May 10, 2015
The Safeguard American Food Exports (SAFE) Act
was just reintroduced in the House by Rep. Frank Guinta (R-NH) and in
the Senate by Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]. If passed by both the House
and the Senate this bill would prohibit the slaughter of horses in the United States for human
consumption, as well as the export of live horses for the same purpose. Take action to help end the possibility of U.S. horse slaughter by sending an automated letter of support to Rep. Frank C Guinta. [R-NH-1]. With your support both people and horses would be protected by this new legislation.
Watch and share this PSA’s from WFLF-SAH, ""Health Alert: Toxic substances and the Human food chain"".
BACKGROUND
In the absence of federal
protection, over 100,000 American wild and domestic horses and burros are shipped across federal
borders to slaughter plants in Mexico and Canada each year. What most
people don't realize is that 92% of the horses sent to slaughter are
sound, young and healthy. These are among America’s finest and
brightest horses; champion show horses, Thoroughbred racehorses, summer
camp ponies and even wild horses taken from their native lands, but the resounding evidence of cruelty to equines inside the U.S. once they are designated as food animals is chilling. And, America’s horses are treated with many substances known to be toxic to humans; substances that can be lethal when ingested by humans, and many of which have been banned from the human food chain in most countries. All this, and yet horse slaughter proponents are continuing to push for the
reopening of horse slaughter plants in the U.S.
Now more than ever, we need to build support and momentum to save the horses and end this cruelty.
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