Source: by Gary Gerew of the Albuquerque Business First “Secretary Vilsack made it clear to me that he opposes horse slaughter…” Former Gov. Bill Richardson Thursday met in Washington D.C with meet with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and urge him to stop the reopening of horse slaughterhouses, but […]
Source: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch “34 percent decrease in horse thefts after horse slaughter was banned…” When Deborah Peterson laments that “horse slaughter gets all the attention” (“Crackdown on cattle-rustling pays off,” July 19), I assume she is not talking about the Post-Dispatch, which has not penned one […]
SOURCE: PPJ Gazette By Debbie Coffey Copyright 2013 All Rights Reserved. At a time when so many horses are being sent to slaughter, who are the two men who have filed an antitrust lawsuit against the American Quarter Horse Association to force it to allow cloned horses to […]
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 […]
Announce Formation of Foundation Focused on Protecting Animals and Wildlife SANTA FE, NM- Former Governor Bill Richardson and legendary actor, director, and conservationist Robert Redford today announced they are joining the fight to stop horse slaughterhouses from reopening in the United States. The action is the first of […]
(ALBUQUERQUE)—Attorney General Gary King has filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit to stop a plant in Roswell from slaughtering horses for meat because federal authorities have not yet undertaken the required environmental review. The AG’s motion, filed late last Friday, joins Front Range Equine […]
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 […]
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