http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills info@washingtonwatch.com http://www.pjdoland.com/chai/?v=0.1 http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#37893 "Horse killers like cash. Checks leave a trail, ......checks can cramp your lifestyle." www.tbfriends.com (June 20, 2008). Here you have it. Horse killers like cash. Money exchanges hands under the table so the the killers don't have to pay taxes and the IRS doesn't know how much money they really earn. But we know how much they earn by transporting double decker trailers every week. The answer is $60,000 a month.... 37893@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:22:53 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#37892 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7589126 WASHINGTON (AP) - "The Supreme Court has declined an appeal from the owners of a horse slaughtering plant who challenged an Illinois law prohibiting the killing of horses for human consumption. Cavel International Inc. closed its plant in DeKalb, Ill., last year after a federal appeals court upheld the ban. The company urged the justices to step in to allow the facility to reopen. The court did not comment on its order Monday."... 37892@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:20:47 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#37891 The group also said the video showed evidence of the transportation of injured, blind and emaciated horses (including a horse with a tumor on its face and another with eye cancer) as well as the transportation of a very pregnant mare and the discovery of a full-term foal in a rendering pit that had been eviscerated by animals. The group also alleges that the horses are not being provided food or water as they wait overnight in pens, are too densely packed and are being improperly stunned before they are killed." DID YOU READ THE PART WHERE THE VERY PREGNANT MARE AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE FOAL THAT WAS EVISCERATED???? AND THE EMACIATED HORSES. AND THE CANCEROUS LESIONS ON THE HORSES?? AND THE LACK OF WATER, FOOD, OVERCROWDING, AND THE IMPROPER STUNNING??? STOP THIS CRUELTY. STOP THIS HORRIFIC PRACTICE. CALL YOUR SENATORS. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE. THE HORSE SLAUGHTER INDUSTRY IS CRUEL, BRUTAL, HEARTLESS, COLD AND PREDATORY. PASS S311 and HR503!!!!!!... 37891@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:17:54 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#37890 Horse slaughter is termed "More shocking was film inside the kill pen, which appeared to show horses being tormented, struggling to regain their feet and being dragged out to be strung up to have their throats slit. The CHDC says the industry has existed in Canada for years but has escalated since the recent closure of all U.S. horse-slaughter plants. It says horse meat is shipped to Japan and parts of Europe, where it is popular among consumers. Ruby said policing the slaughter of horses is impossible and demanded the federal government intervene to ban the practice. "It is shockingly inhumane," he said." THESE ARE THE WORDS OF CANADIANS WHO FOUND THE UNDERCOVER VIDEO SHOCKING.... 37890@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:13:49 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#37889 Horse slaughter termed "INHUMANE" http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2008/06/19/5920186-sun.html "Images of a horse slaughter that surfaced publicly yesterday were so horrific some reporters couldn't bear to watch them." "The hidden-camera footage of horses being slaughtered at Saskatchewan's Natural Valley Farms will now be used as a driver behind efforts to outlaw the practice in Canada." READ THE STORY ABOUT THE HORSE SLAUGHTER HOUSE IN CANADA. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT OUR HORSES WENT THROUGH WHEN THE DISGUSTING HORSE SLAUGHTER HOUSES WERE OPERATING IN THE US.... 37889@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:11:56 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#37888 HORSE SLAUGHTER = MONEY Kill buyers earn $60,000 a month by selling our horses to slaughter. MONEY is the true driving force behind this predatory industry. Call your senators and representative to pass S311 and HR 503. Don't let these cruel and heartless killers and backyard breeders kill anymore of our horses. Make the call! End the monetary and predatory industry NOW. The Supreme Court refused to hear Cavel's case to open a horse slaughter house in the US. Do the right thing. Make the call to your senators and representative. End the Larry Craig block by urging your senators to co-sponsor S311.... 37888@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:10:42 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#37887 Cruelty to horses at Canadian horse slaughterhouse June 2008 http://ca.news.yahoo.com/ad/capress-horse_abuse/page/7Zr9CrMMfg-- See for yourself. This cruelty toward the horses is exactly the cruelty our horses endured when the horse slaughterhouses were operating in the United States. Watch the video and don't be fooled by the animal rights nonsense that the pro-slaughter side talks about. Horse slaughter is NOT humane euthanasia. Our horses do NOT deserve to be brutally and cruelly killed.... 37887@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:09:08 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#37886 Horse slaughter is all about MONEY continued "The demand for horsemeat creates a market where horse slaughter “kill buyers” compete with other people who want to buy horses. This encourages owners to supply that market through over-breeding horses, for example.” The study’s findings confirmed an earlier Italian study of horse meat consumption from 1995-2001." These results prove that MONEY drives horse slaughter NOT the number of unwanted horses. Call your senators and representative if they haven't become co-sponsors and URGE them to pass S311 and HR503.... 37886@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:06:54 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#37885 Horse slaughter does NOT reduce the number of unwanted horses. http://www.kaufmanzoning.net/horsemeat/AnimalLawCoalitionRelease061808.... /> Slaughter… is useless as a tool for controlling the unwanted horse population and instead simply creates a … market that competes with potential buyers of … horses and encourages a continuous supply.” "John Holland, senior analyst for AAHS (Americans Against Horse Slaughter) explained further, “The trends are irrefutable. We found that equine abuse levels are clearly linked to economic conditions but that slaughter trends were antithetical to them for most of the study period. We now see that what drives horse slaughter is the market for horse meat in Europe and Asia. American horses are killed for their meat and not because they are unwanted or abandoned."... 37885@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:03:07 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#37849 Copy and paste into your web browser: http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_311.html The average cost per family to pass these bills is 22 cents. You can't afford 22 cents? Catch a clue: your scare tactics won't work. We all know your agenda which is to continue to earn $60,000 a month. Don't give us that crap that there are other things that are more important. You just want to protect your GREEDY and predatory business, horse slaughter.... 37849@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:59:52 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#36482 Isn't it funny that all these bleeding heart liberal's care more about horses than people. These folks are activists with an agenda. Our country has enough problems without more taxes, etc. They all get a flier telling them to vote but the average american doesn't get a chance unless they happen to hear about it. Animal rights activists as well as environmental activists are devasting our economy. They value animals over humans and WILL continue to ban ALL MEAT slowly.... 36482@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:36:14 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#32975 I do not understand why someome would think of hurting any type of animal I hear about people beating up their dogs and all they get is a slap on the hand. Horses are very gentle just like all the other animals. I m for one is against animal cruelity peorid every animal it doesnt matter if is a dog,cat,pig or deer these animals deserive our respect and I dont care what anyone has to say about it. RESPECT the animals!!!!!... 32975@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:37:37 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#32786 Oh please, give me a break! Why not use them for food? You people are so damned ignorant with your "loving, caring, gentle animals" comments! Do you think horses volunteer their services to people out of their own choice and goodwill? It is called "FORCED SERVITUDE"! Once you bleeding heart vegan liberal "animal rights" activists (terrorists) succeed in passing this bill, you will just proceed on to systematically banning the consumption of all meat, beef poultry, pork, fish, etc.! Stop trying to encroach on the lives of those who are doing you no harm!... 32786@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:28:56 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#32750 To all of you against this bill...what if we took all the unwanted dogs turned into our shelters and killed them to sell the meat to China (who eats dogs, BTW)? Would we all be animal terroists then?... 32750@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:19:24 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#32155 I don't understand this.There are rules protecting other wild animals! What about the Mustang,they have a right to be here just like all of the other animals.I am sure some were here before our forefathers were.Stop THE SLAUGHTER and Torment.... 32155@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:15:25 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#32154 I am against the slaughter and abuse which is being done .The wild Mustang is a symbol of "freedom and independence"that America was built on.They too worked hard in helping to build America;they carried the mail,provided transportation and some died in our country's battles beside their rider.A few were a President's best friend!I don't want my great grandchildren to know the Mustang as a plastic model.Please, wake up America.... 32154@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:03:09 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#31518 The way to actually help is not sitting here and just talking about it; it is getting up and doing something about it. Even if this bill is passed it does not mean people will stop being irresponsible in breeding horses. I mean do you think that outlawing something is going to make it better? Oh and all of you that keep going on and on about the percentage of people wanting this bill passed check out the percentage of people that doesn’t want God taken out of our schools and the percentage that do. I Do and will support any bill against the slaughter of any animal!! http://youtube.com/watch?v=3uKhp9B2M5I http://youtube.com/watch?v=f7_V4aMh2EM http://youtube.com/watch?v=wyF3IcIK2_A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPKI0qCDODw http://www.myspace.com/beth_sawyers... 31518@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:11:53 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#31517 If you go by a pasture that has cows being raised for human consumption look at them. Do you think they want to leave their lovely pasture to go to a slaughter house? Do you think that just because they are cows they want to be hauled around in cramped spaces? Stop harping on the fact that this bill should be passed and think of ways that will improve the way animals are slaughtered and the way animals are sold. I mean think of the way the Internet has been improved over the years it was not the B****ing and moaning that changed it; it was an actual person that made it happen.... 31517@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:04:21 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#31516 For all of you that support this bill I would like to thank you. For all of you that don’t support it I want to thank you also. The basis of my opinion is that even if the animal was breed and raised for human consumption, it is completely the same as slaughtering a horse. You may not spend that much time with a cow, a chicken, or a lamb but you still took on the responsibility to raise it and take care of it. For the ones that do not eat horsemeat you do not have much to say because some of you eat other meat. For you to cut down the ones that do eat horsemeat, that is as wrong. Did you know that back in 1874 our ancestors killed poor defenseless horse’s on the basis that it gave the Native Americans more mobility? Yes we are Americans that should be better than this but we’re not so why B**** at everyone that doesn’t support your view when we all have freedom of speech?... 31516@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:03:01 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#30994 Im only 12 years old an seeing these pics is depresing. No horse should go through this torment. It is crual and unfair to these animals. Seeing these animals in small cages and in squeezed spaces is terifying. Amagine children seeing these pics of the animals they have dolls,and posters ofwould be heart breaking them. My father is a police oficer and when ishowed him these pics he was terified at the conditions the animals were in. he has notified other officers of this and theyalso have seen the conditions these animals have been in and were very upset by the looks of it. If i knew were the locations of these sloter houses were i would walk straght up to the animals cages and set them free. no matter if i had to go to jail i would stil do it. DON'T KILL THE HORSES!!!!!!!... 30994@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:10:34 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#30739 I put my old gelding down in October. That is what I needed to do for him. But, what about families who can not affort the $200 it cost to have a vet come out to put your horse down? Just stop the painful killing and don't worry about the animal after his pain of life is over. Some can not even eat enough to keep their body healthy, living is a horrible thing, put them down quickly, and do what ever with that body. Like our bodies, it is only a vessel of the soul, no more. Just make the death painless and don't worry if they go to feed someone(that is not a bad ending) or if they go to fertilize some land) I loved my gelding to pieces, but I loved his companionship, his attitude, and what joy we had together, his body was only housing him. Just make the end moments easy, and don't let disposing of the body harder that it should be.... 30739@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:00:58 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#30319 PLEASE PASS BOTH BILLS HR503 AND S311. PEOPLE STOP OVER BREEDING!! SAY NO TO SLAUGHTERING OF HORSES FOREVER!! WE AS AMERICANS CAN DO MUCH BETTER THAN THIS. LETS PUT AN END IT FOREVER!... 30319@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:56:36 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#30090 I am sorry I just mistake accident vote "AGAINST" bills (for ban horse slaughter), please forgive me. But I real want vote " FOR" bills to support ban end horse slaughter in Canada, United States and Mexico. I am Canadian horse lover, beginning rider. I wish to vote at HR 503 and S 311. Please ban end horse slaughter now.... 30090@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:58:44 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#30025 Stop horse slaughter. I would only imagine what's going on in any animal's mind are the very same thoughts that go through the human murder victim prior to their death. Fear, smelling blood, hearing sounds of death, seeing the prior victim fall and flight to get away from the horror that they are facing…unable to escape. Slaughter/murder is the most atrocious ending to any animal/human's life, it takes an uncaring human being to carry out the task of killing these animals. Seems to me that they could be serial killers if they no longer got their pleasure out of murdering the animals. For a society that has supposedly evolved into civilized culture, mankind never seems to let go of his barbaric ways. I guess nothing is safe on this earth as long as mankind exists. I find it hard to understand how humans can be so cruel to the very creatures God has put in our hands to protect and provide care.... 30025@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:06:51 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_503.html#29709 This is part of my paper I did for our FFA public speaking contest. I am only 15 so it's not the best, but I tried! I hope this will help someone in their decision making!... 29709@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:45:13 EST