Source: Equine Welfare Alliance, Wild Horse Freedom Federation and Houston’s KPRC News Horse Advocacy Groups Break Story of Illegal Houston Horse Meat Connection HOUSTON – More than one million pounds of fresh and frozen horse meat has moved through the Port of Houston since August 2012, according to […]
Equine Welfare Press Conference and Rally to take place during opening day of BLM advisory board meeting in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Oklahoma City – The Cloud Foundation, Respect4Horses and Wild Horse Freedom Federation will hold a special press conference, during the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Advisory Board […]
Equine Welfare Alliance and Wild Horse Freedom Federation Investigation Report The amount and volume of Horse Meat running through Houston is Staggering Release Date: February 24, 2013 Report Date(s): 2012 – 2013 Type: Bill of Lading Data Objective | Content: Horse Meat Shipments through Port of Houston [TX] […]
By Henry Chu of the Los Angeles Times “Everything Surrounding Horse Slaughter Smacks of Criminal Intent!” LONDON — A growing food-contamination scandal in Britain widened into a criminal investigation Friday, with consumers worried about finding horse meat in their burgers or lasagna. What began as the discovery of […]
Adam Taylor of the Business Insider “There are concerns that the horse meat used in the lasagna contained the drug bute, which is a known human health risk.” In January, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) made a horrifying discovery — horse meat had been found in […]
Vickery Eckhoff Forbes.com writer of multi-part series on horse slaughter and the horse industry. Now Appearing in the Huffington Post The news that Burger King has been selling horsemeat-contaminated Whoppers in the UK comes just days before Oklahoma debates a bill that would make horse slaughter legal in […]
Vickery Eckhoff, Contributor ~ Forbes.com “Rural U.S. lawmakers with ties to the cattle industry and economically-strapped horse breeding registries have been pushing to reopen horse slaughter plants in the states…” While everyone is making jokes about the Polish horse meat that contaminated Tesco’s ground beef patties in the […]
By Katy Askew of Just-Food.com Tainted Horse Meat Scandal Spreads to Spain Undeclared horse meat DNA has been found in Spanish burgers, a leading consumer organization revealed today (29 January). Following the discovery of horse meat in burgers sold at retailers in the UK and Ireland, Spanish consumer […]
“This is a voluntary and precautionary measure…” Burger King, one of the most popular fast-food chains in Britain, said on Thursday it had stopped using one of the firms caught up in the scandal of supplying grocers with beef that contained horse meat. The British food industry has […]
Felicity Lawrence and agencies The Guardian, Thursday 24 January 2013 12.35 GMT MP says she has evidence several horses slaughtered in UK last year tested positive for ‘bute’ or phenylbutazone A potentially carcinogenic drug may have entered the human food chain through meat from horses slaughtered in the […]
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