United Horsemen~Building a Better Future for Horses

United Horsemen is a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to the well being of horses and horse people. We work for the restoration of humane and regulated horse processing in the U.S. to ensure the best possible fate and valuable use of excess, unwanted, and unusable horses. We also work for the responsible management and control of wild and feral horses on federal, state, tribal, and private lands.

We seek to preserve the private property rights of all horse owners, our beloved horseback culture, and to ensure the long-term viability of the horse industry to not just survive, but to thrive economically, socially, and spiritually. We are a 100% volunteer grassroots organization that is nationwide.

Many of you have asked for a clear, concise one-page document of talking points that can be used to encourage fellow horse owners and businesses to call their Senators in regards to restoring humane horse slaughter that will improve horse welfare, stop needless & wasteful suffering & create jobs.

The GAO report “HORSE WELFARE: Action Needed to Address Unintended Consequences from Cessation of Domestic Slaughter” documents the decline in horse welfare, & the economic demise of the horse industry due to inappropriate federal intervention that closed the humane & regulated horse slaughter plants in the U.S.

As pointed out by the GAO, & as testified to by practically every horse industry & Ag organization in the Nation, appropriation riders & bills that seek to eliminate any possibility of humanely processing horses offer zero solutions & only exacerbate the suffering of horses, increase the number of needless & wasteful deaths, cause more abandonment, neglect, pain, & misery–they deprive families of livelihoods & the ability to raise their kids with the joy of horses in their lives.

Here you go…Copy & paste the link into your browser and view the full-sized sheet, post it, and share it everywhere you can think of, and print it out to hand out to people who don’t have computers.

http://library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1103685263837-78/Talking+Points-2.pdf

Make sure you write down the phone numbers of the Senators from your state for your friends and neighbors to make it easy for them to follow through…make sure they know that the Senate will likely be voting on the Ag Appropriations bill this coming week!