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  Another Chance 4 Horses, Inc. is a non-profit 501c(3) incorporation in continuous operation for over a decade,  AC4H is run by volunteers, we have no paid staff. There are multiple race tracks are in our tri-state area as well as many auctions that supply the foreign owned three slaughter houses in the USA and Canada.  The horses rely entirely on your donations and your help is urgently needed. Rescuing and rehabilitating our beloved equine friends is an incredibly rewarding experience. However, it is also expensive and time consuming. AC4H is diversified. We assist horses through surrenders/neglect cases, local auctions outbidding kill-buyers, buying sick or injured and purchasing directly out of the kill pens sometimes literally moments before they are shipped to slaughter. We are an all breed rescue.  We are located in a highly horse populated and saturated area.  With your assistance we have assisted thoroughbreds and standardbreds off the track, quarter horses, morgans, saddlebreds, paints, mustangs, donkeys, mules, miniatures drafts, ponies and PMU horses , literally thousands of lives have been saved.  It is only through your contributions that we can do what we do to save the horses. Please help them with your tax deductible donation today. No amount is too small or too large and there is not one life that isn't important to us.

Also see our link   What do we rescue them from?

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Here's a link to the CBC's report on horse slaughter in Canada:  http://www.cbc.ca/canada/

 

This is a story on reactions to the report:  http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/06/10/horses-slaughter.html

 HBO investigates horse slaughter -http://www.hbo.com/realsports/stories/2008/episode.134.s1.html.  Few casual horse racing fans are aware that many former racing horses are slaughtered for profit. When a thoroughbred race horse reaches the end of its career or is simply no longer profitable on the track, it is often taken directly to auction and sold for meat. Because horse slaughter is no longer practiced in this country, these thoroughbreds are now being shipped by "killer buyers" to slaughterhouses abroad, which are frequently less regulated and less humane than former U.S. slaughterhouses. Correspondent Bernard Goldberg, who recently won the 2008 Sports Emmy(r) for Outstanding Sports Journalism for his 2007 REAL SPORTS story on the NFL concussion crisis, traces the disturbing journey many of these young and healthy horses take from the track, to auctions, to slaughterhouses, and finally to the plates of European and Japanese diners who pay top dollar for the delicacy.
 

Let them know you appreciate the exposure with a thank you email them at - http://www.hbo.com/apps/submitinfo/contactus/submit.do?title=Real%20Sports&questiontype=realsports

The latest on the slaughter issue....

The bill is stuck in the Senate.... we need help to get it to the floor.

To contact your Senator  http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm   please them to cosponsor HR503 / S311

Currently the USA foreign owned slaughter houses are closed.  However the USA has ALWAYS exported horses for slaughter to Canada and Mexico.  To date there were more horses slaughtered in 2008 than when the slaughter houses were open in the USA.  We have hear the "abandoned horses" reports but when we actually investigated those reports they were from when the USA slaughter houses were open or in fact did not happen at all.  Abandonment in most states is punishable by law.... so please do let us know if you have an abandoned horse. 

We have also heard that now that the USA slaughter houses are closed that there are more horses than ever being abandoned or starved.  As I just stated when a followup team actually investigated the reports of abandonment there was actually no proof... or it happened when slaughter houses in the USA were open so basically it has nothing to do with the USA slaughter houses shutting down.  Just a quick reminder the USA horses are still going to Canada in higher numbers to date than when the USA slaughter houses were open and running... so pro -slaughter side... if you are reporting starvation don't try to link it to the USA houses being closed... first they don't slaughter skinny horses - no value and 2nd once again let me drive the point home... to date there is a higher number of USA horses being exported (we have always exported) for slaughter than when the USA slaughter houses were over.... THERE IS NO CONNECTION BETWEEN SLAUGHTER AND STARVATION OR ABANDONMENT.
 

Please see http://www.kaufmanzoning.net/horsemeat/ The Truth About Abandoned Horses
Report-Deleting the Fiction: Abandoned Horses-Dec 23, 2007,  Report-Deleting the Fiction: Abandoned Horses, Part 2-March 2008 and Report-Deleting the Fiction: Short Paper-Feb,2008-Factual Evidence Against Written Articles on Abandoned horses

USDA - NASS Horses slaughtered in the USA http://www.nass.usda.gov/QuickStats/index2.jsp - USA slaughter houses are now closed but horses have always been exported  to Mexico and Canada for slaughter.  To date (May) not even 1/2 way through the year - there have been more USA horses killed in Canada that in the USA slaughter houses slaughtered in total last year.

Export of USA horses to Mexico Statistics - http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/al_ls635.txt  

Weekly Imports from Canada (by region): http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/WA_LS637.txt
A ban on horse slaughter in the US is looking likely. What fate will befall the 100,000 animals that have headed for slaughter each year? John Holland suggests there is no evidence the US will end up awash with unwanted horses. Read more
 
Inside Edition....
Thank you John Holland for all of your hard work, dedication and direction.  Thank you Inside Edition for giving the horses air time!  Also, I would like to thank the Horse Rescue Coalition who assisted in getting permission for Inside Edition to attend the auction, who drove from far distances to attend and help the horses as they do every day and thank you to the people who donated to save lives and a special thank you to the FOB's I did make special mention of you for all you do in the interview that I did. Unfortunately, it didn't make it to the finished product so I am thanking you all again personally here.

Christy Co-Founder AC4H interviewing with Matt from Inside Edition

Inside Edition interview airing 11-26-07 click here to see exclusive pictures and watch the interview on photo bucket. 

       Video by Laura YouTube - The Journey Of The Inside Edition Horses

Letter to Paul Sorvino from a 91 year old concerned person who knows the value and importance of horses as our heritage.

Washington DC pictures March 08 - American's Against Horse Slaughter

Please help end the inhumane slaughter of America's horses for overseas human consumption:
http://humanityforhorses.blogspot.com/
The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears. ~Arabian Proverb  ~Lor in PA

Sites of Interest:   www.marynash.org

If you have not yet had the great pleasure of seeing one of the newest (and best done) anti-slaughter sites on the internet, you really need to visit this one: 
http://www.commonhorsesense.net/

Are Horses safe to eat???  Here is an article about the toxins that are in horse meat 
 http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/hanchette182.html

Video by Michelle Kincaid  http://s232.photobucket.com/albums/ee33/m_kincaid/Support%20S%20311/?action=view&current=HorseSlaughterVideo_0001.flv

Want to help get the word out... send this to a news paper, radio station or television station or just to your email list...

~~~~ Press Release...  click here ~~~~

 
                                       THERE WILL BE NO "UNWANTED HORSE" CRISIS!

 Slaughter in no way helps with unwanted horses.  In my white paperI prove there is no relationship:

 Each horse in America is the responsibility of its current owner.  The only thing that is going to change is that those owners will not have the option of abandoning their horses to this cruel fate for a few pieces of silver.  As rescuers (and yes I rescue too), it is not our responsibility to save every horse an owner wants to get rid of.   It is there responsibility.  Abandoning their horses or neglecting them are not legal options. 

Many horses are sent to slaughter because it is marginally lest costly than treating them right.  For example, a string of camp ponies can be replaced each season slightly more cheaply than it can be wintered over.  The same goes for other horses.  If a race horse has an injury that keeps it from racing for a few months, it is often sold to slaughter, etc, etc.  It is all about money folks!  It is also about whether horses are nothing more than property that can be discarded at will. 

Finally, horse slaughter rewards bad behavior.  When you reward bad behavior you just get more bad behavior and a sense of entitlement on the part of the abusers. 

John Holland

 

The Politics of Horse Slaughter

By: John Holland  November 5rd, 2006

 

Covering The current situation, A recent history of the AHSPA and The bottom line click the above link for the full article.

 

Hi Folks,
 

 language of HR 503 RH explanation

 
Goodlatte blocked HR 857 in his agriculture committee for the whole 108th Congress.  To get passed this, HR 503 was written to ban the buying, selling, donating, and transporting of horses to slaughter, but not the actual slaughter.  That meant that it could be put into the Commerce committee instead of Bob Goodlatte's Agriculture committee.
 
Joe Barton is the Chairman of the Commerce committee and he released the bill at the urging of the House leadership even though he personally voted against it. 
 
Bob Goodlatte did a maneuver called "re-referral" by which he pulled the bill into his committee too.  In his committee he butchered it and added six poison pill amendments.  Both bills were thus "reported to the house" and went into the record.  The rules committee decided to allow a vote on only the original version of HR 503 as reported from the Commerce Committee, and two individual amendments from Agriculture.  The version of HR 503 that was allowed to be voted on by the rules committee was thus called HR 503 IH.  The IH stands for "introduced to House".
 
Either amendment would have destroyed the bill.  One amendment would have delayed implementation until the USDA thought there were enough rescues to handle the "unwanted" horses.  They would never have deemed the number of rescues adequate.  The other was the King amendment which would allow native Americans and other ethnic groups to slaughter horses.  Both amendments failed, but quite a few representatives that voted for 503 also voted for the first amendment.
 
HR 503 passed perfectly cleanly and any stories to the contrary are based on misunderstandings.
 
John Holland