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A new bill could shut down the industry. An investigation by animal welfare groups followed horses from auctions to holding facilities to slaughterhouses in Canada and Mexico, where they were exported for human consumption By THE COLORADO SUN, Jennifer Brown reporting » Colorado and other states are sending an estimated 20,000 horses per year to… Continue reading Colorado horses are being slaughtered abroad for human consumption.
Fundamentally, is it compassionate to exploit and slaughter an animal when we don’t have to? * * * IRISH TIMESThu, Jan 20, 2022, 06:35 by ED WINTERS If you were walking down the road and you came across someone attempting to kill a dog, what would you do? Perhaps you would try to save the… Continue reading Humane slaughter: The biggest lie the meat industry tricked us into believing
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has approved a plan to gather and remove 1,000 wild burros from the Black Mountain Herd Management Area east of Bullhead City. The Kingman Field Office announced the plan after the agency signed the decision record last week, authorizing the removal of excess animals beginning next month to protect… Continue reading BLM approves plan to remove 1,000 Black Mountain burros
ABATTOIR TO BE LAST RESORT Queensland racehorse owners will have to prove they have tried to rehome their animals multiple times before they can apply to send them to slaughter, under recommendations set to be implemented by the State Government. Key points: An independent inquiry made 37 recommendations to reduce horse slaughterA racehorse rehoming scheme… Continue reading Ex-racehorses to be rehomed rather than slaughtered under new Queensland plan
JANUARY 2019 FDA denies Pfizer Petition asking for new method of assessing Premarin generics The FDA has denied a citizen petition from Pfizer calling on the agency to use the company’s method for assessing sameness in generics for its estrogen drug Premarin (conjugated “equine” estrogens). Pfizer had appealed to the FDA to force sponsors of… Continue reading Premarin® Horses 2019 Year in Review
by JUDY MOLLAND Over the past six years, one third of the racehorses sent from Australia to South Korea has died, according to an analysis by Guardian Australia. One of those was the brother of the beloved racehorse Winx - Bareul Jeong was shipped to South Korea, then killed and likely eaten! The Guardian adds:… Continue reading Stop racehorses from being shipped to South Korea and slaughtered
URGENT CALL TO ACTION Please join The Cloud Foundation with us. Call your U.S. Senators using the following script. If no one answers, please leave a voicemail. Script: 1. Hello, my name is ____________ and I live in _______________. My phone # is ______________. (Give all that info upfront for simplicity) 2. I am asking… Continue reading Wild horses need our voices; Cloud call to action
Hello horse lovers and welcome. An article entitled, "A sport that lost track of its main asset," by Raj Tawney and published by Newsday caught our imagination. It is beautifully written and states the obvious, unless you work in or gamble on horse racing. We excerpt it below. . . . . organized racing didn’t… Continue reading Racing — A sport that lost track of its main asset
Federal land managers say 14 wild horses were euthanized during a roundup in northeastern Nevada. The roundup at the Triple B complex north of Ely gathered more than 800 horses to be removed and shipped to holding facilities. The Bureau of Land Management says the roundups are necessary because there are more horses than the… Continue reading BLM kills 14 wild horses during Triple B Roundup
It isn't right to assume that everyone has heard about horse slaughter and why it exists. We have been working against it for so many years, we sometimes forget that. So let's look at some talking points about the slaughter of horses for human consumption, with particular ones relevant to H.R.961/S.2006 (the "SAFE Act of… Continue reading Talking points about horse slaughter
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