Source: By Dennis Hoey dhoey@mainetoday.com as published in the Portland Press Herald The plan also would prevent transport of horses through Maine to plants in Canada that would turn them into food. A legislative committee will hear public testimony Tuesday on a bill to prohibit the slaughter of […]
Source: PublicNewsService.org ~Renee Blake, “It doesn’t at all mean that there’s an approval of horse slaughter.” ROSWELL, N.M. – Agents of the U.S. Department of Agriculture conducted a walk-through of Valley Meat Co. on Tuesday, days after the Humane Society of the United States and Front Range Equine […]
Source: By STEPHANIE STROM of the New York Times “We need to oppose this unspeakable practice with all our might,” Amid the unfolding horse-meat scandal, a New Mexico slaughterhouse has moved closer to becoming the first in the United States since 2007 to be allowed to process horses for […]
Source: Front Range Equine Rescue press release Group Urges the United States Department of Agriculture to Deny Valley Meat’s Application Based on Decades of Lawbreaking (April 22, 2013)— Front Range Equine Rescue (“FRER”) notified the United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) that the owner of Valley Meat Company, […]
Source: Press Release from Equine Advocates “As Americans, we have the right to oppose both the return of horse slaughter to the US and the transport of our wild and domestic equines to other countries for the purpose of slaughter.” CHATHAM, NY, April 22, 2013 – On the […]
Source: Letter to Editor of The Berkshire Eagle from Barbara Kellogg “horses are administered not only antibiotics, but a pharmacy of drugs banned from the food chain…” Monday April 22, 2013 The April 5 op-ed by Peter Albertson, “Why the fuss about horse meat?” missed the key reasons […]
Source: Equine Welfare Alliance and Wild Horse Freedom Federation Permit Processing This is the second set of documents ( click <HERE> for first installment) we are releasing from the FOIA request for documents pertaining to the NM permit request. Documents contained in this release are the actual permit […]
Source: YNN.com by Matt Hunter “This should be a national legislation but what we should do as the Empire State is set the standard…” GREENFIELD, N.Y. – For past racing stars like Travers winners Thunder Rumble and Will’s Way, Old Friends at Cabin Creek just might offer the […]
Source: REUTERS written by Padraic Halpin ABP Foods blamed suppliers it said appeared to have delivered mislabeled beef from Poland… The Irish company at the center of a scandal in Europe over horsemeat in beef products, said on Thursday it is leaving the frozen burger market after selling […]
Source: Front Range Equine Rescue Front Range Equine Rescue and The Humane Society of the United States Will Sue to Enforce the Endangered Species Act (April 16, 2013)— Front Range Equine Rescue (“FRER”) and The Humane Society of the United States (“HSUS”) notified the United States Department of […]
Click-on book cover to learn more
Terry & R.T. Fitch Featured
Follow R.T. on Facebook
Straight from the Horse's Heart 
Most Recent Comments