Support the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2008
Rescued Horses at Denkai Animal Sanctuary in Colorado. If these horses hadn't been rescued by the sanctuary, they may have gone to foreign slaughterhouses.
Photo by Chris Hondros / Getty Images.
There are no more horse slaughterhouses operating in the United States, but that doesn't mean that American horses are safe from slaughter. Live horses are still being transported to Mexico and Canada to be slaughtered for meat, but the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2008 (H.R. 6598) will end this practice. The bill has already passed out of the House Judiciary Committee, and will hopefully be voted on soon.
You can call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 to ask your U.S. Representative to support H.R. 6598, the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2008, and fill out a form online to send an email to your representative.
This is not to say that horse slaughter is any worse than cow slaughter or chicken slaughter, but if we can take steps to protect certain animals with whom the public feels a special connection, we owe it to those animals.
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Horses are part of business plans and they have jobs. They require time, fuel, maintenance and equipment. When horses can no longer perform their job, they should not be “set free” to starve and destroy private and federal lands. That is genuine animal cruelty.
Horses deserve the respect to be put down in a quick, humane, REGULATED way. Euthanizing them only means over dosing, and if they have an allergic reaction that pain can be worse than slaughter. If you do not like how the slaughter was performed, fix the real problem, the regulations.
Have Americans decided to let Congress legislate what we eat? To everyone who is against horse slaughter for human consumption, I want you to know that your hamburger, your bacon, your chicken nuggets, and your ice cream are endangered foods.