Monday, March 12, 2012

Muckraking (Literally): Should It Be Illegal To Film Animal Abuse? « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Muckraking (Literally): Should It Be Illegal To Film Animal Abuse? « Straight from the Horse's Heart

In March 2011, Lisa Friday’s video camera made a difference. On a late winter day, Friday visited a herd of wild horses penned at the Bureau of Land Management‘s Butterfield/Herrimen holding facility in southwest Utah. What she saw there, and what she lawfully recorded, was appalling. “Never in my entire life have I seen animals in such squalor,” she said this past weekend from her home in Virginia. “There was no place for any horse to escape.”

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