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: Jo Singer of Petside.com “by virtue of commission decision 2011/163/EU the US is not authorized to export horsemeat to the EU.” Just a week ago Petside featured an article about the high probability of horse slaughter facilities soon opening in the United States to produce meat for […]
It’s not just because they’re pretty. Their meat poses serious health risks. Vickery Eckhoff in Newsweek. The French take few tips from the British, but French Agriculture Minister Stéphane Le Foll made an exception recently when addressing reporters at the Paris farm show. “One would have to eat […]
By Kelly Ni of the Epoch Times Staff Health concerns raised over dangerous drugs American horses are sold to slaughter factories in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. Many are concerned that the slaughtered American horses, which were not raised for human consumption, eventually make their way into […]
Source: Animals’ Angels USA Blow to Swiss Horse Meat Market Expected Consumers have a right to be apprehensive of the production practices used by meat distributors as concerns over the integrity of the industry continue to grow. The recent cases originating in the United Kingdom, where horse meat […]
Update from Fox News Warned by Equine Advocates for Years may now be FACT! LONDON – Three horse carcasses that tested positive for the equine drug bute may have entered the human food chain in France, the British government said Thursday. Environment Minister David Heath told the House […]
Story by Matt McGrath of the BBC An independent veterinary committee had “repeatedly expressed concern” about a drug found in UK horsemeat destined for export, the BBC has learned The discovery of horsemeat in UK foodstuffs is raising big concerns that UK testing regimes are not sufficient. There […]
Felicity Lawrence and agencies The Guardian, Thursday 24 January 2013 12.35 GMT MP says she has evidence several horses slaughtered in UK last year tested positive for ‘bute’ or phenylbutazone A potentially carcinogenic drug may have entered the human food chain through meat from horses slaughtered in the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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