The Senate is voting TODAY on horse-slaughter - PLEASE CONTACT YOUR SENATOR!!
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July 20, 2017
The Senate Appropriations Committee is voting on horse slaughter TODAY.
If your senator is on the list below, please call them right away.
Senators on the Appropriations Committee and their telephone numbers:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018969458
(From yesterday's Denver Post)
"Congressional Committee Votes to Allow Destruction of Wild Horses"
Last week, the House Appropriations Committee voted to overturn a ban that blocked the Agriculture Department from providing inspectors at meat plants that slaughter horses.
In 2007, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled it is illegal for horse slaughterhouses to pay the U.S. Department of Agriculture to perform health inspections, which ended the plants in the U.S.
The two changes would reopen American Slaughterhouses and could eventually lead to wild horses being sent to them.
Right now, they could be killed en masse by the BLM, or a contractor, so long as it's for non-commercial purposes
But there's still hope,
"Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.), are expected to introduce an amendment to restore the ban on funding for USDA inspections of horse slaughter plants."
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/19/wild-horse-destruction-vote-passes/
More:
http://carrollcan.org/callstoaction/2017/7/19/action-a-day-719-tell-senator-van-hollen-to-vote-to-defund-horse-slaughter
BREAKING NEWS:
Source: Humane Society of the United States
July 20, 2017 04:30 PM EDT
"Key Senate Committee says 'Neigh' to Re-opening Horse Slaughter Plants"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10029350830
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