Horse meat found in British schools, pubs and hotels | Fox News
Britain Says Equine Drug May Have Entered Food Chain - NYTimes.com
Breaking News: Outrage Over the EPA Approving Pesticides for Native Wild Horses « Straight from the Horse's Heart
Furor Over Use of Horse Meat Grows in Britain Despite Testing - NYTimes.com
Horse slaughtering legal in US, but public won't bite - U.S. News
Horsemeat Scandal Reveals U.S. Illegally Exports Horses & European Meat Tainted With Drugs (DETAILS) | Global Grind
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Friday, February 15, 2013
So Much News! Horsemeat Scandal In Europe!
UK: Tainted horsemeat may be in French food chain - CNN.com
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/inside-horse-meat-plant-aberyswyth-1708746
News Distribution Network - Shared Video
More tainted burgers, first arrests, in horse-meat scandal - News - Horsetalk.co.nz
Suffering, disease lurk behind horse-meat trade, says charity - News - Horsetalk.co.nz
Calif. Race Tracks, Rescue Groups Take Action Against Horsemeat Trade « CBS San Francisco
ENQUETE. La phénylbutazone, un poison dans la viande de cheval ? - Le Nouvel Observateur
CHDC Reposts “Proof of CFIA Failure”, Phenylbutazone Positive Horse Sent to Slaughter and Through the Food Chain | Canadian Horse Defence Coalition's Blog
As the EU Horsemeat Scandal Unfolds, the CHDC Questions the Safety of North American Horsemeat | Canadian Horse Defence Coalition's Blog
BBC News - Horse passports: up to 7,000 unauthorised documents issued
BBC News - Horsemeat scandal: EU experts to draw up test plans
Horsemeat Scandal Reveals U.S. Illegally Exports Horses & European Meat Tainted With Drugs (DETAILS) | Global Grind
More raids in Britain as horse-meat probe continues - News - Horsetalk.co.nz
New bill to allow Okla. horses slaughtered for meat | KFOR.com – Oklahoma City News & Weather from KFOR Television, Oklahoma's News Channel 4
French cabinet in emergency horsemeat talks - FRANCE - FRANCE 24
My Way News - UK: Horse drug may have entered human food chain
Beyond the taboo: Is horse meat really that bad to eat? | Fox News
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
European Union Asks Member Nations to Test Meat for Bute: PLUS More News
Horseback Magazine
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – The European Union, faced with a burgeoning horsemeat scandal has asked its member nations to conduct DNA tests on processed beef. The scandal erupted when horsemeat, substituted for beef was found in the European version of Burger King products and lasagna from the frozen dinner giant Findus.
More News:
Horsemeat scandal: FSA chief says pork and chicken will need to be tested - Telegraph
Tesco admits its bolognese is made of horsemeat: 'Everyday Value' meal is 100% horse | Mail Online
EWA and WHFF Investigators Expose Horse Slaughter Transport Violations « Straight from the Horse's Heart
Horsemeat Scandal Continues to Spread Across Europe and Potentially Worldwide | Canadian Horse Defence Coalition's Blog
Raids on two premises as horse-meat probe continues - News - Horsetalk.co.nz
www.equinewelfarealliance.org/uploads/FOIA.Response.transport.2013.02.11.pdf
Message to Oklahoma Lawmakers: No Future in Horse Slaughter Business - Wayne Pacelle: A Humane Nation
Daily Star: Simply The Best 7 Days A Week :: News :: Horsemeat scandal takes new twist as pet ponies may be in kebabs
Undercover Investigation Reveals Little Oversight At California Horse Auctions « CBS San Francisco
British food industry on track for Friday test results - News - Horsetalk.co.nz
Meat products have been falsely labeled, EU health chief says | Fox News
Story and Photo By Steven Long
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – The European Union, faced with a burgeoning horsemeat scandal has asked its member nations to conduct DNA tests on processed beef. The scandal erupted when horsemeat, substituted for beef was found in the European version of Burger King products and lasagna from the frozen dinner giant Findus.
At the center of the probe is the EU demand that all meat determined to come from horses be tested for phenylbutazone, or bute. Details emerged on a report by the BBC in its feed to America.
Horsemeat is similar to beef, but is said to tast slightly gamey, is sweeter, as well as being more lean.
“This is a Europe-wide issue that needs a Europe-wide solution,” Irish Farm Minister Simon Coveney is reported to have said. “This is about someone in the food supply chain selling horsemeat as beef and making money in a fraudulent way by doing that.”
The report, aired by the BBC, suggested that the EU is investigating a possible conspiracy that may reach the United States.
The tests will be carried out over a three month period. Testing will begin March 1, however, such a late start is likely to enable European meat producers and food companies’ ample time to move 100 percent beef into the food supply. That will not, however, prevent enormous pressure investigators will bring to bear on food company employees to out their bosses if they have crossed the line.
The United Kingdom called earlier for an EU wide DNA testing regimen of beef products. The testing will continue for three months with random tests thereafter.
U.S. critics of horse slaughter have long claimed that American horsemeat sent abroad is laced with bute because almost all of the domestic animals have received the drug at some point in their life. Once a horse has been given phenylbutazone, it remains in the body to for life.
The scandal erupted two weeks ago and has mushroomed to the point that 16 countries have now found horsemeat in food labeled as containing beef products. A number of European supermarkets have withdrawn frozen beef dinners from their shelves. Most recently, horsemeat was found in frozen Lasagna in France. Germany is currently investigating delivery of frozen lasagna.
There are currently no U.S. horse slaughter plants, but domestic producers ship their unwanted horses to abattoirs in Mexico and Canada where testing for bute is virtually non existant. The EU recently said it would not accept U.S. meat because of the phenylbutazone scare.
American wild horses are also shipped to slaughter after they are captured and processed by the federal Bureau of Land Management. If a horse is in pain he is likely given bute. Most recently, the BLM sold more than 1,700 wild horses to a killer buyer who has refused to divulge their location. It is suspected the horses went to slaughter in Mexico. The sale is currently under investigation.
More News:
Horsemeat scandal: FSA chief says pork and chicken will need to be tested - Telegraph
Tesco admits its bolognese is made of horsemeat: 'Everyday Value' meal is 100% horse | Mail Online
EWA and WHFF Investigators Expose Horse Slaughter Transport Violations « Straight from the Horse's Heart
Horsemeat Scandal Continues to Spread Across Europe and Potentially Worldwide | Canadian Horse Defence Coalition's Blog
Raids on two premises as horse-meat probe continues - News - Horsetalk.co.nz
www.equinewelfarealliance.org/uploads/FOIA.Response.transport.2013.02.11.pdf
Message to Oklahoma Lawmakers: No Future in Horse Slaughter Business - Wayne Pacelle: A Humane Nation
Daily Star: Simply The Best 7 Days A Week :: News :: Horsemeat scandal takes new twist as pet ponies may be in kebabs
Undercover Investigation Reveals Little Oversight At California Horse Auctions « CBS San Francisco
British food industry on track for Friday test results - News - Horsetalk.co.nz
Meat products have been falsely labeled, EU health chief says | Fox News
Monday, February 11, 2013
Animals' Angels FOIA and Other news
Animals' Angels
Animals' Angels FOIA Request Uncovers Grave Discrepancy
in BLM Mortality Rates
February 2013
Animals' Angels FOIA Request Uncovers Grave Discrepancy
in BLM Mortality Rates
February 2013
What is happening at the Bureau of Land Management's Nevada Palomino Valley Holding Facility?
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There have been many reports lately about questionable actions of the Bureau of Land Management and its contractors, such as selling horses out of long term holding to known kill buyers Joe Simon and Musick Livestock ("Wild Horses Sold to Killbuyer") or allowing individuals such as Tom Davis to purchase 1700 horses without questioning where all these horses would end up. ("Wild Horses to Slaughter").
Animals' Angels latest Freedom of Information Act request only increased our concerns over the BLM's treatment of wild horses and burros. Among other things, the BLM's Palomino Valley Facility in Nevada seems to be drastically under-reporting the actual number of horses and burros that have died under its "care."
The National Wild Horse and Burro Center at Palomino Valley is the largest BLM holding facility in the country. The facility, located near Reno, serves as the primary holding area for wild horses and burros rounded up from the public lands in Nevada as well as neighboring states. The facility has 160 acres and according to the BLM website, can hold a maximum of 2,000horses and burros at any given time.
In order to deal with the eventuality of equine deaths, the NV Bureau of Land Management has an ongoing contract with a rendering plant, Nevada By-Products (d/b/a Reno Rendering), to process the horses and burros from the Palomino Valley Holding Facility.
According to the contract paperwork, Nevada By-Products was chosen over landfill disposal due to cost effectiveness and the fact that "Due to the sensitive nature of the public to the wild horse and burro program, it is necessary to dispose of these large animals as quickly and discretely (sic) as possible and Reno Rendering fulfills these requirements."
It should also be noted that in the contract specifications, the NV BLM estimated approximately 200 adults and 100 foals would need to be sent for rendering each year.
In addition to the contract itself, our FOIA request obtained all records of deceased horses and burros sent from the BLM holding facility to the rendering plant from January 1, 2010 through May 31, 2012.
During that timeframe the BLM itself reported in the officialPalomino Valley Mortality Detail Report that only 241 horses and burros died at the Palomino Valley and 50 at the Fallon facility. However, the records from the rendering plant tell quite a different story.
According to the Nevada By-Product invoices for that same time period, a startling 577 dead horses were received from the Palomino Valley Facility. This is a shocking difference of 336 animals (286 animals if the Nevada By-Product invoices do include the Fallon horses), a number simply too large to ignore.
Compounding our concerns, an inordinate number of foals and colts were among the deceased. "Newborns" or "babies" were also specifically noted on several of the rendering plant receipts. A total of 332 foals and colts were included in the rendering plant invoices. In March 2011 alone, 10 horses and 64 colts died and were shipped to Nevada By-Products.
It begs the questions: Why the discrepancy? Why are so many young horses dying? What would the BLM holding facility gain by under-reporting these figures?
The BLM's stance all along is that its roundups are humane. On the face of it, we already know this is blatantly untrue. Roundups are done via helicopter, panicking the wild horses and
 burros and, as a result, causing undue injury. Wild horses and burros will, as a matter of instinct, startle when put under stress, yet the BLM continues to ignore the voices who are advocating for helicopter-free and humane roundups, or better still, to end the roundups altogether.
The disparity in the death rates reported by the BLM would seem to indicate many more horses and burros are dying at their facilities than they would have us believe.
This newly uncovered mortality discrepancy casts yet another dark shadow on the BLM and is another sign that more seems to be going on than meets the eye. With the number of stories regarding questionable sales to kill buyers, cruelty and unexplained record keeping piling up from various outlets, a question we should all ask is: What doesn't the BLM want the public to know?
Animals' Angels would like to thank Debbie Coffey for her assistance with this investigation!
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Other news:
Exclusive: FSA accused over tainted horsemeat sent to Europe - News - Food & Drink - The Independent
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Saturday, February 9, 2013
Catching up on the News
Diamond “wraps” and the “work” just begins | WHE Blog
Sally Jewell Nominated to Replace Salazar at Interior Department « Straight from the Horse's Heart
French Lasagne Taken Off UK Market Shelves Amid Concern Over Horsemeat Contamination « Straight from the Horse's Heart
Let’s Get A Horse-Meat Nosh At Burger King. Not. | Green Prophet
Findus beef lasagne 'up to 99% horse’ tests show | The Sun |News
www.kaufmanzoning.net/ACTION ALERT AND OKLAHOMA UPDATE 2.htm
Innocent horses become victims of fallen racing empire - KSLA News 12 Shreveport, Louisiana News Weather & Sports
Delta Sale Yard, Delta, CO 2/2/13
Britain Opens Criminal Probe of Horse Meat Contamination Scandal « Straight from the Horse's Heart
Police called in to investigate 'criminal' horsemeat scandal | Business | The Guardian
Horsemeat scandal blamed on international fraud by mafia gangs | Business | The Observer
UK Vets Have ‘Repeatedly Raised Concerns’ Over Bute in Food « Straight from the Horse's Heart
Friday, February 8, 2013
Thursday, February 7, 2013
UK: Beef Lasagne Meals 100% Horsemeat
News Sky
Tests on Findus beef lasagne have revealed that some of the ready meals were made entirely from horsemeat.
Findus analysed 18 of its beef lasagne products and found 11 meals contained between 60% and 100% horsemeat, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) said.
There is no evidence to suggest the horsemeat found in the Findus beef lasagne is a food safety risk, the FSA said.
However, the agency has ordered urgent tests on the lasagne for the veterinary drug phenylbutazone. Meat from animals treated with "bute" is not allowed to enter the food chain in Britain as it may pose a risk to human health.
All food companies have been told to test their beef products, with the FSA saying it was "highly likely" that criminal activity was to blame for the contamination.
Consumers who have purchased the ready meals - produced by French food supplier Comigel on behalf of Findus - have been advised by the FSA not to eat them and return them to the shop they were bought from.
Retail giant Tesco and discount chain Aldi have already withdrawn a range of ready meals produced by Comigel over fears they contained contaminated meat.
Findus UK has already started a full recall of its lasagne products. It withdrew its 320g, 360g and 500g lasagne meals from supermarket shelves as a precautionary measure earlier this week.
It came after Comigel alerted Findus and Aldi that their products "do not conform to specification".
It advised them to remove Findus beef lasagne and Aldi's Today's Special frozen beef lasagne and Today's Special frozen spaghetti bolognese.
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