Victory for horses and other animals in Texas

May 30, 2007

Trouble with links or images? Want to share this email? Use this link:https://community.hsus.org/humane/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=10165870 May 30, 2007 Texas-Sized Victories for Animals Dear Kerri, I have very good news for you -- efforts to legalize horse slaughter in Texas have failed! The horse slaughter industry exhausted every effort to overturn a 1949 state law that The HSUS helped to finally get enforced in the courts -- a law that makes the practice of horse slaughter illegal. But thanks to the tireless efforts

of animal advocates like you, we beat them back. With Illinois passing a bill this year to ban horse slaughter, and Texas retaining its ban, the last remaining horse slaughterplants in the U.S. have been shuttered. But our fight is not over; we still need to pass a federal ban. Otherwise, our horses can still be trucked hundreds of miles to slaughterplants in Canada and Mexico where they will be cruelly butchered and their meat shipped overseas as a "delicacy" for foreign dinner tables. Please ask your friends and family to help pass the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. Let's keep the momentum from this exciting victory in Texas going to move forward on the

federal front. In addition to upholding the ban on horse slaughter, Texas lawmakers passed several measures to protect animals: HB 916, which provides for stronger penalties in dogfighting. HB 2328, which closes loopholes in the current statute to protect feral animals, stray dogs, and horses from specific abuses. HB 1411, which provides penalties for the excessive and unlawful continued restraint of dogs by way of tethering. HB 88, called Simba’s law, which requires that the Governor’s Division of Emergency

Management assist county governments in developing plans for evacuation, transport and temporary sheltering of service animals and household pets in a disaster. These victories remind us that when we work together, we can make a difference. Thank you again for all you do on behalf of animals. You can help secure even more victories for animals by telling your

friends and family in Texas to join our online community. The more people we can reach on animal protection issues, the better our chances for future successes. Sincerely,Wayne PacellePresident & CEOThe Humane Society of the United States P.S. To learn how you can get even more involved in animal protection issues in Texas, please contact Lou Guyton, our Southwest Regional Director, at 817-492-8000. 2007 The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) | .The Humane Society of the United States | 2100 L Street, NW | Washington, DC 20037humanesociety | 202-452-1100 | www.hsus.org We are committed to protecting your privacy, so your email address will NEVER be sold, rented, or exchanged. . Visit your subscription management page to modify your email communication preferences or update your personal profile. To stop ALL email from The Humane Society of the United States, click to remove yourself from our lists (or reply via email with "remove" in the subject line). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05zhL1YUd8Q* Ralph Waldo Emerson sums it up nicely, "You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." For those that don't get it, here's a simple test: If you wouldn't do it to your cat or dog, then don't do it to another animal. Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. -Albert Schweitzer " - Show Compassion, Go Vegan!

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