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Amatrice, IHP demands immediate halt to horse branding
04/09/2026 - Tomorrow morning, in Torrita di Amatrice, a public branding of equids is scheduled: IHP has filed a formal complaint with the Carabinieri and the ASL of Rieti demanding the seizure of the branding equipment and the immediate cessation of the practice.
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Fagagna, donkey race: IHP calls for the event to be abolished
02/09/2026 - The same programme includes the donkey race and a menu featuring donkey goulash and Donkey Burger: "An unacceptable abomination." Photo: Ufficio Turismo Fagagna
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IHP is recruiting staff for its Recovery Centre
27/08/2026 - The association is recruiting a professional to be employed under a regular contract in equine care and management activities
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Mustang: America's symbol of freedom heads to the slaughterhouse
24/08/2026 - How the Trump administration has dismantled decades of protections for the United States' wild horses: a story that concerns us all.
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IHP ISSUES FORMAL WARNING TO ARPINO: THE DONKEY RACE ON ASPHALT CANNOT TAKE PLACE
19/08/2026 - Formal warning sent to the Municipality and the Pro Loco. Parallel report filed with the Ministry of Health. The race is scheduled for August 22nd: IHP demands cancellation by tomorrow.
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The code of silence surrounding the Palio di Siena
19/08/2026 - Palio. Yesterday in Siena, yet another spectacle of sheer suffering, arrogance and violence, disguised as ‘tradition’, took place. Watch the video
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37 degrees in Pisa. The horses work. The regulation does not allow intervention.
08/08/2026 - A tourist files a report, the police defer to the regulation, the regulation defers to a university weather station. The Pisa case is proof that regulatory fragmentation does not protect animals: it exposes them.
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Australia: horse meat in food products
29/07/2026 - Australia: horse meat in food products
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Public Money to Tell the Story of Horse Racing the Way They'd Like It to Be
23/07/2026 - The Ministry of Agriculture has decided how part of our money will be spent: not on saving the horses that the racing system produces and then discards, but on convincing us that the system works.
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Fentanyl stolen from Rome's Ospedale Israelitico: clandestine horse races among the theories
10/07/2026 - On July 4, 2026, eighty vials of fentanyl were stolen from the pharmacy of Rome's Ospedale Israelitico — a quantity that, according to institutional sources, would be enough to package up to roughly twenty thousand doses.
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