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Missouri State Senate to Consider Pro-Horse Slaughter Resolution
Calls Needed TODAY!
Dear Humanitarian:
The Animal Welfare Institute has just learned that the Missouri State Senate will consider a resolution as soon as Monday, May 5, urging the US Congress to block passage of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (AHSPA) and facilitate the construction of new horse slaughter plants on US soil.
Missouri Senate Concurrent Resolution 35 flies in the face of public sentiment and reason. The AHSPA, introduced as H.R. 503/S. 311, is an important animal protective measure that will prohibit the slaughter of our horses here or abroad for human consumption around the globe.
This resolution, clearly shaped by the pro-horse slaughter lobby, is chock full of misinformation and scare tactics designed to unnerve federal legislators and prevent them from taking action to stop America’s horses from going to slaughter. It refers to the “Horse Welfare Coalition,” a group founded and currently run by the slaughterhouses, which consists of only pro-horse slaughter organizations – including the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Association of Equine Practitioners, and the American Quarter Horse Association.
If passed, the resolution will be used to press our legislators into allowing the continued slaughter of our horses at the hands of a cruel and predatory industry that does nothing to help horses (as the resolution’s authors would have you believe) and everything to hurt them.
Be sure to let Missouri’s Senators know that the Horse Welfare Coalition and the sponsors of this resolution are out of step with the states of Texas, Illinois and California (which have already banned horse slaughter), as well as more than 500 horse industry groups and leaders, equine rescues, veterinary organizations and the majority of Americans, all of whom support passage of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. (For a comprehensive list of supporters, click here).
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Please contact the Missouri legislators listed below today and Monday morning, asking them to OPPOSE Senate Concurrent Resolution 35. You do not need to be a Missouri resident to call, as this resolution, if passed, has the potential to impact horses and horse owners from across the nation. For additional facts about horse slaughter, click here.
Please share this AWI eAlert with friends, family and others, and urge them to email in opposition to any resolution or statement opposing the AHSPA, too. As always, thank you for your help!
For the latest updates on this bill and AWI’s campaign against horse slaughter, be sure to visit www.awionline.org/legislation/horse_slaughter/whats_new.htm.
Thank you for your help,
Chris Heyde
Deputy Director, Government and Legal Affairs
Animal Welfare Institute
www.awionline.org
www.compassionindex.org
Call today. Missouri State Senate Contact Information
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May 4th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
how many activists against this bill actually own horses. we have spend our entire lives teaching people about the horse. You don’t know the other side of the story. You don’t know the suffering that thousands of horses are experiencing. Before you stand up for something you may little about, consider that the most of the horse breed associations and the American Veterinary Associatins support this bill. These people care for horse, love horses, devoted their lifes to horses. There is another side of the story, if you will just look.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:55 am
Many of the breed associations that support the slaughter of horses do so in order to artificially keep prices high - it’s a means for many breeders to cull herds that they’ve overproduced.
Any other industry would react by producing less. This one reacts by demanding it be allowed to keep it’s means of reduction, that it be allowed to keep it’s sloppy business practices.
It’s not a personal issue, it’s a business issue. The AQHA - and other registries - support slaughter because they get registration fees for each foal that hits the ground. They don’t care one whit about the ultimate welfare of the animal. If they did, they would not condone the breeding of animals that are pretty - but whose hips deteriorate in 5-10 years, nor would they allow yearlings and weanlings to be shown in lunge line classes, nor would they allow 2-year olds in under saddle classes.
It’s business profits, pure and simple.
June 20th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
first of all let me say that i have been in the horse industry for 30 years my family has farmed for all 100 years in this country iam not affiliated with any slaughterhouses .we have a population problem in this country there are more horses now than in the late eighteenhundreds.what you have done is put horses facing much more painful deaths in for-en packing houses Mexico in particular .we had 3 u.s packinghouses that like all packinghouses our not pretty they were regulated by the u.s.d.a .i could go on all night about this but i got to work in the morning i will say this if you people think that killing horses is so bad then please go to your local stockyard and bie some of these things that you dont want killed i promise that the people that Owen the auctions will appreciate you business