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WILLIE NELSON - NELSON TO PROTEST HORSE SLAUGHTER IN WASHINGTON
Veteran country star WILLIE NELSON is heading to Washington, D.C. on Tuesday (13Nov07) to protest the inhumane slaughtering of horses. The singer will be joined by celebrities including actress Bo Derek at Capitol Hill, where they'll show their support for the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. In an online letter to his fans, Nelson writes: "Our horses need your help! Join my family, Bo Derek, the Barbi Twins and a host of others in the fight to save our horses. "Horses are living legends of American History yet we continue to slaughter over 100,000 horses annually. Thanks to Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), U.S. slaughterhouses were closed down. "However, the cruel business of slaughter continues by crowding horses in trailers for over 700 miles to Mexico and Canada, without food or water. These plants in Mexico are killing the horses savagely, by multiple stabbings until they drop to their knees in order to slit their throats, causing them to suffer slow painful deaths. "Once again, it's time to flood the phone lines and emails of our legislatures. Ask them to co-sponsor and demand a vote on the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act."
11/12/2007 01:46:03 AM
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Joyce J 
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posted on 12/11/2007 06:31
As Willie and millions of others speak out to put an end to horse slaughter, I
hope the Congress will finally listen and put an end to this atrocity. But they
must do it quickly; as each day passes without our horses getting the legal
protection they deserve, more and more die horrific deaths. Please call, write,
email and fax your legislators and urge them to support S311/HR503. We need to
get this done!
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mjwilson4978 ( 1)
posted on 14/11/2007 05:20
GOD BLESS WILLIE!! A true American, he stood up for the farmers, and see what
they did to him, but he beat them by not letting them take him down. And now we
have him to help with this great cause, the passage of HR503, and S311, the
American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act.
He and many others now know the truth, they're breeding them for slaughter,
stealing them, buying them under false pretenses, and out bidding the average
family looking for a nice horse. The TB world and the AQH world, and the PMU
world are the largest contributers to this dirty business.
59 head of mostly Belgian yearlings, and others up to a 6 year old Percheron
where stuffed on top of each other in a double decker cattle truck, being sent
to slaughter when the driver, (running illegally), ran a stop light and hit a
motorist, turning the trailer on it's side, door side down, it took a small
army of humans, firemen, law enforcement, rescues, veterinarians, and
volunteers to cut the roof off the truck and spend five hours dragging colts
and full grown draft horses from the death trap, 17 of them have died, the rest
are being cared for by a rescue, and will be adopted out. The state of IL
immediately drafted a bill banning double decker trucks from hauling horses in
their state. The driver was over-weight and knew it, and running a night after
scales were closed, the owner knew it, even had two more dd trucks loaded with
horses that made it through to Canada for slaughter, but do you think the owner
and driver will get in trouble, hell no!, it's ok? to almost kill someone and
not get into trouble? they're special people??
Go Willie and All the other dedicated people fighting to bring HR503/S311 to
the floor for a vote.
