Horses as Farm Equipment
HARTLAND, Vt. — It was a perfect day for plowing, a little overcast with a cool breeze. You could hear the sound of the birds, the chink-chink-chink of the harness. Stephen Leslie, an artist ... Read more
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Media Decoder: Equestria Girls, a My Little Pony Offshoot, in Its Movie Debut
Hasbro, the toy company that brought its Transformers and G.I. Joe properties to movie theaters, has set its sights on its next summer blockbuster: My Little Pony. The ponies, a Hasbro staple for ... Read more
National Briefing | Southwest: Texas: Brother of Cartel Leaders Found Guilty on Laundering Charge
A brother of two top leaders of one of the most powerful drug cartels in Mexico was convicted Thursday of buying racehorses to hide illegal drug profits. A federal jury in Austin found José ... Read more
Horse Meat Processing Plant Approval Near
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — The southern New Mexico plant that has been fighting for more than a year for permission to slaughter horses will open soon, unless Congress reinstates a ban on the practice, ... Read more
New Mexico Horse Meat Facility Moves a Step Closer to Operation
Amid the unfolding horse-meat scandal, a New Mexico slaughterhouse has moved closer to becoming the first in the United States since 2007 to be allowed to process horses for human consumption. ... Read more
European Study Affirms Role of Fraud in Horsemeat Scandal
LONDON — Two months after a horsemeat scandal first gripped Europe, tests conducted by European Union countries showed Tuesday that France had found the most supposed beef products containing horse DNA, ... Read more
Obama Moves to Block Slaughter of Horses for Meat
The Obama administration has included a proposal in its 2014 budget that would effectively ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption. Technically, the proposal would prevent money from ... Read more
Horse Meat Problems Resurface Across Europe
LONDON — After disappearing briefly from public view, the scandal over horse meat sold as beef re-emerged on Wednesday with an alert over 50,000 tons of meat sold across Europe and an earlier recall of a ... Read more
Traces of Horse Drug Found in British Beef Product
LONDON — A British supermarket chain has recalled a beef product after traces of the powerful veterinary drug phenylbutazone, which is banned from the human food chain, were found for the first time in an ... Read more
Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime
On one covert video, farm workers illegally burn the ankles of Tennessee walking horses with chemicals. Another captures workers in Wyoming punching and kicking pigs and flinging piglets into the air. And at ... Read more