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Don't be duped by the misinformation of a desperate industry looking for free tax dollars to line the pockets of its foreign investors.

Horse slaughter is also not a means of euthanizing "unwanted horses". This is a myth perpetuated by the horse slaughter industry. Horse slaughter is a multi million dollar a year business that is driven by a demand for horse meat. Kill buyers buy horses at auction for slaughter, and the USDA has said over 92% of American horses slaughtered, are healthy, not old, sick, injured, or neglected. These horses were

not unwanted; they were simply sold at auction, and their owners had no control over who purchased them. Without the kill buyers who skulk around horse auctions, looking for the best potential horse meat, most of these horses would be purchased by others or end up in rescues or sanctuaries.

As John Holland, a writer and researcher on horse slaughter, has explained, "Kill buyers do not go around the country like dog catchers gathering ‘unwanted horses' as a public service."

As Americans Against Horse Slaughter points out, "Just over 100,000 horses were slaughtered

in the U.S. in 2006. If slaughter were no longer an option and these horses were rendered or buried instead, it would represent a small increase in the number of horse being disposed of in this manner - an increase that the current infrastructure can certainly sustain. Humane euthanasia and carcass disposal is highly affordable and widely available. The average cost of having a horse humanely euthanized and safely disposing of the animal's carcass is approximately $225, while the average monthly cost of keeping a horse is approximately $200."

Background Information

The question always asked is if horse slaughter for human consumption is illegal, what will we do with the unwanted horses? As if a multi-million dollar a year industry is driven by unwanted horses. Horse slaughter is driven by a demand for horse meat. Typically, kill buyers buy horses at auction for slaughter. The kill buyers are not looking for the unwanted or abused or neglected horses. They are looking for healthy horses that can be slaughtered for horsemeat, a delicacy in parts of Europe and Asia. The USDA has said over 92% of American horses slaughtered are healthy.

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Save Wild Horses and Burros from Slaughter! Help Restore Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act Gutted in 2004

Contact your U.S. representative and urge him or her to vote YES on the anti horse slaughter bill. Learn more about the Conyers-Burton Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2009, H.B. 503.) GO!

Also, tell your representative to vote YES to stop cruel horse transporting in the US (H.R. 305, the Horse Transportation Safety Act). This will put an end to the cruel transports of horses on double decked trailers. Learn more! GO!

About Our Expert Panel of Guests

Paula Bacon, Americans Against Horse Slaughter. She was mayor of Kaufman, TX 2003-07 where Belgian owned Dallas Crown operated for almost 30 years until the city finally closed them in 2006 for various violations.

"Our job today is to amass and activate people into calling, emailing and faxing the U.S. Congress—until this is done. Perhaps mark your calendars and every Tuesday or alternate day on Wednesday, call, email, fax, but calling is very because we want to keep staff busy with us and the issue on peoples’ minds."

- Paula Bacon

John Holland, Senior Analyst Americans Against Horse Slaughter. He is also a world renown author on the subject of horse slaughter.

"Despite the closing of all domestic horse slaughter plants, American horses continue to be barbarically slaughtered in Canada and Mexico. These exports have rapidly grown to match the highest levels of slaughter in over ten year."

- John Holland

Laura Allen, Animal Law Coalition. She is regarded as one of the nation's most active and astute Animal Law Attorney's.

"Documents never before made public reveal the USDA was aware of extreme cruelty during horse slaughter at facilities in the U.S. The documents dispute claims horse slaughter in the U.S. was in any sense humane and instead reveal a brutal, terrifying ordeal that should be permanently banned."

- Laura Allen

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The tragic realities of life for chimpanzees and other primates in U.S. laboratories have finally been brought to light. Last evening’s expose on ABC NIGHTLINE educated millions of viewers on their plight. NIH* and the labs must be held accountable. (To write to the acting head of the NIH about this issue, click here; to write to NIRC, click here.) Today, the Great Ape Protection Act (GAPA) was reintroduced in the 111th Congress. Project R&R has been working diligently with HSUS, other organizations and individuals to secure a precedent setting number of cosponsors and a groundswell of public support for this bill. GAPA offers the promise of release and restitution to all chimpanzees now languishing in all U.S. laboratories. Please visit our website today to find your legislator’s name and contact information and ask them to sign on as a co-sponsor of this important legislation.

Photo: © M. Nichols Our promise to all the chimpanzees we know - that we will help all those who are still waiting in laboratories - will be fulfilled with passage of the Great Ape Protection Act.

I also invite each of you who is not already a GAPA volunteer to consider signing up NOW – you’ve never been needed more.

A sincere thank you for your ongoing support in helping us pass and sign GAPA into law and for your commitment to NEAVS until we arrive at the day when all animals in all labs will be replaced with humane, scientifically superior non-animal research.

Finally, a special thank you to Tom, Pepper, Jeannie, Rachel, Billy and all the others whose presence in our life inspires us and who are truly the ones who will help us help all the rest.

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President NEAVS/Project R&R