Source: American Wild Horse Campaign Over the weekend, the House and Senate Appropriations Committees restored language to the 2017 Omnibus spending bill that opens the back door to killing potentially thousands of wild horses and burros. The language amends the Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act by […]
OpEd by Andrea Jenkins – Donkeys of Australia Over the past few months I have read many articles about donkeys. There was one article I read a couple of weeks ago though that really hit a nerve. The article included a stunning picture of a donkey, gazing out […]
by Debbie Coffey, V.P. & Dir. of Wild Horse Affairs, Wild Horse Freedom Federation All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2017 On the Bureau of Land Management’s new website, on the Program Data page for the Wild Horse & Burro Program (under the Wild Horse and Burro Sales to Private […]
Source: Newsofthehorse.com Canada – The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued several recalls of horse meat produced by the Viande Richelieu Meat company and Metro Richelieu Inc. The meat has been recalled from Canada, Austria and France after investigators found the meat was contaminated with drugs. Investigators found Phenylbutazone (bute) […]
by Liz Tyson as published on One Green Planet “Many of our donkeys have been rescued from miserable live animal markets…” Hamish, Clover, and Darcy were tiny babies, not yet weaned, when they were taken from their mothers and sent to be sold illegally at a market in the […]
Source: Equine Advocates As we continue to supply new information about the dangers, criminal activity and food fraud involved with the slaughter of equines for human consumption both in the U.S. and abroad, you must realize that all of these incidents are very much intertwined and connected. Please […]
Story by Scott Sonner ~ Ace AP reporter “We’re pleased that the courts continue to dismiss attempts by these grazing interests to use the judicial system to rewrite federal law that Congress designed to protect wild horses…” Wild horse advocates in Nevada scored a victory Monday in an […]
Source: The Navajo Times ~ (this is an excerpt, see below) With multiple efforts to reduce the number of wild horses on the Navajo Nation, officials are considering a hunt. The Navajo Nation Department of Fish and Wildlife asked hunters and sportsmen for their support for a hunt […]
Source: Multiple “The Safeguard American Food Exports Act — would bar horse slaughter in the U.S. and ban horse shipments to Mexico” Advocates for horses worry that U.S. restrictions against slaughtering the animals in this country soon could come to an end, and one Missouri lawmaker says he […]
“Happy Birthday Dayton O. Hyde!” Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary founder and author, Dayton O. Hyde will celebrates his 92nd birthday today, March 25. Hyde’s life journey is a story of challenges and successes that began in Michigan and took him across the West. From rodeos, conservation battles, […]
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