NYTimes, Stephanie Strom, April 11, 2013 The Obama administration has included a proposal in its 2014 budget that would effectively ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption. Technically, the proposal would prevent money from being spent on inspection of horse slaughtering facilities. Without inspections, facilities could...
(Jason Meduna back in jail. Why am I not surprised? - Jerry) Starheraold.com -MAUNETTE LOEKS New Media Editor April 5, 2013 [caption id="attachment_17679" align="alignleft" width="300"] Jason Meduna is pictured in a Goshen County Sheriff’s Department mugshot. The man, convicted in 2010 on animal abuse charges, is being...
news,Discovery.com /APR 1, 2013 / BY JENNIFER VIEGAS We’ve all watched the classic movie scene -- a cowboy lassos a young colt, wrangles it to the ground and sears his ranch’s brand on the animal’s shank. It's a common practice, but animal rights activists have long argued the...
KSN.com / March 26, 2013 SEATTLE, Washington (KING) -- Sharon Thomas couldn't believe what she saw when she took a walk on her property near Winlock, Washington last Friday. "I got the binoculars, was unable to tell what it was,' she said. She found one of what turned...
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...