All Horses | September 24, 2008
Disturbing news. I recommend you listen to the accompanying audio linked to the second article below.
The Animal Agriculture Alliance has learned that the horribly misguided and misleadingly named Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. 6598), a bill which would criminalize the sale and transportation of horses for the purposes of slaughter, was approved and recommended [...]
All Horses | September 3, 2008
What we’ve been saying, verified.
Tough economy, legislation presses horse industry [link]
Joe Scott | Sep 3, 2008
Peggy Goeke said she has a couple of foals from a good brood mare and a hand-picked stallion.
“They have a lot of good breeding and good talent behind them,” Goeke said.
Horses like that used to fetch anywhere from $5,000 to [...]
All Horses | August 16, 2008
Long read, but a good one.
Should we send horses to slaughter? [link]
RACHEL DUFF | Aug 16, 2008
Rosy Erganian, a therapeutic riding instructor and horse owner from Rocheport, has a barn full of horses that are unwanted by their previous owners.
A couple of these horses were likely headed to slaughter had Erganian not bought them at [...]
All Horses | August 15, 2008
Slaughter opponents contend all of the abandoned horse stories are fabricated, made up by those “few” who want slaughter reinstated. What do you think?
Equine expert talks about unwanted horse problem, Aug. 18 [link]
Soaring costs of feed, fuel and hay have worsened the problem of unwanted and abandoned horses in Missouri and across the nation. Veterinarian [...]
All Horses | August 14, 2008
Regarding humane treatment, more.
Homeless on the range [link]
Mary Zeiss Stange | Aug 14, 2008
Horses are being abandoned by the thousands across the USA. Some are strays, others a result of overbreeding or a sour economy. How should we humanely lessen their numbers?
It’s a climactic scene in the 1962 Kirk Douglas film, Lonely Are the Brave. [...]
All Horses | July 6, 2008
Sad story again.
Weak horses sent to Mexico to be slaughtered [link]
JESSICA MEYERS | July 6, 2008
The traders at Dallas County’s half-filled horse auction knew the fate of their scrawny thoroughbreds even before they herded them into the ring.
And it wasn’t to go back to the ranch.
At least half of the horses for auction at the [...]
