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STOP HORSE SLAUGHTER IN ILLINOIS
- Target: Jim Sacia, Illinois
- Sponsored by: Bertell Farms, NFP
Amends the Illinois Horse Meat Act. Restores language that exempted certain types of horse meat from regulation under the Act. Repeals a provision that prohibits the slaughter of horses for human consumption. Amends the Animals Intended for Food Act. Expands the definition of "animal" to include "horses, mules, or other equidae". Amends the Illinois Equine Infectious Anemia Control Act. Allows equidae more than 12 months of age to enter the State for immediate slaughter without a certificate of veterinary inspection. Requires equidae entering the State for immediate slaughter to be accompanied by a consignment direct to slaughter at an approved equine slaughtering establishment. Amends the Humane Care for Animals Act. Creates an exemption from the general prohibition against selling, offering to sell, leading, riding, transporting, or driving on any public way any equidae that, because of debility, disease, lameness or any other cause, could not be worked in this State. Deletes a provision that prohibited injured equidae from being sent directly to a slaughter facility. Amends the Humane Slaughter of Livestock Act. Deletes a provision in the definition of the term "livestock" that excludes "horses, mules, or other equidae to be used in and for the preparation of meat or meat products for consumption by human beings". Imposes conditions on any rulemaking authority. Effective immediately."
Contact Rep. Sacia and the rest of the Illinois State Legislature to remind them that the people of Illinois have already spoken on this matter and the concensus is that the general public will not abide horse-slaughter;
http://www.ilga.gov/
The bottom line is that Mr. Sacia is trying to say that our pet horses are livestock and are therefore not afforded the same protection as our pet cats and dogs. He would allow them to be butchered in a horrendous manner and tell us that is is all monitored and humane. The State of Illinois has 3 or fewer Veterinarians. They are simply not able to monitor the sacrifice of horses on a one on one basis as Mr Sacia would have us believe. He doesn't even believe in slaughtering his own horses. He would have them euthanized. Why, then, would he be the driving force behind a bill he doesn't really support? What is really going on here?
Please sign and make your voice be heard for the horses to be cruelly affected here. Thank you.
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