Source: By JANET PEARSON Associate Editor of Tulsa World Pending federal legislation would ban the slaughter of American horses for human consumption and prohibit transporting them across the U.S. border to Mexican and Canadian slaughterhouses. Oklahoma lawmakers and Gov. Mary Fallin might have thought that quick passage of […]
Video supplied by Simone Netherlands of Respect 4 Horses How YOU can Help! Related Articles 2013 Annual American Equine Summit Unites Against Horse Slaughter (rtfitchauthor.com) Market for Slaughter Horses Plunging in Wake of “Burger-gate” (rtfitchauthor.com) Breaking News: FRER Discovers New Applications for Horse Slaughter Facilities (rtfitchauthor.com) HSUS boss […]
Source: Paula Todd King as published in The Taos News “Horse Slaughter is the opposite of euthanasia” I know that horse lovers abound in Taos and the surrounding areas but I wonder how many people realize how close our state is to becoming the first state in the […]
Source: The Western Producer “Do ya think drug tainted Horse Meat might be included?” MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) — Russia plans to ban meat imports from most Canadian and Mexican suppliers starting Monday over concerns about the use of the feed additive ractopamine, a spokesperson for Russia’s veterinary and […]
Vickery Eckhoff as published in the Huffington Post Covering the underground horse meat trade since 2011. “Any drop in horse meat sales is most likely attributable to it no longer being sold as beef…” Five states looking to snag millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to inspect horse meat […]
Source: Press Release from Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc “Phenylbutazone is considered to be one of the most toxic non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs“ Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, recently mobilized its Food Safety Response Center (FSRC) to develop a method to test for the presence […]
Source: Equine Welfare Alliance “Numbers…would tell us how much of the meat from our horses was being sold as beef…” EWA (Chicago) – USDA data for the first quarter of 2013 indicates a precipitous drop in the number of horses going from the US to Mexico for slaughter. […]
Source: Michael D’Antonio Author, Mortal Sins, Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal ~published in the Huffington Post “The human response to the horse suggests that as he was evolving in relationship to us, we were adapting to him…” Last week a video appeared on YouTube showing […]
Source: By Horsetalk.co.nz on Apr 04, 2013 in News Coming soon to Oklahoma, tainted horse meat Horse meat imported from Poland into the Czech Republic has tested positive for the anti-inflammatory drug Phenylbutazone, which is banned from entering the human food chain. The Czech Republic veterinary authority reported […]
Forward by R.T. Fitch ~ WHFF Pres. ~ Comment by Terry Fitch ~ Sec/Treasurer WHFF Terry Fitch Wows Contest Selection Committee with Equine Photographic Majesty I am proud, and immensely moved, to announce that my better half, Terry, has three years running been selected by the Equine Photo […]
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