Help end horse slaughter!

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Horses need protection from the slaughter industry

 

Representatives John Sweeney (R-NY) and John Spratt (D-SC) have reintroduced

the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. The bill, HR 857, will end the

slaughter of horses in the US for human consumption and prevent horses from

being shipped live from the US to foreign countries for slaughter. According to

USDA statistics for 2002, 42,314 horses were slaughtered in the US for human

consumption abroad, primarily in Belgium, France, Italy and Japan. In

addition, tens of thousands of horses are transported in deplorable conditions

to

Mexico and Canada for slaughter.

 

The suffering of horses transported from auction houses to one of the two

remaining American slaughterhouses is unconscionable. Often they are shipped in

overcrowded double-decked trailers, forced to stoop for hours without water

or food only to arrive at the slaughterhouse where they are subjected to

additional abuse from poorly trained and callous workers.

 

While Federal law requires that horses be rendered unconscious prior to

having their throats slit, recent documentation shows that this process is often

not performed in accordance with the law and that repeated blows with captive

bolt pistols are often used to kill the animals. Cutting the throats of horses

before they are unconscious and repeated, ineffective shooting of the captive

bolt pistol cause excruciating suffering. Horses writhe in pain in the holding

stall (known as the " kill box " ), legs buckling under their weight after each

traumatic, misguided and ineffective blow to their heads. You can help stop

this horrific cruelty.

 

Please ask your Representative to cosponsor HR 857, the American Horse

Slaughter Prevention Act.

 

Letters may be addressed to:

 

 

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>> House of Representatives

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