PLEASE!

STOP THE INHUMANE

SLAUGHTER OF U.S.
HORSES
AND THE SPIN!

WRITTEN AND PREPARED BY: AN AVERAGE HORSE

OWNER

NO HIGH DOLLAR AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS

OBSCURED BY FRONT ORGANIZATIONS

NO FLASHY VIDEOS, SURVEYS OR BROCHURES

JUST AN AMERICAN HORSE

OWNERS PLEA TO YOUR
COMMON SENSE

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 INDEX
NEGLECT 3-4
TURNED LOOSE 5
MORE ABUSE BY EXPORTING 6
U.S. REGUALTIONS BETTER 7
TOO MANY 8-9
REGULATED FOOD ANIMALS 10
SAFE MEAT 11
END OF LIFE 12

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 NEGLECT

THE AGRICULTURE GROUPS

TOGETHER AND UNDER THE GUISE OF
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS WANT YOU
TO BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A SERIOUS
HORSE WELFARE ISSUE OF “NEGLECT”
SINCE THE INHUMANE HORSE
SLAUGHTER FACILITIES CLOSED IN
THE U.S.

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 THE TRUTH IS…..

U.S. HORSES ARE STILL CURRENTLY

EXPORTED AND INHUMANELY
SLAUGHTERED AS THEY HAVE BEEN
FOR YEARS!

MORE WERE EXPORTED INTO THE

SLAUGHTER SYSTEM LAST YEAR THAN
THE LAST YEAR OF SLAUGHTERING IN
THE U.S.

THEY CAN'T SUGGEST THEY ARE

NEGLECTED BECAUSE THEY AREN'T
SLAUGHTERED WHEN IN FACT THEY
STILL ARE.

THOSE THAT NEGLECT THEIR HORSE

DON’T CARE IF THERE IS A
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 SLAUGHTER SYSTEM, THEY DON’T
USE IT.

IT IS A ‘SPIN’ OR A DECEPTION!
TURNED LOOSE

THEN THEY WANT YOU TO BELIEVE

THAT HORSES WILL BE TURNED
LOOSE AND RUNNING IN THE STREETS
BECAUSE THE U.S. SLAUGHTERING
FACILITIES ARE CLOSED.

THE TRUTH IS STILL THE SAME….

U.S. HORSES ARE STILL CURRENTLY

BEING EXPORTED FOR SLAUGHTER AS
THEY HAVE BEEN FOR YEARS.

Perhaps the owners of those turned loose thought

they would have a better chance at living instead
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of taking them to an auction where the meat buyer
might buy them and torture them until death.

IT IS ANOTHER SPIN!
EXPORT ABUSE
THEN THEY WANT YOU TO BELIEVE
THAT U.S. HORSES ARE ABUSED
‘MORE’ SINCE THEY ARE NOW
EXPORTED TO CANADA AND MEXICO.

THE TRUTH IS THOUSANDS HAVE

BEEN EXPORTED FOR YEARS, EVERY
YEAR, TO CANADA AND MEXICO AND
ALL OF THEM SUFFER HORRIBLY AND
WE WANT YOU TO HELP STOP IT!

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 U.S. REGULATIONS BETTER?

THEY WANT YOU TO BELIVE THAT THE

HORSES ARE BETTER REGULATED IN
THE U.S.

THE TRUTH IS THE ONLY ABUSE OR ‘REPORTS’

ARE OF THOSE ALREADY AT THE SLAUGHTER
FACILITIES OR IF THEY HAPPEN TO WRECK A
TRAILER ON THE WAY THERE.
THE FOLLOWING IS A LINK TO OVER 900
PAGES OBTAINED BY A FOIA REQUEST.

http://www.kaufmanzoning.net/

They allow diseased horses to travel

around the country that put ALL U.S.
horses at risk.

From the USDA FOIA request, at least two horses

tested positive for EIA (Equine Infectious Anemia)
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that probably attended several auctions, feed lots,
and were within range of infecting many horses
along the way. The slaughter facilities deregulated
most all of the ‘visual’ inspections to the plant
employees. The fox watching the henhouse.

TOO MANY
THEN THEY WANT YOU TO BELIEVE
THAT WE NEED THE INHUMANE
HORSE SLAUGHTER SYSTEM TO
‘CONTROL’ THE POPULATION.
THE WAY TO CONTROL THE
POPULATION IS BEFORE THEY EXIST,
NOT BY KILLING THEM. BREEDERS NEED
TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE AND
RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT THEY PRODUCE.
NOT RELIEVED OF THEIR RESPONSIBILITY AND
REWARDED WITH CASH. IF THEY CAN’T SELL
THEIR HORSES, THEY WILL HAVE TO TAKE
THEM HOME AND FEED THEM OR HUMANELY
EUTHANIZE. THEN THEY MAY LEARN HOW TO
MARKET A HORSE OR STOP BREEDING.

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 BASIC SUPPLY AND DEMAND
PRINCIPLES.
HOW MANY IS TOO MANY?
APPARENTLY SINCE U.S. HORSES ARE
STILL CURRENTLY SLAUGHTERED,
SLAUGHTERING THEM DOESN’T
ALLEVIATE THE SPIN OF ‘TOO MANY’.

THE TRUTH IS THE FOREIGN OWNED

HORSE SLAUGHTER FACILITIES NEVER
GUARANTEED TO BUY EVEN ONE
HORSE AND COULD STOP
TOMORROW, ESPECIALLY WITH THE
IMPENDING EUROPEON UNION
REGULATIONS. THEY DO NOT PROVIDE
A ‘SERVICE’. THEY DO NOT BUY EVERY
‘UNWANTED’ OR ‘FOR SALE’ HORSE.
CAN’T CLAIM TOO MANY BECAUSE
THEY AREN’T BEING SLAUGHTERED
WHEN IN FACT, THEY ARE STILL BEING
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EXPORTED FOR SLAUGHTER. THEY
ONLY BUY WHAT THEY CAN SELL.
THEY DO NOT CONTROL THE U.S.
HORSE POPULATION.

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 REGULATED FOOD ANIMALS

THEY WANT YOU TO BELIEVE THAT U.S.

HORSES ARE OR CAN BE REGULATED
FOOD ANIMALS.

THE TRUTH IS THEY AREN’T REGULATED

FOOD ANIMALS AND HORSE OWNERS
AREN’T GOING TO SLAP AN EAR TAG ON
THEIR HORSES. WE WOULD HAVE TO PAY
A VET TO INSERT A CHIP THAT CAN
MIGRATE AND HINDER A HORSES
PERFORMANCE. THE CHIP IS USELESS
SINCE HORSES ARE BOUGHT, SOLD AND
TRAVEL FOR PERFORMANCE EVENTS AND
PLEASURE RIDING.

IT WOULD BE A LOGISTICAL AND COSTLY

NIGHTMARE FOR HORSE OWNERS TO
ATTEMPT TO RECORD THE TRAVELS AND
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 MEDICATIONS OF THE ESTIMATED 9.2
MILLION U.S. HORSES SO THAT THE FEW
THAT USE THE INHUMANE HORSE
SLAUGHTER SYSTEM CAN CONTINUE.

SAFE MEAT
THEY WANT YOU TO BELIEVE THAT
SLAUGHTERING U.S. HORSES IS ‘SAFE’ FOR
HUMAN CONSUMPTION.

U.S. HORSES ARE NOT REGULATED FOOD

ANIMALS. ALMOST EVERYTHING WE GIVE OUR
HORSES IS CLEARLY LABELED ‘NOT INTENDED
FOR ANIMALS USED IN THE HUMAN FOOD
CHAIN’. HORSE OWNERS HAVE NO IDEA WHAT
FOOD ANIMAL REGULATIONS ARE.
THE SLAUGHTER HORSE BUYERS HAVE NO IDEA
WHAT CHEMICALS HORSES AT AUCTION HAVE
CONSUMED IN THEIR LIFETIME AND ARE NOT
GOING TO HOLD THEM FOR ANY MINIMUM
WITHDRAWAL TIME PERIODS.

THE SLAUGHTER FACILITIES THEMSELVES HARDLY

TEST ANY FOR CHEMICALS AND IN SOME YEARS
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 DIDN'T TEST EVEN ONE FOR BUTE (THE HORSE
ASPIRIN) - WHICH HAS NO WITHDRAWAL AND
CANNOT BE USED IN FOOD ANIMALS.

IT IS UNCONSIONABLE THAT THE U.S.

NEGLIGENTLY ALLOWS THE EXPORT OF
HORSES, KNOWINGLY AND WILLFULLY INTO
THE SLAUGHTER SYSTEM FOR HUMAN
CONSUMPTION.

End of Life

The U.S. must develop our own ‘End of

Life’ program for those that really
can’t afford to humanely euthanize
and stop trying to justify and force the
poor into sending their horses into the
inhumane horse slaughter system.
Just because someone is poor doesn’t
mean they must be cruel and have no
other options.

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 Please! Stop the
unconscionable inhumane
horse slaughter system - for
the horses, their owners and
for the humans who are
deceived into eating
unregulated food animals.

We must develop our own

humane end of life program.

PLEASE SUPPORT AND CO-

SPONSER

Prevention of Equine Cruelty

Act of 2009, H.R. 503 and
S.727
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 http://www.thomas.gov/home/c111query.html

The Horse Transportation Safety

Act HR 305

TO STOP THE EXPORT OF HORSES FOR

SLAUGHTER.

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