Source: Front Range Equine Rescue and HSUS “The USDA has failed to consider the basic fact that horses are not raised as a food animal” In response to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s decision to allow horse slaughter facilities to resume operating on U.S. soil, animal protection organizations […]
Sources: Multiple Slaughter Plant Owner Continues to Point Accusatory Finger at Everyone other than Himself ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A southeastern New Mexico company’s plans to convert a cattle plant into a horse slaughterhouse has hit another roadblock, this time over an environmental dispute that the company’s attorney blames […]
Here is your opportunity to make a difference Because there is an application in to start horse slaughter in Sigourney, Iowa, Front Range Equine Rescue and The Humane Society of the United States submitted a rulemaking petition to the Iowa agency responsible for setting rules with respect to […]
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: Children 4 Horses ~ Declan Gregg “I decided to start a new project and I need your help!” “I have been thinking about how people think that if guys like animals that it makes them “uncool” or “whimpy”. The message out there seems to be that is […]
Source: Evan Johnson of WBIR.com Tennessee Swine Farming Legislator wants to stifle free speech! Seeing pictures and video of animal abuse stirs some strong reactions, and now there’s an effort to ensure those images get in the hands of investigators a lot faster. State Representative Andy Holt (R […]
Source: by Bill Shapard of SoonerPoll.com A strong majority, 65.1 percent, of respondents in rural counties opposes the legislation, despite claims by the horse slaughter proponents that rural communities support it. A strong majority (66 percent) of Oklahoma likely voters opposes passage of proposed legislation allowing for the […]
Source: By Jeanne LeFlore of the McAlester News-Capital “The horse slaughter industry is not around to rescue horses,” McALESTER — A Pittsburg County farmers and ranchers union recently lobbied for equine processing legislation that passed a Senate committee unopposed on Monday. Although the legislation passed the Senate committee, […]
Source: John M. Glionna of the Los Angeles Times “Until a ban is in place, every horse is just one bad sale away from being sent to slaughter.” Proposed federal legislation would ban the export of American horses for slaughter, reinstitute a ban on slaughtering them in the […]
Source: By Chris Good of ABC News “Horses sent to slaughter are often subject to appalling, brutal treatment,” A trio of U.S. lawmakers is saying “no” to horse meat. The U.S. is set to begin slaughtering horses again for the first time in six years, and recent news […]
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