Day: August 25, 2007

Nationwide, an increasing number of animal-cruelty cases are being reported outside city limits: Horses, cows, goats and other farm animals are being killed, authorities say, often by angry, reckless young people, perhaps acting on dares. While there are no statistics on such crimes, newspapers detail scores of cases. Two Texas college students were indicted in 2006 for slashing a horse’s neck before stabbing it in the heart with a broken golf club handle. For the whole story click here

McClatchy Newspapers Published Thursday, August 23, 2007 SEATTLE – Animal-rights activists campaigning to end horse slaughter in America have run up against an unexpected friend of the horse-meat industry: the nation’s zoos. After Texas shut down two horse-slaughter plants in January, the last plant in the country is fighting off closure in Illinois courts. And Congress is again considering a federal horse-slaughter ban that passed the House of Representatives last year. That leaves tough decisions for America’s zoos, which have long fed horse meat to carnivorous animals. Although several zoos have dropped horse meat in favor of