It's not too late to save America's wild horses from slaughter
Last edited Thu Jul 20, 2017, 06:31 PM - Edit history (5)
July 20, 2017
UPDATE;
July 20, 2017 04:30 PM EDT
Source: Humane Society of the United States
KEY SENATE COMMITTEE SAYS ' NEIGH' TO RE-OPENING HORSE SLAUGHTER PLANTS
(See bottom of this post)
The Senate Appropriations Committee is voting on horse slaughter today.
If your senator is on the Senate Appropriations Committee, please call them NOW!
List of senators on the Senate Appropriations Committee & their phone numbers:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018969458
Even if the Senate Appropriations Committee has already voted today in favor of the horse slaughter, there is still hope to save these beautiful animals.
"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."
(If the ban on funding for USDA inspections of horse slaughter plants is restored, the horses will be saved)
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/19/wild-horse-destruction-vote-passes/
More on the proposed horse slaughter:
http://carrollcan.org/callstoaction/2017/7/19/action-a-day-719-tell-senator-van-hollen-to-vote-to-defund-horse-slaughter
BREAKING NEWS: July 20, 2017 04:30 PM EDT
"Key Senate Committee Says 'Neigh' to Reopening U.S. Slaughter Plants"
Source:
Humane Society of the United States
"Today, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee - whose members constitute nearly a third of the entire chamber - voted with nary a controversy in favor of an amendment to ban any horse slaughter plants from opening in the United States.
Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.), led the bipartisan effort, with fellow committee members Senators Christopher Coons (D-Del), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) co-sponsoring the amendment in a great display of strength for the anti-slaughter stance.
The vote comes just a week after a closely divided House committee voted in favor of horse slaughter.
The House and Senate committees are now in disagreement, and key lawmakers will have to settle this item among others in dispute."
More:
http://blog.humanesociety.org/wayne/2017/07/breaking-news-key-senate-committee-says-neigh-reopening-u-s-horse-slaughter-plants.html
