Return to Freedom recently joined animal welfare and equine industry groups to pen a letter to key congressional leaders in support of the Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act (H.R. ... Read More
Fantastic news! – New York Gov. Kathy Hochul today signed a law banning the slaughter of equines for human or animal consumption.
She also signed a bill increasing penalties ... Read More
A total of 8,045 wild horses and burros were adopted, sold or transferred to other government agencies over the past year, the Bureau of Land Management announced this week.
The ... Read More
For Immediate Release
The Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act would expand the Dog and Cat Meat Prohibition Act passed in the 2018 Farm Bill to include equines, permanently protecting American ... Read More
A resolution calling for the federal government “to implement best management practices for wild horses and burros by allowing for equine slaughter and processing for shipment” died recently in ... Read More
For immediate release
LOMPOC, CALIFORNIA -- A total of 19,989 American horses were shipped to slaughter plants in Mexico or Canada in 2022, according to government statistics.
While this represents a 14.7% ... Read More
Despite strong support from the public and lawmakers, opponents stymied a House bill at the end of the 117th Congress, which ended last month.
The lack of movement in the House ... Read More
BREAKING
Representatives Winter, Banks, Davis, Neiman and Sommers and Senators Driskill and Lauresen of the State of Wyoming recently introduced a resolution into the Wyoming State Legislature to “allow federal land ... Read More
Return to Freedom is working hard to move a ban on horse slaughter through Congress, but this popular legislation to protect America’s horses remains bogged down in the House Energy ... Read More
Even as Return to Freedom (RTF) and an unprecedented coalition of animal welfare and horse industry groups work hard to advance a federal ban on horse slaughter, some organizations have ... Read More