All Systems That Are Symptom Based Fail ~ Treat The Cause NOT The Symptom

It seems our SYSTEMS today, all of them are symptom based, which we all know treating the symptom of anything will never end the cause of the symptom. No this is not a riddle it is fact and a sad fact at that. Here are some examples that we at Zuma’s face every day. Symptom: [...]

Equine Welfare Alliance Press Release 5/13/09

Horse slaughter dream a financial nightmare CHICAGO, (EWA) – The dream of the AQHA (American Quarter Horse Association) and its affiliate the MQHA (Montana Quarter Horse Association) to bring horse slaughter back to the US may have just been dealt what may be its death blow. The blow came not from anti-slaughter advocates, nor public [...]

Get the Facts on Horse Slaughter from the Humane Society

The  following is an excerpt from the Humane Society’s Article “Get the Facts on Horse Slaughter.” Read the full article here. How many horses are slaughtered each year? Prior to the closure of all three foreign-owned plans in the United States, more than 100,000 horses were being slaughtered in the United States and processed for [...]

A Grisly End for America’s Horses

(Excerpt reprinted from the Humane Society’s Website. Read the full article here.) Frenzied hooves beat against the wet cement as horses of all colors and ages file through the line. Poked with an electric prod, they are forced down the crammed alley of the Mexican horse slaughter plant. As the chute opens, the workers whistle [...]

Legislation for Horse Slaughter Will Not End Export or Abandonment Issues

by Valerie James-Patton  (read the article in its original context here). In December 2008, a resolution called the Horse Industry Policy, was submitted by Wyoming State Rep. Sue Wallis, and former South Dakota State Rep. Dave Sigdestad, to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), Agriculture and Energy Committee. The NCSL is a non-governmental lobbyist [...]

Is the Horse Slaughter Movement Funded by Horse Breeders?

by A BuzzFlash Reader The slaughter of horses for human consumption is no longer legal in the U.S. Sadly more than 100,000 horses each year are shipped to Canada and Mexico to satisfy the palates of “gourmands” overseas. Upwards of 90 percent of the horses sold for slaughter are healthy, sound animals, according to USDA [...]

There is no “unwanted horse” population in the US, don’t believe this propaganda!

                      In recent years some industry groups and other supporters of horse slaughter which consistently fight passage of federal legislation to ban horse slaughter have claimed that there exists a huge “unwanted horse” population in the United States.These organizations, which include the American Association of [...]

E. Idaho lawmaker wants US horse slaughterhouses operating again

A southeastern Idaho lawmaker wants horse slaughterhouses operating again in the United States to deal with the supposed “glut of unwanted horses resulting from the faltering economy that has led to cases of neglect and abandonment.” WRITE TO HIM AND TELL IDAHO NO TO HORSE SLAUGHTER: http://www.idahostatesman.com Tell Idaho this: Please stop dealing with the [...]

Montana has betrayed its equine ally

Americans, stop buying into this crap!

Horse slaughter is no longer legal in the US, but horses are being shipped to Canada and Mexico, where slaughterhouses remain in operation. For reasons this author cannot fully understand, there are still people in this country who buy into wildly-exaggerated claims that American horse owners are trapped into a situation where they have no [...]