Source: Washington Times Letter to Editor Thank you for your recent article stating that the wild-horse roundup in northern Nevada had been canceled (“Wild horse roundup in Nevada is canceled amid outrage, fears over ‘stealth’ slaughter,” Web, Aug. 8). Tragically, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management went back […]
Source: Information supplied by Equine Welfare Alliance – article by James McWilliams ~ Pacific Standard “Something about this report, however, seemed suspicious before it was even published…” The vast majority of Americans—over 80 percent—oppose the idea of slaughtering horses in the United States. Not surprisingly, there was minimal […]
Source: KTAR of Arizona “Our main focus now is going to be beef…” LINCOLN, Neb. – An Iowa company is dropping plans to slaughter horses in the wake of a federal judge’s ruling that temporarily banned the practice as animal welfare groups challenge it in court, a company […]
Source: The Cloud Foundation “Our goal is this: any foal born in the wild will have the chance to live its life in freedom with its family on its own terms,” COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Over 100 young wild horses living in the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in […]
By John Holland ~ President of the Equine Welfare Alliance “Sue is a compulsive fact creator…” Hi, my name is John Holland, and I am a data-holic. I usually spend my day furtively downloading statistics and information; analyzing it, graphing it, correlating it and trying to glean insights […]
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: 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: 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 […]
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