By Lornet Turnbull of the Seattle Times Moving to pre-empt the revival of slaughter houses that kill horses for food, the Snohomish County Council on Wednesday voted unanimously to ban the practice The Snohomish County Council voted unanimously Wednesday to ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption […]
by Cecilia Rodriguez, Contributor as printed in Forbes “Becoming dinner for foreign diners seems to be the normal final destination for retired or damaged racehorses“ One of the surprises we got when we moved to Luxembourg was in the butcher section of the supermarkets, where a selection of horse […]
Rebloged from the Canadian Horse Defence Coalition The CHDC provides evidence of phenylbutazone entering the human food chain in Proof of CFIA Failure On December 11, 2012, Jack Rodolico of Latitude News reported on the story of Silky Shark, a Standardbred racehorse who was slaughtered and slipped through […]
Written by Tammie Fields of Tampa Bay’s News 10 “Kudo” of ARM Bags Another Backyard Butcher CITRUS PARK, Florida – Jorge Ortega was arrested for selling horse meat back in November. On Tuesday, a civil lawsuit was filed against two Hillsborough County farms. Investigators say 26-year-old Ortega worked at one of the farms, where […]
by Jack Rodolico of Marketplace.org Canada isn’t protecting consumers from tainted meat… In 2011, about 140,000 American horses were eaten abroad. But they weren’t slaughtered in the U.S. When America closed its last horse slaughter plants five years ago, American horse buyers turned their trucks north and south to slaughterhouses […]
Story by NATALIE WHEELER of the East Oregonian Horse Eating “United Horsemen” Search for Feared Pro-Horse Boogeyman United Horsemen, which is pushing to build a horse slaughter facility outside Hermiston, Oregon, requested the city hand over all public records about the facility. Suspicious that the city received support […]
By JOE DRAPE of the New York Times The meat of American racehorses may be too toxic to eat safely… PARIS — For decades, American horses, many of them retired or damaged racehorses, have been shipped to Canada and Mexico, where it is legal to slaughter horses, and then processed […]
October 24, 2012 By Julie Harker as published in the Brownfield AG News for America Interview with Equine Welfare Alliance’s Jo-Claire Cocoran Jo-Claire Corcoran, with Equine Welfare Alliance (EWA), says the group did a study of claims about abandoned U.S. horses and very few were substantiated. She says […]
Report provided by the Canadian Horse Defence Coalition The CHDC provides evidence of disturbing parallels between the XL Foods contaminated beef recall and conditions inside Canada’s horse slaughter plants. Read the full report by clicking (HERE). Warning – Graphic Images Related articles ASPCA recognizes boy’s efforts in opposing […]
Unified press release from EWA, R4H and WHFF Horses slaughtered is determined by the demand of horse meat abroad, not by the number of “unwanted” horses On Thursday Oct 11th the European Commission published a report, which evaluates the operation of controls over the production of horsemeat for […]
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