Environment

How Horse Blood Literally Fuels Factory Farming

Kena Shah / Sentient Media Jul 13, 2023 In the livestock industry, it is standard to dose pigs with a hormone extracted from pregnant horses—a cruel and barbaric practice. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Wildfire Engulfs Semi-Rural San Diego Area

Elliot Spagat and Andrew Dalton / The Associated Press Dec 8, 2017 The Fallbrook community has become the latest front in California's wildfire fight. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Depression Researchers Find ‘Exciting’ Potential Breakthrough in … Ketamine

Staff / Truthdig Apr 4, 2014 Ketamine is known to horse enthusiasts as an equine tranquilizer and to recreational pharmacology enthusiasts as the party drug "Special K." It might also have other unexpected applications, including as part of a treatment regimen for depression. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

McCain

Clay Bennett / Truthdig Feb 3, 2013 Dig deeper

All the Missing Horses

By Dave Philipps, ProPublica Sep 29, 2012 Animal welfare advocates fear wild horses sold by the government to a well-known advocate of horse slaughter are being sent to the killing floor. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Dead Americans, Dead Goats, and Half a Million Gunmen on the Loose

By Ann Jones, TomDispatch Mar 8, 2012 Since May 2007, 76 NATO soldiers have been killed and an undisclosed number wounded in 46 recorded “deliberate attacks” by members of the Afghan National Security Force. These figures suggest more than a recent “trend of Afghan treachery.” Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

A Day at the Races

Deanne Stillman / Truthdig Mar 6, 2012 This is about horses and how they saved my family’s life, and how, one day, I would come to repay the favor. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Love Sick

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Feb 23, 2012 Dig deeper

‘The Misfits’ at 50: Honoring the Horse and an Iconic Western

Deanne Stillman / Truthdig Feb 14, 2011 February 1st marks the 50th anniversary of the release of “The Misfits,” the iconic and underrated film about Nevada mustangers who brutally capture wild horses so they can sell them to the slaughterhouse.February 1st marks the 50th anniversary of an iconic film about Nevada mustangers who brutally capture wild horses so they can sell them to the slaughterhouse. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

The War Against the Horse

Deanne Stillman / Truthdig May 4, 2010 It is a sad fact of American life that horse killing is not an anomaly. In fact, such episodes have been playing out across our land for decades. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Politics and the Actual Horse Race

Staff / Truthdig May 4, 2008 File this under just plain weird: Hillary Clinton picked Eight Belles, the only filly in the race, to win the Kentucky Derby. She came in second, behind Big Brown, and, sadly, had to be euthanized on the track because she broke two ankles after crossing the finish line. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Jack Abramoff Must Be Smiling…

Staff / Truthdig Jul 11, 2006 Because the House is considering an anti-gambling bill that would include an exemption for horse racing and intrastate lotteries The disgraced lobbyist worked to ensure the latter in a bill several years ago Gambling is bad, bad, bad Unless it's on horsies or lotteries Then it's OK . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )