Source: CMS Cameron McKenna , Sarah Hanson and Jessica Burt of the Association of Corporate Counsel …thresholds could not be identified and therefore no maximum residue limits established. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA) have published a joint statement (click here) on the risk […]
Source: By Dennis Hoey dhoey@mainetoday.com as published in the Portland Press Herald The plan also would prevent transport of horses through Maine to plants in Canada that would turn them into food. A legislative committee will hear public testimony Tuesday on a bill to prohibit the slaughter of […]
Source: PublicNewsService.org ~Renee Blake, “It doesn’t at all mean that there’s an approval of horse slaughter.” ROSWELL, N.M. – Agents of the U.S. Department of Agriculture conducted a walk-through of Valley Meat Co. on Tuesday, days after the Humane Society of the United States and Front Range Equine […]
Source: By Nancy Lofholm of the Denver Post Spaying mares in the field would amount to “mutilation.” GRAND JUNCTION — The Bureau of Land Management has no new wild-horse roundups planned for the remainder of this year and, in that lull, will be researching a new population-control measure — […]
Source: By STEPHANIE STROM of the New York Times “We need to oppose this unspeakable practice with all our might,” Amid the unfolding horse-meat scandal, a New Mexico slaughterhouse has moved closer to becoming the first in the United States since 2007 to be allowed to process horses for […]
Source: Front Range Equine Rescue press release Group Urges the United States Department of Agriculture to Deny Valley Meat’s Application Based on Decades of Lawbreaking (April 22, 2013)— Front Range Equine Rescue (“FRER”) notified the United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) that the owner of Valley Meat Company, […]
Source: Press Release from Equine Advocates “As Americans, we have the right to oppose both the return of horse slaughter to the US and the transport of our wild and domestic equines to other countries for the purpose of slaughter.” CHATHAM, NY, April 22, 2013 – On the […]
Source: Letter to Editor of The Berkshire Eagle from Barbara Kellogg “horses are administered not only antibiotics, but a pharmacy of drugs banned from the food chain…” Monday April 22, 2013 The April 5 op-ed by Peter Albertson, “Why the fuss about horse meat?” missed the key reasons […]
Three years running, Terry Fitch rides home with ribbons, this year she captured 11 Long time Wild Horse and Equine advocate Terry Fitch, co-founder of Wild Horse Freedom Federation, has garnered 11 awards for her photographic artistry in the prestigious Equine Photographers Network‘s International 2013 Winter Photography Contest. […]
Source: Equine Welfare Alliance and Wild Horse Freedom Federation Permit Processing This is the second set of documents ( click <HERE> for first installment) we are releasing from the FOIA request for documents pertaining to the NM permit request. Documents contained in this release are the actual permit […]
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