By Carl Johnston as published on BBC “I am in no doubt that they were entering the food chain and being passed off as beef…” Thousands of tonnes of horsemeat probably entered the food chain in the three years before last year’s food crisis, according to a frontbench […]
by R.T. Fitch ~ president/co-founder of Wild Horse Freedom Federation No Moss Gathering on this Stone It’s Monday and it appears that we have a busy week ahead of us and when I refer to “us” it includes not only the advocacy but also the members of the […]
Clearly noting federal budget restrictions, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources HAS turned down the permit request from Rains to butcher American horses for consumption by elite foreign interests.
The DNR said in a letter Thursday to David Rains, owner of Rains Natural Meats in Gallatin, that the agency has denied Rains’ permit request for his proposed horse slaughter operation because the new federal budget withheld funding for required federal inspections of equine slaughter facilities.
Source: By Eve Mitchell as published in foodandwaterwatch.org “…if you’re going to buy heavily processed foods you need to know this stuff –” It’s been a year since we were first told the beef we buy in the EU may actually be horsemeat, but we still don’t really […]
Source: KFOR.com “…the overwhelming majority did not want a horse slaughter plant in their community…” OKLAHOMA CITY – A local senator has filed legislation that would allow Oklahomans to decide whether they want horse slaughter plants in their communities. Senate Joint Resolution 66 would require facilities to be […]
By Milan Simonich as published in The Santa Fe New Mexican “Attorney for Plant continues to Whine” A state district judge issued a preliminary injunction Friday night against a horse-slaughter plant in New Mexico. It was another setback, perhaps a fatal one, for Valley Meat Co., which for […]
OpEd by R.T. Fitch ~ president/co-founder of Wild Horse Freedom Federation An Open Letter to the Advocacy During the course of the week we constantly comb the internet for not only the very latest equine related news but also for something good, uplifting and encouraging to be able […]
2014: No Horse Slaughter in the United States The specter of commercial horse slaughter returning to the U.S. was dealt a death blow Friday as President Barack Obama signed a budget measure that withholds funds for required federal inspections of horse slaughter operations. Toxic horse meat contamination entered […]
Source: The Cloud Foundation Nevada organizations come to aid of welfare ranchers COLORADO SPRINGS, CO. (Jan. 17, 2014) A lawsuit brought by the Nevada Association of Counties (NACO) and the Nevada Farm Bureau (NFB) against the federal government claims wild horse overpopulation creates serious environmental concerns for horses, […]
Brief Commentary by R.T. Fitch ~ co-founder/president of Wild Horse Freedom Federation Good morning my friends; We are catching our collective breath and dabbing the sweat from our brow over the passing of the Omnibus bill in the House and Senate. The long and tedious behind the scenes […]
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