Source: Multiple “The burden is high, but plaintiffs have demonstrated to this court that potential harm to the environment outweigh defendant’s concerns…” ALBUQUERQUE – The Roswell horse slaughter facility is on hold. U.S. District Court Judge M. Christina Armijo granted a temporary restraining order against the Valley Meat Co., which received […]
Source: Multiple “They tried to burn the place down…” ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. • Arsonists set fire to the southeastern New Mexico company that planned to resume domestic horse slaughter next week, the company’s owner said Tuesday. “They tried to burn the place down,” Valley Meat Co. owner Rick De […]
By Dan Flynn of Food Safety News USDA meat inspectors are now set to provide inspection services to qualified applicants The federal court in New Mexico next Friday will hear the motion for a preliminary injunction against USDA granting inspections to equine meat packing houses that are close […]
Source: The Toledo Chronicle “The horse slaughter industry is a predatory, inhumane enterprise…” Iowa has become ground zero in the national debate on horse slaughter, now that the USDA has cleared a horse slaughter plant to begin butchering horses here. Not only will our state earn the disdain […]
Source: Vicki Tobin ~ VP of Equine Welfare Alliance “In addition to being up to our eyeballs with the conference, now that this is out (to our surprise!), here’s a bit of insight into what has been going on that we have been keeping under wraps. While a […]
A Call to Action by R.T. Fitch ~ co-founder/president of Wild Horse Freedom Federation If ever there was a time to contact your Congressman, NOW is that time!! Equine Advocates around the world are shocked and angry that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved applications for horse […]
Source: U.S. Reuters story by James Davey “Everything that touches predatory horse slaughter is rooted in crime and corruption!” LONDON, July 16 (Reuters) – The contamination of meat products with horse DNA was most likely due to fraud and prosecutions should be pursued, a second British parliamentary report […]
By Steve Long ~ author/publisher of Horseback Magazine “Studies performed in laboratory animals have shown that phenylbutazone has carcinogenic properties. “ HOUSTON, (Horseback) – When equine slaughterhouses open their doors in New Mexico, Iowa, and Missouri this month, their proprietors are likely to face a determined effort by […]
Source: By Allie Conti as published at the Miami New Times The Miami Beach-based Animal Recovery Mission spearheaded the undercover investigations When Jesus Navarro was arrested for selling $1,350 horsemeat to undercover cops, it didn’t seem to make much of an impact. Other men might have taken pause […]
Source: RetroReport.org “Of course there is a lot of stumbling and miss-information from D. Phillipps, whose milking of the advocacy and premature release of Tom Davis’ information has allowed the kill buyer of 1,700 wild horses to go free, but other than his poor performance it is an […]
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