by Matthew Bershadker ~ASPCA President and CEO, as published on Huffington Post Blog Horse Slaughter: To be clear, this is still a short-term and incomplete solution… The massive, 2,000-page federal spending omnibus package President Obama signed today represents months of negotiations by the House and Senate. And while […]
Good news! We all owe a huge thank you to Sen. Tom Udall, who restored the lost language from The Wild Horse and Burro Act into the Omnibus Spending Bill, which will protect our wild horses and burros from going to slaughter for any reason. The language in the Omnibus Bill is: “Appropriations herein […]
by Mel Priestley as published on VueWeekly.com “Horses should not be food animals, period…” Canada’s multi-million dollar horse meat industry has been described as a dirty little secret, though one that’s not been very well-kept given the regular cropping up of news stories in recent years. Canada slaughtered […]
SOURCE: Pacific Standard Magazine The response to an especially ugly round-up of wild horses in Oregon suggests we might. by James McWilliams A group of wild horses are rounded up in Eureka, Nevada. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Any company that sells tuna—one of the most popular foods eaten […]
By Jack Ferm as published on The Independent ~ A Voice for Utah Horses are not part of America’s food chain! The Bureau of Land Management is a federal agency tasked with protecting our heritage, including wild horses known colloquially as “mustangs.” These majestic animals have freely roamed […]
Unedited Press Release – Forward by R.T. Fitch, pres./co-founder Wild Horse Freedom Federation Here’s your chance; if you belong to a special interest group that is pro-horse slaughter, large game hunting, welfare ranching and mining oriented then this is your perfect chance to jump into bed with the […]
By Carlos R. Munoz as published on The Herald-Tribune “This wasn’t some horse on a farm,…This was someone’s pet.” SARASOTA, FL — The second slaughter of a horse in less than a month has only strengthened the resolve of Florida horse owners to protect their farms from rustlers. […]
Source: Michael Markarian as published on Animals & Politics “The agency not only ignored its own rules, but also flouted congressional mandates that horses not be sent to slaughter…” Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle are weighing in on the recent damning investigative report by […]
H. Sterling Burnett as published on The Heartlander “…he became the largest buyer of wild horses in the United States…” Just two weeks after Ken Salazar was selected by President Barack Obama to become the 50th Secretary of the Interior in 2009, the Bureau of Land Managment (BLM), […]
We’re asking for your votes! Our friends at Equine Advocates fight against some of the worst atrocities against horses – equine slaughter and the PMU Industry – and they are featured in the article below by reporter Chris Bragg in the award-winning Times Union newspaper entitled, “Equine Advocates […]
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