Dear Horse Advocate:
More than one month ago the U.S. House voted to ban horse slaughter. Now we must turn our focus to passing the same bill in the Senate. A key component to our victory in the House was your phone calls to Congress leading up to the vote. For the first time since we began this fight, the voices of the opposition are raising above our own. Senators have reported hearing equally from compassionate advocates in support of the bill and those in favor of slaughter opposed to the bill.
We need to raise our voices above the cries of our opponents and make sure we are ten times as vocal as our opposition!
We cannot fail! The lives of countless horses are at stake. Last year over 90,000 horses were sent to slaughter. If we do not shut the doors on the three remaining U.S. slaughterhouses now, we will have to begin this process again when a new Congress adjourns in January.
Take immediate action:
1.Call your U.S. Senator today:
You can get his/her number at this link: U.S. Senate
Ask him/her to “please cosponsor S.1915 the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act and protect horses from slaughter.”
2. Spread the word: one phone call is not enough. We need hundreds. Tell your friends, family, and coworkers to call their Senators today.
3. NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY: October 25 (Wednesday) and November 14 (Tuesday) are national call-in days for horses. Pass the word to your friends and ask them to call their Senators too.
4. Don’t quit. Call this week, call next week, and call the following week. Let’s keep up the pressure!
Remember, with your help we can save the lives of thousands of horses from cruel and inhumane slaughter.
Sincerely,
~kelley
Kelley Dupps
Grassroots Outreach Coordinator -- Government Affairs
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)
519 C Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
202-955-3678 voice
240-731-7372 cell
202-676-2301 fax
Interested in organizing or attending an HSUS Lobby 101 training seminar on the basics of lobbying? Please contact the Government Affairs Grassroots Team at 202-955-3678 or kdupps@hsus.org.
Interested in taking action online to help animals? Then join our online community and sign up for our Humane Action Network. Go to www.hsus.org/join .
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3 comments:
I Maria Christina Lucero will join on line to sign up to oppose the slaughter of horses. My heart just hurts thinking of this. What are they thinking? How would they feel if they were slaughtered the same way? Well what goes around comes around good or bad. I can not afford to call long distance but I can do something on line and I will. Christina Lucero.
I know that this is really well intentioned, but there are a few things that have to make you stop and wonder about this:
1) Why are the American Association of Equine Practitioners - the very docs who are charged with the best interest and well being of horses - OPPOSED to this legislation?
2) Why did the Humane Society of the United States get a "D" rating from the independend non profit group www.charitywatch.org?
3) What's going to happen with the 100,000 or so unwanted horses if the law is passed? Who is going to care for them? Isn't the system already flooded? Did you see what was uncovered just this week at Windrinker Farm in Marlyand? If we have more horses than we can handle, isn't that just going to get worse?
4) If USDA is mandated by federal law to assure that inspectors look at every single horse on entry and through the euthanasia process, and they can shut down a plant immediately if there's inhumane treatment, why are the plants still open?
5) Have you checked on this record at USDA? The findings are publicly available.
It took me a while to realize this, but the more I read, the more I learned that keeping the slaughter plants open is the lessor of two evils. If you want to learn the answers to this, check out my blog at thinkthisthroughfirst.blogspot.com.
HATCHA
oops I typed in my own blog URL wrong. Try http://thinkthroughthisfirst.blogspot.com
Hatcha
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