Update by Vicki Tobin ~ Vice President of the Equine Welfare Alliance

Make Your Voice Count

Here is a great site to be heard. It requires registration but it is important that you comment and vote. Please keep in mind on your comments that the audience for this site is Congress so keep it short, factual and professional. You can register as an organization or as an individual. I noticed that quite a few of you have commented on our slaughter legislation since yesterday. Great comments vs the same tired illogical statements from the dark side.

It is extremely important that organizations register as they are also tracking how many organizations support or oppose legislation. We are asking all of our organization members to take a moment to register and vote.

https://www.popvox.com/

John registered EWA and I believe the only other organizations that was displayed this yesterday was Vivian Grant’s organization, Int’l Fund for Horses.  R.T. also added HfH Advisory Council.

As of now, these are the 4 bills of concern. I have also included the comments I posted underneath each bill number to get you started. In each case, I posted the voting as 7:35p central. You can view others comments by clicking on view report and comments below the pie chart as well as being able to view a US map of where the votes are coming from. As expected, Wallis is all over this…

This is for our senate legislation to ban horse slaughter. S 1176 [72% Support/28% Oppose] 380 votes

I support this legislation because…U.S. horses are not raised as food animals and are routinely given medications prohibited by the FDA and EU. We have no production records for horses and no mechanism to remove horses that are not eligible for human consumption.

In addition to protecting our horses from the documented abuse and cruelty inherent with horse slaughter, the U.S. should be taking the lead on food safety and immediately ban horse slaughter to protect the foreign consumers of U.S. horse meat.

This is for legislation to ban race day drugs – Senate S 886, House HR 1733. [not enough votes to display stats]

I support this legislation because…It benefits horses and the racing industry by ending the potential racing of horses with injuries by masking the symptoms and possibly making a minor injury, worse. It eliminates unfair advantages to horses running on drugs vs. those not using race day drugs.

This was introduced by Cynthia Lummis (WY) to limit fees and expenses that can be recovered in suits against the government – HR 1996 [68% oppose/32% Support] 96 votes

I oppose this legislation because…It is time to send a message to subsidized land users that they do not own the country no matter how many millions they spend lobbying. Every taxpayer contributes to their private use of public land and should be afforded an equal voice. Without big Agriculture dollars backing them, their voices are squelched by the lobbyists.

This bill is another example of big Ag trying to silence everyone.

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