We must relentlessly call Congress until they ask for mercy and remove the two offending sections legalizing wild horse killings and enabling horse slaughter. Focus on all the member of the House and Senate appropriations committees but also contact your own Congressman and two Senators. This is because, in all likeliness, the two pro-slaughter sections (one removing the USDA slaughter inspections ban and other adding language to allow BLM to kill and sell for slaughter wild horses in holding) will be passed by the appropriations committees since western pro-slaughter folks have majority and they already discussed the matter of and agreed to pushing this to the full Congress to bring horse slaughter back. In my humble opinion, it is a done deal.
– Ask them to vote no on any language allowing the killing of wild horses in holding and / or their sale without limitation, that is, for slaughter or "processing into commercial products" as they like to call it.
– Ask them to oppose any changes to refund horse slaughter inspections by USDA. Ask them to reintroduce the defunding language by means of a private amendment if necessary.
– Ask them to oppose any language allowing the killing of wild horses in holding and/or their sale without limitation and, if necessary, to introduce or support an amendment striking down any language in the appropriations bill allowing the killing and sale without limitation.
– Ask them to support any amendment reintroducing the ban on the use of tax money to fund USDA horse slaughter inspections.
Just select the committee you want contact info from the drop down menu and you are ready to go.
«Section 767: Prohibits inspection of horses for slaughter.
This change deletes the entire section 767. This change is requested in order to permit the Executive Branch to carry out programs in the most efficient manner. » >>> They are deleting the ban entirely.
So there you go… the pro-slaughter Trump administration and the GOP-dominated Congress are aiming very clearly at exterminating all wild horses and bring horse slaughter back, all so Forrest Lucas can have his thirst and obsession for equine blood wholly satisfied, while saving 4 million that will be returned to the mega-rich for pocket change.
The markup session where both bills (agriculture and interior) text will be formally redacted and introduced is NEXT WEDNESDAY July 12th. Make sure you keep calling and writing until these two languages are killed for good.