For
Immediate Release
Contact: Susan Hendrix (512) 476-3377 or (512) 413-1602
Chris Heyde (703) 836-4300 or (202) 423-8689
Horse
Slaughter Casts Dark Cloud Over "Seabiscuit's" Legacy
Texas
Congressman Co-Sponsors Bill to Stop Horse Slaughter
As Attorney General of Texas, John Cornyn, now a U.S. Senator, ruled in August
2002 that the two horse slaughter plants, French-owned Dallas Crown in Kaufman
and Belgian-owned Beltex in
Attempts in the Texas Legislature to legalize horse
slaughter for human consumption were thwarted when a bill sponsored by State
Rep. Betty Brown (R-Terrell) failed to win passage in the 2003 legislative
session.
A statewide voter survey on horse
slaughter, conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling and Research in May 2003, revealed
that 77 percent of
Proof that any horse, even the greatest of racing champions, can meet his fate in a slaughterhouse was revealed just last week when The Blood-Horse magazine reported that “Ferdinand,” the 1986 Kentucky Derby winner who went on to capture the 1987 “Horse of the Year” title, ended his extraordinary life in a Japanese slaughterhouse. (See web site below for article.)
If passed,
the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (HR 857) will prohibit the
slaughter of horses in the
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Additional information:
Has
the death of one champion helped to expose the cruelty faced by the tens of
thousands of horses each year in the
Dell
Hancock, of the famed Kentucky Clairborn Farm, where Ferdinand was born, has
come out urging support of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act.
To
learn more about this issue and the AHSPA, please visit http://www.saplonline.org/Legislation/ahpa.htm.
For
other articles and information on horse slaughter, log on to: www.kaufmanzoning.net/horsemeat
(all lowercase).
For video or visuals, contact Susan Hendrix at (512) 476-3377 or hendrixs@texas.net.