Act Now to Help Get Horse Slaughter Banned!

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Every year, tens of thousands of American horses are crammed into livestock trailers and trucked to slaughterhouses in Canada and Mexico. Many of them are former companions or were used for racing and have been treated with drugs that aren’t safe for human consumption.

PETA investigators found Royale With Speed—grandson of Triple Crown winner Secretariat—in a crowded “kill pen” at a livestock auction in Iowa. The horse, who was suffering from a contagious disease known as strangles, was sold to a meat buyer for just $350. PETA followed a trailer from the meat buyer’s property in Iowa to a slaughterhouse in Québec and saw that the 33 horses being transported in it endured this 36-hour ordeal in subfreezing conditions without once being given food, water, or a chance to unload.

Eyewitness footage taken inside the Québec facility revealed that at least 40% of the horses were still conscious after receiving a captive-bolt shot to the head. PETA was able to save Royale With Speed, but tens of thousands of other horses are sent to slaughter every year.

Please use the form below to urge your representatives to pass the bipartisan Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act (U.S. H.R. 3475/S. 2037)—which would prohibit the slaughter of horses for human consumption.

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I was appalled to learn that even though 80% of American voters oppose horse slaughter, tens of thousands of U.S. horses are shipped to foreign slaughterhouses each year and horse slaughterhouses may reopen in the U.S.

Horses killed for their flesh are transported hundreds of miles in cramped trucks—often without food or water—before finally reaching the slaughterhouse, where the panicked animals are shot with a rifle or captive-bolt gun, strung up by one leg, bled out, and skinned. Many of them have been raised as animal companions or were used for racing and have been treated with drugs that aren’t safe for human consumption.

I respectfully urge you to cosponsor the Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act, which, if passed, would implement a nationwide ban on horse slaughter for human consumption.

Sincerely,

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