Source: Newsofthehorse.com Canada – The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued several recalls of horse meat produced by the Viande Richelieu Meat company and Metro Richelieu Inc. The meat has been recalled from Canada, Austria and France after investigators found the meat was contaminated with drugs. Investigators found Phenylbutazone (bute) […]
By Carole R. Davis as published on World Animal News “The new law includes an independent commission, a national slaughterhouse ethics committee and comes loaded with stiff penalties for animal cruelty violations…” The French national assembly passed a bill for mandatory cameras in slaughterhouses today. The controversial measure, […]
After public pressure, including an article in the UK’s dailymail.com (warning: graphic content and photos), a French slaughterhouse closes. Shocking footage shows a terrified horse shying away from a stall and being beaten with an electric baton French Slaughterhouse Closes Amid Animal Cruelty Allegations SOURCE: thehorse.com by Christa […]
as published in The Local – French news in English A French animal rights’ group claimed on Thursday that horsemeat imported to France from North and South America comes from animals treated with a dangerous drug that’s banned from human consumption. Horses from the United States, Canada and other […]
Source: Multiple “The closure is a direct consequence of the horsemeat crisis…” Food giant Nestle will shut a frozen meals plant at its site north of Paris after sales were hit by a Europe-wide scandal that saw horsemeat find its way into processed products such as ready meals, […]
as published in The Sun by By NICK PARKER CRUELLY abused wild horses are feared to have been slaughtered and shipped to British supermarket suppliers to be sold as beef Investigators in Romania are trawling sales records of companies after it was revealed animals suffered appalling mistreatment as […]
Mark Cramer likes lost causes, and in America’s slaughterhouse-bound, retired racehorses, he has certainly found one. These are the rejects, the horses who are either too slow or too infirm to win a meaningful amount of money on the racetrack or be sent to a cushy life on a breeding farm somewhere. Hardly anyone cares about them and the racing industry does little to protect them, which is why an appallingly high number of retired thoroughbreds are shipped each year to slaughterhouses in Mexico and Canada to be butchered for their meat.
f you can’t persuade them for the right reasons, then scare them with the facts.
A new paper in the journal Food & Chemical Toxicology shows how dangerous American horse meat is for human consumption.
Our thoughts were not on horses, in fact, the subject of horses was not even on the agenda. We were in Spain, northern Spain and as we were aware it is the motherland of the great Andalusians we had not seen any, to date.
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