We Can Save Wild Horses and Burros!
Introduced in 2015 as H.R. 1942, the Safeguard American Food Exports Act of 2015, otherwise known as the SAFE Act, would prohibit the sale or transport of horses or other equines for the purposes of consumption. This bill, while co-sponsored by nearly 200 other lawmakers, is being blocked from a fair vote 18 months after it was introduced by a small subcommittee of just 11 legislators with close ties to the cattle industry.
These pro-cattle lawmakers know that once America’s wild horses and burros are gone, cattle ranchers will be able to continue to indiscriminately graze cows with no competition from wildlife at little to no cost on public lands they once had to share with the same wild horses and burros they have now sent to slaughter. These cattle ranchers are concerned only with increasing their profits while taking advantage of a political loophole which allows them to continue to betray an American symbol of freedom. Without intervention, horses and burros are shipped by the thousands every year across US borders into Canada and Mexico for brutal slaughter.
Working against pro-cattle lobbyists and standing up for our American democracy and values will require everything we’ve got. Please join with In Defense of Animals today in support of our efforts to keep our nations wild horses and burros free and out of foreign slaughterhouses.
Wild horses are in mortal danger on the very lands they were guaranteed a place on half a century ago! If you have not already done so, please join the fight for our nation’s horses and burros with a generous contribution to IDA’s Wild Horse Campaign now.