Evening folks'This is a Red Alert''From Animal Welfare Institute (AWI)

Evening folks'This is a Red Alert''From Animal Welfare Institute (AWI)

Our Bill HR6598 will come to a vote - please call and spread the word.

Please make your calls this Monday,Tuesday, and Wednessday

URGENT eALERT!!! CALLS NEEDED TODAY!!!
HORSE SLAUGHTER BILL UP FOR COMMITTEE VOTE

September 8, 2008

Dear Humanitarian:

AWI has learned that the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R.
6598) will be voted on by the House Judiciary Committee on
Wednesday, September 10th.
The bill, which was introduced in July by Judiciary Chairman John
Conyers (D-MI) and Representative Dan Burton (R-IN), will criminalize
the slaughter of American horses. While the vast majority of
Americans, the United States Congress and members of the House
Judiciary Committee support an end to horse slaughter there are some
members on the committee who are staunch supporters of horse
slaughter and will attempt to kill the bill through subterfuge.

What You Can Do:

Call and/or email members of the House Judiciary Committee
(http://bl129w. blu129.mail. live.com/ mail/InboxLight. aspx?
See full list below;

TODAY and ask them "to support passage of the Prevention of Equine
Cruelty Act (H.R. 6598) out of committee as introduced, with NO
amendments". Please also ask them "to cosponsor H.R. 6598 if they
haven't done so already." Let them know that:

Every 5 Minutes an American horse is slaughtered for human
consumption abroad.

Despite the closure of the country's three remaining horse
slaughter plants in 2007, tens of thousands of American horses
continue to be slaughtered in Canada and Mexico in the absence of a
strong US law banning & prohibiting the trade.

Of course we are hoping the bill passes, and we will make our calls
like everybody else, but dollars to donuts says it dont pass. We have
been saying this all along, about FIVE YEARS now. The only way we
will see an end to the slaughter & exportation of our American
Equines to slaughter is to STAND UP - GO OUT & DEMAND an end through
the power of MASS & continous protests. Nothing less will do. Mark
our words, the bill will fail.

CJ/MK
aka "MuleKist," Founder,
Friends of Equines FOES of Equine Slaughter
http://www.freewebs .com/friendsofeq uines
"Because We Care"