SOURCE: Time.com Inside the Mafia’s Illegal Street Horse Racing by Lorenzo Tondo Horses have nerves removed so they feel no pain racing on hard streets Young men take out a horse that is used in illegal horse racing for training in Ballarò, Palermo, Italy, in June 2015. As […]
Source: theguardian.com Horses have been raced bareback through the Italian city’s streets for hundreds of years, but activists have won permission to rally against the event More than 30,000 people are expected to attend this weekend’s race. The event is said to be one of the oldest community […]
Source: The Huffington Post | By Ryan Grenoble “We have been victims of a serious criminal act,” Thieves in Italy may be asking the owner of the “world’s smallest” horse to pony up after stealing the steed and potentially holding it for ransom. The animal was recently stolen […]
In the USA there is no differentiation between FPA (Food Producing Animal) and non-FPA equidae; horses are simply not considered as part of the food chain. US’ horses are slaughtered in Canada and Mexico (and perhaps in the USA re-starting in 2012). Horse meat is exported primarily to Europe (France, Belgium, Italy and Germany are the main horse-meat eating countries). The significant point here is therefore that any horse, not being considered part of the food chain, can be treated with any and all drugs which the vet – or indeed simply the owner – considers necessary, with no formal requirements to observe or fulfil.
By Nick Pisa in Rome Horse meat, one of Italy‘s most popular culinary delicacies, is under threat from a cross party proposal to ban its sale Italy is the largest consumer of horsemeat in Europe with more than 48,000 metric tonnes eaten every year and it is a […]
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