"Saving America's Horses"

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Paula Bacon - John Holland - Laura Allen - Nena Winand

"Horse Harvesting" by John Holland

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FACTS ABOUT HORSE SLAUGHTER

Horse slaughter is also not a means of euthanizing "unwanted horses". This is a myth perpetuated by the horse slaughter industry. Horse slaughter is a multi million dollar a year business that is driven by a demand for horse meat. Kill buyers buy horses at auction for slaughter, and the USDA has said over 92% of American horses slaughtered, are healthy, not old, sick, injured, or neglected. These horses were not unwanted; they were simply sold at auction, and their owners had no control over who purchased them. Without the kill buyers who skulk around horse auctions, looking for the best potential horse meat, most of these horses would be purchased by others or end up in rescues or sanctuaries.

As John Holland, a free lance writer and researcher on horse slaughter, has explained, "Kill buyers do not go around the country like dog catchers gathering ‘unwanted horses' as a public service."

As Americans Against Horse Slaughter points out, "Just over 100,000 horses were slaughtered in the U.S. in 2006. If slaughter were no longer an option and these horses were rendered or buried instead, it would represent a small increase in the number of horse being disposed of in this manner - an increase that the current infrastructure can certainly sustain. Humane euthanasia and carcass disposal is highly affordable and widely available. The average cost of having a horse humanely euthanized and safely disposing of the animal's carcass is approximately $225, while the average monthly cost of keeping a horse is approximately $200."

Also, the horse slaughter industry actually encourages the over breeding of horses. Because owners can make money from the brutal slaughter of their horses, they have an incentive to over breed. (more)

Background Information

The question always asked is if horse slaughter for human consumption is illegal, what will we do with the unwanted horses? As if a multi-million dollar a year industry is driven by unwanted horses. Horse slaughter is driven by a demand for horse meat. Typically, kill buyers buy horses at auction for slaughter. The kill buyers are not looking for the unwanted or abused or neglected horses. They are looking for healthy horses that can be slaughtered for horsemeat, a delicacy in parts of Europe and Asia. The USDA has said over 92% of American horses slaughtered are healthy.

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SIGN ONLINE PETITION! For the support and cosponsorship of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, bill H.R.503/S.311, H.R.305 and bill H.R.6598, the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act. SIGN NOW!

Save Wild Horses and Burros from Slaughter! Help Restore Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act Gutted in 2004

Contact your U.S. representative and urge him or her to vote YES on the anti horse slaughter bill. Learn more about the Conyers-Burton Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2009, H.B. 503.) GO!

Also, tell your representative to vote YES to stop cruel horse transporting in the US (H.R. 305, the Horse Transportation Safety Act). This will put an end to the cruel transports of horses on double decked trailers. Learn more! GO!

About Our Expert Panel of Guests

Paula Bacon, Americans Against Horse Slaughter. She was mayor of Kaufman, TX 2003-07 where Belgian owned Dallas Crown operated for almost 30 years until the city finally closed them in 2006 for various violations.

"Our job today is to amass and activate people into calling, emailing and faxing the U.S. Congress—until this is done. Perhaps mark your calendars and every Tuesday or alternate day on Wednesday, call, email, fax, but calling is very because we want to keep staff busy with us and the issue on peoples’ minds."

- Paula Bacon

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John Holland, Senior Analyst Americans Against Horse Slaughter. He is also a world renown author on the subject of horse slaughter.

"Despite the closing of all domestic horse slaughter plants, American horses continue to be barbarically slaughtered in Canada and Mexico. These exports have rapidly grown to match the highest levels of slaughter in over ten year."

- John Holland

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Laura Allen, Animal Law Coalition. She is regarded as one of the nation's most active and astute Animal Law Attorney's.

"Documents never before made public reveal the USDA was aware of extreme cruelty during horse slaughter at facilities in the U.S. The documents dispute claims horse slaughter in the U.S. was in any sense humane and instead reveal a brutal, terrifying ordeal that should be permanently banned."

- laura Allen

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