A bill worthy of support will be introduced soon in Congress by California's
Senator Diane Feinstein to prohibit the slaughter of American horses for
human consumption abroad.

The Bill will be referred to as SB(number to come) Feinstein Bill and will
probably be referred to merely as the Horse Slaughter Bill.

As Americans, most of us were shocked to learn that this odious, ugly and
gut-wrenching practice even exists. Why? The reason is simple. Horse
slaughter, or the slaughter of our pleasure, nonfood animals, is not and
never will be part of our culture

Horses developed this great nation in partnership with people. We owe the
American horse. Let's save this most noble of creatures and part of our
American heritage from the cruelty of the foreign slaughter markets.

There was a previous bill introduced by Rep. Morella which had inherent
problems. So when Rep. Morella was not reelected, HoofPAC a coalition
of horse organizations including the California Equine Council, cosponsor
of Proposition 6 in California, felt it was appropriate protocol to approach
Senator Diane Feinstein, a logical choice, to introduce and carry the new bill.

Senator Feinstein represents not only the largest State in the Nation, and
the nearly five million constituents who mandated that California horses be
protected against the foreign-owned slaughter industry, but also the
largest horse-owning state (tied with Texas) in the Nation.

The Feinstein Bill is a broad based and bipartisan effort. The successful
California campaign was endorsed by Olympic Medallists from our United
States Equestrian Team, California State Horsemen's Association, California
Law Enforcement, California's Leading Prosecutors, California Race Tracks,
California Thoroughbred Owners, California Firefighters, Mayors, City
Councils as well as a list of celebrities including Robert Redford, Paul
McCartney, Pierce Brosnan, Peter Falk and Stefanie Powers, among others.

The Feinstein Bill, better and more stringent, has addressed problems
inherent in the Morella Bill such as:

1) Enforcement has been opened up to include State and
Local Law Enforcement.

2) The Enforcement clause,
"The Secretary (USDA) shall take into account the seriousness of the violation,
the culpability of the violator, and the violator's record of cooperating with the
Government in disclosing the violation when enforcing or imposing penalties.."
HAS BEEN DELETED.

3) The Morella Bill and its sponsors staunchly supported the
shooting of 'Unplaceable Horses' and 'Horses Beyond Recovery'.
HoofPAC would never support the unnecessary violent shooting of these horses.
In the Feinstein Bill, both 'Unplaceable Horses' and 'Horses Beyond Recovery'
are, when necessary, humanely euthanized by veterinarian by lethal injection only.

4) Holding time for law enforcement to place a confiscated horse
has been extended from 30 to 90 days.

5) Findings have been expanded to include:

a) food safety,
b) non compliance with conventional 'industry standards' for transportation,
c) non compliance with "Acceptable" euthanasia for horses according to
the AVMA Panel on Euthanasia '2000.
d) consumer fraud and theft

as well as:
e) heritage
f) culture
g) cruelty

Please e-mail, call and fax your Senators today
(Go to www.HoofPAC.com Write to Congress and find out who your
representatives are) and respectfully request that they be listed as a
cosponsor on the Feinstein Bill to prohibit the slaughter of American
horses for human consumption.

Let them know that Americans (88-93%) do not want their pleasure,
recreation and sporting horses...a non food animal... cruelly
slaughtered for gourmet export.

Keep America's Horses In The Stable...And Off The Table!

For information please contact: [email protected]

Thank you for caring about America's horses,
Cathleen Doyle, founder
HoofPAC

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