Day: December 7, 2011

Virginia Investigates PETAs Animal Shelter

Despite PETA’s $35.8 million annual budget, the state inspector determined that PETA’s shelter “does not contain sufficient animal enclosures to routinely house the number of animals annually reported as taken into custody.”

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Michigans horse industry quietly relieved that slaughter option may return

A small appropriations bill passed by Congress this month will allow slaughter houses to resume killing horses for export to countries where people eat horse meat — a move that has strong support among most members of the horse industry, said Val Vail-Shirey, executive director of Michigan Equine Partnership in Lansing.

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Student from Oklahoma arrested in theft of 5 horses in Arkansas

The remains of that horse, named Credit Card, were later found in southeast Oklahoma on property near Jaci Rae Jackson’s mother’s home, according to an affidavit for Jackson’s arrest warrant.

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