SOURCE: Headlines & Global News The substance was found in grey shag that grows on horse dung. By Rebekah Marcarelli Researchers discovered a new agent in horse dung-grown fungi that could be used as an antibiotic. The protein, dubbed cospin, has the same bacteria-killing effect as antibiotics, but […]
by Christa Lesté-Lasserre as published in TheHorse.com Toxoplasmosis in adult humans—especially the elderly and immune-deficient—can cause fever, pneumonia, heart disorders, muscular difficulties, lymphadenopathy, and death. After all the publicized concern about the presence of phenylbutazone (Bute) in horsemeat, researchers now fear the meat could also carry the organism […]
Source: The Toledo Chronicle “The horse slaughter industry is a predatory, inhumane enterprise…” Iowa has become ground zero in the national debate on horse slaughter, now that the USDA has cleared a horse slaughter plant to begin butchering horses here. Not only will our state earn the disdain […]
Source: Heritage Radio Nework – First Aired – 03/28/2013 04:00PM “Most people think that horses are raised organically without any drugs…” Is it safe to eat horse meat? HRN’s Sari Kamin is here to set the record straight with Vickery Eckhoff, journalist and horse meat expert. Tune into […]
You are invited to the second annual International Equine Conference. Last years’ conference was a huge success and we’re hoping you’ll join us and make this years’ conference even better!
In addition to two packed days of expert presenters on September 22 & 23, we will also be hosting a reception on September 21. Details will published when the agenda is finalized but is anticipated to be early evening.
Chicago (EWA) – The long awaited Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on horse welfare fell far short of the respectable reporting we have come to expect from the GAO, even raising questions as to the agency’s credibility.
The Equine Welfare Alliance (EWA) and Animal Law Coalition (ALC) have issued an exhaustive analysis and executive summary, demonstrating the embarrassing and shocking lack of evidence for GAO’s findings.
Information obtained from the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture Educate Yourself on How the Cold Affects Your Equine Companion Due to the early cold snap, that has held most of the nation in it’s grip, now is perhaps a good time to take a moment and consider […]
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – Decades of USDA studies asserting U.S. and Canadian horse meat as chemically harmless have been branded as bogus by a new peer reviewed scientific study.
by Artist/Reporter Laura Leigh BLM goes “DARK” on latest misery to befall abused Wild Horses The horses gathered by the Bureau of Land Management from the Calico Complex in Nevada are currently held at the privately contracted facility named the Broken Arrow in Fallon Nevada. Observers have been […]
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