Claude Bouvry dead

SIGN PETITION » Here is an excerpt from Claude Bouvry's Obituary: Claude Bouvry beloved husband of Louise Bouvry (Poirier) passed away on Thursday, March 17, 2022, at the age of 71 years. Claude was born in 1951 on his family’s farm in France, where his parents grain farmed and raised cattle. He moved to Canada…

Canadians: Act now to stop live shipment of horses to Japan for their meat

Canada exports thousands of horses each year to Japan, a market where some consumers enjoy the meat as a raw delicacy. According to the Canadian Horse Defense Coalition, in 2020 1,606 horses were live-shipped to Japan for slaughter, down from 2,800 in 2019. This translates to about $11 million in revenue in 2020 and $17…

Anger at Winston Peters’ $72.5 million bail out package leads to petition against Gov’t funding of racing industry

STUFF.CO.NZ | by Matt Kermeen (May 24, 2020) — As the racing industry continues to toast a mega-million dollar financial shot in the arm, New Zealand animal welfare groups are outraged, shocked and angry over the taxpayer-funded bailout. So much so, the Coalition for The Protection of Racehorses has started a petition it plans to send to Prime Minister Jacinda…

Will you sign a Petition to help Big John the downed Charleston carriage horse?

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Hello, I know it's Monday and the start of another work week for so many of us. Whatever you are doing, will you please take a moment to sign a Petition urging Charleston Carriage Works to retire Big John the downed carriage horse? (pictured above, read full story at USA Today) I did.…

Wild horses are being made to wear dangerous radio collars — demand they be removed now

WILD HORSES (Sign Petition)  — Right now, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is conducting a five-year study on wild mares in the Adobe Town Herd Management Area (ATHMA) of south-central Wyoming with the help of the University of Wyoming’s Department of Ecosystem Science and Management. And like most recent interactions between the BLM and wild horses,…

How Montreal’s tainted calèche industry harms horses – and how you can help

CARRIAGE HORSES — (Montreal, Canada).  Over the last couple of years, the calèche industry of Montreal, Canada has been in the spotlight. In May of 2016, after a serious collision between a horse-drawn carriage and car, the Mayor immediately instated a one-year moratorium on the industry, just before the start of the season. Promises of…

Petition to Ban the Use of Horses in Bullfighting

It is shocking that in the modern world the barbaric sport of bullfighting is still considered “entertainment.” Thankfully, many people no longer see it that way and as a result the industry is slowly dying. Yet worldwide approximately 250,000 bulls are killed every year in bullfights. Last year, Madrid dealt a huge blow to the industry…

Vampire farm hell as British meat at centre of cruel horse hormone torture

GREAT BRITAIN — Tens of thousands of pregnant horses are kept on blood farms for fertility product which is then sold to UK vets and factory farmers to help increase production Crammed into pens and repeatedly forced into pregnancy, these are the pitiful horses whose blood is extracted on horrific “vampire” farms to boost meat…

Petition China to stop importing donkeys to use their hides for medicine

Andrew Gregor of Lafayette, California started a Change.org Petition China currently imports tens of thousands of donkeys primarily from African nations in order to slaughter them. They do this in order to extract gelatin from the donkey hides. Innocent animals are being shipped overseas and butchered in order to produce ejiao, a traditional Chinese medicine…

Fattening up wild horses for slaughter

“BLM’s got those wild horses as fat as butterballs–all paid for with taxpayer dollars,” explained an anonymous source. “That way they always have buyers wanting them by the truckload.” This statement was reported by Protect Mustangs here. For those of you who questioned them, perhaps you understand the strong words I used in this post…