ACTION ALERT: PLEASE HELP STOP HORSE SLAUGHTER!
PLEASE CONTACT U. S. SENATOR JOSH HAWLEY
ASK SENATOR HAWLEY TO SUPPORT THE SAFE ACT (S. 2006) WHICH WOULD BAN HORSE SLAUGHTER
Call and leave a message at (202) 224-6154 or contact Senator Hawley by leaving a message on his contact form https://www.hawley.senate.gov/contact
Tell Senator Hawley that the slaughtering of horse is fraught with cruelties:
Inhumane transport for many hours in overcrowded trucks without food, water, or rest.
Horses are not suited to be closely confined in large groups and when packed closely together on trucks, there are resulting injuries from being kicked, bitten, or even trampled.
Horses are much more excitable than other livestock and often panic in tight quarters experienced at slaughter facilities
Horses often become agitated when prodded as they are moved down alley ways to the “kill box” and many incur injuries from slipping and sliding resulting in dangerous falls.
Horses typically have a penetrating bolt shot into their forehead to render them unconscious. In many cases, however, the bolt gun is not applied correctly due to the horse thrashing around in terror as the operator of the gun makes multiple attempts to shoot the horse.
Horses are not docile animals as other livestock and are difficult to effectively stun and as a consequence horses are often not made unconscious and are subsequently rolled out of the kill box alive and shackled by a rear leg and hoisted up in the air upside down where their throats are slit and the horse is bled to death.
Every day at least dozens of horses leave the “kill box” to be bled out and skinned alive.
Last year alone, more than 60,000 healthy domestic American horses were shipped to slaughter facilities in Canada, Mexico, and Asia.
PLEASE CONTACT SENATOR HAWLEY TODAY!
Ask him to support S. 2006 also known as the SAFE Act
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