Bulletin from Vicki Tobin – Vice President, Equine Welfare Alliance
Horses awaiting to be slaughtered in Canada
Many of you have contacted us on how to help with passage of the legislation in Canada. I wanted to get direction from CHDC before sending information because as many of you know, sometimes outside influence can hurt more than help. I received the below from our partners, CHDC, on who to contact and direction on the focus.
Please be polite and stay focused in your correspondence. We all feel the major issue is food safety. The US has no mechanism to remove horses from the food chain that have received prohibited substances.
Below are links to the drug paper published by Drs. Marini, Dodman and Blondeau that you can cite. The second link corrects two links that were moved on the site from where they originally appeared when the paper was published.
http://www.equinewelfarealliance.org/uploads/Food_and_Chemical_Toxicology_FINAL.pdf
http://www.equinewelfarealliance.org/uploads/Corrected_Links.pdf
From CHDC
American horse protection advocates who would like to help support Bill C-544, Canada’s Bill to ban horse slaughter, are asked to contact Hon. Wayne Easter, Liberal Agriculture Critic, and copy your message to MP Alex Atamanenko, NDP Agriculture Critic (who introduced the bill).
In your message please include the fact that half of the horses slaughtered in Canada every year originate from the U.S. Many or most horses have been administered banned substances including Phenylbutazone, which is readily available, even over the internet. If possible, give examples of the pipelines that horses follow from specific named auctions.
Below are the links for these 2 MP’s (as well as the master list link for all MP’s in Canada).
Thank you from your friends at the CHDC.
Link for Hon. Wayne Easter – Liberal Agriculture and Agri-Food Critic:
http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/ProfileMP.aspx?Key=128358&Language=E
Link for MP Alex Atamanenko – NDP Agriculture and Agri-Food Critic:
http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/ProfileMP.aspx?Key=128622&Language=E
Complete list of Canada’s Members of Parliament:
http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/MainMPsCompleteList.aspx?TimePeriod=Current&Language=E
(CHDC are good friends of ours, if you can help them please do. If the slaughter market for our red-blooded American horses disappears in Canada we are 50% of the way there ~ R.T.)
Categories: Horse News, Horse Slaughter, Wild Horses/Mustangs
Straight from the Horse's Heart 
Will be sure to foward this to several groups.
Marge
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For those of you unfamiliar with the parliamentary system in Canada, private members’ bills, of which this is one, rarely get past first reading in the House, which by the way has now adjourned for the summer. Not saying you shouldn’t try, but don’t get your hopes up.
Sharon B
Caledon, ON Canada
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wishing you all the best of luck , however long it takes .
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I was wondering if you can give examples of the pipelines? I’m Canadian and am writing to my local paper and MP’s and MPP’s as well – Sharon’s right about the adjournment… I know in Canada it’s legal to transport livestock for up to 3 days with no food or water – what’s the law in the US? When livestock crosses the border does anyone know who is responsible for checking the livestock? I’m guessing it would be the CFIA inspectors and veterinarians but I’m not sure if the States have any regulation about inspecting livestock leaving the US – specifically crossing into Canada???
My question is who\what prevents these horses from being shipped from the US straight into Canada without a mandatory inspection guaranteeing these animals have access to food and water prior to crossing the border?
I’m wondering just how long it really is for some of these animals on the pipeline to travel without food and water? Once they cross the border – it’s a clean slate and this can be withheld for another 3 days as no one accounts for the passage via the US.
Paige Talledo
Belleville, ON
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