President Donald Trump’s effort to eliminate longstanding protections preventing the slaughter of America’s wild horses hit a snag this week when the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations included ...

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Treasure Coast detectives remain tight-lipped when it comes to releasing news about several horse thefts in St. Lucie and Okeechobee counties. All detectives in both ...

It might not have been the most appealing work: butchering hundreds of horses each day to fill dinner plates in Europe. But Rockville, Mo., population 166, needed jobs. So residents had embraced ...

TULSA, Okla. -- Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses ...

Despite the implementation of buyer screening protocols and a restrictive per-horse price for potential kill buyers, three ...

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 ...

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 ...

Slaughterhouses are terrifying for horses. Horses have an instinctual “fight or flight” mindset, and when forced into a kill box, they try their best to escape, making the typical “captive bolt” ...

Horse slaughter plants have become legal again, after Congress quietly unbridled restrictions on processing horse meat. President Barack Obama signed the enabling bill Nov. 18. Entities are already ...