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GAO REPORT

The Government Accountability Office has issued its report, GAO 11-228, on action needed to address unintended consequences of the 2007 closing of domestic slaughter facilities. A principal recommendation: “Congress may wish to consider instituting an explicit ban on the domestic slaughter of horses and export of U.S. horses intended for slaughter in foreign countries.”
WE NOW HAVE FOUR CHOICES.

DO NOTHING…JUST WAIT AND SEE WHAT THE DECISION MAKERS ARE GOING TO DO……NOT A GOOD CHOICE.

SUPPORT LAWS REQUIRING HUMANE TRANSPORT TO SLAUGHTER IN OTHER COUNTRIES…..Does that make sense to “Humanely” Transport Horses to be Tortured and Murdered? Oxymoron.

SUPPORT OPENING OF SLAUGHTER HOUSES IN THE U.S. SO HORSES DON’T HAVE TO BE IN-HUMANELY TRANSPORTED TO SLAUGHTER, AND INHUMANELY SLAUGHTERED IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. Another Oxymoron…There is no such thing as “Humane Slaughter”.

SUPPORT BILL S. 1176, WHICH IS ALREADY PENDING IN THE SENATE, WHICH WOULD BAN TRANSPORT OF AMERICAN HORSES ANYWHERE TO BE SLAUGHTERED FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION.

S. 1176: American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act of 2011 is 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.

IF YOU OPPOSE THE TRANSPORT OF AMERICAN HORSES ANYWHERE TO BE SLAUGHTERED FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, HERE ARE 2 THINGS YOU CAN DO.
CLICK ON THIS LINK, Click on YOUR STATE, Find YOUR SENATORS, AND ASK THEM TO PLEASE CO-SPONSOR SENATE BILL S. 1176. Please Call, Fax and Email. There are currently only 17 CO-SPONSORS of S. 1176. Contact YOUR SENATORS immediately and ask them to please CO-SPONSOR S. 1176.
THEN
CLICK ON THIS LINK, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. Please find the committee member from YOUR State, and Call, Fax and Email him, asking him to “report” the bill, S-1176, favorably to the Senate as a whole allowing it to receive consideration by the full body and move forward.

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PLEASE REVIEW THIS INFORMATION ABOUT “COMMITTEES”….WE DO NOT WANT THIS BILL, S 1176 TO DIE IN COMMITTEE, LIKE H.R.503 DIED. PLEASE REVIEW THESE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY, AND THEN CONTACT THE COMMITTEE MEMBER WHICH IS FROM YOUR STATE.

Committees are like “mini Congresses”. Most bills begin by being considered by one or several congressional committees which may “report” the bill favorably or unfavorably to the Senate or House as a whole allowing it to receive consideration by the full body and move forward, or may fail to consider a bill at all preventing the bill from moving forward. Most bills never receive any committee consideration and are never reported out. House bills start in House committees and enter Senate committees only after being passed by the House and received by the Senate, and similarly for Senate bills.
Information on committee proceedings is notoriously opaque: committees vary in what information they make public and often do not provide basic public information such as the results of votes electronically or in an understandable format. Furthermore, if your Member of Congress does not sit on any committee relevant to this bill, you generally have no opportunity to voice your opinion on the bill while the bill is receiving its most important consideration.

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REALITY – THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS HUMANE SLAUGHTER