As published by Casper Star-Tribune
U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming is backing the Trump administration’s request to allow the slaughtering of wild horses for meat in order to control growing herds. Cheney voted against a measure last week that would have barred the Bureau of Land Management from ... Read More
News and Noteworthy
As published by The Daily Beast
By Christ0pher Ketcham
On the day I visited the wild horses of Onaqui, in northern Utah near the Nevada border, the night had been very cold, but when the sun hit noon and bathed the desert, they were relaxed enough to play. A bachelor male ... Read More
As published by E&E News
The House Rules Committee late last night rejected a bipartisan amendment to the massive spending package that would have protected healthy wild horses and burros from slaughter.
The measure would have limited funds in the legislation from being used to euthanize the animals, which the ... Read More
Wild Horse Nation,
The legislative battle on behalf of wild horses just grew rougher for wild horse advocates.
To recap:
In July, the House Appropriations Committee narrowly voted down an anti-horse slaughter amendment, then approved another that would allow the Bureau of Land Management to kill healthy, unadopted wild horses and ... Read More
Republicans in the House Rules Committee on Wednesday rejected a bipartisan amendment that would have prevented the Bureau of Land Management from killing healthy, unadopted wild horses and burros.
Reps. Dina Titus, D-Nevada, Peter King, R-New York, Jared Polis, D-Colorado, Reps. Carlos Curbelo, R-Florida, and Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-New Mexico, introduced ... Read More
The House Rules Committee on Tuesday rejected a bipartisan amendment to would have barred the U.S. Department of Agriculture from funding horsemeat inspectors, a move that would have kept horse slaughter from returning to the United States for the first time since 2007.
Reps.Vern Buchanan, R-Florida, Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-California, Ed Royce, R-California, and Earl ... Read More