Lawmakers press for answers on sale of wild horses

Cross-posted from ProPublica WRITTEN BY DAVID PHILIPPS (Jan. 31, 2013) -- Two congressmen wrote to the Department of Interior this week to demand information on the progress of its investigation into whether more than 1,700 federally protected wild horses sold to a Colorado man may have been illegally sent to slaughter. The investigation was triggered…

Int’l Fund for Horses announces March for Wild Horses

Every year since 2009 the Int'l Fund for Horses has selected a horse protection issue, to zone in on and give critical focus to, for the entire month of March. March campaigns in the past have been March Against Horse Slaughter (twice), March for Mustangs, and last year's March for PMU Horses. This year we…

Share your love for horses with us this Valentine’s Day

Share your love for horses with us at the Int'l Fund for Horses this Valentine's Day. Honor someone special or treat yourself to some love right to your front door. HONOR SOMEONE Make a donation for $14.00 or more in honor of your special someone and we will send them a unique and beautiful Valentine…

No honor in horse slaughter or drug documentation system it uses

by VIVIAN GRANT FARRELL For those who eat horse meat, you will never really know how safe, or how toxic, it is. The reason is that the documentation containing a horse's medical history demanded by slaughterhouses is so easily forged. In some cases, it is allegedly absent altogether. A whistle blower pointed out that a…

Limerick plant one of only five licensed to slaughter horses

IRELAND Cross-posted from Limerick Leader WRITTEN BY GERARD FITZGIBBONS A NEWCASTLE West livestock factory is one of only five facilities in Ireland licensed to slaughter horses for meat, it has been confirmed. The Ashgrove Meats facility in Churchtown has been slaughtering horses and exporting their meat for consumption in mainland Europe for the past three…

Cows ate BLM’s homework; say they cannot track cattle on public lands

SOURCE: PEER NEWS RELEASE Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility BLM SAYS IT CANNOT TRACK CATTLE ON ITS LANDS Blames Lack of “Seamless Data” for Excluding Livestock from Range Assessments Washington, DC (Jan. 24, 2013) — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) says it was an absence of “reliable data”—and not politics—that caused it to…

Sale of Tennessee Walking Horses at Kentucky Horse Park proceeds quietly

WRITTEN BY JANET PATTON Cross-posted from The Lexington Herald-Leader at Kentucky.com After online drama and official angst, the Kentucky After Christmas Sale of Tennessee walking horses opened quietly at the Kentucky Horse Park on Friday. Jerrold Pedigo, president of the sale, said the crowd was a little lighter and the early prices were a little…

Kentucky Senator and Big Lick queen ‘Just Like Lance’ says Roy Exum

Cross-posted from The Chattanoogan WRITTEN BY ROY EXUM Robin Webb, a Democratic state senator from Kentucky, just became “the Lance Armstrong of the Tennessee Walking Horse industry” after it was revealed two of her horses were ticketed with violations of the federal Horse Protection Act at a North Carolina horse show in October. There was…

Equine Federation passes new ruling against horse soring

Cross-posted from The Chattanoogan The United States Equine Federation has passed a new rule prohibiting participants in its licensed competitions from using certain devices "that have long been associated with the abusive practice of 'soring' show horses to make them perform the artificially high-stepping gait known as the 'Big Lick'.” The rule bans the use…

State bill banning performance-enhancing drugs in NY racing sent to Committee

WRITTEN BY TOM LaMARRA Cross-posted from The Horse.com Legislation calling for a ban on equine performance-enhancing drugs in horse racing has been sent to the New York Senate Racing, Gaming, and Wagering Committee. The language in the measure is similar to that of federal legislation that has been floated but not acted upon the past…