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Several residents from the Cold Creek neighborhood and Mount Charleston say they have concerns about the treatment of horses ...

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 ...

Cold Creek and Mount Charleston residents say federal wild horse gathers this month worry them, worried that animals pulled ...

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 ...

Not all horses spend their final days basking in the sun while strolling across lush green pastures. Each year thousands of horses in the United States are slaughtered and become food for people ...

Justin Tupper manages St. Onge Livestock, which holds a monthly horse sale. Tupper said the slaughterhouse shutdown has driven down the price for slaughter horses from between 40 cents and 50 cents a ...

Equine groups like Pennsylvania’s Omega Horse Rescue are working daily to solve equine welfare issues on the ground. They provide lifesaving resources to help keep horses in their homes or support ...

Equine Advocates has become a sanctuary for horses in distress. Founded in 1996 by Susan Wagner, this nonprofit organization in Chatham, New York, is dedicated to rescuing equines from slaughter, ...

Baer, a lifelong horse-lover, said she decided to adopt after she and her husband, Matthew, bought horse property in Vail. As a teenager and 4-H member, she rescued and rehabilitated a racing horse ...