[caption id="attachment_17942" align="alignleft" width="300"] A woman kneels and prays at the scene of two apparent bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15. - CNN[/caption] This hurts. We all get down on our country at times. The laws, the legislation, the insanity...
The Chattanoongan.com | Roy Exum | April 15, 2013 [caption id="attachment_17441" align="alignleft" width="201"] Roy Exum, award-winning columnist[/caption] Tennessee's dreaded “AgGag” bill, which make those who covertly film or expose acts of animal abuse into criminals, was delayed in the Tennessee Legislature last week but if proponents have...
Cape Cod Times |Gwenn Friss | April 14, 2013 [caption id="attachment_17927" align="alignleft" width="197"] Brittany Wallace, 17, attends to her horse Scribbles at her home in Harwich. Brittany had lost track of Scribbles, her childhood companion, but found a photo of her on a website hours before the...
San Francisco Chronicle | April 13, 2013 ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico man seen in an Internet video swearing at animal activists before shooting a horse in the head will not face any charges. Chaves County District Attorney Janetta Hicks determined that while Tim Sappington showed poor judgment and insensitivity, his...
Houston Chronicle | Guillermo Contreras and Jason Buch | April 12, 2013 [caption id="attachment_17915" align="alignleft" width="300"] Law enforcement personnel take a horse away from the stable at Ruidoso Downs Racetrack on June 12, 2012 after suspects allegedly used drug money to set up and run horse operations in the...
Obama Administration Blocks the Reinstatement of Horse Slaughter | Seattle PI, Candace Calloway Whiting By including a proposal in the 2014 budget to prohibit the funding of horse meat inspection, the Obama administration essentially eliminated the possibility that horse slaughter will resume in this country. Some senators may fight this,...
He has become a leading suspect in the food scandal which has seen tainted meat sold by British supermarkets in ready meals and burgers The Mirror, David Collins, Sam Hurley, April 12, 2013 This is the tycoon Dutch authorities suspect may have flooded Europe with 50,000 tons of...
Huffington Post, Michael D'Antonio (Author, 'Mortal Sins, Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal'}, April 11, 2013 The news is getting better for horses. The Obama Administration is getting behind a proposed ban on the slaughter of horses for meat, adding to the growing opposition to a...
High Country News, Monica Gokey | Apr 11, 2013 (Interesting debate. While I disagree with her final analysis, it adds fuel to the fire of wild vs. feral. If horses are indeed native, they should not be removed from National Parks. If they are feral, then they should...
The Local (Germany's English Newspaper), April 11, 2013 (Note - Most of the 50,000 Tons of meat from this recall have already been sold and consumed - on the market since 2011! - Jerry) Over 100 German food retailers have been buying horsemeat falsely labelled as beef...