Americans do not eat horse meat. However, every year, more than 100,000 American horses are cruelly slaughtered just over our borders to satisfy the markets for horsemeat in Europe and Asia. The last U.S. horse slaughter plants were closed in 2007, but unwanted American horses are still shipped to Canada and Mexico for slaughter.
Overseas processing plants are not subject to U.S. oversight or regulation. Due to overcrowded transport conditions, many horses are injured even before reaching their final destination. Some are shipped for more than 24 hours at a time without food, water or rest, and the methods used to kill these horses once they arrive at the plant can be exceptionally inhumane.
Horses deserve a more dignified end to their lives than to be inhumanely slaughtered and served for dinner. The Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act will end this practice by prohibiting the transport of America's horses to foreign countries for slaughter. Please contact your representative now and urge him or her to cosponsor and support H.R. 503!
We took action on “Don't Allow Horses to be Shipped Abroad for Slaughter”!
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8:36 pm PST, Nov 20,Name not displayed, Australia
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12:07 pm PST, Nov 20,Susana Lax, Florida
STOP SLAUGHTERING THESE LOVELY ANIMALS NOW, IT IS CRUEL AND INHUMANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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8:58 am PST, Nov 20,Yulia Sharutina, Russian Federation
9:25 am PST, Nov 15,Janice Sturdy, United Kingdom
STOP SLAUGHTERING THESE LOVELY ANIMALS NOW, IT IS CRUEL AND INHUMANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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10:51 pm PST, Nov 14,Sabine Van Vlaslaer, Belgium
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2:15 pm PST, Nov 14,Mel Sinclair, Texas
Since we don't allow horse slaughter and consumption here, we shouldn't be supporting it abroad by selling our horses.
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2:11 pm PST, Nov 13,Kayla Kaylia, Massachusetts
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5:28 am PST, Nov 13,Theresia Cronan, California
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12:54 am PST, Nov 13,TIFFANIE LUONG, California
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12:08 pm PST, Nov 12,Paula Berry, Pennsylvania
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11:15 am PST, Nov 12,Anna T., Ukraine
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10:14 am PST, Nov 11,Susan Sillars, Michigan
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4:57 pm PST, Nov 10,Name not displayed, Oklahoma
Enough with making the poor animals suffer just for the sake of cuisine/ perverted sex rituals! Horses deserve far better than that! Give them some dignity for goodness sake-they've been our pets/servants and served us well in so many ways!
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5:48 am PST, Nov 9,Becky Le compte, Texas
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4:24 pm PST, Nov 8,Kapustin Ilya, Russian Federation
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7:22 pm PST, Nov 7,Sharon Chan, Hong Kong
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1:42 pm PST, Nov 7,Alexandra MAUVE, France
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10:25 am PST, Nov 7,Shalise Graw, Nevada
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8:06 am PST, Nov 7,Colleen Flaherty, New York
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3:08 pm PST, Nov 6,Victoria P., Ukraine
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10:05 am PST, Nov 4,Sylvie Ries, Luxembourg
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7:40 pm PST, Nov 3,Nick Leonard, Nevada
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5:11 pm PST, Nov 3,Elizabeth Hogan, Michigan
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7:45 am PST, Nov 3,Alex Osler, Massachusetts
Stop These Meany's!
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7:18 am PST, Nov 3,Mary Osler, Massachusetts
You are a meany! Horses are wonderful creatures! How Dare you! And to think you get away with this! We shall end this! We shall! I tell you!
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9:17 am PST, Nov 1,Kimberly Pepin, Connecticut
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11:08 am PDT, Oct 31,Name not displayed, Greece
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1:55 am PDT, Oct 31,George Smith, Virginia
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1:03 pm PDT, Oct 29,Bonnie Bates, Arizona
please support this bill before it is too late for our wonderful horses. thanks!
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12:40 pm PDT, Oct 29,Marissa Chiappetta, Florida
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4:53 am PDT, Oct 29,Katie/Wendy Harrington/Williams, Indiana
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8:56 pm PDT, Oct 28,Venkatesan Parthasarathy, India
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9:37 am PDT, Oct 28,Irina Kovtun, Ukraine
STOP!!!!
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6:19 pm PDT, Oct 27,Mabel Ayotte, California
Horses are wonderful creatures, they are a reflection of our heritage, not meant to be served for dinner.
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3:52 pm PDT, Oct 27,Catherine Ritlaw, Arizona
Horses are COMPANION ANIMALS.They are spiritual beings, not merely livestock. Stop the slaughter!
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3:43 am PDT, Oct 27,Marilyn Sass, California
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7:24 pm PDT, Oct 26,Madyuly Velazquez, Florida
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2:50 pm PDT, Oct 26,Cindy Psareas, California
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7:17 am PDT, Oct 26,Pearl Lotus, Ireland
Unnacceptable and wrong for so many reasons. Please act now to stop this cruel injustice.
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7:55 pm PDT, Oct 25,Diana Murcia, Colombia
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9:31 pm PDT, Oct 24,Patricia kay Wells, Alabama
horses deserves to live and be free to roam a pasture or valley.I be lieve those who treat horses or any other animal are the ones who need to be tortured. they need to feel the pain they inpose on the poor creatures.
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9:09 pm PDT, Oct 24,Jenny O'Neil, New Mexico
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1:06 pm PDT, Oct 24,Nicolas Valmont, Uruguay
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7:05 am PDT, Oct 24,JoAnn Kyzer, Alabama
How atrocious to think that MY government would allow such a thing!
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4:49 pm PDT, Oct 23,Janett Pritchet, Alabama
I support ALL ANIMAL RIGHTS!!! Please don't allow this any longer.
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2:01 pm PDT, Oct 23,Carole Hagen, Oregon
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11:17 am PDT, Oct 23,Name not displayed, Alabama
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10:02 am PDT, Oct 23,Roxana paola Vera, Argentina
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4:01 am PDT, Oct 23,Helle Collin, Denmark
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7:19 pm PDT, Oct 21,Kristin Kierig, Virginia
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5:20 pm PDT, Oct 21,Name not displayed, Arizona
Horses have done so much for us in history and now. theyv served as transpertation,exporation, theropy and so so much more and i beleave that by slaughtering these magnifisant animals is a slap in the face to history and to and a way of living for so maney years
