November 2005
Last
Thanksgiving Senator Conrad Burns sent the wild horse community into an
uproar when he attached his infamous rider to the Federal Appropriations
bill, gutting the Wild Free Roaming Horse and Burro Act and making it legal
to slaughter America’s wild horses. Return to Freedom and the American Wild
Horse Preservation Campaign worked tirelessly alongside a national coalition
of organizations and the American public to reverse this devastating
legislation Go To:
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A SIGN OF HOPE FOR WILD HORSES - CONGRESS
RESPONDS:
This week, Congressmen Nick Rahall (D-WV) and Ed Whitfield
(R-KY) introduced H.R. 297 in response to a last minute amendment by Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT) to the omnibus appropriations bill passed late last year that weakens the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act by allowing wild horses to be sold for slaughter. The Rahall-Whitfield legislation would restore a federal prohibition on the commercial sale and slaughter of wild free-roaming horses and burros. “A public outcry has again begun across the United States over the change in law that now allows the commercial sale and slaughter of these animals,” said Congressman Rahall. “We need to act before it is too late for thousands of these animals.”
The Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act passed in 1971 as a result of the enormous public outcry against wanton killing of wild horses. Before this bill was enacted, wild horses and burros were shot and slaughtered by the hundreds of thousands for use as pet food or for human consumption overseas. The recent Burns amendment has turned the clock back and set the stage for mass slaughter once again.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
It is critical that your federal Representative hear from you today. Please ask him/her to cosponsor H.R. 297 and to do all they can to ensure the enactment of this legislation. Please let your Senators know that you hope they will support similar legislation in the Senate, as well.
Letters and phone calls are most helpful. Click here to find your legislators.
This week, Congressmen Nick Rahall (D-WV) and Ed Whitfield
(R-KY) introduced H.R. 297 in response to a last minute amendment by Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT) to the omnibus appropriations bill passed late last year that weakens the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act by allowing wild horses to be sold for slaughter. The Rahall-Whitfield legislation would restore a federal prohibition on the commercial sale and slaughter of wild free-roaming horses and burros. “A public outcry has again begun across the United States over the change in law that now allows the commercial sale and slaughter of these animals,” said Congressman Rahall. “We need to act before it is too late for thousands of these animals.”
The Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act passed in 1971 as a result of the enormous public outcry against wanton killing of wild horses. Before this bill was enacted, wild horses and burros were shot and slaughtered by the hundreds of thousands for use as pet food or for human consumption overseas. The recent Burns amendment has turned the clock back and set the stage for mass slaughter once again.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
It is critical that your federal Representative hear from you today. Please ask him/her to cosponsor H.R. 297 and to do all they can to ensure the enactment of this legislation. Please let your Senators know that you hope they will support similar legislation in the Senate, as well.
Letters and phone calls are most helpful. Click here to find your legislators.