When you read Madeleine Pickens letter to friends and supporters yesterday (9/11/2012), did any of you catch the fact that she called her planned Mustang Monument a “Wild Horse Eco-resort?” So when did this plan go from being a wild horse eco-sanctuary to an eco-resort?
For years, Julie Caramante was a leader the fight to shutter Dallas Crown, Kaufman’s infamous horse slaughterhouse. Dallas Crown closed in 2007, as did the Beltex slaughterhouse in Fort Worth, but Caramante, a lifelong equine welfare advocate, has continued to keep a close eye on the horse slaughter industry.
Report by Carol Walker, WHFF advisory board member, as posted on Wild Hoofbeats “There was absolutely no mention of cattle or sheep on the range, who vastly outnumber wild horses” On Saturday morning, I drove to the Walmart in El Dorado, Kansas to go on the tour provided […]
Here at WHFF volunteer headquarters we are besieged with emails, calls, press interviews on the atrocity of 3 Congressman covertly working to bring foreign owned horse slaughter plants to the United States and we, have had enough. To echo our good friends at the Equine Welfare Alliance we are tired of mailing, faxing, calling our legislators only to get back canned and condescending responses, we are MAD and mad enough to do something about it, TODAY!
ALPINE — While it wasn’t exactly Occupy Wall Street, the indignation and hyperbolic class rhetoric sounded quite familiar when local residents met here recently to protest the killing of wild burros at the Big Bend Ranch State Park.
“The 1 percent are dictating policy, which is for the bighorn sheep. The 99 percent, the average people going to that park, are never going to see a sheep,” said Marjorie Farabee, founder of the Wild Burro Protection League and a Director of Wild Horse Freedom Federation.
WASHINGTON, DC – More than 3,500 people in one week have joined a rapidly developing campaign on Change.org created by an animal advocates calling on Texas Parks and Wildlife to stop killing wild burros.
YOU’RE INVITED TO THE TRIPLE B WILD HORSE LAWSUIT HEARING AND RALLY.
THE CLOUD FOUNDATION, CRAIG DOWNER AND LORNA MOFFAT HAVE FILED A
LAWSUIT TO STOP THE MASSIVE TRIPLE B ROUNDUP IN NE NV BY THE BLM
SCHEDULED TO START ON 7/16/11.
“As part of my summer-long touring commitment with Kid Rock, I am playing the Cheyenne Frontier Days Festival in Cheyenne, Wyoming. I am aware of the contrasting and very passionate opinions that people have about this event, and rodeos in general. In recognition of these differences, and out of my love for wild horses, a portion of the proceeds from the show will be donated to The Cloud Foundation http://www.thecloudfoundation.org/, an organization dedicated to the preservation of wild horses on public lands.” – Sheryl
Official music video of “Our Fists Against The Dirty Biz” by Rocquette, March 2011. Song available here: http://music.rocquette-music.com
For information and donations to the wild horse and burro case USA, please visit http://www.grassrootshorse.com; Wild horse footage copyright Sandy Elmore.
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