By STEPHANIE STROM as published in the New York Times Horse-Eaters Duquette and Wallis’ Panties in a Wad The Obama administration has included a proposal in its 2014 budget that would effectively ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption. Technically, the proposal would prevent money from being […]
Vickery Eckhoff as published in the Huffington Post Covering the underground horse meat trade since 2011. “Any drop in horse meat sales is most likely attributable to it no longer being sold as beef…” Five states looking to snag millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to inspect horse meat […]
Source: Equine Welfare Alliance “Numbers…would tell us how much of the meat from our horses was being sold as beef…” EWA (Chicago) – USDA data for the first quarter of 2013 indicates a precipitous drop in the number of horses going from the US to Mexico for slaughter. […]
Source: By BILL TOMSON from the Wall Street Journal Online The extra tests are to make “absolutely certain” the U.S. is unaffected by the overseas recalls on horse meat… WASHINGTON—Europe’s horse-meat scandal is prompting the U.S. to increase the “species” testing it does on imports to detect any […]
Source: Jo Singer of Petside.com “by virtue of commission decision 2011/163/EU the US is not authorized to export horsemeat to the EU.” Just a week ago Petside featured an article about the high probability of horse slaughter facilities soon opening in the United States to produce meat for […]
Source: Undisclosed SFTHH Blog Reader – Forward by R.T. Fitch ” I felt you should be made aware of the base depravity of the pro-slaughter movement…” “Howdy Troops, great things are popping and they are happening fast; the EU will refuse U.S. horse meat, the Obama Administration plans on […]
Source: Equine Welfare Alliance Press Release “Plants will have no access to the markets even if the EU ban is lifted…” Chicago (EWA) – Since Congress lifted the ban on USDA inspections of horse meat, several small shuttered cattle slaughter plants have clamored for the USDA to provide […]
By Ernest Dempsey as published in the Digital Journal ~ forward by R.T. Fitch “I am no spring chicken and have experienced, witnessed and been forced to embrace death on far too many occasions than I care to count. But the torture and cruelty that Horse Slaughter visits […]
Tracking the Story Got You Confused? Following the story of contaminated “beef” containing horsemeat in common products in the EU and UK has managed to make everyone a little dizzy so our good friends over to the Australian Institute of Food Safety put together a graphic that might […]
Source: Equine Welfare Alliance “The finding of horse meat in meals supplied to schools and hospitals is of particular concern…” Chicago (EWA) – According to USDA statistics, the slaughter of US horses soared by 32% in 2012 to over 176,000, a twenty year high. The horses were exported […]
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