Source: By JANET PEARSON Associate Editor of Tulsa World Pending federal legislation would ban the slaughter of American horses for human consumption and prohibit transporting them across the U.S. border to Mexican and Canadian slaughterhouses. Oklahoma lawmakers and Gov. Mary Fallin might have thought that quick passage of […]
Source: Paula Todd King as published in The Taos News “Horse Slaughter is the opposite of euthanasia” I know that horse lovers abound in Taos and the surrounding areas but I wonder how many people realize how close our state is to becoming the first state in the […]
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: 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: 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 […]
Source: Wild Horse Observers Association Open Letter to New Mexico Governor Martinez Governor Martinez Office of the Governor 490 Old Santa Fe Room 400 Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-476-2200 Date: 3/25/2013 Re: Please Ban Horse Slaughter in New Mexico – Petition results (every 5000 report) Dear Governor Martinez, […]
Source: Office of Rep. Jim Moran Requests agency include slaughter ban in FY ’14 budget Washington, DC – Congressman Jim Moran, Northern Virginia Democrat and co-chair of the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus, today sent a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack calling on the USDA to deny […]
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 […]
Source: Equine Welfare Alliance Press Release “Plants will have no access to the markets even if the EU ban is lifted…” Chicago (EWA) – Since Congress lifted the ban on USDA inspections of horse meat, several small shuttered cattle slaughter plants have clamored for the USDA to provide […]
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