SAVE HORSES FROM SLAUGHTER

MY FIRST PUBLISHED LETTER

Letter: Save horses from slaughter

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Web Posted 11/30/2006 10:16:00 AM Article :

The American Horse Slaughter Protection Act is such a hot issue and so many facts pertaining to it. I would not do it justice here in an email so I would appreciate if you would go to www.hsus.org, www.equineadvocates.com, www.kaufmanzoining.net/horsemeat/ and see a slaughter in progress.

Then I would ask you to email me because I would like to understand why this "Dirty Little Secret," is not being made available to the general public. Everyone I talk to has no idea that this is happening to our horses and they become involved to stop it, but I see the tears and I know there are so many more people who are not aware of this. I am also sure that majority of the American public will feel the same once they are aware.

If the senate does not vote on H.R. 503/S. 1915 during its lame duck session, another 100,000 horses, at least, will die horrific, brutal, senseless deaths.

The only three slaughterhouses in the US are ALL foreign owned and the meat they butcher from our American horses, is shipped overseas to be eaten as sushi, appetizers costing $20 to $40 per pound. Worst yet, is the tax returns I have from one slaugherhouse. $12 million dollar income and $5 in taxes to our U.S.

What is wrong with this? We have our horses being slaughtered in foreign owned slaughterhouses in the U.S., with the meat being shipped overseas, with no profit to America. Not to mention the money that is being spent by USDA to test horses for the perfect meat. That's right, guinea pigs who are put to slaughter after the tests are complete.

This American Horse Slaughter Protection Act was passed overwhelming in the House of Representatives on Sept. 7, 2006 and yet it still sits in the Commerce Committee waiting to be released to the Senate for a vote.

Every four minutes, a beautiful healthy, young horse is slaughtered for it's meat.

The transport of equines in trucks designed to transport cattle is also so very inhumane when you have to actually fold that horse in half so he will fit in a compartment. Go to www.hsus.org and see the rescue of 40 horses from a slaughterbound truck in Missouri.Please visit Grace Foundation of Northern California to see the rescued horses, one being a two month old colt who was on a slaughterbound truck. Also visit Longmeadow Ranch of Missouri to see the 25 out of 42 horses that survived the horrific overturned truck accident.

Ask yourself, do any of these horses look old or sick? Are you aware that two slaughterhouses are Belgium owned and horse slaughter for human consumption is illegal in that country? That would explain why they like the United States because they can do their dirty work here and to our horses and don't pay for the privilege. None of this horsemeat is used to feed a starving nation, it is just a good way to make a buck to them.

93 percent of American people polled did not approve of horse slaughter. We need H.R. 503/S. 1915 to be voted on before the end of this 109th Congress session or the killing will continue to please the foreigners, not our people.

For those of you who have not, please have the courage to do what is right and that is simply alert the American public to this issue.

Sharon Crumb
Phillipsburg, New Jersey