More than 20 horses rescued from illegal slaughter farm in S. Florida

Did you see this? BELL, Fla. (WCJB) — Over 20 horses have been rescued from an illegal slaughtering farm in South Florida by a local rescue operation. According to the Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office, a complaint saying a horse was quote "in distress” and couldn’t get up as well as buzzards and horse bones scattered…

Minister must rule out link between burger contamination and horse slaughter

Cross-posted from The Galway Independent BY HILARY MARTYN Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Food, Éamon Ó Cuív TD, has called on the Minister for Agriculture to immediately rule out any link between the illegal slaughtering of horses and the contamination of beef products with horse DNA. Citing a Sunday Times investigation from May 2012, which he…

Reward posted in probe of horse slaughter in Utah

Cross-posted from Comcast News SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A $10,000 reward is being posted in Utah for information about the slaughter of a woman's horse on a ranch in western Salt Lake City. Jennifer Carrillo tells the Salt Lake Tribune for a Monday report the butchered carcass of her American Saddlebred named Snap was…

Horse remains found in impounded Ocala van

VIDEO REPORT FROM MIAMI HERALD ONLINE REPORT FROM THEHORSE.COM Written by PAT RAIA "The contents of a van discovered parked in a Miami-Dade, Fla., neighborhood earlier this week included horse remains, according to Miami-Dade Police. The investigation into the incident is ongoing. "The probe is the latest investigation into a series of incidents involving the…

Florida bill crucial to stopping illicit trade in horse meat

This is a terrific article. Kudos to "Kudo" Couto. He is a true hero for these destroyed horses. It looks to us in that last picture that the horse on the right has a BLM type tag around his (or her) neck. Oh no, it is plain halter. ----- By NEIL CLARKSON Cross-posted from Horsetalk…