Keep U.S. Horses SAFE
Stop Horses From Being Shipped to Slaughter!
As living, breathing, sentient beings with interests and lives of their own, all animals have the right to exist and thrive without exploitation and early death. As such, it is extremely disturbing that we have to fight to keep yet another animal off the menu in the United States. Eating animal flesh should be a thing of the past and promoting horse meat as yet another type of foodstuff should not even be an issue in this day and age of more enlightened treatment of some animals and better overall health education. Yet, here we are in 2015, and the idea of horse slaughter for human consumption still hangs in the balance as those of us against it stand behind the latest bill to protect horses by protecting humans from the consumption of unsafe equine bodies.
Although there is now a ban on horse slaughter in the U.S. as per an amendment included in the funding package for fiscal year 2015, more than 100,000 horses are transported via long grueling treks yearly to Canada and Mexico to meet their bloody, painful, and terrifying death. From young to old, and healthy to sick, including even winning ex-racehorse champions-they have all been slaughtered as “food” once no longer useful to their humans, and this happens each and every day.