For decades, the gourmet diners of Europe and Japan have eaten American horse meat poisoned by chemical contamination. The horse flesh exporting by unscrupulous producers and horse slaughter plants will come to an end in April of 2010. The new rules enacted by the European Union will mandate chemical free horse meat entering those countries.
30 month long investigation proves worst-case scenario is ongoing Westminster, MD (PRWEB) August 6, 2009 — A thirty month long investigation into the plight of horses who have been sold for slaughter has revealed the worst levels of inhumane treatment. The abuse and neglect of these horses, sometimes […]
It’s out in the open, there’s no denying or running away from it now. The anti-horse people have been attempting to keep it under wraps for ages but, today, it’s staring them right in the face and there’s a great big draft horse standing in their living rooms; the EU now recognizes that the meat from American horses, slaughtered in Canada and Mexico, is toxic and dangerous for human consumption due to the equine medications it retains.
One horse owner is sleeping in her barn at night. Others are patrolling paddocks and pastures, shotgun at the ready.
They know someone is out there preying on horses, killing the majestic animals for their meat. And they’ll do anything to protect their own.
The European Union (EU) and Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) have announced that the rules on slaughtering horses for human consumption are about to change radically due to concerns regarding contaminated horse meat.
The old adage, ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me’ constitute fine words to live by when verbal aspersions are recklessly hurled. While none of us want to be called fat, ugly or stupid to our face, much less to others behind […]
by Jean-Pierre Ruiz (great story – R.T.) By a vote of 239 to 185, the House of Representatives voted handily in favor of bill H.R. 1018 providing federal protection to burros and wild horses. The bill had been introduced by Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall (D – […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina man was charged with having sex with a horse after the animal’s owner caught the act on videotape, then staked out the stable and caught him at shotgun point, authorities said Wednesday. But this wasn’t the first time Rodell Vereen has been […]
A Times editorial makes the troubling assumption that mustangs are pests that irrevocably damage our public lands. By Stephanie Boyles July 31, 2009 The Los Angeles Times’ July 27 editorial “Wild horse sense,” which weighs in on proposals to handle the growing wild horse population in the western […]
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY (CBS4) — Mutilated, and cut up, the body of another horse has been found dead along a northwest Miami-Dade road. Miami-Dade Police say this is the 17th horse butchered in the county since mid-January. The latest one was slaughtered Sunday at a farm along the 12-thousand […]
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