Help Stop Horse Slaughter Now!
Want to stop the slaughter of American horses by preventing their export to Canada and Mexico? It takes only a couple of minutes and costs you nothing, not a red cent! In fact, it is as easy as 1,2,3...- Copy the below letter so that you can paste it into an email to your Senators.
- Select your Senators' email addresses and/or street addresses by clicking here.
- Just create an email, one for each Senator and paste the below letter into each. Please insert their name at the top and yours at the bottom along with your street address (so they know that you reside in their state), and send them out. Sending the very same letter via hard mail to each Senator is a huge plus!
Dear Senator________________:
As you are probably aware, as a result of The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act of 2007, slaughterhouses in this country are no longer permitted to kill horses. To circumvent this, horses are shipped to either Canada or Mexico in cattle cars, without food and water. Vast numbers of them do not even survive the trip. Those that do, meet a horrific death!
There are a couple of favored ways; horses are cattle prodded and then shot in the head with a nail gun, sending fragments of skull into its brain. In Mexico, their spinal cord is severed with a small knife. In either case, the horse is often still alive as it is hung by its hooves and throat slit, so it can choke and bleed to death. This occurs with 100,000 American bred horses annually and it must stop!
Even though horses should not be killed for any kind of consumption, the horse meat from these mass killings are NOT even being used in dog food or to feed starving masses. Rather, it is an up to $20/lb delicacy enjoyed by humans in Japan and Europe. A pound of horsemeat usually sells more than a pound of filet mignon!
Horses, an integral part of America's heritage and culture, are favored animals, just like cats and dogs. Americans do not eat horses just as they do not eat cats and dogs! We all grew up worshipping them on television and the silver screen. We have applauded their accomplishments in sports, whether it be horse racing, shows, polo or the rodeo. We fought wars on their backs and even depended upon them to help us deliver our mail.
We have and still count on them for transportation, for plowing our fields and for hobby. Humans are the ones who domesticated wild horses. People who own horses must act responsibly and re-home their horses and not merely discard them without any regard for what will more than likely occur.
Senator, please support the current (2011-2012) legislation, S 1176, sponsored by Mary Landrieu (D-LA), which will amend the Horse Protection Act to prohibit the shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of horses and other equines to be slaughtered for human consumption, and for other purposes.
Sincerely,
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