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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 ...

ALBUQUERQUE - An Internet video that shows a meat company employee swearing at animal activists before shooting a horse in the head highlights the increasing emotional intensity of the national debate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...