Sentences with phrase «banning horse slaughter»

Banning horse slaughter is the first step to banning livestock slaughter and bringing down animal agriculture (aka the slippery slope).

Horse Slaughter SCM 1001 is a resolution urging the state to oppose federal legislation banning horse slaughter and the export of horses to other countries for slaughter.

I also stand behind legislation to ban the round up and killing of wild Mustangs in the United States and finally banning horse slaughter.

Click here for more on the Court's decision upholding a Texas law banning horse slaughter for human consumption and here for information about the fight in the legislature and the courts in Illinois to shut down the horse slaughter plant in DeKalb.   Â

U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D - LA) introduced an amendment during the full committee markup that would ban horse slaughter, calling it both a health and a budget issue.

Congress effectively banned horse slaughter in 2006 by saying the USDA could not spend any money to inspect the plants.

It's time to ban horse slaughter.

Congress has previously voted to ban horse slaughter for human consumption.

Mayor Bacon was instrumental in the fight in the Texas federal courts to shut down both horse slaughter houses in Texas. And, last year the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 1949 Texas law that banned horse slaughter for human consumption, a law which had been largely forgotten.Â

Not exact matches

A federal appeals court in Colorado last week vacated a temporary ban on U.S. Department of Agriculture inspections at slaughterhouse facilities, ruling against animal protection groups seeking to block Valley Meat and other aspiring horse slaughter facilities from opening.

That committee is expected to pass the bill to allow a horse slaughter plant to operate in our state as they have already voted to pass SB 375, a senate bill which would repeal Oklahoma's ban on horse meat consumption.

Meadows is hopeful that the shocking evidence of the cruelty of horse slaughter in the USDA document will compel the new Congress to act swiftly to pass a federal ban on the transport and slaughter of American horses.

Among other legislative efforts, we continue to push for passage of the SAFE Act, which would create a permanent ban on horse slaughter and prohibit the dangerous transport of horses across our borders for slaughter.

They say the ban on domestic slaughter has led to tens of thousands of horse being shipped to inhumane slaughterhouses in Mexico.

She has also rescued horses from slaughter, adopting and fostering dogs and cats from the US and abroad, run spay / neuter clinics in Third World countries, starred in 5 PETA print campaigns, traveled to Japan with Sea Shepherd to work to ban dolphin slaughter, and recently filmed a documentary in Africa on banning poaching.

Our recent efforts to protect horses have been focused on the prohibition of slaughter and a ban on the cruel practice of «soring» of show horses.

An active board and statewide structure has provided MFOA with the ability to organize an develop coinciding two - year campaigns to support revamping the State Animal Welfare Program, addressing the cruelty of coyote snaring and treatment of circus elephants, from establishing our «Dogs Chained for Life» and Pet Club programs to submitting a State referendum to ban bear baiting, hounding and trapping, from focuses on canned hunting, puppy mills, horse racing / slaughter to the eight pieces of legislation that have improved the lives of Maine's dogs and cats, MFOA has led the way in Maine.

If Wallis really wants to help horses in need during this economic downturn, she should support a ban on slaughter.

In California, horse slaughter was banned in 1998, and there has been no corresponding rise in cruelty and neglect cases, although horse theft dropped 39.5 % percent the year after the ban.

They say the ban on domestic slaughter has led to tens of thousands of horses being shipped to inhumane slaughterhouses in Mexico.

Horse slaughter opponents are pushing legislation in Congress to ban domestic slaughter, as well as the export of horses to other countries for slaughter.

An Illinois bill would have repealed the 2007 ban on horse slaughter which helped close the last of the horse slaughter facilities, has finally been tabled!