Christian Science Monitor /Paul Ames / March 11, 2013 BRUSSELS, Belgium — There are places where the food chain in Europe's meat industry is short and brutally simple. In the Anderlecht butchers' market west of downtown Brussels, stall after stall displays man-sized sides of beef; trays of tripe, brain...
current.com /By Stephanie Whiteside / March 12, 2013 IKEA's famous Swedish meatballs were the latest casualty in the European horse meat scandal, with the company pulling them off the shelves in Europe, Asia and the Caribbean. The discovery of horse meat in products labeled as containing pure beef has...
thegleaner,com / March 12, 2013 Here we go again. The soulless, heartless humans who make their living by slaughtering horses have managed to convince Congress and this supposedly liberal president to open up horse slaughterhouses once more. The plants were banned in 2007 and blissfully became a...
NYTimes, Op-Ed, Wayne Pacelle, March 11, 2013 The discovery of horse meat in products labeled as beef in the European Union has raised serious questions, not just about food labeling, but also about food safety and the working of the somewhat opaque, global horse meat industry. While...
A lot of what I repost on Habitat for Horses pertains to the insanity surrounding the folks that slaughter horses for fun and profit. For real horse people, reading these articles are like watching the dreams of the truly demented while they are experiencing the...
MONTREAL (Mar. 8, 2013) — Humane Society International/Canada and the Canadian Horse Defence Coalition are renewing calls for an immediate federal prohibition on the slaughter, sale, transport and live export of horses for human consumption, after traces of phenylbutazone were recently found in Canadian horsemeat...
Congressman James P. Moran (D-VA) Washington, DC - Congressman Jim Moran, Northern Virginia Democrat and co-chair of the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus, today reaffirmed his commitment to banning horse slaughter in the U.S. His statement follows recent actions by the Oklahoma Legislature to repeal the state ban...
National Post /Jen Gerson / [caption id="attachment_15908" align="alignleft" width="300"] Although horsemeat has been passed off for beef as a tricky cost-saving measure in Europe, Canada tends to serve a high-end clientele.[/caption] It was much like any other horse sale, said auctioneer Dean Edge; chatty farmers and ranchers packed...
March 7, 2013 For Immediate release Contacts: Jerry Finch, Habitat for Horses, 866-434-5737, jfinch@habitatforhorses.org R.T. Fitch, Wild Horse Freedom Federation, 800-974-3684, rtfitch@wildhorsefreedomfederation.org Houston – Habitat for Horses (HfH) and Wild Horse Freedom Federation (WHFF) have taken action to monitor and test processed ground beef products that are similar to those pulled from European store...
The Atlantic.com /Andrew Cohen / March 6, 2013 Her predecessor presided over roundups and the sale of horses for slaughter. Without equine or ranching experience, what will this former executive do to right the wrongs? (Note - This is an excellent article about the BLM and the...