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Illinois Horse Slaughter Bill Withdrawn
Animals  (tags: horse slaughter bill, withdrawn, illonois, horse advocates )

Simone
- 4 days ago - harnesslink.com
Today State Representative Jim Sacia (R - Freeport) pulled his bill to legalize horse slaughter from the agenda for this legislative session. The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) appreciates his recognition of horse slaughter as a controversial issue and
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Deaths of Wild Horses Abate, But Not the Lingering Sadness of Freedom Lost
Animals  (tags: calico wild horses, mares aborting, stallions, freedom lost, suffering, stress, outrage, horse advocates )

Simone
- 11 days ago - examiner.com
For three straight days now, no formerly free wild horses from Nevada's Calico Mountain Complex have died. But it does not ease the sadness of the stallions who have lost their bands, or the misery of the mares who continue to lose their unborn foals.
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The Horses Are Speaking
Animals  (tags: wild horses, broken spirits, destruction humans, BLM, roundups, freedom taken, outrage, horse advocates )

Simone
- 13 days ago - all-creatures.org
More and more land is being allocated to welfare grazing for livestock, heavily subsidized by the American taxpayer, and which outnumber wild horses and burros at least 200 to 1 on public lands, although the cattle grazing comprise only 3% of overall
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Bill Crucial to Stopping Illicit Trade in Horse Meat
Animals  (tags: horse slaughter, bill, horse welfare, felony charges, crime, horrific cruelty, undercover investigation, illegal horse slaughter places, raids, florida, horse advocates )

Simone
- 13 days ago - horsetalk.co.nz
A Florida bill which would make the slaughter of any horse in the state a felony offence would be a major help in shutting down a thriving black market trade in horse meat, a campaigner says. Richard "Kudo" Couto has been campaigning against the dozens
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Banning Horse Slaughter a National Issue
Animals  (tags: horse welfare, banning horse slaughter, legalisation, laws, horse advocates, protection )

Simone
- 13 days ago - examiner.com
Illinois State Representative Jim Sacia has reintroduced HB 4812 to repeal the 2007 Illinois ban on horse slaughter and would allow Cavel to resume slaughtering horses. Yesterday the State House Committee on Agriculture and Conservation passed the bill,
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Public Opposes Salazar's Request for Millions to Move Mustangs East 3/1/10
Animals  (tags: cloud foundation, horse advocates, salazar, relocating mustangs, east lands, protests )

Simone
- 14 days ago - thecloudfoundation.org
On March 3rd Secretary Ken Salazar is expected to testify before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to request $42 million to implement phase one of what many are calling the "SalaZoo Plan", a call for moving thousands of mustangs (mares
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Another Kentucky Board, Pushing Slaughter Under the Guise of Equine Welfare?
Animals  (tags: kentucky equine health board, promoting horse slaughter, bills, legalisation, horse welfare, horse advocates, protests )

Simone
- 26 days ago - animallawcoalition.com
The Kentucky legislature is fast tracking a bill to create a Livestock Care Standards Board that would have the authority to determine standards for care and treatment of livestock including equines. But another bill, H.B. 398 would create a separate
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ACTION ALERT: Call Off Deadly Wild Horse Round-Up in Nevada!!- PETITION
Animals  (tags: BLM, wild horses, killed, injured, cruelty, public lands, horse advocates, freedom, Nevada )

Simone
- 32 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
North of Reno, Nev., about 2,300 wild horses roam the 800,000 acre Twin Peaks Herd Management Area. But if the Bureau of Land Management has its way, just a quarter of those horses will remain there by the end of the year.
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The BLM Is Killing Wild Horses, and Breaking Our Hearts
Animals  (tags: BLM, another horse death, wild horses, killed, horse advocates )

Simone
- 42 days ago - examiner.com
With today's euthanasia of a 25-year-old mare at the government's Indian Lakes Road holding facility, the death toll of wild horses from the current BLM Nevada roundup has climbed to 28. That's 1.5% of the 1878 "excess" horses that the BLM has scoured
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ACTION ALERT: Petition Congress to Have Ken Salazar Removed as the Secretary of the D.O.I !
Animals  (tags: salazar, congress, wild horses, unprotected, mustangs roundup, resignation, horse advocates )

Simone
- 62 days ago - change.org
This petition is about signing to save the Wild Horses of America from Bureau of Land Management. Ken Salazar.
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Devastating Roundups Continue - Latest
Animals  (tags: wild horses, BLM, horses killed, roundups, private land, outrage, horse advocates )

Simone
- 70 days ago - wildhorsepreservation.com
BLM's 2010 Round-up Schedule provides for the capture of a staggering 12,000 additional wild horses and burros, at the cost of 32 million of our tax dollars! Given BLM's recent handwringing over the number of horses in government holding,
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Wild Horse Dies During BLM Calico Roundup
Animals  (tags: horse advocates, wild horses, roundup, wild horse dies, death, BLM, greed )

Simone
- 76 days ago - examiner.com
Numerous photos taken in October, 2009 by respected ecologist Craig Downer, of the Calico wild herd shows healthy, alert horses and no ecological damage to the northern Nevada area consisting of 850 square miles. According to the BLM, the horses are
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BLM Captures 74 Horses In 1st Day Of Nev. Roundup
Animals  (tags: wild horses, tragedy, BLM, captured 74 horsees, freedom taken, horse advocates )

Simone
- 78 days ago - cbs2.com
The Bureau of Land Management captured 74 mustangs in northern Nevada on the first day of a two-month roundup expected to relocate about 2,500 wild horses to other lands.
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Wild Horse Roundup Begins in Nevada Amid Protest
Animals  (tags: tragedy, BLM, wild horses, roundup began, nevada, government, horse advocates )

Simone
- 79 days ago - krnv.com
A Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman said the capture began Monday morning in a stretch of mountains-- the Calico Mountains Complex-- more than 100 miles north of Reno.
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Sheryl Crow, Other Wild-Horse Advocates Ask Obama, Reid to Stop Mustang Roundup in Nevada
Animals  (tags: sherly crow, horse advocates, obama administration, halt roundup, wild horses, freedom taken, public lands, captured )

Simone
- 82 days ago - kfsm.com
Sheryl Crow and other wild-horse advocates on Thursday called on President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to block a major roundup of mustangs set to begin Monday in Nevada. The request came a day after a federal judge denied a
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