Please Help to Stop Horse Slaughter!

More than one month ago the U.S. House voted to ban horse slaughter. Now we must turn our focus to passing the same bill in the Senate. A key component to our victory in the House was your phone calls to Congress leading up to the vote. For the first time since we began this fight, the voices of the opposition are raising above our own. Senators have reported hearing equally from compassionate advocates in support of the bill and those in favor of slaughter opposed to the bill. We need to raise our voices above the cries of our opponents and make sure we are ten times as vocal as our opposition! We cannot fail! The lives of countless horses are at stake. Last year over 90,000 horses were sent to slaughter. If we do not shut the doors on the three remaining U.S. slaughterhouses now, we will have to begin this process again when a new Congress adjourns in January.
Take immediate action:

Call your two U.S. Senators today:

Senator Barbara Mikulski (202-224-4654)
Senator Paul Sarbanes (202-224-4524)

Ask them to “please cosponsor S.1915 the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act and protect horses from slaughter.”

Spread the word: one phone call is not enough. We need hundreds. Tell your friends, family, and coworkers to call their Senators today.
NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY: October 25 (Wednesday) and November 14 (Tuesday) are national call-in days for horses. Hang the attached fliers allover your town, hand out copies at the grocery store, Halloween parties, or any place you can find one more person to make a phone call.
Don’t quit. Call this week, call next week, and call the following week. Let’s keep up the pressure!

Remember, with your help we can save the lives of thousands of horses from cruel and inhumane slaughter. Sincerely, ~kelley

Kelley Dupps
Grassroots Outreach Coordinator -- Government Affairs The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)
519 C Street, NE Washington, DC 20002
202-955-3678 voice
240-731-7372 cell
202-676-2301 fax

Interested in organizing or attending an HSUS Lobby 101 training seminar on the basics of lobbying? Please contact the Government Affairs Grassroots Team at 202-955-3678 or kdupps(at)hsus.org.

Sir Paul McCartney almost got arrested for trying to pet wildlife but it's OK to club them to death???

: McCartney and seal friend

PETITIONS TO SIGN!

PAUL McCARTNEY SAYS, SAYS, SAYS!

HELP STOP THE SEAL SLAUGHTER IN CANADA!

SIGN THE PETITION BELOW!

PLEASE DONT WAIT! IT HAS STARTED UP AGAIN! www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/566342047

FOR MORE INFO...GO TO htpp://www.hsus.org!

Tell EBAY to stop Selling Slaughtered BATS!

: Clink here to sign petition

Several companies are catching bats in the wild and killing them for sale as “art” in glass frames. One small bat, also known as the Short-nosed fruit bat, is a major target of this cruel practice. The fruit bat is an important pollinator and seed dispenser, and has a status of vulnerable.

Bats already face severe threats due to habitat loss. Killing additional bats for personal collections only leads to further decline of wild bat populations.

Fruit and nectar-eating bats are responsible for hundreds of economically important products including foods, drinks, medicines, timber, fibers, dyes and fuel. Wild varieties of many of the world’s most economically valuable crop plants, such as bananas, rely on bats for survival. Insect eating bat species are natural enemies of night-flying pests that damage crops, reducing the need for chemical pesticides.

Tell eBay to stop selling stuffed bat bodies unless eBay is sure 1) the bats are not imperiled in the wild, and 2) the bats were collected after they died naturally.