Stem cell help for horses?

Wonder if stem cells can help horses with bad legs? Click on Protecting Horses on my website.

Good news and Bad: slaughterhouses

First the good. The three slaughterhouses in the United States that killed horses for their meat to export to European and Asian markets are all closed. Courageous state legislators brought about the downfall of the Beltex Corporation, Ft. Worth, Texas; Dallas Crown, Kaufman, Texas; and Cavel International, DeKalb, Illinois. All were foreign-owned. The Animal Welfare Institute tells us that over 100,000 horses died in 2006 in these three factories.
The bad news is that horses are still dying for their meat, transported into Canadian and Mexican slaughtering facilities. To read more, go to www.awionline.org/legislation/horse_slaughter/index.htm

American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act

The AHSPA legislation is still mired in the ponderous movement of legislation in Congress. Readers remember that this law ends the killing of horses for their flesh and forbids "the domestic and international transport of live horses or horseflesh for human consumption." On September 7, 2006, the House of Representatives approved the legislation (HR503) by a vote of 263-146. While introduced into the Senate that year (S311), senators failed to act on it by the end of the year. Then on April 25, 2007, the bill was reported favorably by committee to the full Senate, but is not scheduled for a vote. Later last year, on August 2, 2007, the House passed an amendment to the 2008 Agriculture Appropriations bill that took away funds from the federal program that required horses intended for slaughter be inspected. The reasoning is that without this inspection, horses cannot be killed. The amendment, which must still go to the Senate, is considered only a temporary solution while the sponsors of the AHSPA fight to make it permanent. www.awionline.org/legislation/horse_slaughter/index.htm.

Attention, everyone who has a Cushing's horse:

My excellent correspondent, Tamara, wrote to me about how she cares for her rescued Morgan who suffers from Equine Cushing's Syndrome, This is a hormonal disorder that causes horses to grow abnormally thick coats and shed in an equally abnormal way. Read what Tamara has to say by clicking on Protecting Horses above. We hope her letter helps all those who own ECS horses.