What the Public Does Not Know: The Plight of Domestic and Wild Horses in the United States

What the public does not know, what the anti-horse slaughter and wild horse advocates know all too well is that American horses, approximately 140,000 a year are cruelly transported to Canada, Mexico and Japan to be slaughtered for meat. This a link to my YouTube video, What the Public Does Not Know,

Domestic horses are companion animals; wild horses are the American Icon, for which the Bureau of Land Management has no regard and it appears will not to be satisfied until it has achieved their eradication.

The horrific transport and grossly inhumane slaughter of horses must be stopped. Advocates who work tirelessly to push the passage of a US. House Bill that would prohibit the practice are continuously thwarted
in their efforts. Each year a Bill is introduced in the House, each year it fails to move to the Senate and, ultimately, to the President to sign into law. This year is no different. HR 1942 is stuck in the subcommittee, Livestock and Foreign Agriculture. And there is no sign that the members of the Committee will release it before the 114th Congress comes to a close.

Horses are not food. And through their lifetimes, domestic horses receive drugs that have the potential to make their "meat" toxic. Does our Government care about toxic horse meat entering the food supply in the United States? Evidently not.

Horses helped to build this Country, they served in wars. They are truly spectacular in their strength, speed and beauty. The vast majority of the public is unaware of what is happening to our horses. Very little, if anything, appears on television or in the print media to make the public aware. While there is very substantial amount of information available through the internet, that information is available only to those with access to the internet. Public service announcements, commercials similar to the many seen on television produced by the ASPCA for dogs, in particular, are what is needed to raise public awareness of the terrible plight of American horses. That is what we, the anti-horse slaughter and wild horse advocates, wish to see.

We call upon both the Humane Society of the United States and the ASPCA to bring information regarding horse slaughter and the Bureau of Land Management's activities regarding the wild horses straight into the
living rooms of the American public. Doing so would surely increase the awareness of many and enable them to join us in raising their voices in protest against the transport and slaughter of American Horses both in and outside of the Country's borders and the BLM's activities which are intended to substantially reduce the number of wild horses which run free in what long have been their home. We ask you to join us in our request by contacting both the Humane Society of the United States Equine Protection Division and the American Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Equine Initiatives, ASPCA Equine Fund. Tell
them that you, too, want the public awareness regarding the plight of American horses raised, and not a day too soon.