Slaughterhouses are terrifying for horses. Horses have an instinctual “fight or flight” mindset, and when forced into a kill box, they try their best to escape, making the typical “captive bolt” ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Oklahoma’s 50-year-old ban on horse slaughtering was lifted Friday when the governor signed a new law that will allow facilities to process and export horse meat, despite bitter ...

This post was updated April 22 at 9:23 p.m. It’s easy to lose sight of untouched nature in a city like Los Angeles. Helicopters and airplanes often look like birds, freedom from traffic often seems ...

It might not have been the most appealing work: butchering hundreds of horses each day to fill dinner plates in Europe. But Rockville, Mo., population 166, needed jobs. So residents had embraced ...

Equine groups like Pennsylvania’s Omega Horse Rescue are working daily to solve equine welfare issues on the ground. They provide lifesaving resources to help keep horses in their homes or support ...

Equine Advocates has become a sanctuary for horses in distress. Founded in 1996 by Susan Wagner, this nonprofit organization ...

I was shocked and horrified to learn that for decades, our nation’s horses have been shuttled into the horse slaughter pipelines, delivered to Canada and Mexico and killed for food. I am so grateful ...

As Congress may again consider policies that could lead to the mass slaughter of America’s wild horses, we are reminded of a conservative voice who once helped stop that very outcome: David Horowitz, ...

Equine groups like Pennsylvania’s Omega Horse Rescue are working daily to solve equine welfare issues on the ground. They provide lifesaving resources to help keep horses in their homes or support ...

Justin Tupper manages St. Onge Livestock, which holds a monthly horse sale. Tupper said the slaughterhouse shutdown has driven down the price for slaughter horses from between 40 cents and 50 cents a ...