HSUS boss lists top equine achievements for 2012
The caput of the Humane Society of the U.S.A. has listed the organisation’s top achievements for equines inwards 2012.
Chief executive Wayne Pacelle, writing inwards his blog, “A Humane Nation”, said the club was i of the few national organizations inwards the U.S.A. alongside an practiced staff driving a major agenda to assist horses.
The top 10 achievements were listed every bit follows:
- An cloak-and-dagger investigation that documented abuse of Tennessee walking horses that led to criminal indictments together with world outrage. H5N1 federal approximate fined trainer Jackie McConnell $US75,000 together with gave him iii years’ probation. The footage showed McConnell bashing horses inwards the appear upwards together with applying caustic chemicals to their feet inwards monastic state to ambit the unnatural “big lick” gait prized inwards the industry.
- The U.S.A. Department of Agriculture (USDA) finalized a novel dominion requiring mandatory minimum penalties for violations of the Horse Protection Act, a federal police describe to forestall soring.
- The club worked alongside U.S.A. Representatives Ed Whitfield, R-Ky., together with Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., to innovate legislation to strengthen the Horse Protection Act
- The club joined local advocates to block Equus caballus slaughter plants from opening inwards Missouri together with New Mexico, together with worked alongside New Bailiwick of Jersey advocates to croak a province police describe that bans Equus caballus slaughter for human consumption together with the carry of horsemeat for human consumption.
- The club filed petitions alongside the Food together with Drug Administration together with USDA to declare horsemeat every bit adulterated, together with unfit for human consumption, on line of piece of employment organisation human relationship of the drugs together with veterinary treatments normally used inwards horses together with the lack of a verifiable tracking scheme for these medications.
- After discussions alongside The HSUS, the Texas Parks together with Wildlife Department suspended a policy allowing burros inwards Big Bend Ranch State Park to live on killed.
- The society, partnering alongside Dr Brady Bergin, continued its projection to humanely get together together with re-home an at-risk herd of wild donkeys (480 animals to date) inwards Hawaii. There are well-nigh 100 remaining donkeys inwards postulate of rescue together with rehoming.
- When the Atlantic City Steel Pier announced plans to convey dorsum an inhumane “horse diving” act, club staff contacted province officials, spoke out against the plan, together with applauded the subsequent conclusion to cancel the event.
Horse diving inwards Atlantic City inwards the early on usage of the 20th century. - In the international arena, Humane Society International (HSI) initiated collaboration alongside local equine beast rescue groups to institute a Equus caballus sanctuary inwards Nicaragua. HSI likewise launched a world teaching movement inwards the EU to educate consumers on wellness risks associated alongside North American horsemeat, inwards monastic state to bring down the need for horsemeat worldwide. In Haiti, the club continued to develop Haitian veterinarians on equine wellness together with process working equines inwards its champaign clinics throughout the country.
Pacelle said the society’s top priorities inwards 2013 include securing passage of federal legislation to strengthen the Horse Protection Act together with ending soring, together with demanding that the federal Bureau of Land Management dramatically scale downwards its round-ups together with removals of wild horses together with scale upwards its usage of fertility control.
Pacelle’s total weblog tin live on read here.
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