News and updates related to the predatory business of horse slaughter
By Bill Kaufmann as published in the Calgary Sun “These horses have been so marginalized.” RCMP say a wild horse found dead west of Sundre appears to have been shot — the first one since 2009 to have possibly died that way. Wayne Chicoine of Red Deer said […]
Story by Melissa Ramsay as published in Global News “The captured horses become the property of the license holders and there is no requirement for them to share information about what happens to the horses…” CALGARY – The province of Alberta is releasing the final numbers from this […]
Sources: Multiple – this rendition from (less headlines) The Kansas City Star Barrister for Failed Horse Slaughterhouse Issues Anti-Obama Rhetoric SANTA FE, N.M. — Animal protection advocates applauded President Barack Obama on Tuesday for proposing to continue a federal funding ban that’s blocking the resumption of commercial horse […]
Story content Kim Vallez of KRQE News New Mexico Supreme Court Kicks Valley Meat’s Behind ROSWELL, N.M. (KRQE) – Thought we had reached an end to the fight over horse slaughter in New Mexico? Think again. The New Mexico Supreme Court has denied Valley Meat Company’s request to […]
By Pat Raia as published in The Horse Convicted Horse Abuser Attempts to Twist the Law A Montana rancher found guilty of maltreating a herd of horses residing on his property has appealed his conviction to that state’s Supreme Court. In 2011, Yellowstone County prosecutors charged rancher James […]
By JAMES KARIUKI as published on AfricaReview.com “Kenyan Agency Gets It Right?” A Kenyan environmental regulatory agency has cancelled a license granted to a butcher for allegedly using his premises to slaughter donkeys. The $173,000 premises in Naivasha, 100km west of Nairobi, was meant for the slaughter of […]
Jen Gerson | as published on the National Post “It’s the cattle and the ranchers who have a lot of power and they don’t want the horses competing with the cattle for the grazing.’’ SUNDRE, Alta. — To the advocates of Alberta’s wild horse population, the only thing […]
Alan Van Zandt as published on StJoeChannel.com “They would kill horses and the smell was terrible.” (KAUFMAN, Tex.) Paula Bacon is a fifth generation Kaufman, Texas resident. There’s a street named after her family and a historical office just off of the city square that belonged to her […]
Story by Vince Patton as published at Oregon Public Broadcasting “Suddenly they’re going to kill off the wild horses because there’s a man-made drought caused by the BLM’s own mismanagement of our public lands…” An internal memo has surfaced that shows the U.S. government’s wild horse program is […]
article by Scott Sonner -(published nationally) forward by R.T. Fitch ~ pres/co-founder Wild Horse Freedom Federation “The detailed research of Debbie Coffey, Director of Wild Horse Affairs for Wild Horse Freedom Federation is highlighted and reported on in the following AP article. You can read Debbie’s original article […]
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