Saturday, May 25, 2013
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the southern New Mexico plant that has been fighting for more than a year for permission to slaughter horses will open soon, unless Congress reinstates a ban on the practice. In a telephone interview Tuesday, Vilsack said the d ...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 10:47 AM
OREGON, Ohio (AP) -- Ten horses and other farm animals perished early Thursday when fire destroyed a 100-year-old barn at a northwestern Ohio equestrian center that provides horse-riding therapy programs for the disabled, authorities said. The fire in the 100-by-100-foot wood-framed barn ...
Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:27 AM
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Several legislators voiced their support Wednesday for a pair of measures that would allow the commercial slaughter of horses in Oklahoma for human consumption, despite recent recalls in Europe of products found to contain horse meat and a push in Washington to renew a fe ...
Thursday, March 14, 2013 9:10 AM
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Some agriculture and horse groups are announcing their support of plans to open a horse slaughtering facility in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Farm Bureau announced Friday it would host an event at the state Capitol next week to show "strong support" for bills th ...
Friday, March 08, 2013 4:34 PM
BOISE -- A bill that would make it easier for people who have horses dumped on them to sell the animals is sailing through the Idaho Legislature. The bill passed the House 69-0 Feb. 26 and has been sent to the Senate Agricultural Affairs Committee. The legislation would amend Idaho's livestock l ...
Thursday, March 07, 2013 12:00 PM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Federal officials have indicated they might soon grant the inspection needed to start processing horse meat at a southeastern New Mexico slaughterhouse. But the Obama administration threw a new twist in a more than yearlong debate over how best to humanely deal with a ...
Friday, March 01, 2013 3:09 PM
Oregon State University's veterinary teaching hospital says that a horse from Eastern Oregon has been diagnosed with equine flu. The 4-year-old quarter horse mare, which recently arrived in Oregon from Texas, has been placed in isolation at the hospital and is being treated, according to a universi ...
Thursday, February 28, 2013 12:00 PM
. Some 80 more samples are to be tested, and separate tests are needed to determine the proportion of horse meat. All three contamination cases have been reported to the prosecutors, Zwiazek said. "I want to find the culprit, or culprits," he said. Horse meat has recent ...
Thursday, February 28, 2013 8:48 AM
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- After withdrawing meatballs from stores across Europe, home furnishings giant Ikea on Wednesday said it would also pull wiener sausages made by the same supplier after its own tests confirmed "a few indications of horse meat." Ikea said it would withdraw the sa ...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 7:06 AM
BUTTE, Mont. (AP) -- The Bureau of Land Management is proceeding with a plan to move 700 wild horses to a ranch in southwestern Montana, despite the fact that the owners of neighboring ranches are concerned about whether the land can sustain and the fences contain the animals. The first trucklo ...
Monday, February 25, 2013 7:24 AM
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Swedish furniture giant Ikea was drawn into Europe's widening food labeling scandal Monday as authorities said they had detected horse meat in frozen meatballs labeled as beef and pork and sold in 13 countries across the continent. The Czech State Veterinary Administrati ...
Monday, February 25, 2013 7:24 AM
Oregon State University's veterinary teaching hospital says that a horse from eastern Oregon has been diagnosed with equine flu. The four-year-old quarter horse mare, which recently arrived in Oregon from Texas, has been placed in isolation at the hospital and is being treated, according to a u ...
Thursday, February 21, 2013 11:42 AM
BERLIN (AP) -- The world's biggest food and drinks maker Nestle SA has become the latest company to pull some of its products off European shelves after they were found to contain undeclared horse meat. The company, based in Vevey, Switzerland, said in a statement late Monday that it withdrew s ...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 7:40 AM
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) -- Animal rights advocates are upset about a new bill in the Colorado House that could affect how quickly authorities are able to rescue abused livestock. Currently, animal control officers can seize cattle, horses or other livestock they suspect are being abused. The ...
Monday, February 18, 2013 3:00 PM
BERLIN (AP) -- German officials on Monday vowed tighter controls on meat products and stronger penalties for companies that violate food-labeling rules as more items marketed as "all beef" were pulled from supermarket shelves after testing positive for horse meat. Consumer Prote ...
Monday, February 18, 2013 8:39 AM
LONDON (AP) -- Tests have found horsemeat in school meals, hospital food and restaurant dishes in Britain, officials said Friday, as the scandal over adulterated meat spread beyond frozen supermarket products. Results were coming in after U.K. food safety officials ordered supermarkets an ...
Friday, February 15, 2013 8:46 AM
MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) -- A horse with a knack for opening stall doors at a Michigan farm is getting attention after a video of her escape-artist antics was posted online. The Saginaw News reports (http://bit.ly/XBjBC2 ) Mariska, a 9-year-old Friesian, learned to open latches at Misty Meado ...
Thursday, February 14, 2013 9:06 AM
AMSTERDAM (AP) -- A Cyprus-registered company called "Draap Trading Ltd." moved to the center of Europe's horsemeat mislabeling scandal Wednesday, as it emerged that a man with the same name as the owner of Draap was convicted of fraud for passing off horsemeat as beef by a Dutch cou ...
Thursday, February 14, 2013 9:06 AM
PARIS (AP) -- The price, smell and color should have been clear tipoffs something was wrong with shipments of horsemeat that were fraudulently labeled as beef, French authorities said Thursday. The government pinned the bulk of the blame on a French wholesaler at the heart of a growing scandal i ...
Thursday, February 14, 2013 9:06 AM
Federal biologists have concluded that the management of wild horses in a portion of Oregon's Malheur National Forest doesn't jeopardize threatened steelhead. However, the rancher who sued the government to study the horses' environmental impact said the study minimizes their detrimental effects ...
Thursday, February 14, 2013 12:00 PM
BRUSSELS (AP) -- European Union ministers are looking at better ways to trace processed food across the continent and eliminate fraud amid a widening food scandal in which horsemeat was sold as beef to unwitting consumers. Wednesday's emergency meeting at EU headquarters included nations most a ...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 10:24 AM
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- Romanian food safety officials say the country produced 6,300 tons of horse, mule and donkey meat last year, and that it was correctly labeled when it was exported to other European countries. Amid a growing scandal over horsemeat mislabeled as beef in frozen processe ...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 7:42 AM
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota lawmakers are taking a look at a measure that would make aggravated cruelty to dogs, cats and horses a felony. The Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee plans to hold a hearing on the bill Tuesday. Animal rights groups have said South Dakota and N ...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 7:42 AM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Wild-horse advocates may be unified in their sharp criticism of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, but they're split over President Barack Obama's choice to replace him. Horse groups are hoping Recreational Equipment Inc. chief Sally Jewell will represent a shift in direct ...
Monday, February 11, 2013 7:42 AM
PARIS (AP) -- A maze of trading between meat wholesalers has made it increasingly difficult to trace the origins of food -- enabling horsemeat disguised as beef to be sold in frozen meals across Europe. France's agricultural minister said Monday that regulators must find a way "out of the ...
Monday, February 11, 2013 7:31 AM
that the products don't pose any food safety risk, and were recalled solely because they had been mislabeled. British Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday that the scandal is "completely unacceptable" and must be addressed. Cameron acknowledged there is "great public co ...
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