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REUTERS (16 June 2021) — An animal advocacy group has accused the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Denver federal court of running a wild-horse adoption program that fails to prevent their resale to slaughter facilities that process them for meat, in violation of prohibitions by Congress and of federal law. In a complaint filed on Monday,… Continue reading Activists sue BLM for selling wild horses to ‘kill buyers’
MARCH AGAINST HORSE SLAUGHTER — No horses have been legally slaughtered for human consumption in the US since 2007, when the last operating horse slaughterhouse in Illinois was closed down. In 2017, kill buyers are still making a killing. Numbers vary, but the general consensus is that approximately 130,000 US horses are slaughtered annually across its… Continue reading Kill buyers still making a killing selling horses for their meat
I know most of you have read or heard something on this subject, but it's worth repeating ... and repeating and repeating. This is a well researched and written report. Don't be misled by the word "might" in the title. It is happening. Read full report at the links provided. —Ed. Cross-posted from Pacific Standard… Continue reading How horse meat might get into the US food system
Cross-posted from WTHR-TV Ch. 13 Indianapolis BOB SEGALL / 13 INVESTIGATES Indianapolis -- Despite the closure of all horse slaughterhouses in the United States, 13 Investigates has discovered thousands of Indiana horses are still ending up on dinner plates. A 3-month Eyewitness News investigation shows local horses are being slaughtered for their meat following a… Continue reading 13 Investigates: Indiana horses sent to slaughter
Theodore Roosevelt National Park to Remove and Sell over 100 Wild Horses CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Aug. 9, 2013) – Over 100 young wild horses living in the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the North Dakota Badlands will be rounded up with a helicopter at the end of September and auctioned off… Continue reading Campaign launches to protect Badlands Mustangs from going to slaughter
Cross-posted from Off-Track Thoroughbreds WRITTEN BY SUSAN SALK Mascot didn’t even look good to the kill buyers. Skinny, limping and filthy, he went for a mere $60 at Monday’s New Holland Auction in Pennsylvania. In his career as a racehorse, he earned $241,901 for his owners, working right from the start with some of the… Continue reading Racehorse Mascot won $240K, sold for $60 at New Holland
Cross-posted from TheRecord.com Written by CAM FORTEMS KAMLOOPS, B.C. — It was the wild horses’s eyes that caught an auctioneer’s glance as he began calling out to bidders aiming for a deal in Kamloops, B.C. “She’s a pretty one,” Larry Jordan said. “Such a kind eye.” “He can run, boys,” Jordan said about another wild-eyed… Continue reading Kind-eyed horses sell at auction for a few bucks (CA)
Cross-posted from the Telegram & Gazette Written by PAULA J OWEN When horse trainer Matthew D. Clarke found out that Munition, a 7-year-old thoroughbred gelding he had trained, had been sent into the slaughter pipeline, he was devastated. Mr. Clarke has trained horses for more than 40 years and is the farm manager for the… Continue reading Fatal transactions: Sale of a horse can be a death sentence
Cross-posted from the Equine Advocacy Examiner Written by MAUREEN HARMONAY Wild horses at upcoming Wild Springs Indian Reservation auction could face a gruesome future For the last eight years, the tribal residents of the sprawling Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Wasco County, Oregon, have rounded up countless wild horses who roamed their extensive million-square-mile territory,… Continue reading Auctioned Wild Springs Mustangs may face bitter end
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