On America’s 250th birthday, we want to recognize the vital role that horses have played in U.S. history and American culture. We have asked much of them; they have given us everything in return.
These sentient beings remain our companions and partners in competition, work, and recreation. The wild horses that roam our public lands remain a symbol of freedom known throughout the world.
For more than two decades, legislation has been introduced to both place a lasting ban on horse slaughter in the United States and shut down the pipeline to foreign slaughterhouses that claim the lives of more than 20,000 American equines every year.
Those include domestic horses as well as an unknown number of once wild and free horses and burros that fall through the cracks after being adopted or sold following government roundups.
Return to Freedom has worked hard on Capitol Hill in support of two routes to ending slaughter:
- The first is the stand-alone Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act.
- The second: language inserted into the surface transportation reauthorization bill that would ban shipping horses and other equines for slaughter.
The SAFE Act has amassed 230 bipartisan cosponsors — enough support to pass the bill if brought up for a vote. That backing also sends a strong message that a ban must be kept in the transportation bill.
Return to Freedom is working hard to continue building support for the SAFE Act and to hold pro-slaughter campaigns at bay, but we need you…
In honor of our country’s 250th birthday and the role horses have played in our shared history, let’s make it our goal to reach 250 cosponsors!
How to help:
- Call (202) 224-3121. Urge your representative to oppose any effort to remove the horse slaughter ban amendment when the surface transportation reauthorization bill comes up for a vote on the House floor.
- Send a message to all of your members of Congress asking for them to cosponsor the SAFE Act and the inclusion of anti-slaughter language in the surface transportation reauthorization bill.
- Help spread the word by sharing our posts on social media.
- Donate to our Wild Horse Defense Fund, which fuels our Capitol Hill lobbying, grassroots advocacy and selective litigation.
Learn more:
Watch our recent webinar on the effort to end horse slaughter.
Photo taken at our sanctuary by Lynn Bowers
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