Source: Pacific Standard How Welfare Ranchers Take Taxpayers for a Ride Ranchers on BLM land have 94 percent of their grazing costs covered by taxpayers. And they target wild horses for removal in order to preserve the rangeland that makes this financial windfall possible. (Photo: Franck Fife/AFP/Getty […]
SOURCE: Pacific Standard Magazine The response to an especially ugly round-up of wild horses in Oregon suggests we might. by James McWilliams A group of wild horses are rounded up in Eureka, Nevada. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Any company that sells tuna—one of the most popular foods eaten […]
Story by James McWilliams ~co-founder of The Daily Pitchfork ~ as published on The Pacific Standard “Anytime a self-actualized journalist turns an inquisitive eye to the plight of our nation’s wild horses and burros it is time to celebrate as they are the ones who cannot speak for […]
Announcing The Daily Pitchfork! Journalists Vickery Eckhoff and James McWilliams have started a website to “bring accuracy and context to the way media presents and analyzes animal issues. They will do this by showcasing the best animal journalism, constructively critiquing the rest, and providing the media with valuable resources […]
by James McWilliams.com “Bute is banned by the FDA for use on animals destined to become food” The whole M. Wells Horse Tartaregate got me looking into the matter of horse meat in greater depth and intensity. I’m now writing a piece on it for a national publication and […]
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