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Please make this telephone call to your State of Texas Senator, and put an end to the heinous slaughter of Texas horses. If the below link doesn't work, find your State of Texas Senator (not U.S. Senator) at http://www.fyi.legis.state.tx.us/ Margaret

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ACTION ALERT

* * * IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED * * *

TO KEEP HORSE SLAUGHTER BANNED IN TEXAS

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May 10, 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

HERE'S WHAT'S GOING ON

The Bills introduced by the horse slaughter plants to legalize horse slaughter in Texas have gone nowhere. They now realize that they cannot legalize horse slaughter in Texas through normal legislative channels and have reverted to a backup strategy of trying to amend other legitimate legislation as it works it way through the legislative process.

 

We have learned that one primary target for an amendment to legalize horse slaughter is HB 2543 which is a bill authorizing the continuation and operation of the Texas Animal Health Commission. That bill has passed the House of Representatives and is currently in the Senate.

 

We also expect them to try to amend other bills as the opportunity arises. Most of this is likely to take place in the Senate. We have the votes in the Senate to stop this, but we must make our Senators aware of this strategy and urge them to be on the lookout for and oppose any amendments that would legalize horse slaughter in Texas. The horse slaughter plants are paying huge sums to high-paid lobbyists to search for ways to get horse slaughter legalized through the backdoor. WE MUST STOP IT!!!

 

ACTION NEEDED

Immediately contact your State Senator and, if time permits, other Senators (except Senators John Whitmire and Rodney Ellis who have already committed to help us fight the legalization of horse slaughter in Texas. Also, please don't contact Senator Glenn Hegar, Jr.)

 

Tell the Senators that you strongly oppose the slaughter of our horses for human consumption abroad and ask them to look for and oppose any amendment to HB 2543 or any other bill that would legalize horse slaughter in Texas.

 

TALKING POINTS

When talking with the Senators remind them of the following facts:

 

! Horse slaughter for human consumption has been banned in Texas since 1949.

 

! No matter what anyone says, horse slaughter and the related transportation of horses to slaughter is extremely cruel and inhumane. Slaughter is not euthanasia, it is slaughter!

 

! When the horse slaughter plants unsuspectedly attempted to legalize horse slaughter in 2003, a Texas voter poll was taken which showed that 72% of Texans oppose horse slaughter for human consumption; 8 to 1 Texans associate the value of horses with Texas state culture, heritage and economy rather than as a livestock commodity like cattle; and 77% would vote against any member of the legislature who supported a repeal of the existing Texas law banning horse slaughter.

 

! Horse slaughter plants are a drain on the local economy. The two Texas horse slaughter plants are foreign owned and employ less than 130 low-paid, mostly migrant workers. They require USDA oversight of the slaughtering process costing US taxpayers hundred of thousands of dollars. The horse slaughter plants gross millions of dollars each year, but by using accounting loopholes they pay little or no US taxes sending all their profits to their foreign owners.

 

! Horse slaughter promotes horse theft, bragging "from the stable to the table in forty-eight hours," healthy horses are stolen, butchered and their meat exported within hours. It's virtually impossible to save a stolen horse from slaughter given this short time frame. Horse theft in California dropped by over 34% immediately after that state banned horse slaughter and has continued to drop steadily by over 80% in 2005.

 

America's horses are counting on you. Please contact these Texas Senators IMMEDIATELY and ask your friends to do the same. Their contact information is as follows:

 

Texas Senate

The mailing address for all Senators in Austin is:

P.O. Box 12068 Austin, Texas 78711-2068

 

Phone, fax and email are below:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Senator

 

(512) Phone / Fax

 

Email

 

 

Kip Averitt ®

 

463-0122 / 475-3729

 

kip.averitt

 

 

Kenneth "Kim" Brimer ®

 

463-0110 / 475-3745

 

kim.brimer

 

 

John J. Carona ®

 

463-0116 / 463-3135

 

john.carona

 

 

Robert F. Deuell ®

 

463-0102 / 463-7202

 

robert.deuell

 

 

Robert Duncan ®

 

463-0128 / 463-2424

 

robert.duncan

 

 

Kevin P. Eltife ®

 

463-0101 / 475-3751

 

kevin.eltife

 

 

Craig Estes ®

 

463-0130 / 463-8874

 

craig.estes

 

 

Troy Fraser ®

 

463-0124 / 475-3732

 

troy.fraser

 

 

Mario Gallegos (D)

 

463-0106 / 463-0346

 

troy.fraser

 

 

Chris Harris ®

 

463-0109 / 463-7003

 

chris.harris

 

 

Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa (D)

 

463-0120 / 463-0229

 

juan.hinojosa

 

 

Mike Jackson ®

 

463-0111 / 475-3727

 

mike.jackson

 

 

Kyle Janek ®

 

463-0117 / 463-0639

 

kyle.janek

 

 

Eddie Lucio (D)

 

463-0127 / 463-0061

 

eddie.lucio

 

 

Jane Nelson ®

 

463-0112 / 463-0923

 

jane.nelson

 

 

Robert Nichols ®

 

463-0103 / 463-1526

 

robert.nichols

 

 

Steve Ogden ®

 

463-0105 / 463-5713

 

steve.ogden

 

 

Dan Patrick ®

 

463-0107

 

dan.patrick

 

 

Kel Seliger ®

 

463-0131 / 475-3733

 

kel.seliger

 

 

Florence Shapiro ®

 

463-0108 / 463-7579

 

florence.shapiro

 

 

Eliot Shapleigh (D)

 

463-0129 / 463-0218

 

florence.shapiro

 

 

Carlos I. Uresti (D)

 

463-0119 / 463-1017

 

carlos.uresti

 

 

Leticia Van de Putte (D)

 

463-0126 / 463-2114

 

leticia.vandeputte

 

 

Kirk Watson (D)

 

463-0114 / 463-5949

 

kirk.watson

 

 

Jeff Wentworth ®

 

463-0125 / 463-7794

 

jeff.wentworth

 

 

Royce West (D)

 

463-0123 / 463-0299

 

royce.west

 

 

Tommy Williams ®

 

463-0104 / 463-6373

 

tommy.williams

 

 

Judith Zaffirini (D)

 

463-0121 / 475-3738

 

judith.zaffirini

 

 

 

 

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