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T. Boone Pickens Takes on Horse Slaughter Issue with Congress
DALLAS, July 24 /PRNewswire/Starting this week, Congress will consider legislation making the slaughter of horses illegal in the U.S. A life-long animal lover, T. Boone Pickens, founder of BP Capital and Mesa Petroleum, and his wife, Madeleine Picke ... Read the full article

Survival of Wild Horses & Burros Threatened
Current Legislation allows Sale for Slaughter SHINGLETOWN, Calif., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Imagine nearly 40,000 wild horses and burros roaming free on public lands throughout the U.S., as they have for hundreds of years. Now imagine thousands of t ... Read the full article

The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act Passes U.S. House of Representatives
T. Boone Pickens Applauds U.S. Reps for Protecting Horses, Urges Senate to do the Same DALLAS, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The following was released today by T. Boone Pickens: The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (H.R. 503), a bipartisan b ... Read the full article

Horse Slaughter for Profit: Our Country Says This is Okay?
Senator Goodlatte made a statement that the horse rescues in our country can only take in 7000 horses. Where did these numbers come from, what research was done? With all the funding in our government, is there not enough to hire someone to do proper research? This is far from the truth. Our one rescue takes in 250 to 300 horses a year. The horses do not live here forever. They are rehabbed if needed and then re-homed. Many do not need rehabbing; they just need to find a good home. There are over 550-horse rescues in the country, his numbers do not add up. Lest not forget the over 10,000 organization that are equine based or use equines in their program, some have memberships of over 5 million and we have over 4.6 million horse owners in the US. You want us to believe the horses cannot be absorbed and utilized. That is a lie. Yes some horses are old and infirmed and need to be put down but we have learned that is less than 5% of the horses going to slaughter every year. Based on last years figures of horse slaughter that would account for 4500 horses per year. You want an answer to that? Responsible horse owners should have enough money (approximately $125 to $200) to humanely euthanize their horses. If you do not have the funds for that, possibly you should not own a horse. How can we have laws in our country that are based on incorrect facts and figures? ... Read the full article

Musicians Release Song to Protest Horse Slaughter
WAMI award winning vocalist Ronnie Nyles and WAMI Nominee songwriter/producer, Debra Lopez release “Racing For Time”, in quest of raising public awareness for the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. ... Read the full article

Horse Slaughter: The Snow Job in Montana Will Melt
CHICAGO, (EWA) - With their vote to resume the barbaric practice of horse slaughter in the State of Montana, seven politicians may have ended once promising careers. Senators Terry Murphy, Taylor Brown, Ken Hansen, Verdell Jackson, Rick Ripley, Bradl ... Read the full article

Horse Slaughter Operations Resume in Illinois
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has granted a motion by Cavel International, allowing it to resume horse slaughter operations at its Illinois plant. Cavel was previously shut down in June, when the U.S. District Court for the Northe ... Read the full article

AHC Supports Tightening of Slaughter Horse Regulations
WASHINGTON, DC - The American Horse Council has told the U.S. Department of Agriculture that it supports the Department’s proposal to amend the regulations governing the commercial transportation of equines for slaughter. The proposed changes would ... Read the full article

'The Ultimate Washington Hypocrisy' and Flim-Flam
Days After President Bush Signs the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2005 (HR 4818) Opening the Door for the Slaughter of Thousands of Wild Horses and Burros, December 13, 2004 Is Set as the 'National Day of the Horse' GLENDALE, Calif., Dec. 9 /PR ... Read the full article

Horse Slaughter: Not the Answer to Overbreeding
It hasn't even been two weeks since the inauguration of President Obama, and it seems as if some of our elected representatives have missed the forward movement of transparency and accountability regarding lobbyists and ethics. Maybe that is where the rub is: it's not a lobbyist who is attempting to steer taxpayers' dollars for a personal agenda, it is a state representative who touts an elected seat. ... Read the full article

Senate Farm Bill Needs Your Help
The American Horse Council (AHC) reported in December that the recently passed Senate Farm Bill includes several key provisions that would benefit the horse industry. The $286 billion dollar bill, which passed the Senate on December 14 by a vote ... Read the full article

Politicians Come to Wellington to See The Working Alternative to Horse Slaughter
It is not everyday you can get our country's politicians out to visit a cause that is important to the citizen's of this nation... but the horses did just that. ... Read the full article

National Day of the Cowboy Resolution Introduced in Both House and Senate
This impressive achievement is the result of the combined efforts of Wyoming's U.S. Senator, Mike Enzi, and Arizona's U.S. Congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords. Senator Enzi and Congresswoman Giffords now urgently need your participation in order to ... Read the full article

Rescue Group Plans to Save 25 Horses from Slaughter in Ohio
On November 23, 2007, Pure Thoughts Horse and Foal Rescue saved 82 horses from going to slaughter for human consumption. They would have been shipped to Mexico and endured a tortuous death. ... Read the full article

Court Declares Horse Slaughter in U.S. Illegal
United States District Court Judge, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, held that the slaughter of horses in America violates federal law. In her opinion, which was published in a 51-page finding issued in response to a lawsuit filed in February 2006 by the Soci ... Read the full article

American Horse Defense Fund: U.S. Horse Slaughter Will Halt
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The brutal horse slaughter industry in the U.S. was dealt an appropriate and overdue blow on Wednesday, October 26 when the US House and Senate Agricultural Appropriations Committee retained the amendment that will ... Read the full article

Nation's Highest Court Ends Legal Battle Over Horse Slaughter in Texas
United States Supreme Court Rejects Final Appeal by Texas Horse Slaughter Industry (May 22, 2007)-Today, The Humane Society of the United States, which has been campaigning to ban the slaughter of American horses for export for human consumption, ... Read the full article

Groups Condemn Legislation to Legalize Horse Slaughter in Texas
Within a day of the U.S. Court of Appeals' rejection of a petition from two foreign-owned horse slaughterhouses in Texas seeking to remain open, a Texas lawmaker has already introduced a bill to repeal the 1949 state law banning the sale and possessi ... Read the full article

Nick Zito and Bo Derek Lead National Coalition's Efforts Urging Americans to Stop Horse Slaughter in America
ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Very few Americans know that thousands of our horses are slaughtered each year for human consumption or that such an industry even exists in this country. The industry is fed by middlemen, known in the industry ... Read the full article

National Day of the American Cowboy Resolution Passes Senate
WASHINGTON - American Cowboy magazine is proud to announce that the Senate has once again approved the National Day of the American Cowboy, Senate Resolution 130, sponsored by Senator Craig Thomas R-Wyoming. The resolution names July 28th, 2007 a ... Read the full article