Actions You Can Take

After the hours of exposure to abuse, disease, and neglect, the documented act of slaughter itself is all too often inhumane with many equine still conscious during dismemberment.

Congress has the opportunity to end this. Failure to pass the SAFE Act keeps every equine in America, potentially, one sale away from a kill buyer. The kill buyers, also known as horse meat brokers, purchase equines to transport them to Canadian or Mexican slaughter houses where they sell by the pound.

Ask your lawmakers to join the other members of Congress who have supported this bill. The majority of the Americans surveyed, over 80%, oppose horse slaughter. Please support the SAFE ACT - House of Representatives H.R. 3475 / Senate 2037.

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Please call your U.S. Representative’s office and ask him/her to cosponsor the Wild Horse and Burro Protection Act of 2023 (H.R. 3656). This bill would end the use of helicopters during the roundups.

Text from the bill reads, “(2) The use of helicopters to chase equines over prolonged distances, usually on rough terrain, is particularly dangerous, and can frighten the animals and lead to deadly situations.”

An additional point, “(8) The elimination of helicopters from the Bureau of Land Management’s gatherings would provide a more humane method of capturing equines, and provide significant savings to taxpayers.”

Read the full bill text here. https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3656 to learn more.

While on your call, would you take a moment to ask your Federal lawmaker to support maintaining our wild equine on Public Lands? The primary beneficiary of HMAs, Herd Management Areas, was intended to be wild horses and burros.

Politely remind your representative the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program is a taxpayer funded program. Keeping wild equine on their specified lands is the most cost effective and safest way to protect them. It is the fiscally responsibile option.

The Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 (WFRHBA) was signed into law with unanimous support in both the United States House and Senate.

Thank you for taking action.

Find your Representative’s contact info here.

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative