Today IS CALL IN DAY To Your Senators To Pass S 1915 and H.R.503

Protecting Horses From Slaughter Prevention Act-Take Action NOW  

I have received many emails from people who want to know what they can do to help to support the Slaughter Prevention Act, that is now in the Senate pending their action. This is how you can help RIGHT NOW! TODAY IS CALL IN DAY!! FLOOD THE PHONE LINES!

Here are the Call In Numbers! It takes 30 seconds to make these calls.  Please take action TODAY!!
 1. Senator Frist phone 202-224-3135  Light up his line BIG TIME!
 2. Senator Stevens 202- 224 3004
 3. Senator Ensign ( Sponsor of S. 1915) 202-224-6244
 4. Senator Landrieu ( Co- Sponsor) 202-224-5824
 5. Senator Reed ( Co-Sponsor) 202-224-4642
 6. Senator McConnell 202-224-2541
 7. Senator Reid 202-224- 3542

If you're not sure what to say, try this: "I am a constituent and I am calling to ask that the Senator immediately protect our horses from slaughter and cosponsor S. 1915, the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. I am very concerned about American horses and I don't want them slaughtered."  2. Let us know you called. Follow up your phone calls by letting us know you called to support the end of horse slaughter in the United States. Click here to let us know you called. Please take both steps! We must light up the phones in the Capitol because there already is very vigorous lobbying by the slaughter industry and its allies. We must counter them at every turn.

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Protecting Horses from Slaughter:

Last year, nearly 100,000 American horses were either killed at one of three U.S. slaughterhouses for export or shipped to Canada or Mexico for slaughter. Congress approved an amendment to stop horse slaughter during 2006. Unfortunately, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is movingforward with a plan that ignores this Congressional mandate. This surprise move underscores the need for the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, S. 1915 and H.R. 503, which will permanently prohibit the transport, possession, purchase, or sale of horses to be slaughtered for human consumption. H.R. 503 recently passed the House by a 263-146 margin and now it's time for the Senate to act. Two bills, S. 576 and H.R. 297, will reinstate protection from slaughter for wild horses which was stripped at the end of 2004.

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