By Keith Dane, Director of Equine Protection, The Humane Society of the United States
WASHINGTON, (HSUS) – Americans don’t approve of horse slaughter, not now, not at all. More than 70 percent support a ban on the export of our horses for slaughter and want to see an end to this inhumane practice—for good. Responsible...
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HOUSTON, (Horseback) – In an eleventh hour appeal to House and Senate conferees, lobbyists for the meat industry issued an urgent appeal on behalf of removing prohibitions against federally funded horsemeat inspectors in U.S. slaughterhouses. The appeal was issued through United Horsemen, a small group of producers and horse breeders headed by rural second...
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WESTMINSTER, MD (Animal’s Angels) - On U.S. soil or Canadian, the issue of drug residues in U.S. horses is hugely concerning to the EU, as evidenced in their most recent inspection report.
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The report, released on October 26, 2011, uses phrases like, “no official guarantee”, “could not be considered reliable”,...
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OP ED: By Rep. Sue Wallis, (R) Wyoming
Recently I was interviewed on a radio show that included the Humane Society of
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the United States’ (HSUS) Wayne Pacelle spewing venomous remarks like, “horse slaughter is a predatory business where killer buyers outbid people who just want to...
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“My goal is the abolition of all animal agriculture.” J.P. Goodwin, HSUS
RECLUSE, WYOMING, (United Horsemen) – It did not require rocket science to conclude that the consequences of the 2007 ban on horse processing would produce bad results for the U.S. horse industry, but no one could have predicted the horrific outcome that haunts...
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Slaughter Bans Would Increase Horse Suffering, Kill Jobs, Destroy What’s Left of Equine Businesses and Families
The disgraceful fate of suffering horses and the sorry state of the horse industry is the direct result of deceitful actions by radical activist groups and their underhanded success in...
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Tags: horse meat, horse slaughter, killer buyers, sue wallis, United Horsemen, usda
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70 Percent of Americans Oppose Horse Slaughter HSUS Says
WASHINGTON (HSUS) — The Humane Society of the United States applauds U.S. Reps.
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Dan Burton, R-Ind., and Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., for introducing H.R. 2966, the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act of 2011, a bipartisan measure that will end the export and inhumane killing...
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Tags: American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act of 2011, Dan Burton, H.R. 2966, horse slaughter, Jan Shakowsky, killer buyers, sue wallis
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HOUSTON, (Horseback) – Horseback Magazine has learned through photographs that the beleaguered slaughter pens at Presidio, Texas may be experiencing an outbreak of strangles, a highly contagious equine olfactory and respiratory disease that can spread rapidly through an entire horse population. It takes weeks, and sometimes months, to eradicate.
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By Steven Long
HOUSTON, (Horseback) –All questions regarding 64 wild horses in two separate cases allegedly moved from a holding pasture of the federal Bureau of Land Management in Oklahoma and seized from a well known slaughter killer buyer are now being referred by the agency to federal law enforcement.
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By Steven Long
Chute Photo by Laura Leigh, Chase Photo by Terry Fitch,
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – The secretive federal Bureau of Land Management has long kept the doors of the giant taxpayer funded pastures where thousands of wild horses are warehoused, well, closed.
But while the doors were closed to press and public, they may have been...
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Tags: BLM, cattle, helicopter, holding pens, killer buyers, slaughter, stampedes, Wild Horses
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