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Equine Related Bills in
Congress
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| Here is a brief explanation of the bills
involving horses in the Congress right now. |
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| Congress is back in session, and so are
two crucial equine protection bills!
H.R.
503/S. 311 (The American Horse Slaughter Prevention
Act) will prohibit the slaughter of American horses for
human consumption. Americans don’t eat horses, but
last year alone more than 100,000 U.S. horses were
killed for their meat, which was exported to Europe and
Asia.
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H.R.503
Title: To amend the Horse Protection Act to prohibit the
shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, receiving,
possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of horses
and other equines to be slaughtered for human
consumption, and for other purposes.
Text of HR503
Posted by: "cdhanna9703@aol.com" cdhanna9703@aol.com
cdhanna9703
Wed Jan 21, 2009 1:35 pm (PST)
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A BILL
<BTITLE>To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit certain conduct
relating to the use of horses for human cons
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2009'.
SEC. 2. SLAUGHTER OF HORSES FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION.
(a) In General- Chapter 3 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by
adding at the end the following:
`Sec. 50. Slaughter of horses for human consumption
`(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), whoever knowingly--
`(1) possesses, ships, transports, purchases, sells, delivers, or receives,
in or affecting interstate commerce or foreign commerce, any horse with the
intent that it is to be slaughtered for human consumption; or
`(2) possesses, ships, transports, purchases, sells, delivers, or receives,
in or affecting interstate commerce or foreign commerce, any horse flesh or
carcass or part of a carcass, with the intent that it is to be used for human
consumption;
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years or
both.
`(b) If--
`(1) the defendant engages in conduct that would otherwise constitute an
offense under subsection (a);
`(2) the defendant has no prior conviction under this section; and
`(3) the conduct involves less than five horses or less than 2000 pounds of
horse flesh or carcass or part of a carcass;
the defendant shall, instead of being punished under that subsection, be
fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
`(c) As used in this section, the term `horse' means any member of the
family Equidae.'.
(b) Clerical Amendment- The table of sections for chapter 3 of title 18,
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new item:
`50. Slaughter of horses for human consumption.`5
Best regards,
Cheryl Hanna
Fundraising and Publicity
Another Chance 4 Horses, Inc
_www.ac4h.com_ (http://www.ac4h.com/)
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H.R. 6598
H.R. 6598 - introduced
to the House on July
24th by Representative
John Conyers Jr., in an
effort to make our way
around the pro horse
slaughter lobby blockade
of the AHSPA, will
permanently put an end
to the slaughter of
horses for human
consumption and the
transport of live
American horses for
slaughter across the US
border.
So
far this year, over
60,000 horses have been
slaughtered in Canadian
and Mexican horse
slaughter plants under
appalling conditions,
where they are subjected
to blatant abuse and
unspeakable suffering.
As the end of the 110th
Congressional session
looms near, Members of
Congress must act NOW
to stop this ongoing
tragedy.
For more information
about horse slaughter
and H.R. 6598, please go
to
http://www.awionline.org/legislation/horse_slaughter/index.htm.
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Why should we stop horse slaughter and transport
across the boarders of our horses? |
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Because things like this can happen!! |
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These horses were rescued from kill buyers, either
by rescues or private, concerned citizens like you! |
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These are pictures of horses from a feedlot in
Filley, Nebraska. We were given less than 24 hours to rescue as
many horses as we could from the feedlot. We (several rescues in
the state of Nebraska) started with the pregnant mares and in the end
were able to save 46 horses. Unfortunately there were around 200
that were unable to be rescued. They were
shipped to Mexico where they were forced to bear the most horrible death
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Did you know that some of the horses that are slaughtered were stolen
from a loving home? A home that wants them back! Many
horse thieves take the horses they steal to slaughter houses to make a
quick buck and to get rid of the evidence! Lets take away an
outlet for horse thieves, support the ban on horse slaughter.
Please take a moment to go to the Stolen Horse International/Netposse
website and see if you recognize any of the horses that are missing.
You might help save that one from slaughter.
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