By Dan Flynn of Food Safety News USDA meat inspectors are now set to provide inspection services to qualified applicants The federal court in New Mexico next Friday will hear the motion for a preliminary injunction against USDA granting inspections to equine meat packing houses that are close […]
Source: National Pet Rescue Examiner Portsmouth Police Officer Brian Davis and his wife Jennifer Davis were charged on Tuesday for animal cruelty in the starvation death of their former horse. Officer Davis, 34, was assigned to the K-9 Unit, and has been temporarily transferred to an administrative position […]
SOURCE: PPJ Gazette By Debbie Coffey Copyright 2013 All Rights Reserved. During a proclaimed drought across much of the West, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in the Ely District of Nevada is offering up 399,873 acres of public lands for oil & gas lease sales. This is […]
Source: The Toledo Chronicle “The horse slaughter industry is a predatory, inhumane enterprise…” Iowa has become ground zero in the national debate on horse slaughter, now that the USDA has cleared a horse slaughter plant to begin butchering horses here. Not only will our state earn the disdain […]
Source: Multiple The Nevada Department of Agriculture wants to hear from nonprofit organizations on developing a wild horse management plan for the Virginia Range southeast of Reno. The agency on Monday said its goal is a cooperative agreement with an organization to manage and sustain the horses at […]
SOURCE: Seattlepi.com By JERI CLAUSING, Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Environment Department on Monday dealt a new blow to a Roswell company’s hard-fought attempts to begin slaughtering horses next month, declining a request to renew Valley Meat Co.‘s wastewater discharge permit. The denial came the […]
Announce Formation of Foundation Focused on Protecting Animals and Wildlife SANTA FE, NM- Former Governor Bill Richardson and legendary actor, director, and conservationist Robert Redford today announced they are joining the fight to stop horse slaughterhouses from reopening in the United States. The action is the first of […]
(ALBUQUERQUE)—Attorney General Gary King has filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit to stop a plant in Roswell from slaughtering horses for meat because federal authorities have not yet undertaken the required environmental review. The AG’s motion, filed late last Friday, joins Front Range Equine […]
Source: Letter to Wyoming‘s Star Tribune Editor: Your feature on BLM’s Deerwood Ranch wild horse sanctuary, near Centennial (“Rancher offers sanctuary to wild horses,” July 13) left me feeling conflicted. On one hand, this ecosanctuary gives 228 once-wild stallions a safe, comfortable life, the bliss of freedom, and […]
by Martin Griffith as published in the Deseret News “The agency still has not gotten the message that the removal of wild horses from our Western public lands is inhumane, unsustainable, unscientific, and must come to an end…” RENO, Nev. — U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials say […]
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