Call/Write To End Horse Slaughter For Good!

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KINSHIP CIRCLE PRIMARY - PERMISSION TO CROSS-POST AS WRITTEN**H.R. 6598 passed the House Judiciary Committee and is now up for a vote by the full House...any day now. Please contact your U.S. Representative in Congress ASAP. See sample letter and phone call below.10/2/08: Call/Write To End Horse Slaughter For GoodFOR A FORMATTED LETTER (WORD DOC), EMAIL: kinshipcircle@ accessus. netEasily modify letter. Copy/paste it into an email or print letter to fax or mail.============ =========

========= ========= ========= ========= ==FULL CONTACT INFORMATION. Sample letter follows.============ ========= ========= ========= ========= ========= ==To identify your federal legislators and find contact info, try: Congress.org - http://www.Congress .orgUSA House of Representatives - http://www.house. govCongressional Switchboard: 202-224-3121The Honorable Representative ____________ _________ ________U.S. House of RepresentativesWashington, D.C. 20510*Kinship Circle cannot guarantee validity of email addresses. During campaigns, recipients may change or disable their email addresses. Emails from government, corporate, or institute websites may be incorrect. ============ ========= ========= =========

========= ========= ==SAMPLE LETTER -- This letter is prepared to inform you about the issue. Try to shorten and personalize your letter before sending.============ ========= ========= ========= ========= ========= ==Dear Representative:As your constituent, I ask you to cosponsor and vote YES on H.R. 6598, the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act. This legislation bans the knowing and intentional possession, shipping, transporting, purchasing, selling, delivering or receiving of a horse for slaughter.Court rulings closed America's last equine plants in Texas and Illinois. Still, racehorses, trail ponies, companion and wild horses are among those sold to killer-buyers at auctions. To reach faraway slaughter plants, horses travel in trucks built for smaller animals. Footage from Humane Society of the U.S. shows horses beaten and jammed into trailers in 100-degree

heat. They arrive weak, dehydrated and injured. Some are dead by journey's end.Horses are more excitable than other animals killed for food. Thus, their slaughter is especially horrific. Captive bolt pistols used to stun these long-necked animals often don't work, leaving horses thrashing in pain. At Mexican plants, each horse's neck is pierced with a "puntilla knife" until the spinal cord severs. Alert horses bob their heads as the blade stabs them around the withers. Finally, they collapse -- paralyzed, but not dead. Some horses remain conscious as their bodies are dismembered.H.R. 6589 identifies horse slaughter as animal cruelty under Title 18 of the U.S. Code. Opponents argue that equine slaughter is needed to "save" surplus horses from neglect and starvation. In fact, even more horses now go to kill plants across U.S. borders. This increase in slaughtered U.S. horses has not reduced known

cases of horse neglect or starvation.Violent slaughter should never be an alternative to remarketing, rescue, adoption or humane euthanasia. Horse slaughter and euthanasia are not the same thing. The first is vicious; the second is merciful.Why are our horses still sent to kill floors in Canada and Mexico? Please cosponsor and vote YES on H.R. 6598, the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act.Thank you,============ ========= ========= ========= ========= ========= ==SAMPLE PHONE CALL -- To your U.S. Representative in Congress============ ========= ========= ========= ========= ========= ==Hi, I am a constituent of Rep. [iNSERT YOUR REP'S LAST NAME]. I am calling to ask [HIM or HER] to cosponsor and vote YES on H.R. 6598, the

Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act. This bill will end the slaughter of American horses for human consumption in other countries.More of our horses than ever before go to kill plants across U.S. borders in Canada and Mexico. Family companions, racehorses, wild horses and others are violently killed with knives or guns. Some horses remain conscious as their bodies are dismembered.Please cosponsor and vote YES on H.R. 6598 -- so we can end the cruel horse slaughter industry once and for all.============ ========= ========= ========= ========= ========= ==SOURCE OF INFORMATION / REFERENCE LINKS============ ========= ========= ========= ========= ========= ==STATUS: H.R. 6598Occurred: Introduced Jul 24, 2008Occurred: Reported by Committee Sep 23, 2008Not Yet Occurred: Voted on in House Not

Yet Occurred: Voted on in Senate Not Yet Occurred: Signed by Presidenthttp://www.govtrack .us/congress/ bill.xpd? bill=h110- 6598 Every 5 Minutes An American Horse Is Slaughtered For Human Consumptionhttp://www.awionlin e.org/legislatio n/horse_slaughte r/death_clock. htmAction Needed NOW on Federal Horse Slaughter Billhttp://www.farmsanc tuary.org/ get_involved/ alert_horse_ slaughter_ 08.htmlNo Country for Horseshttp://www.cbc. ca/national/ blog/special_ feature/no_ country_for_ horses/no_ country_for_ horses.htmlPrevention of Equine Cruelty Act Will End Horse Slaughter http://capwiz. com/compassionin dex/issues/ alert/?alertid= 11716831 & PROCESS=Take+ Action============ ========= ========= ========= ========= ========= ==Kinship Circle needs funding to keep going...============ ========= ========= ========= ========= ========= ==Your donation lets us meet expenses for:

 

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