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A bill to amend the Horse Protection Act to prohibit the shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of horses and other equines to be slaughtered for human consumption, and for other purposes.
Other Bill Titles (1 more)11/14/2007--Reported to Senate without amendment. (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Amends the Horse Protection Act to prohibit the shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, receiving, posses... moreSee Full Bill Text
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| Introduced |  | Voted on by Senate | | Voted on by House | | Considered By President | | Bill Becomes Law |
| January 17, 2007 |
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November 29, 2007 the horse force
With HR 503/S. 311, American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, the Humane Society of the US is working with bipartisan leaders in Congress “to end this ...
November 28, 2007 Vets stunned at horse slaughter misinformation
Dr. Dodman and his group, Veterinarians for Equine Welfare (VEW), support passage of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (S. 311/HR 503), ...
November 25, 2007 Here to defend the indefensible
Only pending federal legislation (HR.503/S.311) could stop the slaughter of American horses. But the absurdity does not stop there. ...
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August 21, 2008 Home For Horses Coalition On Horse Slaughter! Also Read the next ...
First introduced in 2001 - AHSPA - (S. 311 in the Senate, HR 503 in the House) has steadily gained public and Congressional support with the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passing the bill in the 109th Congress. ...
August 21, 2008 What happens to a good race horse
Similar to HR 503/S. 311, this brand new bill would end the suffering endured by more than 100000 horses each year who are hauled across the country and cruelly slaughtered for human consumption overseas. Tell your legislators to end ...
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August 06, 2008 Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act Will End Horse Slaughter
Passage of The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (S. 311) will end this brutal trade for good by prohibiting the slaughter of horses here for human consumption abroad as well as their export for the same purpose.
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I'm shocked that this is even permissible now.
Mark your calendars for January 22, 2008, the National Call-In Day for Horses!
Call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask for your two U.S. Senators' and U.S. Representative's offices. Urge your Senators to "support H.R. 249 to protect wild horses from slaughter and cosponsor S. 311 to stop the sale and transport of all horses to slaughter." Urge your Representative to "cosponsor H.R. 503 to stop the sale and transport of all horses to slaughter."
Mark your calendars for January 22, 2008, the National Call-In Day for Horses!
Call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask for your two U.S. Senators' and U.S. Representative's offices. Urge your Senators to "support H.R. 249 to protect wild horses from slaughter and cosponsor S. 311 to stop the sale and transport of all horses to slaughter." Urge your Representative to "cosponsor H.R. 503 to stop the sale and transport of all horses to slaughter."
How can this be allowed??? I wish 20/20 or another reputable news/info program would run a story showing the video of what the poor horses bound for slaughter outside the US must endure. God, it's sooo aweful. If people knew I know they would get involved. I called my Senators this morning and asked that they vote to stop horse slaughter transport to Mexico and Canada (S.311) and I pray it helped. Please people....help end this unnecessary suffering.
This is a despicable industry. I really don't know how something as HORRID as this would of started in this Country.I look at the healthy, gorgeous horses on the slaughter trucks, the killer buyers lots before they are shipped and I cannot believe my country has allowed this to go on for so many years. So many can be good riding horses, with only 3% being skinny and unhealthy the pro slaughter people would have people believe they only take skinny, sick horses, NOT TRUE!!We our killing TOO MANY good horses. I have been reading how many horses stolen in this country go to slaughter, 60%. These are all horses stolen off of their property. When is my Government going to put a stop,END to this!! The greedy, irresponsible horse owner is benefitting while our horses suffer the HORRORS. Our BELOVED horses have served us for far too long to get this in return. WE NEED S 311 & HR 503 NOW! OUR HORSES, OUR TRUE NATIONS TREASURES. SAVE OUR HORSES FROM SLAUGHTER
This would be a no common sense law! It would do nothing for the welfare for horses. This bill s. 311 and h.r. 503 would only support and ease the minds of urban Americans. Rual Americans that work with horses and farm animals every day understand the welfare of their horses. These's bills would endure way more suffering for horses! I've been around and worked and trained horses for 40+ years. People have offered to give their horses to me for nothing. Because they couldn't get a bid at the sell ring. These people don't have feed for them. Now do you see where the welfare for horses is now? These horses are going to endure way more suffering by not being fed then being humanely slaughtered. Horse slaughter plants have been around since the 1940's and they were built for a reason - because of the UNWANTED horses. There are some horses out there that have no purpose for nobody - being either they are dangerous to their themselves or the owner/permanently hurt and in pain. Horses are animals and animals do not have feelings and we cannot forget this (they do not cry or laugh and they do not know what love is). All animals, including the horse, are born with fear. To gentle an animal you need to gain their trust - they know trust but not love. If you are so into the welfare of horses and what you call abuse - what about all the dog owners that use a shock collar to train their dogs. Wouldn't that be considered abuse?? I know for fact that our government is already paying $8/day for wild donkeys and $6/day for wild mustangs, and this comes out of the farm bill. Our economy is already in trouble and once you add all these extra horses to take care of by the government this will really add up - another expense of the farm bill and the government. This is a common sense thing to do to slaughter the UNWANTED horses. When you are talking about 20/20 investigating this maybe they should also come to rural America and see the way it really is - you can make a picture look any way you want it to look to help support your cause. The pictures the public has been shown are not the way it really is. Rural America is the true people of looking after the welfare of horses - this is our livlihood and we know how to care for horses. There is abuse by some of horses and this is what needs to be concentrated on and make laws to protect these horses or animals where the real abuse is.
Please support the Horse Protection Act to end the slaughter of American horses for human consumption and prohibit their export for slaughter in other countries.
Your support now is more important than ever, in light of the court rulings declaring horse slaughter illegal in Texas and Illinois -- tens of thousands of our horses are being exported to Mexican and Canadian slaughterplants. Horses are dragged alive, crammed into trucks for hours on end in brutal heat, and ultimately stabbed to death in some of these plants.
A recent investigation by The Humane Society of the United States documents the abuses of American horses quietly funneled to slaughterhouses in Mexico and Canada:
http://www.hsus.org/mexico_horse_slaughter
As you can see, there is an urgent need for Congress to act quickly to finally end the terribly inhumane practice of horse slaughter and make sure our country's horses are never again subjected to the horrors of slaughter, either here in the United States or anywhere else, for French and Belgian menus. Every day Congress delays, hundreds of our horses suffer this terrible fate.
Thank you for your help.
I DO NOT like the way this is worded. I am all for protecting horses from consuption, but why on earth would anyone want to give a government agency the authority to detain ANY horse from ANY livestock show or rodeo that appears "sore"? What is the definition of "sore"? What does "sore" have to do with the sale for human consuption? this bill is too broad and too ambiguious for its intent. I stongly urge to not pass this bill in its current form. REVISE IT! CLARIFY IT! Make it specific for its intent!!!!
This is to anonymous. Drop dead . We will get this bill passed
no matter what. I doubt that you ever owned a horse. Most horse owners have their animals humanely put down by their Vets. Not shot through the head with a bolt gun or stabbed in the spine as what happens in the horror pits in Mexico. I would suggest you take a walk through a slaughter house, any of them. Be sure to start with the kill floor. You would have to wear rubber boots because of the gallons of blood on the floor. Barbara
These bills WILL pass!! Pro slaughter's GREED INDUCED LIES,BRUTAL CRUELTY, HALF TRUTHS AND PROPAGANDA will eventually fall under the weight of American's, still live and clear mighty truth and the desire for right!! There are still ABSOLUTE rights and wrongs to live by, whether folks wish to aknowledge that fact or not, so In the midst of this GODLESS caldron of evil that we so often refer to as "modern society," lives and beats the heart and will of almighty God! SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE!!! Change is coming, people!! It's coming sooner, in more forms and for more causes than than many ever thought possible!!
The primitive,nauseating, horrific practice of the Horse slaughter situation, is only ONE of thousands of life/death issues facing our people and animals alike that are being ignored, mocked and/or exploited for greed and power! Instructions are on the wall......Take the distorted rose colored glasses off, open your eyes to all the suffering, get involved and with God's help, be a part of bringing about quality change in our pathetic, dying world!
j morgan
For those who are interested in the impact of this bill go to www.extension.usu.edu/equine/ and read the report"The State of the Horse Industry Since the Closing of the Horse Harvesting Facilities.
Here is where you'll find the truth about the foreign owned horse slaughter industry:
www.vetsforequinewelfare.org (See the Fact Sheets)
www.commonhorsesense.net (See how the reports of abandoned horses in the newspapers and on the web have proven to be hoaxes, after the appropriate authorities were contacted.)
American horses are being "harvested" like soybeans for the profit of a foreign owned industry that pays no federal income tax and laughs all the way to the bank. According to USDA documents, over 90% of the horses are young and healthy. This is not a public service industry to dispose of skinny, old, or lame horses. They are in it for the blood money profits and pay by the pound.
Call your Senators and Representative to support a ban on horse slaughter. Bill S 311 in the Senate and HR 503 in the House. Be a voice for the horses!
PLEASE call your Senators and Representatives. Tell them your zip code and ask that they please support Bill S.311 to STOP the sale and transport of horses for slaughter. Something has got to be done to stop this. Horses helped build this country. Each day hundreds of horses are brutely gutted alive at slaughter plants. Go to hsus.org and click on CAMPAIGNS AND PROGRAMS on the top left of the page. Then click on HORSE SLAUGHTER. This will take you to links to click on and obtain your Senators phone # according to your zip code. PLEASE DO IT TODAY. We are all those poor horses have.
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