Sentences with phrase «on horse slaughter»

An Illinois bill would have repealed the 2007 ban on horse slaughter which helped close the last of the horse slaughter facilities, has finally been tabled!

Each state carries anti-cruelty laws, and these should be enforced as the means to end abuse, neglect, starvation and abandonment, rather than relying on horse slaughter.

He has been working on horse slaughter litigation for almost 10 years, and tragic fate of many horses in the US is hidden from public view.

Among other legislative efforts, we continue to push for passage of the SAFE Act, which would create a permanent ban on horse slaughter and prohibit the dangerous transport of horses across our borders for slaughter.

Click here to read  the white paper issued by the Veterinarians for Equine Welfare on horse slaughter.

Please contact your legislator to tell them to vote NO to horse slaughter in Oklahoma ask that they let you know how they voted on horse slaughter.

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«The Spaniards, who were mounted on fine Horses, and armed with Lances and Swords, look'd upon Enemies formally equip'd with the greatest Contempt, and committed the most horrible Slaughters with Impunity.

Lawler and Geyer discuss the compelling pros and cons of the decision to slaughter horses for human consumption, which center on animal welfare and economic issues.

Before the fight even started, they looked on the verge of splitting up over the boyfriend's insistence they would spend a light, fun afternoon watching six bulls endure the three acts of the corrida, being stabbed by men riding on blindfolded horses, followed by having hooked spears inserted and snagged in the their shoulders, and, finally, ritually slaughtered with a bent sword before being hitched to a cart and dragged off by mules, leaving a bloody smearing in the earth, ready for a butcher to prepare tomorrow's meat.

Two amendments added to the Senate agriculture appropriations bill on Thursday deal with horse slaughter and genetically modified salmon.

A federal appeals court in Colorado last week vacated a temporary ban on U.S. Department of Agriculture inspections at slaughterhouse facilities, ruling against animal protection groups seeking to block Valley Meat and other aspiring horse slaughter facilities from opening.

(Reuters)- New Mexico's attorney general sued on Thursday to block a horse slaughter plant scheduled to open next month from becoming the first facility of its kind to operate in the United States in more than five years.

On the darker side of the races, frivolity aside, I knew that equine horses were often sent to be slaughtered by the racing industry if they did not perform.

Based on Willy Vlautin's novel of the same name, «Lean on Pete» is the story of said horse and of the boy who saves him from the glue factory, or from being sent down to Mexico to be slaughtered.

Bonnie tries to tell Charlie that the horses aren't pets, and that he shouldn't get attached, but it's too late — he's already bonded with an aging Quarter Horse named Lean on Pete, even though the racer is coming to the end of his career, likely to be «sent to Mexico» (where horses can be legally slaughtered) once his use to Del has run out.

When he settles in a town next to a horse racing track, his passion for the sport and the animals is reignited, leading him to join forces with trainer Del, played by an excellent Steve Buscemi, and jockey Bonnie, played by Kids» star Chloe Sevigny, to look after Lean on Pete: an equine stooge whose ailing track record could lead to his slaughter if he doesn't get his act together.

«It's not a pet,» a jockey named Bonnie (a wonderfully flinty Chloë Sevigny) reminds Charley, who worries that Del might sell Lean on Pete for slaughter whenever the horse outlives his usefulness.

But in the face of personal tragedy for Charley and Pete's failing health conjuring the spectre of his sale and slaughter in Mexico, the boy and his horse abscond on the open road in search of security and a more permanent home.

That committee is expected to pass the bill to allow a horse slaughter plant to operate in our state as they have already voted to pass SB 375, a senate bill which would repeal Oklahoma's ban on horse meat consumption.

Please urge your Oklahoma legislators to oppose horse slaughter and ask that they let you know how they voted on this issue.

Additionally, Representative McNiel's family stands to profit largely from a potential slaughter house, and co-author Curtis McDaniel noted on the floor that his father is a slaughter horse dealer as well.

Horse slaughter everywhere has been found to be tied to organized crime http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/15/horsemeat-scandal-the-essential-guide#113 And in fact, Oklahoma horse slaughter dealer George Baker was indicted on February 8 by a grand jury on counts including conspiracy and racketeeHorse slaughter everywhere has been found to be tied to organized crime http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/15/horsemeat-scandal-the-essential-guide#113 And in fact, Oklahoma horse slaughter dealer George Baker was indicted on February 8 by a grand jury on counts including conspiracy and racketeehorse slaughter dealer George Baker was indicted on February 8 by a grand jury on counts including conspiracy and racketeering.

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/15/horsemeat-scandal-the-essential-guide#113 Large - scale Oklahoma slaughter horse dealer George Baker was indicted on February 8 by a grand jury.

I urge you to vote NO on HB 1999 and SB 735, the measures that would make Oklahoma into the horse slaughter capitol of the US.

Bella Run Equine rescued Lovely, a thoroughbred horse on the way to slaughter, and Emilia Rose, an Appaloosa who had been starved and beaten.

We confront the largest national and international problems facing animals, which local shelters don't have the reach or the resources to take on, such as animal fighting, puppy mills, horse slaughter and soring, seal killing and other forms of commercial slaughter of marine mammals, captive hunting and the wildlife trade, and inhumane slaughter and factory farming.

Meadows is hopeful that the shocking evidence of the cruelty of horse slaughter in the USDA document will compel the new Congress to act swiftly to pass a federal ban on the transport and slaughter of American horses.

Click here for more on the Court's decision upholding a Texas law banning horse slaughter for human consumption and here for information about the fight in the legislature and the courts in Illinois to shut down the horse slaughter plant in DeKalb.   Â

They say the ban on domestic slaughter has led to tens of thousands of horse being shipped to inhumane slaughterhouses in Mexico.

She has also rescued horses from slaughter, adopting and fostering dogs and cats from the US and abroad, run spay / neuter clinics in Third World countries, starred in 5 PETA print campaigns, traveled to Japan with Sea Shepherd to work to ban dolphin slaughter, and recently filmed a documentary in Africa on banning poaching.

This is the same Conrad Burns who lobbies on behalf of the AQHA to reopen US horse slaughter facilities.

These letters have delivered results on a wide range of concerns, including enforcement of laws on animal fighting, humane slaughter, and soring of Tennessee Walking Horses and related breeds, as well as programs to ease the shortage of veterinarians in underserved areas and to address the needs of animals in disaster planning and response.

Our recent efforts to protect horses have been focused on the prohibition of slaughter and a ban on the cruel practice of «soring» of show horses.

On Nov. 1, a federal court issued a ruling that clears the way for horse slaughter plants to open in the U.S..

On Friday we learned that the U.S. Department of Agriculture approved an application for horse slaughter inspections at a plant in Roswell, New Mexico, and grant inspections at horse slaughter plants in Missouri and Iowa this Monday, July 1.

Your generous gift will allow us to fight to protect all the important gains we've made over the years as well as continue our work to advocate for legislation taking on domestic violence against pets, horse slaughter and horse soring, animal testing for cosmetics, shark finning, the dangerous exotic pet trade and dog meat trade, and other cruelties.

An active board and statewide structure has provided MFOA with the ability to organize an develop coinciding two - year campaigns to support revamping the State Animal Welfare Program, addressing the cruelty of coyote snaring and treatment of circus elephants, from establishing our «Dogs Chained for Life» and Pet Club programs to submitting a State referendum to ban bear baiting, hounding and trapping, from focuses on canned hunting, puppy mills, horse racing / slaughter to the eight pieces of legislation that have improved the lives of Maine's dogs and cats, MFOA has led the way in Maine.

The food safety risks have been documented in a study relied on by the New Mexico Attorney General in reaching his decision that products of horse slaughter are not safe for human consumption and illegal under state law.

Equisearch.com provides articles and information on horse rescue and welfare issues, including articles about the horse slaughter issue.

Humane Canada believes it is irresponsible for a horse owner who acquires an animal for recreational purposes to indiscriminately send such an animal to auction or slaughter, rather than placing it with another suitable recreational owner or having it euthanized on - farm.

If Wallis really wants to help horses in need during this economic downturn, she should support a ban on slaughter.

Also, listen here to a discussion on WFL Endangered Stream Live Talk Radio about horse slaughter by Laura Allen, Executive Director of Animal Law Coalition; John Holland, journalist and consultant for Americans Against Horse Slaughter; Dr. Nena Winand, DVM with Veterinarians for Equine Welfare and Paula Bacon, former mayor of Kaufman, Tx and leader of the fight to shut down the horse slaughter facility that operated there until horse slaughter by Laura Allen, Executive Director of Animal Law Coalition; John Holland, journalist and consultant for Americans Against Horse Slaughter; Dr. Nena Winand, DVM with Veterinarians for Equine Welfare and Paula Bacon, former mayor of Kaufman, Tx and leader of the fight to shut down the horse slaughter facility that operated there until Horse Slaughter; Dr. Nena Winand, DVM with Veterinarians for Equine Welfare and Paula Bacon, former mayor of Kaufman, Tx and leader of the fight to shut down the horse slaughter facility that operated there until horse slaughter facility that operated there until 2007.

They say the ban on domestic slaughter has led to tens of thousands of horses being shipped to inhumane slaughterhouses in Mexico.

But the horse slaughter industry is not merely a betrayal of our horses and a blight on our collective conscience; it is often devastating to horse owners, to the communities where the plants are located and a serious health risk to the very people who consume the meat.

September 27 • 42 horses in an overcrowded, double - deck tractor - trailer were headed to a slaughter house in Illinois when the trailer swerved and overturned on Interstate 44 in Franklin County, Missouri.

The Equine Welfare Alliance bases its opposition to horse slaughter on the following issues that will be discussed in this paper:

But on January 18, 2014 President Obama signed into law a budget once again defunding the inspections, and horse slaughter for human consumption has been illegal in the U.S. since that time.

This entry was posted on Monday, March 25th, 2013 at 9:00 am tagged as Horse slaughter, Oklahoma Legislature, Skye McNeil and is filed under All Past Articles, Animal Advocacy, TulsaPetsOnline.

Horse slaughter is a fraud on the public.

Duquette who lives in Hermiston, Oregon and holds himself out alternatively as a quarter horse breeder or horse trainer, has expressed interest in buying one of two properties on the Umatilla River in Umatilla County for a horse slaughter facility.