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NEWS RELEASE
SAVING AMERICA’S HORSES takes Kansas City Film Fest by Storm
For Immediate Release
Wild for Life Foundation
April 19, 2012 (revised)
SAVING AMERICA’S HORSES takes Kansas City Film Fest by storm with it’s powerful and lingering message. The international award winning film made a powerful impact on festival goers in Kansas City and was the film everyone was talking about all week long. “That’s very good for horses,” says Paula Bacon, former mayor Kaufman TX.
As anticipation escalated for the film to screen so did nature’s fury with supercell tornadoes shutting down airports and delaying flights. That same perfect storm was heading straight for Kansas City, but it didn’t stop Paula Bacon, (former mayor Kaufman TX) and Dr Lester Friedlander, (former USDA Chief Inspector) from appearing and speaking at the Kansas City screen’s premiere.
Paula Bacon is the former mayor of Kaufman, Texas, which until 2007 had the foreign-owned Dallas Crown horse slaughter plant. “A horse slaughter plant creates expensive environmental problems for taxpayers and stigmatizes the community as ‘that place where they slaughter horses’ — Good development goes elsewhere,” Bacon said. “The horse slaughter plant did not make our community money–we paid.”
Festival goers were stunned by Dr. Friedlander’s statements underscoring how federal laws do not protect the horses in the U.S. “USDA vets are pressured by the slaughter plant owners to overlook violations to cruelty laws so they can make more money,” Friedlander said.
Fueled by the spirit of the horse, the movie sweeps its viewers off their feet, empowering them and inspiring them to get involved on behalf of the horses. “The impact was off the charts,” says filmmaker Katia Louise. “The tremendous buzz about the horses rippled through the festival and with the support from fans and horse advocates our reach to the public more than tripled in just a few days on the internet.”
The horses’ presence was seen and felt everywhere, throughout the festival, with gorgeous life size SAVING AMERICA’S HORSES displays in the lobbies and entryways at multiple festival venues and after parties. The SAVING AMERICA’S HORSES promo spot starring Paula Bacon, Paul Sorvino and Linda Gray played at the top of every movie all week long as excitement mounted for the film to screen.
Paula Bacon, one of the film’s lead cast and speakers in SAVING AMERICA’S HORSES is also an Executive Advisory Board member for the film. Dr Lester Friedlander is a cast and speaker for the film project and Katia Louise is the director/ producer of the film.
SAVING AMERICA’S HORSES – A NATION BETRAYED is an educational film project under Wild for Life Foundation, a 501 c3 nonprofit charity dedicated to saving, protecting and preserving horses.
Voted most popular film in the KC Film Festival, SAVING AMERICA’S HORSES is currently showcasing through festivals and has won multiple international awards.
Concerned citizens and horse advocates are encouraged to support the SAVING AMERICA’S HORSES Coast to Coast campaign to help bring this film to public release.
Contact:
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310.439.9817
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www.savingamericashorses.org
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Last Updated: 5:46 AM, April 12, 2010
Posted: 3:37 AM, April 12, 2010
Murray Weiss
The head of the NYPD’s Mounted Unit had three retired police horses put down at a Pennsylvania farm — as shocked veterinarians and animal-cruelty officials watched in disbelief.
Capt. Barry Gelbman gave the highly questionable order to fatally inject three of the Finest’s former workhorses while personally supervising the move of 30 police horses from the Abbottstown stable to two other farms, sources said.
The steeds — Danny, Willis and Richie Rich — were 15 to 20 years old but had life expectancies of up to 30. They were being treated for various leg ailments, which meant they could not endure standing in a cramped, 15-horse transporter for the 12-hour ride to their new homes in either upstate New York or New Hampshire
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/eutha_neigh_sia_rage_at_nypd_big_R9dNlzsZF6XhkYSiK8x6yJ#ixzz1sc4zVfuB |
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The method has changed, but racehorses are still being put down at an alarming rate
Updated: April 19, 2012, 4:11 PM ET
By Chris Jones | ESPN The Magazine
Jakob Schiller
More than three hundred horses were put down in New Mexico alone in 2009.
This story appears in the April 30, 2012 NFL Draft issue of ESPN The Magazine. Subscribe today!
TELLER ALL GONE was not a horse of distinction until he was dead. In fact, he was so unexceptional when he was alive, the details of his biography remain hazy. According to the Lazy E Ranch in Guthrie, Okla., the farm where he was born, he was foaled on Feb. 12, 2009, from Algonquin, sired by Teller Cartel and registered with the American Quarter Horse Association as a sorrel gelding. But according to a video once posted online by the ranch, he might have been a she, a brown filly foaled from Check Her Twice.
Whatever his gender and dam, Teller All Gone definitely traveled as a yearling from Oklahoma to New Mexico, where he was auctioned at Ruidoso but passed through without a buyer. He went on to run three races at Ruidoso Downs last summer, placing second once, earning $1,570. Here, there is no debate. The money is always exact.
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Refuge RR is without water again, please, they need donations, it cost 300$ everytime a truck comes to deliver water, and that lasts only 3 to 4 days so that the animals can drink, now they are without funds and money and the animals have no more water. They get no financial assistance from the government.
If you can spare some money to help them please go here to see how to contribute:
http://www.refugerr.org/How-to-help/
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April 19, 2012
Speak Up for Nevada’s Wild Horses and Burros: Please Submit Comments on Carson City Resource Management Plan
“The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) Carson City Field Office oversees 21 Herd Areas in a state where over half of the nation’s remaining wild horses and burros reside. The Carson City BLM is seeking public comments on revisions to its Resource Management Plan, which sets land use policy for this area north of Reno.”
Join New Mexico Governor in Opposing Horse Slaughter
This week, New Mexico Governor Susan Martinez announced her opposition to a meat company’s plan to open the nation’s first slaughterhouse for horses since 2007 in her state. Gov. Martinez stated, “I believe creating a horse slaughtering industry in New Mexico is wrong and I am strongly opposed.”
ASPCA Donates $100,000 to Support Birth Control for Wild Horses
The ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), an AWHPC coalition partner, has given a $100,000 grant to the Center for Science and Conservation in Billings, Montana to support the training of personnel to administer the PZP fertility control vaccine to wild horses.
PLEASE GO TO LINK:
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6931/t/0/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=1202543
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