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Put Horse Slaughter Down for Good!
Target: Gregory Hammer, President of the American Veterinarian Medical Association (AVMA)Sponsored by: National Horse Protection League
© Sean Sauber |
We think of veterinarians as gentle animal advocates, yet the American Veterinarian Medical Association (AVMA), and its president, Gregory Hammer, refuse to denounce the cruel and barbaric practice of horse slaughter throughout the United States, or to call for banning the export of horses or horse meat for human consumption.
With their allies in the meat industry, the AVMA is lobbying against passage of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (S.311).
Horse slaughter is motivated by greed and indifference to American horses. Killer buyers pick up horses for small sums at slaughter, and resell them to the slaughterhouses where horsemeat is shipped off to Europe and Asia to satisfy gourmet diners.
Dr. Hammer and the AVMA should be protecting the welfare of these animals, not the interests of the meat industry.
Please sign our petition and tell Dr. Hammer that the AVMA is wrong.
Horse slaughter must be put down for good.
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# 350:
9:28 am PDT, Mar 20,
Melissa Kula, Arizona
The overwhelming majority of Americans wants the slaughter of American horses to end. The "unwanted horse" myth put forth to justify horse slaughter is just that: A MYTH that serves irresponsible owners and industries.
The overwhelming majority of Americans wants the slaughter of American horses to end. The "unwanted horse" myth put forth to justify horse slaughter is just that: A MYTH that serves irresponsible owners and industries.
# 349:
9:28 am PDT, Mar 20,
Hilary Thomas, Ohio
The AMVA should be honoring their oath to protect animals from suffering. Yet they do the complete opposite and allow our horses to suffer the barbaric practice of slaughter. Why just because they side with those greedy people who do not care what happens to the horses as long as they make a dollar. The AMVA keeps reiterating the same old words of unwanted and neglected horses. Records show that in California when slaughter was banned there that the incidences of unwanted horses and neglect did not increase. Also during recent years when the horse slaughter plants were operating in the USA horses had to be imported from Canada. So much for the theory of all those unwanted horses here. It is just so sickening that so many members of the AVMA do not care about the horses and have closed their minds and hearts.
The AMVA should be honoring their oath to protect animals from suffering. Yet they do the complete opposite and allow our horses to suffer the barbaric practice of slaughter. Why just because they side with those greedy people who do not care what happens to the horses as long as they make a dollar. The AMVA keeps reiterating the same old words of unwanted and neglected horses. Records show that in California when slaughter was banned there that the incidences of unwanted horses and neglect did not increase. Also during recent years when the horse slaughter plants were operating in the USA horses had to be imported from Canada. So much for the theory of all those unwanted horses here. It is just so sickening that so many members of the AVMA do not care about the horses and have closed their minds and hearts.
# 348:
9:26 am PDT, Mar 20,
Meg Godina, California
It is time for this barbaric practice to end. Please stop horse slaughter now!!
It is time for this barbaric practice to end. Please stop horse slaughter now!!
# 347:
9:24 am PDT, Mar 20,
Lynn Wisswell, Virginia
Primum non nocere As a veterinarian, these words MUST apply to you... How does the inhumane practice of horse slaughter co-exist with that oath that most certainly applies also to veterinary medicine? First, Do No Harm
Primum non nocere As a veterinarian, these words MUST apply to you... How does the inhumane practice of horse slaughter co-exist with that oath that most certainly applies also to veterinary medicine? First, Do No Harm
# 346:
9:24 am PDT, Mar 20,
Nona VanDamme, California
I am appalled that this act occurrs. There is a reason that the sl. houses have closed in this coutry. Its time to stop it at the gate not at the grave. Crack down on the racing industry, the main source of overbreeders for a perfet horse. AQHA? There are ways to handle the AMERICAN ICON, and everyone who does not openly support this ban on horse slaughter and transport to slaghter should be so ashamed of themselves. Start speaking for the horses who have much more to give than being an item on the dinner plate.
I am appalled that this act occurrs. There is a reason that the sl. houses have closed in this coutry. Its time to stop it at the gate not at the grave. Crack down on the racing industry, the main source of overbreeders for a perfet horse. AQHA? There are ways to handle the AMERICAN ICON, and everyone who does not openly support this ban on horse slaughter and transport to slaghter should be so ashamed of themselves. Start speaking for the horses who have much more to give than being an item on the dinner plate.
# 345:
9:24 am PDT, Mar 20,
Nancy Babcock, California
It is unconscionable that the AVMA--of all groups--is supporting and promoting the continued inhumane treatment of horses. Are we so sick a society that we promote the infliction of cruelty and brutality simply so some can make more money? The AVMA's current position is the unfortunate proof that we are. We need to change NOW. Please try to remember the original purpose of veterinary medicine--it was NOT to brutalize and abuse. Humane treatment of all animals is what veterinarians are supposed to be about. What happened? Please try to find your consciences and change your current position so that horse slaughter, including the transport of horses to Mexican and Canadian slaughterhouses, is stopped in this country.
It is unconscionable that the AVMA--of all groups--is supporting and promoting the continued inhumane treatment of horses. Are we so sick a society that we promote the infliction of cruelty and brutality simply so some can make more money? The AVMA's current position is the unfortunate proof that we are. We need to change NOW. Please try to remember the original purpose of veterinary medicine--it was NOT to brutalize and abuse. Humane treatment of all animals is what veterinarians are supposed to be about. What happened? Please try to find your consciences and change your current position so that horse slaughter, including the transport of horses to Mexican and Canadian slaughterhouses, is stopped in this country.
# 344:
9:21 am PDT, Mar 20,
Mary Jane Riggs, Indiana
Do vets not take an oath to "do no harm?"
Do vets not take an oath to "do no harm?"
# 343:
9:21 am PDT, Mar 20,
Maya Robinson, New York
# 342:
9:17 am PDT, Mar 20,
Karin Walter, Spain
# 341:
9:16 am PDT, Mar 20,
Robin Shewin & Chris Lunt, California
China eats dogs and cats, yet we don't send them our unwanted pets for the dinner table so why horses?
China eats dogs and cats, yet we don't send them our unwanted pets for the dinner table so why horses?
# 340:
9:13 am PDT, Mar 20,
Flo Montreys, Connecticut
Horse slaughter is NOT humane euthanasia -- it is torture and it is butchery. Step up to the plate and do the right thing -- help us abolish this inhumane practice for good.
Horse slaughter is NOT humane euthanasia -- it is torture and it is butchery. Step up to the plate and do the right thing -- help us abolish this inhumane practice for good.
# 339:
9:12 am PDT, Mar 20,
Sophie Szeferowicz, France
I feel concerned.
I feel concerned.
# 338:
9:11 am PDT, Mar 20,
Julie E. Ziek, Texas
# 337:
9:06 am PDT, Mar 20,
Kathy J., South Carolina
This barbaric treatment of our horses must stop. They don't deserve to be on someone's dinner plate ever.
This barbaric treatment of our horses must stop. They don't deserve to be on someone's dinner plate ever.
# 336:
9:01 am PDT, Mar 20,
Tamara Fleck, Utah
# 335:
9:01 am PDT, Mar 20,
Dory Funaro, New York
Horses helped build this country; they run in the sport of kings and work on farms, riding and trail riding clubs and the list goes on. Americans do not eat horses. End this barbaric torture to these magnificent animals. End it once and for all!!
Horses helped build this country; they run in the sport of kings and work on farms, riding and trail riding clubs and the list goes on. Americans do not eat horses. End this barbaric torture to these magnificent animals. End it once and for all!!
# 334:
9:00 am PDT, Mar 20,
John R Murrell, Texas
It is a barbaric and unneccessary and brutal activity
It is a barbaric and unneccessary and brutal activity
# 333:
8:59 am PDT, Mar 20,
Dale Jones, South Carolina
Horse slaughter is cruel and inhumane. I thought the AVMA was to save lives, not to end them unnecessarily and cruelly.
Horse slaughter is cruel and inhumane. I thought the AVMA was to save lives, not to end them unnecessarily and cruelly.
# 332:
8:56 am PDT, Mar 20,
MIMI IVANOVA, Bulgaria
# 331:
8:56 am PDT, Mar 20,
Name not displayed, California
End this despicable and unnecessary practice NOW!
End this despicable and unnecessary practice NOW!
# 330:
8:54 am PDT, Mar 20,
Joan Roya, Texas
Horse slaughter has to be stopped...this is barbaric, brutal...and these are God's creatures...he created horses like he did man and woman...and you the vets took an oath to protect and heal all animals...and this includes horses.
Horse slaughter has to be stopped...this is barbaric, brutal...and these are God's creatures...he created horses like he did man and woman...and you the vets took an oath to protect and heal all animals...and this includes horses.
# 329:
8:53 am PDT, Mar 20,
Cindy Johansen, New York
Anyone who would support the inhumane way in which our horses are being transported and then killed, should not have the right to practice Veterinary Medicine. Control the many, many births of horses - many more than there are "homes" - and you might have a more productive way to control populations.
Anyone who would support the inhumane way in which our horses are being transported and then killed, should not have the right to practice Veterinary Medicine. Control the many, many births of horses - many more than there are "homes" - and you might have a more productive way to control populations.
# 328:
8:51 am PDT, Mar 20,
Katarina Villanueva, Texas
Veterinarians - remember the OATH you took??? If not, read it AGAIN, and again, until you realize that allowing to send horses to slaughter is NOT "PROTECTING ANIMALS FROM SUFFERING"!!! If you want to help neglected, abused and starved animals; volunteer to HUMANELY euthanize them - SLAUGHTER IS NOT THE ANSWER!!!!
Veterinarians - remember the OATH you took??? If not, read it AGAIN, and again, until you realize that allowing to send horses to slaughter is NOT "PROTECTING ANIMALS FROM SUFFERING"!!! If you want to help neglected, abused and starved animals; volunteer to HUMANELY euthanize them - SLAUGHTER IS NOT THE ANSWER!!!!
# 327:
8:51 am PDT, Mar 20,
Ann Irvine, Iowa
# 326:
8:50 am PDT, Mar 20,
Margie Urban, New Mexico
This process is not humane. And I believe you all know it. And look at what is happening during transport. As one eyewitness at a truck stop stated, "It looked like the horses were all beaten with a baseball bat". Do the right thing. You took an oath.
This process is not humane. And I believe you all know it. And look at what is happening during transport. As one eyewitness at a truck stop stated, "It looked like the horses were all beaten with a baseball bat". Do the right thing. You took an oath.
# 325:
8:49 am PDT, Mar 20,
Elena Meda, Italy
# 324:
8:48 am PDT, Mar 20,
Susan Clay, Texas
My veterinarian, who has five "Budweiser" horses, is pro-horse and anti-horse slaughter. So are 25 other vets in my Houston neighborhood, who have signed a statement supporting HR 503/S 311. They are enlightened, humane, honoring their oath, a credit to their profession, and in tune with the wishes of the vast majority of horse owners and Americans. The AVMA is not.
My veterinarian, who has five "Budweiser" horses, is pro-horse and anti-horse slaughter. So are 25 other vets in my Houston neighborhood, who have signed a statement supporting HR 503/S 311. They are enlightened, humane, honoring their oath, a credit to their profession, and in tune with the wishes of the vast majority of horse owners and Americans. The AVMA is not.
# 323:
8:48 am PDT, Mar 20,
LENNY HALL, Nevada
I believe the AVMA knows why they should help stop this horrible practice but unfortunately the "call of the cash" bulldozes right over their common sense and sense of morality. Shame, shame on them.
I believe the AVMA knows why they should help stop this horrible practice but unfortunately the "call of the cash" bulldozes right over their common sense and sense of morality. Shame, shame on them.
# 322:
8:47 am PDT, Mar 20,
Kala Britt, Mississippi
# 321:
8:44 am PDT, Mar 20,
Becky Phillips, Illinois
# 320:
8:43 am PDT, Mar 20,
Pierre Chretien, Canada
# 319:
8:43 am PDT, Mar 20,
Jeanne Flora, Florida
The reasons for ending slaughter are obvious. The stand taken by AVMA/AAEP reflects negatively on the image of a caring and responsible group of practitioners.
The reasons for ending slaughter are obvious. The stand taken by AVMA/AAEP reflects negatively on the image of a caring and responsible group of practitioners.
# 318:
8:37 am PDT, Mar 20,
Lynn Parks, Texas
I can say with pride that my Vet is anti-slaughter. AVMA should also represent the true welfare of the horse and support anti-slaughter.
I can say with pride that my Vet is anti-slaughter. AVMA should also represent the true welfare of the horse and support anti-slaughter.
# 317:
8:37 am PDT, Mar 20,
Pamela Hutchins, Florida
You, as members of the AVMA know fully well that Horse Slaughter is NOT euthanasia. Do the right thing!
You, as members of the AVMA know fully well that Horse Slaughter is NOT euthanasia. Do the right thing!
# 316:
8:36 am PDT, Mar 20,
Phyllis Martin, New York
As a breeder I would not use any vet that wasn't against slaughter.My horses are not bred to be used to satisfy the appetites of Europe and Asia
As a breeder I would not use any vet that wasn't against slaughter.My horses are not bred to be used to satisfy the appetites of Europe and Asia
# 315:
8:34 am PDT, Mar 20,
Kathleen Miles, California
No way has ever been found to humanely slaughter horses. The so-called captive bolt method is illegal under the Humane Slaughter Act because it does not render the animal insensate and unconscious during slaughter. AVMA members who support horse slaughter and the AVMA itself are, in turn, in violation of their veterinary oath (adopted by the AVMA in or around 1969) because they are not protecting the welfare of these animals. Methods used in Mexico do not even warrant consideration as to their humaneness.
No way has ever been found to humanely slaughter horses. The so-called captive bolt method is illegal under the Humane Slaughter Act because it does not render the animal insensate and unconscious during slaughter. AVMA members who support horse slaughter and the AVMA itself are, in turn, in violation of their veterinary oath (adopted by the AVMA in or around 1969) because they are not protecting the welfare of these animals. Methods used in Mexico do not even warrant consideration as to their humaneness.
# 314:
8:33 am PDT, Mar 20,
Angela VanCleve, Florida
# 313:
8:31 am PDT, Mar 20,
Judy Chace, Rhode Island
As a lifetime owner of horses, I am disgusted with the stand the AVMA has regarding horses slaughter. I have already fired my small animal vet who is a member of the AVMA. I ask every vet who works on any of my animals if they are affiliated with the shady AVMA and if the answer is yes, they won't lay a hand on any of mine. Your support of horse slaughter is due to the financial gain you receive from pro-slaughter advocates and I find it reprehensible that your members chose money and greed over their duty to the professional oath they took to alleviate animal suffering and to be ethical towards the care of animals. The AVMA is a pathetic front for horse cruelty in return for money and needs to investigated and put out of business. Shame on you.
As a lifetime owner of horses, I am disgusted with the stand the AVMA has regarding horses slaughter. I have already fired my small animal vet who is a member of the AVMA. I ask every vet who works on any of my animals if they are affiliated with the shady AVMA and if the answer is yes, they won't lay a hand on any of mine. Your support of horse slaughter is due to the financial gain you receive from pro-slaughter advocates and I find it reprehensible that your members chose money and greed over their duty to the professional oath they took to alleviate animal suffering and to be ethical towards the care of animals. The AVMA is a pathetic front for horse cruelty in return for money and needs to investigated and put out of business. Shame on you.
# 312:
8:30 am PDT, Mar 20,
Jillyanne Michelle Cape, Missouri
# 311:
8:30 am PDT, Mar 20,
Majela Urbay, Pennsylvania
horse slaughter is not euthansia. how many of your vets carry a captive bolt? your stance on horse slaughter is unethical. may i remind you first and foremost "do no harm"
horse slaughter is not euthansia. how many of your vets carry a captive bolt? your stance on horse slaughter is unethical. may i remind you first and foremost "do no harm"
# 310:
8:29 am PDT, Mar 20,
Carrie Gobernatz, Illinois
The AVMA stinks and any good Vet will tell you that horse slaughter is a brutal practice and must be stopped. I would not let any member of the AVMA touch any of my animals.
The AVMA stinks and any good Vet will tell you that horse slaughter is a brutal practice and must be stopped. I would not let any member of the AVMA touch any of my animals.
# 309:
8:29 am PDT, Mar 20,
Beverly Dixon, Pennsylvania
# 308:
8:12 am PDT, Mar 20,
Shiu M. Hung, California
Stop horse slaughter now. This is unacceptable, and needs to stop right away. Horses do not deserve such a fate.
Stop horse slaughter now. This is unacceptable, and needs to stop right away. Horses do not deserve such a fate.
# 307:
8:12 am PDT, Mar 20,
Kelly Riley, Pennsylvania
# 306:
8:10 am PDT, Mar 20,
Maureen Primerano, California
Please stop this cruelty to horses. As a vet it is your responsibility to care and protect horses. No more inhumane horse slaughter.
Please stop this cruelty to horses. As a vet it is your responsibility to care and protect horses. No more inhumane horse slaughter.
# 305:
8:09 am PDT, Mar 20,
Name not displayed, Illinois
I am sickened by the AMVA board. AMVA has become a corrupt orgaization that has lost its way. At every opportunity I disclose to others the twisted viewpoints that it advocates.
I am sickened by the AMVA board. AMVA has become a corrupt orgaization that has lost its way. At every opportunity I disclose to others the twisted viewpoints that it advocates.
# 304:
8:08 am PDT, Mar 20,
Arlette Scharer, Switzerland
# 303:
8:08 am PDT, Mar 20,
Lori Hackman, Illinois
Step up and be part of the solution!
Step up and be part of the solution!
# 302:
8:05 am PDT, Mar 20,
Holly R Gibson, Georgia
has to be a better way/horses are warm blooded animals and it is wrong to unnessary treatment. it's wrong
has to be a better way/horses are warm blooded animals and it is wrong to unnessary treatment. it's wrong
# 301:
8:04 am PDT, Mar 20,
Allison Hunt, United Kingdom
This beautiful creature should not be slaughtered for any reason whether it be human or animal consumption
This beautiful creature should not be slaughtered for any reason whether it be human or animal consumption