Below is a collection of articles that have appeared in various media outlets on the topics of unwanted horses/horse slaughter.
Fundamental Truth of Animal Agriculture - Insight into the horse slaughter debate by Wyo. Rep. Sue Wallis. In this paper, Wallis examines why it is so important to defeat efforts to criminalize consumption of horse meat and why it is so important to re-establish horse processing facilities in the United States.
Horse slaughter draws committee crowd
Update from Missouri: The committee just passed resolution SCR 8. The Senate Rules Committee hearing opened with a hearing about a resolution from Sen. Wes Shoemyer, D-Clarence, that would encourage the U.S. Congress to allow horse slaughter. Several witnesses testified that laws that prohibit horse slaughter leads to starvation. “When life gets difficult, (people) have to choose between buying feed for the children and feed for the horses,” Missouri Equine Council President Sharon Marohl said.Horse slaughtering bill passes House committee
A measure to repeal the two-year-old ban on horse slaughtering for human consumption in Illinois is gaining some momentum in the state legislature. The House Agriculture and Conservation Committee voted 11-2 Tuesday for House Bill 583, pushed by Republican Rep. Jim Sacia of Pecatonica, to lift the ban. The measure now moves to the full House.Kansas Shelters See Surge in Abandoned Horses
Miller said the 3-year-old shelter normally cares for 10 to 15 abandoned horses at any given time. But in recent months that number has jumped to between 25 and 30 animals.Horse-rescue prison program rehabs horses and inmates
As of Dec. 22, the Georgia Department of Agriculture had impounded 255 horses this year compared to 137 in all of 2007.Student debt relief, unwanted horses are among AVMA legislative priorities
If Congress decides that horses and other equids are prohibited from being processed for human consumption, it is estimated that each year an additional 100,000 unwanted U.S. horses would need to find an alternative method of care, or disposal if the horse were euthanized, according to the committee recommendation....Hay cost, bad economy put squeeze on horses
In 2007 and 2008, the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department in Idaho received three times more reports of abuse regarding horses, donkeys or mules than it did in 2005 and 2006, said Capt. Ben Wolfinger...
With approximately 150,000 horses abandoned or sold at auction by their owners as unwanted, and a price tag of $2,000 per year per horse for retirement care, the effort would cost taxpayers $300 million per year...
