Horse and Country / Charlotte Ricca-Smith on 25th-Mar-2013 [caption id="attachment_17288" align="alignleft" width="300"] Only 5% of those questioned were a healthy weight for their horse ©sxc[/caption] Recent research has revealed that a third of riders are too heavy for their horses, causing them to suffer from back pain, lameness and...
Company He Works for Likely to Become First US Horse Slaughterhouse Since 2007 MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT / March 22, 2013 Impatient with a virtual US ban on slaughtering horses for meat, a worker for Valley Meat Company in Roswell, New Mexico, shot a horse...
The illegal use of secretions from a type of South American frog is at the heart of a recent doping scandal that threatened Oklahoma's billion-dollar horse racing industry. (Comment - Shoot this stuff into them, then kill them and send the meat to Europe, all with...
(Note - Personally, I've always had a strong distaste for PETA. Between ads with naked women, promoting the "slippery-slope" fear in ranchers and the scandal of euthanizing pets drawn from shelters, they have become the joke among equine advocates. Then came the insanity of promoting...
Jerry Finch / Habitat for Horses It happened long before our time, before time even began, in a place of mist and trees, in a place of open land and brilliant moonlight, in a time and space far beyond our creation or knowledge. Aware, alert, in...
(Personal note - I never thought that this blog would turn into posting articles about food safety. The lies, corruption and deceit might be focused on horsemeat at the moment, but the more I've read, the more I become aware that the food products we...
(Note: While there is probably a lot more to this story than is being published, it is hard to accept that no criminal charges will be filed against those who starved horses to death. Please go to the article site and comment by clicking here.) Alex...
Pat Reavy / Deseret News / Tuesday, Feb. 19 2013 Rory and Trudy Childs, who run Smoky Mountain Ranch in Spanish Fork, were arrested late last week for investigation of 101 counts each of animal cruelty and 31 counts each of having livestock at large. No criminal charges...
(Note - While this article is old, it points to promised changes that haven't been made. Some of the "meat" in this story came from Uruguay, an exporter of horsemeat, just like the US. As more DNA testing is done, we will find more and...
Pete was the first horse that walked through our gates. Eight months old, he had been abandoned in a pasture, gathered up by a new owner and take to an auction, there to be purchased by a killer-buyer. I talked the man out of taking...