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Development, Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities By Qingbin Wang and Yang ZouReceived: 1 April 2020; Accepted: 19 June 2020; Published: 24 June 2020 Note: We are posting the Abstract with a link to the full document in pdf format ( 14 pp). Abstract China had the most horses in the world from 1961 to 2004 but,… Continue reading China’s Equine Industries in a Transitional Economy
Gardaí believe some animals have effectively been smuggled into the food chain THE IRISH TIMES by Connor Lang (2 Jul 20) — Gardai have arrested five people as part of a lengthy investigation into horse meat unfit for human consumption entering the food chain by manipulation of safety measures. The five were held on suspicion… Continue reading Five crime gang arrests over unfit horse meat entering food chain
EXCLUSIVE REPORT by JANE ALLIN Canada braces for more cuts By now, I’m sure that most who care about the abuse of horses for human gain are aware of the shrinking need for the PMU (Pregnant Mare’s Urine) farms in Manitoba (ya, I’m late in getting this out). Urine collected from these pregnant mares is… Continue reading Canadian PMU farms’ losses are China’s gain
Horse patrols are being brought back all over the world to help police forces support social restriction orders
BEIJING (April 23, 2020) — China's agriculture ministry said on Thursday it will start taking samples from horses along its southern borders to check for African Horse Sickness after the deadly disease was detected in Thailand. The highly infectious condition has killed more than 200 horses in Thailand — the first time it has appeared… Continue reading China to test horses in border areas for African Horse Sickness
By JANE ALLIN MARCH AGAINST HORSE SLAUGHTER — Recall from the Introduction article in this series that the FAO stats are not always based on original datasets for countries included in their assessments. Missing values are a common problem for international datasets, stemming form countries’ non-responses to the data requests dispatched on a regular basis… Continue reading Top 10 countries ranked by horses slaughtered and horse meat production – 2018
Eleanor Jones, writing for the Horse & Hound, reports: A ban on slaughtering donkeys in Kenya has been greeted as “tremendous news” by campaigners. The ban was announced on 24 February by agriculture secretary Peter Munya, who had been presented with a petition by Kenyan donkey owners. Kenya had become a hub for the skin trade… Continue reading Kenya bans ‘wanton and unmitigated slaughter’ of donkeys
We made the following response to a comment on our Premarin 2019 Timeline and thought it might be worthwhile sharing with everyone as a post. We have altered it slightly to make the content clearer for this format. Working as the Int’l Fund for Horses we are launching a social media campaign in Chinese and… Continue reading Premarin in China campaign
The last of the PMU (pregnant mare's urine) facilities operating in N. America in Canada are reportedly closing down according to an anonymous source. This has been a long time coming. Fact or fiction, while that sounds like good news, HRT (hormone replacement therapy) drugs made from pregnant mare's urine is on the rise in… Continue reading Premarin Horses and China
CGTN Press Release | May 28, 2019 The population of Przewalski's horse, the world's last surviving wild horse subspecies, is growing at a nature reserve in northwest China's Gansu Province, with numbers estimated to reach 40 by the end of 2019 after the breeding season in May. Two foals were born on May 17 and… Continue reading Population of endangered wild horse species on the rise in NW China
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