LAST CHANCE TO END HORSE SLAUGHTER IN THE US!

[Solitaire]

Cross posted:

URGENT ALERT! DECEMBER 5 SPECIAL NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY IN SUPPORT OF S. 1915

LAST CHANCE TO END HORSE SLAUGHTER IN THE US!


As you surely already know, S. 1915 –the sister bill of HR 503- is waiting to be considered on the Senate floor.

While our bill awaits to be called for a vote, it has been reported that pro-slaughter pressure on legislators has greatly increased in an attempt to wane our ranks of supporters in the Senate and defeat the bill, which can be fatal due to the tight Senate schedule, making it vital to counter this pro-slaughter build-up with a flood of calls and faxes in support of the bill and urging Senators to bring it up for a vote as demanded by a vast majority of the American people.

As the current Congress draws to a close, the situation becomes even more critical. Next Tuesday, December 5th, Congress will reconvene from the Thanksgiving recess for a brief two-weeks period of legislative activity before the current legislature ends; this small window is our last chance to pass the bill. If HR 503/S.1915 is not passed before Congress adjourns it will die and we will have to start all over from zero next year, dooming hundred of thousands of American horses to a cruel death and horrible, needless suffering at the three, foreign-owned horse slaughter plants.

To counter the pro-slaughter attempts to defeat our bill and urge Senators to bring it up for consideration immediately, the HSUS has organized an Special National Call-In Day for next Tuesday, December 5th, in which all Americans are urged to contact their Senators asking them to cosponsor and vote for S. 1915.

In order to achieve this goal and provide support to next Tuesday’s National Call-In Day campaign we have organized a special calling and faxing effort for tomorrow. In this special calling and faxing effort we should call and fax as many Senators as we can, putting emphasis on those Senators who voted for the Ensign-Byrd Amendment last year, your own two US Senators and especially on the Majority Leader, Sen. Bill Frist, since the decision to call the bill for a vote relies on him.

Next Tuesday, the 5th, please call and fax as many Senators as you can to their DC offices asking them to cosponsor and vote for S. 1915 and keep calling and faxing during the whole day. Also, please call and fax Sen. Bill Frist, even if you are not a constituent, asking him to both cosponsor and bring it up for a vote on the Senate floor.

In addition, please forward this alert to all yours contacts (family, friends, co-workers, etc…) and ask them to do the same.

It is extremely important that as many people as possible contact Senators in support of S.1915 in order to counter the lies and the pressure of the pro-slaughter forces and their expensive lobbyists and bring it up for consideration on the Senate floor. Remember that this is our last chance to save horses from slaughter; if HR 503/S.1915 is not passed before Congress adjourns we will have to start all over from zero next year and hundred of thousands of horses will pay the price of our defeat with their lives. Failure is not an option. Please, be sure to share this alert with everybody you know and ask them to take part on this campaign.

Below is a phone and fax directory of the US Senate, showing how they voted on the Ensign-Byrd Amendment. You can download a copy of directory on Word format (which includes active links where you can find out district offices contact info) from the Habitat for Horses website:

http://www.habitatforhorses.org/joincampaigns/docs/109senators_Ensign-Byrd_vote.doc

To locate your Senators’ district contact info click on their name on the document from the link above or go to http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/index.html

You can find more information on horse slaughter and the bills to ban it as well as facts and talking points on its support here:

http://www.horse-protection.org
http://www.saplonline.org/horses.htm
http://www.hsus.org/web-files/PDF/National-Call-In-Day-Flier.pdf (HSUS National Call-In Day Flyer)

If you have any questions please feel free to contact us at [e-mail] or post them on the board.

Thank you.

Daniel

[jilln]

1. Thanks for posting.

Will do.

[faithnotgreed]

2. I cannot let this drop off the front page - thank you for posting this

[Solitaire]

3. Thank you, Jilln and Faithnotgreed!

I hope more will keep this alive - it is so important to stop this atrocity.

Solitaire :)

Also, if you want to dl a flyer to pass around regarding the issue: http://horses.generitek.com

[Raine]

4. This is important

kicking it up ... :kick:

[CTD]

5. Could someone explain to me how...

Could someone here explain to me how horse slaughter is inherently worse than cow, chicken or pig slaughter? I each case, the animal is being used for food and, I assume, there is an efficient (from a time and money perspective - not necessarily humane) way to kill the animal.

I guess, to me, it seems the only difference here between slaughtering horses and other animals is that horses are the animals being slaughtered. I don't understand why that is worse than when a cow, pig, or chicken is slaughtered for food.

Obviously, culturally we do not eat horses. But allowing our cultural bias to set law isn't any different, IMO, than allowing one's religious bias to set law. Something is either right or wrong based on it's own merits not because of some cultural species-ism.

I'll support a ban on horse slaughter when it's combined with a ban on chicken, cow and pig slaughter. Unless someone can explain to me why horses deserve to live more than othehr animals.

[druidity33]

6. well...

the only answer i got tothat question was that "they're companion animals".

What i think is wrong is that if this bill gets passed, it WILL NOT end the slaughter of horses in this country. It will close down 3 Belgian slaughterhouses... somehow i think someone will smell profit and pick up the slack. I believe we should be talking about the humane slaughter of horses.

[flvegan]

7. To be honest, it's not.

Nor is it any more wrong that dog and cat fur should be banned but mink shouldn't.

At any rate, the inhumane, needless slaughter of any animal should cease. The horse slaughter issue is one we can take on now and win.

[Solitaire]

8. Well said, fivegan. I will add that...

the slaughter of horses is even more horific, because more times than not because of the horse's long neck and because they are a flight animal, they are not rendered unconscious before they are hoisted by one hind leg, their throats slit and then bled to death.

It is a gruesome business for all animals but from what I've read (I have not witnessed this), it's more inhumane because the other animals are rendered unconsicous.

In addtion, they are our companion animals and have worked for us and still do. It's like taking your dog or cat to slaughter. Most Americans understand that.

Sol

[faithnotgreed]

9. i will kick for that - and thank you everyone for honest mature

discussion of a very difficult and emotional issue