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WyoAg Coalition
Working to build healthy, sustainable systems that connect Wyoming’s producers, processors, and consumers |
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Nation-wide Horse Industry Effort
An ongoing effort to ensure the viability of the US equine industry in the face of a concerted effort by radical animal rights organizations to eliminate the processing of horses for human consumption.Links below point to a collection of laws, resolutions and supporting information that have been collected in the process of a successful effort to pass a policy resolution at the National Council of State Legislatures that will allow NCSL staff to lobby in Washington D.C. with accurate and essential information supporting the position of the state’s to oppose any legislation that would restrict the market, transport, processing, or export of horses, to recognize the need for humane horse processing facilities in the United States, and not to interfere with State efforts to establish facilities in the United States.You can contribute here to the:Horses—Political Action FundPolitical Action Funds will be used to pay travel and other expenses for experts and supporters to educate the public, encourage supportive legislators and congressmen, and influence legislation at state, local, and federal levels that will benefit animal agriculture and the horse industry nation-wide. Donations to the Political Action Fund are NOT tax deductible. Checks can be made payable to : Sue Wallis—Horses, and mailed to PO Box 71, Recluse, WY 82725.If you would like to make a tax deductible contribution to the United Horsemen’s Front, a 501(c)3 organization that can only be used for educational and informational purposes, and cannot be used to influence legislation—please visit their website by clicking this link:(double click to open PowerPoint)
Trent Loos—Loos Tales Audio Interview with Sue Wallis in Nebraska
Wyoming’s US Representative, Cynthia Lummis, Testifies on the Wild Horse Bill (we wish there was 417 more just like her)
Montana HB 418 became law on May 1, 2009. HB 418 is an act authorizing investor-owned equine processing facilities; prohibiting a court from granting an injunction to stop or delay construction of an equine processing facility based on legal challenges or appeals of a permit, license, certificate, or other approval issued in conjunction with environmental laws; setting bonding requirements; and amending sections.
May 1, 2009, The Rail Blog, NY Times Why Horse Slaughter Is Necessary By Jane Smiley Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer-prize winning author whose work is included in “To the Swift: Classic Triple Crown Horses and Their Race for Glory” (St. Martin’s Press), edited by Joe Drape.
Sign the Petition & Send a Message to Congress & the Administration!
Take a Survey that asks about Cultural Attitudes towards using Horses as Food Animals. This is a direct counter-point to very slanted and cleverly worded surveys which are touted by those who seek to restrict the rights of livestock owners to sell their property for either a domestic or export market.
The Fundamental Truth of Animal Agriculture: why it is so important to defeat efforts to criminalize consumption of horse meat; and why it is so important to re-establish horse processing facilities in the United States—an informational position paper
Organizations Supporting the Horse Industry
NCSL - Ag & Energy Committee - Horse Industry Resolution - Adopted
Wyoming Legislature—Equine Resources Resolution
Letter to US Congress & to State Legislatures
State Ag and Rural Leaders Resolution
United Horsemen’s Front Website
A Million Horses Website—documenting abused, abandoned and neglected horses
Dr. Patricia Evans—Utah State-State of the US Horse Industry Since Closure of Plants
Ashton Graham-New Mexico State-BLM Horses Graduate Paper—Wild Horses and Federal Tax Dollars
Dr. Terry Whiting—Chair of Canadian Veterinary Medical Association’s Animal Welfare Committee published in Nov. 2007 issue of Canadian Veterinary Journal—The United States’ prohibition of horsemeat for human consumption: Is this a good law?
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