The Process: Walking the Halls of Horror Jerry Finch - Written in collaboration with many others who wish to remain nameless so they can continue their work without fear. [caption id="attachment_10414" align="alignleft" width="262"] "Killing them softly" - A child's drawing[/caption] "Euthanasia" means "peaceful death." While those who promote...
(The following is a series of copyrighted articles on the history, process, legislation and people playing a role in horse slaughter in the United States. This is a collaborative effort among a lot of people who have volunteered their time and effort to push back...
He stood alone in the pasture, looking at the distant shapes of horses as they moved ever so slowly through the darkness, heads down, grazing one last time before they settled in to sleep. Quietly he walked towards them; few raised their heads, most ignored...
Yesterday I drove the truck and trailer to a small town about 6 hours away, spent the night in a motel and arrived at a small house far off the beaten path at 7:30 this morning to pick up one of our horses from an...
Horsemeat and Drugs - What they DON'T want you to know...
[caption id="attachment_11390" align="alignleft" width="225"] The deformed foot[/caption] Like car wrecks and calls from Aunt Bertha, they seem to come in groups of threes; unrelated, from different places, yet they share the same physical problems. Yesterday it was leg injuries, severe enough that normally they would have...
Back in December I wrote the first article about Bella, "Here's your typical slaughter bound horse." In that article I told you about a horse that was tied to a tree with wire that had become tangled around her foot. During her struggles, the foot...
Why Choose a Rescue Horse? Together We Prevail [caption id="attachment_11363" align="alignright" width="300"] Buck[/caption] Background I went to the habitat with the intention of helping and healing horses in need. When my day there drew to an end, I was usually drenched with sweat, dirty and powerfully hungry, yet strangely...
Why Choose a Rescue Horse? Feather's Story… In the summer of 2007, 4 pasture mates were found in an area of the beautiful and peaceful landscape of the Texas Hill Country. But what was going on there was not so beautiful or peaceful… [caption id="attachment_11355" align="alignright"...
Horse slaughter proponents basically complain that, without horse slaughter in the United States, owners would not have a "viable" solution to "dispose of" their old, diseased or merely "unwanted" horses, hence creating a rise in abuse and neglect cases. It's typical of such individuals to...