Where Candidates for President Stand on Horse Slaughter

Now that the national political conventions for the 2020 presidential elections on November 3 have wrapped, we wanted to look at where the recently nominated candidates and their running mates stand on the issue of banning horse slaughter. Since the introduction of our very first bill to ban horse slaughter in 2002, there have been several different versions before Congress, all with the same goal of ending horse slaughter. All of the bills have enjoyed strong bipartisan backing in Congress and overwhelming public support from all parts of the country.

In Our Hands Action FundAugust 28, 2020Elections, Candidates, Voting Record, Legislation

THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW!

You’d think it would be simple; Americans don’t eat horses and poll after poll shows that the public overwhelmingly supports a ban on horse slaughter. Still, nearly two decades after the introduction of the original bill to ban horse slaughter a federal law to end…

Legislative UpdateIn Our Hands Action FundJune 4, 2020Legislation, SAFE Act, Law

The Beginning of the End

Before 2000 few Americans were aware that many of our beloved horses were being brutally slaughtered for human consumption overseas. Today that is largely still true outside of the animal welfare and equine community.