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Greetings, and welcome to Tuesday’s Horse, November 10, 2009
Support the House Natural Resources Committee call to halt the roundups. Write or call your U.S. representative and senators and urge them to support a moratorium pending decisions by Congress on the role of the BLM and the course of the wild horses and burros program. (Photo-Jack Gruber
Congressional Cmte to call for halt on wild horse roundups
(US)Advocates have long been calling for a moratorium on the roundups and removal of America’s wild horses and burros from our public lands, and further for an investigation into the conduct of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the government agency responsible for managing them.
It appears we are getting closer to achieving those aims.
The Animal Law Coalition reports:
A Congressional staff member confirmed to the Animal Law Coalition that the House Natural Resources Committee is calling on BLM to stop all gathers or removals of wild horses and burros until Congress takes action on the controversial issues surrounding the wild horse and burro program.
A Congressional staff member told Animal Law Coalition, “It is my understanding that BLM has 11 more roundups planned for 2009 and is expecting to remove more than 6,000 horses. This is unacceptable especially in light of the fact that these roundups are not based on science.”
Support the House Natural Resources Committee call to halt the roundups.
Write or call your U.S. Representative and both U.S. Senators and urge them to support a moratorium pending decisions by Congress on the role of the BLM and the course of the wild horse and burro program. Copy the Committee on any fax or letter to your representative and senators so they can see your support for a moratorium!
— RELATED ACTION ALERT, Flyer Available Here (pdf)
End Long Distance Transport of Horses to Slaughter in the EU
End the long-distance transportation of horses to slaughter in the European Union. Support Written Declaration 54/2009. Photo WHW.
The Int’l Fund for Horses joins World Horse Welfare in its call to end the long-distance transportation of horses to slaughter in the European Union.
Please write to your MEP asking them to sign Written Declaration 54/2009.
If more than half of all MEPs sign this before 21st January 2010, we will be one step closer to ending these brutal and totally unnecessary journeys.
However, if less than 50% of MEPs support the Declaration it will fail, weakening the case for new laws ending the long-distance transportation of horses to slaughter in the European Union.
— RELATED ACTION ALERT (Contact Resources and Letter Templates in 12 Languages, UK and EU Residents Only)
Lawmakers To Get Update on Horse Soring
Kentucky lawmakers are meeting November 10, 2009 to collect information on horse soring. The Subcommittee on Horse Farming will hear testimony about what’s being done to ensure that walking horses aren’t being intentionally harmed to create their trademark highstepping gait.
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky lawmakers have scheduled a meeting on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 to collect information about alleged abuses of walking horses.
The Subcommittee on Horse Farming will hear testimony about what’s being done to ensure that walking horses aren’t being intentionally harmed to create their trademark highstepping gait.
At issue is the illegal practice of irritating the forelegs and hooves of walking horses to cause them to lift their front feet higher and faster as they compete for blue ribbons, ornate trophies and prize money.
Federal laws were enacted nearly 40 years ago to outlaw the practice.
Keith Dane, head of equine protection for the Humane Society of the United States, will be among the presenters at the 10 a.m. subcommittee meeting. — UPDATE!
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