Race Horses Are Running For Lives

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S.1915
Title: A bill 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.

Bills in the House, (H.R. 503), and Senate, ( S. 1915), would make it illegal to possess or transfer a horse to be killed for human consumption. The Senate bill is pending in the http://commerce.senate.gov/public/">Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. Feel free to contact members of this committee to share your support.

The horse-slaughter issue drew significant attention three years ago when it was reported that 1986 Derby winner Ferdinand died in a Japanese slaughterhouse.

Barbaro's owner, Gretchen Jackson has thrown her support behind these bills. Long active in finding homes for retired race horses and housing more than 20 retired race horseshttp://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060609/BUSINESS/606090342/1003/rss03">Jackson saids , "Caring (for a horse) means seeing that it's fed, that it's warm, that it's not in pain," she said. "All those conditions that I just mentioned are certainly conditions that we can control as human beings, and why I'm so much in favor of this anti-slaughter bill."

Additional resources:
http://www.ford.com/en/goodWorks/environment/natureAndWildlife/saveTheMustangs/default.htm">Ford Motor Co.: Save The Mustang

List of Senate sponsors of S.1915:
Sen Bayh, Evan - 12/12/2005
Sen Boxer, Barbara - 3/8/2006
Sen Byrd, Robert C. - 10/25/2005
Sen DeMint, Jim - 10/25/2005
Sen Dodd, Christopher J. - 1/25/2006
Sen Feinstein, Dianne - 2/9/2006
Sen Graham, Lindsey - 3/29/2006
Sen Inouye, Daniel K. - 10/25/2005
Sen Kerry, John F. - 1/25/2006
Sen Landrieu, Mary L. - 10/25/2005
Sen Levin, Carl - 10/25/2005
Sen Lieberman, Joseph I. - 10/25/2005
Sen Lott, Trent - 10/25/2005
Sen Menendez, Robert - 1/25/2006
Sen Snowe, Olympia J. - 3/8/2006
Sen Specter, Arlen - 10/25/2005
Sen Stabenow, Debbie - 1/25/2006
Sen Stevens, Ted - 11/1/2005

If your Senator is not on the list please contact them, irregardless of party affiliation, and ask them to join the fight for ethical and humane treatment of our beloved symbol of freedom: the horse.