Source: The Republic.com “The BLM is forcing a crisis by stockpiling over 50,000 wild horses in holding facilities while pursuing the same failed management strategies” RENO, Nevada — Federal land managers say the drought is prompting plans to remove an unspecified number of wild horses from a large […]
Guest OpEd by Bonnie Kohleriter “I just work on wild horse and burro stuff” This past week the nation got a glimpse of the leadership for the Wild Horse and Burro Program within the Department of Interior (DOI). NBC aired a Today program, “ Wild, but not Free,” […]
Source: Multiple “It is not only ‘Feel Good Sunday’ but also Memorial Day weekend where we honor those who have paid the ultimate price so as to ensure our freedom, safety and way of life for our families and friends. Today we look at horses, of course, while […]
Source: Mary Ormsby and Dale Brazao Staff Reporters of THESTAR.com “I’m just buying the horse for the (meat) plant and that’s it” The horse “passport” Canada relies on to keep toxic meat off dinner tables around the world is open to fraud and error, a Star investigation reveals. […]
Source: By Mary Rampellini of the Daily Racing Form “We’ve counted, unfortunately, 150 horses or more that have been found [dead], were killed, or had to be put down,” In a sobering count, more than 150 horses died as a result of the violent tornado that swept through […]
Source: Multiple “EVERYTHING about Horse Slaughter is either corrupt or illegal!” THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch authorities on Thursday arrested the director of a meat-processing and wholesale company whose business is at the center of an investigation into undeclared mixing of horse meat with beef. Investigators from the […]
Source: By Mary Rampellini of The Daily Racing Form “People are giving horses water from plastic water bottles,” A representative of the Celestial Acres Training Center in Moore, Okla., said 34 horses had been found alive as of Wednesday following Monday’s tornado, which packed winds of nearly 200 […]
Source: By ANDREW CHAMPAGNE of the Saratogian “Reason, logic, and fact dictate that we should ban horse slaughter in New York state.” ALBANY — Fewer stories in horse racing have had higher highs and lower lows than that of Ferdinand. The 1986 Kentucky Derby winner banked more than […]
“Those horses are my livelihood and I consider them part of my family,” GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. – From 800 miles away, the images of Mother Nature’s wrath in Oklahoma are breathtaking. From a few blocks, they’re something else entirely. “It’s tough. It’s tough to grasp,” said Minnesota native […]
Source: Amanda Goodman of KRQE.com “When you have a horse slaughter facility come to your area horse theft goes right up,” PLACITAS, N.M. (KRQE) – Horse advocates fear New Mexico‘s wild horses could end up in New Mexico’s new horse slaughterhouse. The Valley Meat Company near Roswell passed […]
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