It's Time to End Horse Slaughter, For Good

Thank you for your supporting the Safeguard American Food Exports Act, H.R. 961, which would ban horse slaughter in the United States and the transportation of American horses out of the country for slaughter.

Polls consistently show that about 80 percent of Americans strongly oppose horse slaughter -- and for good reason:

The SAFE Act would protect human health by keeping unsafe meat off American grocery shelves and out of foreign exports. Because Americans do not raise horses to be eaten, they are often given any of 379 common animal medications banned for human consumption by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration -- including some that can be lethal if ingested by humans. No regulations require the sharing of information about substances previously ingested by a horse up for auction. There, kill buyers purchase tens of thousands of American horses annually and truck them to slaughter in Mexico, Canada and beyond.

More than 92 percent of these exported horses are in "good" condition, according to the USDA. Until a federal ban on horse slaughter and the sale and transport of equines for the purpose of slaughter is passed once and for all, America's wild and domestic equines are vulnerable to irresponsible breeding, abusive management, suffering, and often terrifying deaths in substandard conditions.

I'm writing to urge you to support the bipartisan Safeguard American Food Exports Act, H.R. 961, which would ban horse slaughter in the United States and the transportation of American horses out of the country for slaughter.

Polls consistently show that about 80 percent of Americans strongly oppose horse slaughter -- and for good reason:

The SAFE Act would protect human health by keeping unsafe meat off American grocery shelves and out of foreign exports. Because Americans do not raise horses to be eaten, they are often given any of 379 common animal medications banned for human consumption by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration -- including some that can be lethal if ingested by humans. No regulations require the sharing of information about substances previously ingested by a horse up for auction. There, kill buyers purchase tens of thousands of American horses annually and truck them to slaughter in Mexico, Canada and beyond.

More than 92 percent of these exported horses are in "good" condition, according to the USDA. Until a federal ban on horse slaughter and the sale and transport of equines for the purpose of slaughter is passed once and for all, America's wild and domestic equines are vulnerable to irresponsible breeding, abusive management, suffering, and often terrifying deaths in substandard conditions.

Thank you for supporting the Safeguard American Food Exports Act, S. 2006, which would ban horse slaughter in the United States and the transportation of American horses out of the country for slaughter.

Polls consistently show that about 80 percent of Americans strongly oppose horse slaughter -- and for good reason:

The SAFE Act would protect human health by keeping unsafe meat off American grocery shelves and out of foreign exports. Because Americans do not raise horses to be eaten, they are often given any of 379 common animal medications banned for human consumption by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration -- including some that can be lethal if ingested by humans. No regulations require the sharing of information about substances previously ingested by a horse up for auction. There, kill buyers purchase tens of thousands of American horses annually and truck them to slaughter in Mexico, Canada and beyond.

More than 92 percent of these exported horses are in "good" condition, according to the USDA. Until a federal ban on horse slaughter and the sale and transport of equines for the purpose of slaughter is passed once and for all, America's wild and domestic equines are vulnerable to irresponsible breeding, abusive management, suffering, and often terrifying deaths in substandard conditions.

I'm writing to urge you to support the bipartisan Safeguard American Food Exports Act, S. 2006, which would ban horse slaughter in the United States and the transportation of American horses out of the country for slaughter.

Polls consistently show that about 80 percent of Americans strongly oppose horse slaughter -- and for good reason:

The SAFE Act would protect human health by keeping unsafe meat off American grocery shelves and out of foreign exports. Because Americans do not raise horses to be eaten, they are often given any of 379 common animal medications banned for human consumption by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration -- including some that can be lethal if ingested by humans. No regulations require the sharing of information about substances previously ingested by a horse up for auction. There, kill buyers purchase tens of thousands of American horses annually and truck them to slaughter in Mexico, Canada and beyond.

More than 92 percent of these exported horses are in "good" condition, according to the USDA. Until a federal ban on horse slaughter and the sale and transport of equines for the purpose of slaughter is passed once and for all, America's wild and domestic equines are vulnerable to irresponsible breeding, abusive management, suffering, and often terrifying deaths in substandard conditions.