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NEW: S. 541/H.R. 1094—The Safeguard American Food Exports (SAFE) Act
Sponsors: Senators Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Representatives Patrick Meehan (R-PA) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL).
ASPCA Position: Support
Action Needed: Call and email your U.S. senators and representative in Washington, D.C., today to ask them to cosponsor the SAFE Act. Please thank them if they are already cosponsors!
Recent revelations that horse meat accidentally entered the food chain overseas have put a media spotlight on the issue of horse slaughter. It seems that horse slaughterers are incapable of preventing horse meat from mingling with their other products. If it can happen there, it can happen here. We’re happy to tell you that Congress is responding.
Just introduced in both chambers of Congress, The Safeguard American Food Exports (SAFE) Act will prohibit the slaughter of horses for human consumption in the U.S. and ban their export abroad for that purpose. This bill will protect our nation’s horses from the predatory horse slaughter industry and protect the public from toxic horse meat.
The cruelties associated with horse slaughter are well-documented. Passage of the SAFE Act will not only ensure that predatory horse slaughterers cannot reopen their doors here in the U.S.—it will also stop the trafficking of horses to slaughterhouses over our borders.
As you know, horse slaughter isn’t a humane end for horses. There is no such thing as a commercial horse slaughter plant that does not inflict cruelty on horses. And horse slaughter is not only bad for horses, it’s also bad for people. Meat from American horses is unsafe for human consumption. Our horses are not raised as food animals; they are raised to be companions, sport competitors or work partners. Horses are routinely given medications and other substances that are toxic to humans and are expressly forbidden by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in animals intended for human consumption.
Enacting a ban on horse slaughter has never been more urgent! The USDA has announced its intention to approve a permit allowing a New Mexico slaughterhouse to begin slaughtering horses. Help us prevent this and any other slaughterhouses from butchering even a single American horse.
What You Can Do
Please take a moment to send a polite email to your federal legislators in Congress and urge them to cosponsor the SAFE Act (S. 541/H.R. 1094), a bill to ban the slaughter of American horses for human consumption.
We will automatically sort out for you if your legislator is a cosponsor, so you can thank them if they’ve already taken that step.
On behalf of our nation’s horses, thank you for your help!
Click (HERE) to visit the ASPCA Advocacy Center
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Categories: Horse News, Horse Slaughter, Wild Burros, Wild Horses/Mustangs
Straight from the Horse's Heart 
Reblogged this on Serenity's Musings.
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Sent mine off and shared. Thank you for the post. Lets get this done this time!
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Same here, Terri! (-: As always, thank you RT for keeping us informed and your continuing strong support of our equines. Also, to the many loyal and compassionate friends of our beautiful equines….you are their voice.
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Keep it coming RT. I’m sending this on to my congressmen. We need to get your daily feeds to them all.
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Sent this off to my congressman and senators and i get a form letter back acknowledging that they received my email and look forward to sending me a reply shortly. Then i never hear another word!! I doubt they even saw my message! It was probably screened and a form letter automatically sent out! I will keep doing it though. Maybe once they get sick of hearing from me, they will do something to act on it!
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Sent and shared,, also received the infernal form letter! Maddening beyond belief. I also left messages on two voicemails. But I did get to speak with one of Rep Hanna’s (NY) aides, who said that neither he or the other aide agreed with slaughter, and would do their best to ensure Rep Hanna supported both HR 1094 and S. 541. One tiny positive step, but it pacified me.
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Yes, Rep Hanna did send me a personal reply and stated that he is against slaughter but that he isnt on the committee that is sponsoring this bill but he will support it when it comes to the house!! My kind of Rep!!
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Sent and shared. I left a message on one Senator’s voicemail, the other Senator’s DC number just rang and rang, but I did get to speak with an aide of our Rep, who said that neither he or the other aide agreed with slaughter, and would do their best to ensure Rep Hanna (NY) supported the bills. He said Mr Hanna hadn’t decided yet which way he was going to vote. How can you be undecided, what else is in those bills that we don’t know about?
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Probably someone put some unfavorable legislation in with it, just so it wouldnt get passed!! Thats the kind of stuff they do! Its so wrong when our representatives try to do whats right!
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Glad I have this opportunity to help as I sent off the letter. It is just something that will need to be posted and reposted to get more responses. The animals are suffering so much in this time and we must keep persisting any way we can to be their VOICE! Thank you for your loyalty to keep us informed.
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Sent my messge but I have many times and its still going on. I hope & pray this works. Thanks for keeping us informed RT.
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TERRI RUSSELL IS RIGHT , lets get this done mustang and horse advocates,!!!!! My is in , and sent to everyone I know !!!!!
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Great job everyone!!! Do a mass email to all your friends too. I talked with my Legislators right before the bills were presented. This legislation should be a no brainer as it has bipartisan support. I hope that this bill passes..Those in Washington, DC not supporting should be chastised in the local and federal newspapers in Washington and all other news outlets. Thanks RT for keeping us up to date on what is going on.
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its pretty bad when we shipped our Wild horses over seas for people to eat .what time of era are we living in? We the people of United States don’t agree with you people in office . You are surpose to keep our wild horses free . And this is how you thank the horses for they have done for this Country.
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what the hell whats wrong here please Stop this awful thing whos paying you people to that to the horses you shoulf trade places with them and seehow you like it . you wouldn’t like it because your’ll not an animal lover .
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