An End To Horse Slaughter!
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Foreign owned slaughterhouses in the United States and Canada kills approximately 100,000 American bred horses annually. The horse meat is NOT being used in dog food or to feed starving masses. Rather, it is an up to $20/lb delicacy enjoyed by humans in Japan and Europe. A pound of horse meat usually sells more than a pound of filet mignon!
Horses, an integral part of America's heritage and culture, are favored animals, just like cats and dogs. Americans do not eat horses just as they do not eat cats and dogs. Horses were needed for this nation to even gain independence. They were needed in the survival of humans on this continent.
The way horses are slaughtered is cruel and inhumane. They ride cramped in a trailer, sometimes an illegal double-decker, for days at a time without food or water. Then they are cattle prodded out to be shot in the head with a nail gun, sending fragments of skull into its brain. The horse is often still alive as it is hung by its hooves and throat slit, so it can breathe its last breath.
Humans are the ones who domesticated the wild horses. Ever since then, horses have stood beside us in time of war, carried us across the country, plowed our fields, gave us a job, helped give chronically ill children hope, and remain loyal at all times to their human companions. Is slaughter the only thanks they get?
Horses, an integral part of America's heritage and culture, are favored animals, just like cats and dogs. Americans do not eat horses just as they do not eat cats and dogs. Horses were needed for this nation to even gain independence. They were needed in the survival of humans on this continent.
The way horses are slaughtered is cruel and inhumane. They ride cramped in a trailer, sometimes an illegal double-decker, for days at a time without food or water. Then they are cattle prodded out to be shot in the head with a nail gun, sending fragments of skull into its brain. The horse is often still alive as it is hung by its hooves and throat slit, so it can breathe its last breath.
Humans are the ones who domesticated the wild horses. Ever since then, horses have stood beside us in time of war, carried us across the country, plowed our fields, gave us a job, helped give chronically ill children hope, and remain loyal at all times to their human companions. Is slaughter the only thanks they get?
18451 Signatures
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Christal Dionne
- State
- ma
- Comments
- how can someone be so cruel to Gods creatures?
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Joanne Pfeuffer
- State
- New Hampshire
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Lisa R. Hilberg
- State
- NH
- Comments
- These are companion animals!!!
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Denny Grove
- State
- South Carolina
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Angel Leigh Moore
- State
- North Carolina
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shay a. g.
- State
- colorado
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Katherine Hammons
- State
- TX
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thomas g henze
- State
- new jersey
- Comments
- let them go home and kill there own hoarses let ours roam free
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Diane M. Bosco
- State
- CT
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Carolyn Turner
- State
- NY
- Comments
- Horse slaughter is an OUTRAGE and must be BANNED - NO EXCEPTIONS!!!!!
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Donna Syrios
- State
- California
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Sarah Banks
- State
- Virginia
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DONNA
- State
- MARYLAND
- Comments
- Thank you for the opportunity of signing.
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Michelle A Sayre
- State
- OHIO
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Dodie Davis
- State
- TX
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Jennifer Makerney
- State
- Texas
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Joyce Carter
- State
- Texas
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Jessie Lyn Masquelier
- State
- Oklahoma
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Donna Mason
- State
- Tn
- Comments
- This should be stopped. How inhuman and we're suppose to be a humane society!!
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Heath Donald Watts
- State
- MT
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S.J. Werkheiser
- State
- Delaware
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Ms. Lee Duplessis MAHS
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- Idaho
- Comments
- Inhumane treatment of any animal, livestock or otherwise, is not the actions of a civilized and moral society. We need to distance ourselves from the contaminations of cruelty and needless deaths as much as possible, if we are ever going to be a humanitarian society.
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Teri Jobe
- State
- WA
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Melissa Jones
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Comments
- I think slaughtering American horses to feed as a delicacy to Europeans is rediculous. Let them eat their own horses!
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Cindy Maus
- State
- Ohio
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Estelle Choate
- State
- Maine
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Mary Monroe-Chopp
- State
- NY
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Joanne M. Johnson
- State
- Wisconsin
- Comments
- This is a terrible practice and we as horselovers, need to put a stop to this!!
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jane
- State
- tx
- Comments
- its crewl
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Lisa McKnight
- State
- PA
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Jeannie Reeves
- State
- Mississippi
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- PLEASE BAN SLAUGHTER!!! LET OUR HORSES RUN FREE!!!
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Nancy Benjamin
- State
- NY
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rosemary
- State
- florida
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- horses are precious animals and shoud be protected
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Emily J. Vargo
- State
- Wisconsin
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Ann Krischus
- State
- CT
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Barbara Stanton
- State
- California
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The Nonhunter Rights Coalition Inc.
- State
- Louisiana
- Comments
- STOP the slaughter of defenseless/innocent animal's for profit!
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Becky Markle
- State
- massachusetts
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Kimberly A. Kernehan
- State
- New York
- Comments
- The slaughter of these wonderful animals is a disgrace....it needs to be stopped and NOW!!!!
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Wendy R Perry
- State
- New York
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Christine Derouin
- State
- NY
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Robert Zamecnik
- State
- Idaho
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Melissa Chopp
- State
- New York
- Comments
- STOP THE CRUELITY AND END THE HORSE SLAUGHTERING!!!!!!!!!!
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Carlo Cassinis
- State
- Italy
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frank nash
- State
- nj
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Courtney Labbe
- State
- New Hampshire
- Comments
- I own a premarin baby that I saved from slaughtor. No horse should have to go throught what he did and no horse should look how he did when we brought him home.
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amy Lynne Wojciechowski
- State
- North Carolina
- Comments
- I am very animal Proactive
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Kimberly Esposito
- State
- New York
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michelle mccarthy
- State
- pennsylvania
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Lauren
- State
- Vermont
- Comments
- Horse slaughter is downright disgusting! :-(
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