To horse lovers, the Meadows are heroic gumshoes, blowing the lid off the slaughter industry’s claims that its process can ever be humane. To auction house owners and ranchers, they’re meddling ...

America was built on the backs of horses, and in 2023, we stand a great chance at stopping the abuse of these magnificent animals. It’s time to take aim at ending the live export of horses to ...

Undercover video footage released in 2012 documented cruel treatment of horses in the Tennessee walking horse industry. It showed the use of painful chemicals on horses’ front legs to force them to ...

CHATFIELD — Tracy Hanson of Hanson Horse Co. in Chatfield is bracing himself for a change in the horse industry. Congress might soon pass the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act to permanently ban ...

Like it or not, horse slaughter in the United States is back. While it was in hiatus for several years, we learned much about the law of unintended consequences and the harsh realities of horse ...

A proposal to ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption barely passed its first test at the state Capitol on Thursday, squeaking out of a Senate committee after it was stripped into a ...

The number of horses likely being exported for slaughter has not dropped off anywhere near enough for animal activists. It is believed that Mexican slaughter plants during 2023 took 17,997 horses from ...

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ALBANY — A new state law banning the slaughter of all equines for human or animal consumption went into effect this week and the lawmakers and advocates who pushed for the legislation are urging ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: This column ran as a pro/con on Jan. 22, with a column written by Krista Kafer opposing Senate Bill 38. For most Americans, the old expression ...

It’s an expression we’re all familiar with, figuratively rather than literally. However, people in other countries do eat horses and part of their demand for horse meat is being satisfied by ...