House Committee moves to reform federal wild horse program

PRESS RELEASE Appropriations bill would set aside $11 million in dedicated funding to pursue safe and reversible fertility control options. WASHINGTON, DC (July 1, 2021) —The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and the American Wild Horse Campaign (AWHC) commend the U.S. House Appropriations committee for advancing bipartisan language today that would require the Bureau of Land…

Letter to the Editor thanking US Rep. Steve Cohen for cracking down on horse soring

Cross-posted from The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee Letter to the Editor by JANICE C. JACKSON Bartlett STATE'S DISGRACE I am grateful for the actions of U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen to crack down on the illegal practice of “soring” of Tennessee Walking Horses (“U.S. eying illegal ‘soring’ of show horses,” June 6 article). In “soring,” the…