28/04/2007

Victory for horses!


Here's a happy update...



Last Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly (277-137) to restore a 34-year-old ban on the commercial sale and slaughter of America's wild horses and burros (H.R. 503 - the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act). On Wednesday, the bill to ban the sale and transport to slaughter of all American horses cleared a critical Senate committee by a decisive 15-7 vote. There is more work ahead but these victories move us even closer to banning horse slaughter in the United States permanently.

Thank you.


2 comments:

someone said...

hooray for the horsies!

asha said...

And hooray for us, for putting sufficient pressure on the lawmakers to reinstate protection for them!