New Legislation to Stop Horse Slaughter Introduced
LOS ANGELES, March 13, 2013- Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Sen.
Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-PA) and Rep. Jan
Schakowski (D-IL) co-sponsor the Safeguard American Food Exports (SAFE) Act
which would ban horse slaughter in the U.S. as well as shipping horses
to other countries to be slaughtered for human consumption.
Action Needed: Contact your U.S. senators and representatives in Washington, D.C., today to ask them to cosponsor the SAFE Act.
This bipartisan legislation, if passed will protect people and horses and would end the possibility of U.S. horse slaughter once and for all.
BACKGROUND
In the absence of a federal ban, over 100,000 American horses are
shipped across federal borders to slaughter plants in Mexico and Canada
each year and from there the horse meat is shipped primarily to the EU. America’s horses are treated with many substances known to be toxic
to humans; substances that can be lethal when ingested by humans, and
many of which have been banned from the human food chain in most
countries. Evidence of health hazards surfacing amidst the international horse
meat scandal has resulted in several major companies, including Tesco,
Nestlé and Ikea, pulling food from grocery shelves in 16 countries after
tests showed beef products actually contained up to 100% horse meat.
“HEALTH ALERT” http://youtu.be/S3UwE1hVaS0
“DUPED” http://youtu.be/peP_78ATJwc
SAVING
AMERICA’S HORSES
is an educational documentary film project under Wild for Life Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit charity
dedicated to saving, protecting and preserving wild and domestic equines
through education, rescue and sanctuary.
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