By Kelly Ni of the Epoch Times Staff Health concerns raised over dangerous drugs American horses are sold to slaughter factories in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. Many are concerned that the slaughtered American horses, which were not raised for human consumption, eventually make their way into […]
Source: Wayne Pacelle of the HSUS “The abuses of the horse meat industry are unraveling before the eyes of the world…” “he revelations about horse meat masquerading as beef products represent one of the biggest food scandals in recent years. It’s of keen interest to The HSUS and Humane […]
Source: Human Society of the United States “The European Commission must act quickly and place a moratorium on the sale of all horse meat products that originate from North America…” BRUSSELS – As the European Union grapples with an extreme and growing lack of consumer confidence in the […]
Guest OpEd by Vicki Tobin ~ VP of Equine Welfare Alliance “Our predictions are now a reality that can’t be ignored” Predictions come in many forms. Some from a gut feeling or wishing it were so. For equine advocates, they were based on evidence and scientific fact. We […]
Source: Animals’ Angels USA Blow to Swiss Horse Meat Market Expected Consumers have a right to be apprehensive of the production practices used by meat distributors as concerns over the integrity of the industry continue to grow. The recent cases originating in the United Kingdom, where horse meat […]
as published in the UK’s INDEPENDENT The influx from the US, which last year sent 167,000 horses to its two neighbours for slaughter as human food, has been largely unexamined during the ongoing crisis Thousands of tonnes of horsemeat originating from the United States, which may be tainted […]
Commentary and information supplied by Vicki Tobin ~ VP of Equine Welfare Alliance Tainted Horse Meat found in UK Walmart Allow me to vent for a moment…. Have we (collective we) not been saying that horse slaughter is going to give the entire meat industry a black eye? […]
By Henry Chu of the Los Angeles Times “Everything Surrounding Horse Slaughter Smacks of Criminal Intent!” LONDON — A growing food-contamination scandal in Britain widened into a criminal investigation Friday, with consumers worried about finding horse meat in their burgers or lasagna. What began as the discovery of […]
by Jack Rodolico of Marketplace.org Canada isn’t protecting consumers from tainted meat… In 2011, about 140,000 American horses were eaten abroad. But they weren’t slaughtered in the U.S. When America closed its last horse slaughter plants five years ago, American horse buyers turned their trucks north and south to slaughterhouses […]
Story by NATALIE WHEELER of the East Oregonian Horse Eating “United Horsemen” Search for Feared Pro-Horse Boogeyman United Horsemen, which is pushing to build a horse slaughter facility outside Hermiston, Oregon, requested the city hand over all public records about the facility. Suspicious that the city received support […]
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