WASHINGTON -- In a room full of adults, Brittany Wallace, 17, stood out for her emotional appeal Wednesday for legislation that would prohibit the sale or transport of horses across states or to other ...

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Since 2005, our government has prevented the commercial slaughter of horses in the United States by refusing to fund personnel that would inspect the horse meat. As a consequence of this “de-funding,” ...

In the House, lawmakers took up another issue altogether. They voted yesterday to end a practice many Americans may have been unaware was evening happening: the slaughter of horses for human ...

Each year, thousands of American horses and burros are removed from the wild, disappearing from the landscapes they have roamed for generations. Though mustangs remain an iconic symbol of the American ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump’s effort to eliminate longstanding protections preventing the slaughter of America’s wild horses hit a snag ...

Congress restored the USDA's funding for inspecting horse meat partly because of a 2011 report from the Government Accountability Office. The ban had done little to keep the nation's horses from being ...

Baer, a lifelong horse-lover, said she decided to adopt after she and her husband, Matthew, bought horse property in Vail. As a teenager and 4-H member, she rescued and rehabilitated a racing horse ...

ALBUQUERQUE - An Internet video that shows a meat company employee swearing at animal activists before shooting a horse in the head highlights the increasing emotional intensity of the national debate ...

WASHINGTON - Horses are filling some state-owned livestock pens along the Texas-Mexico border before they head to a grisly slaughter for their meat in Mexico. With the only three horse-slaughter ...