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Protection for Wild Horses
House Approves Wild Horse Protection MeasureMay 18, 2006With tremendous grassroots pressure bearing down on Congress this week, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously approved a measure late Thursday to protect wild horses from slaughter. The outpouring of support from the American public was so overwhelming that House leadership conceded to the provision without a vote by individual members.Reps. Nick Rahall (D-WV), Ed Whitfield (R-KY), John Sweeney (R-NY), and John Spratt (D-SC) successfully offered an amendment to the spending bill for the Department of the Interior for fiscal year 2007. The measure would end the commercial sale and subsequent slaughter of wild horses and burros.Last year, the House overwhelmingly approved an identical amendment in a 249-159 bipartisan vote, as well as another similar appropriations amendment to prohibit horse slaughter, but theU.S. Department of Agriculture thwarted the will of Congressand used private funding to enable the grisly slaughter of horses to continue.Take Action! Tell Congress to protect horses by supporting a permanent ban on horse slaughter for food export."A public outcry has again begun across the United States over the change in law that now allows the commercial sale and slaughter of these animals," Rahall said. "We need to act before it is too late for thousands of these animals."America's wild horses were protected from sale and slaughter for 34 years. Then, a year and a half ago, those protections were removed through a highly controversial legislative maneuver, without hearings, debate, or the introduction of a bill.Late in 2004, Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT) attached a provision to an omnibus spending bill, which passed without any public review and reversed a longstanding federal policy of protecting wild horses from being sold at auctions and subsequently shipped to slaughter plants.Wild Horses Sent to SlaughterIt is already too late for hundreds of horses. On April 15, 2005, six horses were purchased by Oklahoman Dustin Herbert. Only three days later, these horses were sent directly to a foreign-owned slaughter plant in Illinois. Mr. Herbert told the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that he intended to use the horses for a church youth program.One week later, another 35 were killed at the same slaughter plant after being traded unwittingly by the Rosebud Sioux Tribe soon after they were sold by BLM. By pure chance, another 52 were snatched from the slaughter plant line in a last-minute effort to preserve their lives by fast-thinking officials. Since then, we've lost hundreds more of our treasured wildhorses to the slaughterhouse. We have graphic evidence in hand now that sale authority is not a workable solution.Cruel and Inhumane PracticeThe cruelty of horse slaughter is not limited to the slaughter itself. Economics, not humane considerations, dictate transport conditions. Horses are shipped in crowded trucks, frequently over long distances, and are typically given no food, water or rest. The truck ceilings are so low that horses are not able to hold their heads in a normal, balanced position. "Horses have done so much for us in our country's history," said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The HSUS."They deserve much better than to be trucked across the country, prodded onto the slaughterhouse floor, hoisted up by a rear leg, and then bled out with a sharp cut to the throat-simply to appease the palates of foreign gourmands.&
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