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MARCH AGAINST HORSE SLAUGHTER — Calling all Americans! We end March with one last plea to ask your U.S. Representative to cosponsor H.R. 961 to help us reach 290 cosponsors which will release the bill from its Committee assignments and get it onto the U.S. House floor for a vote. H.R.961 currently has 228 cosponsors.… Continue reading Support H.R.961 now
Calling all Americans. Do you have a Republican Representative in the U.S. House? If so, help boost Republican support of the SAFE Act by asking your Representative to cosponsor H.R.961. Here's why. There are 435 voting members in the U.S. House. 218 equals a majority. As of this writing the SAFE Act has 228 cosponsors. However, in… Continue reading Republican cosponsors and the SAFE Act
MARCH AGAINST HORSE SLAUGHTER — All sorts of sources are being suggested in connection with the current virus scare. Did you see this? PETA is being mocked and ridiculed by social media users after implying that eating meat may cause coronavirus. The aggressive animal rights organization made the shocking suggestion on Twitter last week, writing: 'Carnivorous is… Continue reading Ban toxic horse meat
We are excited to announce our Fall version of March Against Horse Slaughter held last month was another huge success. We are still sifting through the mountain of information we gathered and totalling up the numbers on how many we reached (it's in the many 1000s), what they had to say and why they felt… Continue reading Calling everyone especially Republicans against horse slaughter
INTERVIEW WITH A KILL BUYER — HOW RACEHORSES END UP AS MEAT by Chip Legrand Sydney Morning Herald, 21 Oct 2019 "Peter Loffel is the face of horse racing’s unpalatable truth. "He is known as a kill buyer, although he prefers the term horse trader. He buys horses no one wants and trucks them to… Continue reading Aussie racehorse kill buyer speaks out
Do you remember the horse meat scandal of 2013? I don't think saying it sent shockwaves around the world is much of an overstatement. Horsemeat masquerading as beef! But should it have been, really? Accurate and reliable food labeling has long, long been a problem in many countries. Findus was front and center of many… Continue reading The horsemeat scandal and American horses
H.R. 961, a bill pending in the nation's capitol, that will ban horse slaughter and export for slaughter, has 190 cosponsors. In order to take advantage of the Consensus Calendar rule[1], we need 290 cosponsors. That's 100 more. Will you help our horses get those critical cosponsors? Using the Consensus Calendar rule is how the horse… Continue reading Will you help stop horse slaughter?
[Horse flesh] is about as healthful as food contaminated with DDT. —Nicholas Dodman, professor at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine If you are looking for more talking points why U.S. legislators should enact H.R.961 and S.2006 (the "SAFE Act"), outlawing horse slaughter on U.S. soil and outside the U.S., this is an excellent one.… Continue reading Quote of the Day
In a phone call to the CFIA, we were told that just under 24,000 U.S. horses were slaughtered in Canada in 2018. See the overall numbers of horses slaughtered in Canadian plants for 2008 through 2016 here. Also in 2018, we found that nearly 66,000 U.S. horses were transported to Mexico for slaughter. TAKE ACTION… Continue reading Slaughter of U.S. horses in Canada
Horse Slaughter & Horse Soring Urgent! There are two federal bills pending in Washington D.C. requiring immediate attention. They are: (1) The anti horse slaughter bills — H.R.961 and S.2006 (SAFE Act); and (2) the Senate version of the anti horse soring bill — S.1007 (PAST Act). Note: the House has already passed this bill… Continue reading Urgent! Contact Congress on these horse bills
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