I only saw the first half of the program. He may have offered some ideas later. But those of us fighting horse slaughter do have a plan. We go to Washington, DC and lobby Congressmen's offices, set up meetings and try to reason with them. We offer the facts and statistics we've collected to support our position. We don't have money, so we try to steal away with out time. It really pays to pay Congressmen you know. You can pay them in vacations, for speaking engagements, and in campaign contributions. We don't do that. The slaughter industry pays lobbyists, one of their top lobbyists these days is Democrat, former Senator Chuck Stenholme from TX. Prior to him, sitting Representative Bob Goodlatte-R VA was the loudest voice and put a hold on the bill to stop horse slaughter for human consumption by a previous bill number. Now they have a new spokesman and a tap dancer I understand but only in airport men's rooms. Yup, good ole Sen. Larry Craig is now dancing for the slaughter industry with holds on the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. I'm sure if you asked these men they would no doubt tell you that it's a moral decision, ...all of a sudden they care.
I guess toe tappy Larry needs some campaign contributions after his good times in MN.
To become independently informed on this bill you should go to the official Congressional site http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/thomas and then from there you can read the bill, this is the House version and then you can visit the Senate version by clicking where it says Bill Summary & Status then Related Bills. While you are there you can click on Cosponsors to see who signed on to the bill and see if your Congressmen are there.
If you want our prejudice resources you can visit http://www.marynash.org and a veterinary opinion Veterinarians for Equine Welfare http://vetsforequinewelfare.org/ is exellent. There you will find resources that will keep you busy for months reading. We've been at this for many years now. I was quoted in Mary Nash, all of the toxins that are consumed by horses, the drugs, the sprays and parasite control, and so on add up to some toxic meat. So one day I started listing some of the things I gave to my senior horse, and he was just a pasture potato so he wasn't even competing at the time and I only made a partial list. Considering that the majority of American horse is consumed in France I followed the list by saying,... "Choke on that Pierre!" and everyone loved it. Next thing I'm reading an article that said, Mr. Heimlich, meet Pierre. I can be a little sarcastic when provoked.
Oh my gosh, I have to stop writing, LOL. Sorry.
[quote="Topher"]I did ask a question in the other thread, but I think it got lost in the static...
As I didn't see the report, did Bernie make any recommendations for actions we should take? Or should we just stop watching horse racing on television, stop going to the racetrack (I did go to Churchill Downs last year--for a Police concert), or do we need to do more (write our Congressmen, etc.)?
(I don't even have cable, much less HBO, as I never seem to have the time to watch TV.)
Thanks!
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