Alan Van Zandt as published on StJoeChannel.com “They would kill horses and the smell was terrible.” (KAUFMAN, Tex.) Paula Bacon is a fifth generation Kaufman, Texas resident. There’s a street named after her family and a historical office just off of the city square that belonged to her […]
Marsha (not her real name), is an undercover cruelty investigator for the Equine Welfare Alliance.
“Horse slaughter is one of the biggest cruelty to animals that there is,” she said. “From the transportation to the auctions all the way to the slaughter plant.”
Reports say as many as 170,000 are transported to Mexico and Canada each year for slaughter. The meat is then shipped to Japan and Europe for consumption.
“They don’t really care for these animals that much. It’s just a dollar sign to them, it’s a carcass weight, it’s a pound.”
By BARBARA HOBEROCK World Capitol Bureau as published in Tulsa World Last year, lawmakers passed and Gov. Mary Fallin signed a measure to lift the state ban on horse slaughtering. “I don’t get it but has Oklahoma left the Union or do it’s State Legislators truly have their […]
by Debbie Coffey, V.P. and Director of Wild Horse Affairs, Wild Horse Freedom Federation Copyright 2014 All Rights Reserved. As the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) facilitates unprecedented “uses” on public lands that use vast amounts of water from aquifers and drop the water table, Joan Guilfoyle, BLM’s […]
Lovely, little Elko, Nevada has announced, according to a recent AP story, that the county will donate $10,000 to a law suit that was brought forward in December by the Nevada Association of Counties and the Nevada Farm Bureau Federation against the BLM charging that the well-known federal grazing and special interest agency is not doing its job and should round up ALL of the federally protected wild horses and burros and send them to slaughter along with the 55,000+ captured horses forced into confinement in contracted long term holding.
Ain’t that just so darn sweet and dandy.
Source: By Karrie Allen as published on the Chatham Courier For 2 years, but Equine Advocates president says, ‘we are finally on the road to a permanent ban’ CHATHAM, NY — Jan. 17 was a good day for Equine Advocates President and founder Susan Wagner and the hundreds […]
By Josh Long as published in Food Product Design USDA is prohibited from inspecting facilities for horse slaughter throughout the remainder of the government’s fiscal year 2014 Albuquerque, N.M.—An annual budget signed by President Obama has rendered “moot” a lawsuit challenging horse slaughter, a lawyer representing animal-rights groups […]
Guest Commentary by John Holland ~ president of Equine Welfare Alliance “…if there is one consistent theme in Congress, it is that they almost never do things the way they are supposed to…” This is part three concerning the omnibus bill. Part one, as many of you have […]
By Carl Johnston as published on BBC “I am in no doubt that they were entering the food chain and being passed off as beef…” Thousands of tonnes of horsemeat probably entered the food chain in the three years before last year’s food crisis, according to a frontbench […]
by R.T. Fitch ~ president/co-founder of Wild Horse Freedom Federation No Moss Gathering on this Stone It’s Monday and it appears that we have a busy week ahead of us and when I refer to “us” it includes not only the advocacy but also the members of the […]
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