec. Director of Public Lands Media (a project of the Earth Island Institute), Vice Pres. of the Board of Directors for Western Watersheds Project and author of 38 books, on the multiple ways that the livestock industry impacts the West. Listen HERE.
Darn, just seeing this
Is there a replay?
Sent from BlueMail
LikeLike
Question: Is there any chance that the use of drugs given to our wild horses and burros when captured could stop the sales of them to kill buyers for slaughter?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Know anything about this? http://www.kolotv.com/content/news/Virginia-Range-Wild-Horse-Agreement-terminated-455984833.html.
LikeLike
https://americanwildhorsecampaign.org/media/they-pulled-plug
Received this a week or so ago & Icy & I commented on it. Doesn’t sound like these horses have much of an area to live in – do roads run thru the middle of it? I guess I haven’t read a lot about them in a while.
LikeLike
Yes. THE proslaughters crowd are currently planning on pretending they have withdrawals and a test for it. THE research shows they have to ABSOLUTELY NO WAY TO TEST FOR IT AT ANY HORSE SLAUGHTER FACILITY. THE drug has adverse reactions in humans that Bar it from consumption by Food and Drug from food chain.
LikeLike
But am I right in believing the horse is already DEAD when they test? So one way or another – pro-slaughter wins!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
We’ll be answering all of these questions tonight. And if we miss any questions, please call in to ask. We’ll also have Susan Wagner, Pres. of Equine Advocates calling in during the second half of the show, and John Holland, Pres. of Equine Welfare Alliance is going to try to call in.
LikeLike
At this moment – don’t have a speaker hooked up with my computer – so am unable to hear the program clearly! Am working on taking care of this!!
LikeLike
NO
LikeLike
Horizontal gene (and perhaps other elements like prions) transfer occurs in humans on consumption and should be further investigated before taking any steps to encourage use of untraceable horses in the human food chain. A waiting period of several months may not be sufficient, especially for hundreds of known compounds and the related costs of waiting them all out, testing, and of course many will not be identified. Recall here the homemade concoctions used in polo ponies that killed so many a few years ago.
There are additional humane considerations if horses are sold for kill then warehoused in private facilities — we’ve all seen what happens when people hoard horses which have little value, and even those that are high dollar animals but claimed as insurance losses.
Complete Genes May Pass from Food to Human Blood
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0069805
LikeLiked by 1 person
Agreement Paves Way for Export of U.S. Horses to China
Ky. Agriculture Commissioner Quarles praises resumption of equine exports to China.
Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles praised the resumption of equine exports to China at a signing ceremony in Beijing Nov. 6.
The agreement, signed by U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad and Minister Zhi Shuping of the People’s Republic of China, clears the way for the U.S. to export horses, including Thoroughbreds, to China, where a rapidly expanding racing industry has emerged.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association-Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders, the American Quarter Horse Association, Keeneland Association, U.S. Livestock Genetics Export, and Quarles worked together to address concerns in China about equine infectious anemia. The effort began with a visit to China in the fall of 2016. Earlier this year, Quarles hosted a Chinese delegation in Kentucky for a site visit.
As a result of these efforts, the USDA and AQSIQ have reached an agreement repealing this technical import barrier, clearing the way for the export of horses to China. Dipolmatic and industry leaders jointed Quarles at the signing of the agreement.
https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/224577/agreement-paves-way-for-export-of-u-s-horses-to-china
LikeLike
I was unable to hear the show last evening on my computer and so far the archive is not posted but hope it will be. Thanks.
LikeLike
We were hacked so there will be no archive of this show. Our apologies to all of the people who tried to listen, to our guest Dr. Ann Marini, and to John Holland, who called in during the 2nd half of the show.
LikeLike
That’s very disturbing and I am also sorry there will be no archive. Thanks for the information.
LikeLike
Can this be rescheduled? Too important to let this topic go quiet.
LikeLike
That’s a shame – since we have all become more paranoid lately – no ulterior motive to this hacking??
LikeLike
Must be getting close to the nerve center of the Horse Slaughter Cartel.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Why is the world out for horses’ blood?
Michele Hanson
Horse blood farms are a growing business, China is buying up the world’s donkeys for their skins, and wild horses in the US face mass slaughter. Are we on the way to an equine wipe out?
Why horses, you may ask, with humans being blown to hell and starving? What’s so special about horses? Because they are on my mind. Equines have been in the news lately. Author Meg Rosoff explained perfectly on Radio 4 why they’re so special, and why girls and women love riding. Now Norwegian scientists from the Department of the Bleeding Obvious have found that horses can learn to communicate with humans. How come they didn’t know already? Any 10-year old who has looked after a pony for five minutes could have told them that.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/03/horse-blood-farms-china-donkeys-wild-horses-us-mass-slaughter
LikeLike
How much easier it will be if other states besides Kentucky (of all states) line up to designate horses as livestock! They’re already being treated as such – the same as farm animals – who have barely ANY protection from abuse – I would hope that anyone who cares for equines will realize exactly what this means for these wonderful creatures. Between the bleeding and the premarin farms – what next?
LikeLike