Vickery Eckhoff as published in the Huffington Post Covering the underground horse meat trade since 2011. “Any drop in horse meat sales is most likely attributable to it no longer being sold as beef…” Five states looking to snag millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to inspect horse meat […]
Source: Press Release from Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc “Phenylbutazone is considered to be one of the most toxic non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs“ Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, recently mobilized its Food Safety Response Center (FSRC) to develop a method to test for the presence […]
Source: Equine Welfare Alliance “Numbers…would tell us how much of the meat from our horses was being sold as beef…” EWA (Chicago) – USDA data for the first quarter of 2013 indicates a precipitous drop in the number of horses going from the US to Mexico for slaughter. […]
Source: By Horsetalk.co.nz on Apr 04, 2013 in News Coming soon to Oklahoma, tainted horse meat Horse meat imported from Poland into the Czech Republic has tested positive for the anti-inflammatory drug Phenylbutazone, which is banned from entering the human food chain. The Czech Republic veterinary authority reported […]
Source: Front Range Equine Rescue Front Range Equine Rescue and The Humane Society of the United States Petition State Board to Declare Horsemeat Unfit for Human Consumption (April 2, 2013)-The Humane Society of the United States and Front Range Equine Rescue filed a legal petition with the New […]
Source: by Shelly Grainger from the Canadian Horse Defence Coalition’s Blog When presented with evidence of lies, deceit and corruption…not even denial is spoken Why is it when the Canadian government and horse agriculture (ie. slaughter) industry is called upon for answers, their silence is the only thing […]
Source: By BILL TOMSON from the Wall Street Journal Online The extra tests are to make “absolutely certain” the U.S. is unaffected by the overseas recalls on horse meat… WASHINGTON—Europe’s horse-meat scandal is prompting the U.S. to increase the “species” testing it does on imports to detect any […]
Source: Heritage Radio Nework – First Aired – 03/28/2013 04:00PM “Most people think that horses are raised organically without any drugs…” Is it safe to eat horse meat? HRN’s Sari Kamin is here to set the record straight with Vickery Eckhoff, journalist and horse meat expert. Tune into […]
Source: Jay Cronley of TulsaWorld.com Thinking that Oklahoma elected officials have bottomed out sounds like a rash assumption. After going against the national grain while forwarding the image that there was not a dadgummed thing wrong with sending text messages while driving, and after foisting upon an unwilling […]
Source: by Joel Allen of CarolinaLive.com Bellamy says horses are not like cows or pigs that are raised for the purpose of human consumption. A proposed state law in Oklahoma is causing controversy all over the country. The law would allow the slaughter of horses for human consumption […]
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