Front Range Equine Rescue Discovers Would-Be Horse Slaughterer Falsified Federal Application, Has Committed Multiple Felonies
Reblogged from Straight from the Horse's Heart:
Source: Front Range Equine Rescue press release
Group Urges the United States Department of Agriculture to Deny Valley Meat’s Application Based on Decades of Lawbreaking
(April 22, 2013)— Front Range Equine Rescue (“FRER”) notified the United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) that the owner of Valley Meat Company, in Roswell, New Mexico, recently made blatantly false statements about his criminal record on two applications to begin slaughtering healthy American horses.
Wild Horses SAVED: Congress Votes To Protect Mustangs And Burros From Government-Sponsored Slaughter
“How in the world can a federal agency be considering the massive slaughter of animals the law says they are supposed to be protecting?”
Wild Horses SAVED: Congress Votes To Protect Mustangs And Burros From Government-Sponsored Slaughter.
Send an Automatic Letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack ~ Prevent Horse Slaughter
Reblogged from All Horses Go To Heaven:
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Advocates Opposing Horse Slaughter… This is a fast, easy action to take for Our Horses.
CLICK HERE to send an Automatic Letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack.
The Animal Welfare Institute applauds Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack for joining AWI and the majority of Americans who feel there are better, more humane, more responsible options for horses nearing the end of their lives or their careers than being slaughtered for meat.
It's Not Cool To Be Cruel
Reblogged from Straight from the Horse's Heart:
Source: Children 4 Horses ~ Declan Gregg
"I decided to start a new project and I need your help!"
"I have been thinking about how people think that if guys like animals that it makes them "uncool" or "whimpy". The message out there seems to be that is ok to be cruel to animals if you're a guy. I don't think this is right at all and I know that that is not the truth.
Congressman Moran Applauds White House Effort to Block Horse Slaughter
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Source: By Debra Zimmerman Murphey of WeMakeItNews.com
"public backlash has triggered grassroots and national attention...on horse slaughter"
For the first time on the policy front, and through the Obama White House, the United States Department of Agriculture’s proposed upcoming budget supports an initiative to defund horse meat inspections in the United States.
Previously, this kind of action had not been initiated by the executive branch, according to U.S.

