From the pages of the Washington Post Recently Fined Butcher Points Bloody Finger ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A New Mexico meat company that wants to resume domestic horse slaughter for food is suing the federal government, alleging inaction on its application was driven by emotional political debates and has […]
By Lornet Turnbull of the Seattle Times Moving to pre-empt the revival of slaughter houses that kill horses for food, the Snohomish County Council on Wednesday voted unanimously to ban the practice The Snohomish County Council voted unanimously Wednesday to ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption […]
by Cecilia Rodriguez, Contributor as printed in Forbes “Becoming dinner for foreign diners seems to be the normal final destination for retired or damaged racehorses“ One of the surprises we got when we moved to Luxembourg was in the butcher section of the supermarkets, where a selection of horse […]
Press Release from Front Range Equine Rescue BLM could, but does not yet, provide proper oversight to prevent wild horse slaughter (December 17, 2012). Front Range Equine Rescue (FRER) filed a legal petition with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today to stop the sale of wild horses […]
Rebloged from the Canadian Horse Defence Coalition The CHDC provides evidence of phenylbutazone entering the human food chain in Proof of CFIA Failure On December 11, 2012, Jack Rodolico of Latitude News reported on the story of Silky Shark, a Standardbred racehorse who was slaughtered and slipped through […]
Written by Tammie Fields of Tampa Bay’s News 10 “Kudo” of ARM Bags Another Backyard Butcher CITRUS PARK, Florida – Jorge Ortega was arrested for selling horse meat back in November. On Tuesday, a civil lawsuit was filed against two Hillsborough County farms. Investigators say 26-year-old Ortega worked at one of the farms, where […]
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 […]
Unedited Press Release from the Humane Society of the United States The Humane Society of the United States calls upon the Bureau of Land Management to implement its long overdue Comprehensive Animal Welfare Program The Humane Society of the United States is calling on the Bureau of Land […]
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 […]
By Hannah Shook as printed in the Daily Camera “Ken Salazar should be proud,” Our wild horses are on the edge of a planned extinction by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) because it has chosen corporate socialism over the interest of the American taxpayer. The American people […]
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