Fwd: We Must Stop Horse Slaughter!

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Urge

Your Senators to Cosponsor Bill S. 727 to Protect Horses!

 

Hi Everybody,

 

Even though all three foreign-owned slaughter plants in the U.S. have closed, about 95,000 American horses are

still subjected to intense suffering and abuse because they are now enduring

very long journeys, cramped in trucks without any food or water, as they are

shipped to slaughterhouses in Mexico

and Canada.

Moreover, because Mexican slaughterhouses are ill-equipped, most

horses

aren’t being killed by captive

bolt guns, but by being brutally stabbed repeatedly in their

spines.

 

The Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act, S. 727, prohibits the knowing and intentional possession,

shipping, transporting, purchasing, selling, delivering, or receiving of a

horse for slaughter. The inhumane transport over extremely long distances,

combined with the horrifying methods of killing and difficulty of stunning

equines prior to slaughter, are unacceptable conditions and must be halted

immediately.

 

WHAT WE CAN DO:

 

FOR NEW YORK

STATE RESIDENTS: < /span>

 

Please call Senator

Schumer (202-224-6542) and Senator Gillibrand (202-224-4451) to politely urge

them “to co-sponsor The Prevention of

Equine Cruelty Act, S. 727, which will finally stop American horses from being

transported and slaughtered

for human consumption abroad.†Please follow up your call with

an email by using this alert: https://community.hsus.org/campaign/FED_2009_conyersburton_horses2

 

FOR THOSE LIVING OUTSIDE OF NY:

 

Please visit www.hsus.org/leglookup to find out who are

your two Federal/U.S. Senators and their D.C. phone numbers. When calling, politely urge each of your Senators “to co-sponsor The Prevention of Equine Cruelty

Act, S. 727, which will finally stop American horses from being transported and

slaughtered for human consumption abroad.†Please follow up

your call with an email by using this alert: https://community.hsus.org/campaign/FED_2009_conyersburton_horses2

 

As always, thank you for speaking up for those who can’t,

Mary Max