The abuse and death that is American horse racing

BY VIVIAN FARRELL I am not posting the followup I talked about yesterday. I will publish it next Tuesday. Today's post, however, is still about U.S. horse racing. Catchumdenae Why the suffering and death of one particular racehorse has haunted me since I read about it I am unsure. I read reports like these almost…

Front Range Equine Rescue Files Suit to Stop Surgical Sterilization ‘Research’ on Oregon’s Wild Horses

Nonprofit Horse Rescue Group Challenges Inhumane Experimental Surgery PRESS RELEASE HINES, Ore. (July 26, 2016) – Front Range Equine Rescue (FRER), a national nonprofit working to end the abuse and neglect of horses through rescue, advocacy and education, announced today it is suing the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management to stop…

Complaint filed over plans for sterilization research on American wild horses

Wild horse advocacy groups have filed a formal complaint to halt what they described as barbaric sterilization experiments. The groups initially presented the complaint last Wednesday at a public meeting of the BLM’s National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board. They provided the board with video of the proposed procedure and statements from eyewitnesses and…