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HORSES MUST BE TREATED HEROICALLY
AM-NY-April 26, 2007
Letter to the Editor - Re: "Storied Stable to Leave Central Park"
Let’s hope that good homes are found for the 45 Claremont horses and that
they not go to auction. Horses are generally not sold directly to slaughter
houses but take the indirect route of being sold at auction to the highest
bidder. This is what happens to some carriage horses who no longer make the cut.
At the auctions, representatives of slaughter houses or “killer buyers” buy
horses by the pound. More than 100,000 horses were slaughtered in the US last
year.
Although recent court decisions have effectively shut down the three foreign
owned slaughterhouses in the US, horses are still being trucked to slaughter in
Mexico and Canada. The American Horse Slaughter and Prevention Act (H.R. 249 and
HR. 503) will settle the matter permanently since it also prohibits the export
of live horses to other countries for slaughter. Please call your
representatives in Congress to ask that they support this legislation.
Elizabeth Forel
Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages
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