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California Voters "Just Say Neigh" to Horse Slaughter!

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HoofPAC is the political action committee that has been formed to end the slaughter of America's horses. Cathleen Doyle, founder of HoofPAC, led the successful Save The Horses campaign in 1998 that made the slaughter of California's horses a felony.

Legislation Information

This section of our website has information on action you can take to help the horses; pending legislation; USDA Regulations on the handling and slaughter of horses; individual state transport laws; California's Prop 6 which banned the sale of CA horses to slaughter, (Yes, CA's horse industry is still thriving!) and other related information.

Many states have their laws, (statutes or codes) online. You can check on the status of legislation affecting horses by going to your state legislatures website and doing a search. Type in the word "equine" or "horse". Often you can communicate with your state and or United States Senators and Representatives by e-mail. Remember though to include your full name and address in your e-mail.

Getting Involved

• Learn your state's laws.
• What horse organizations in your state represent the horses industry in the state legislature?
• Do they represent you on horse welfare issues? Many state horse councils are in favor of horse slaughter and do not take a strong stand on the enforcement of anti-cruelty laws as they apply to horses.
• If the horse industry organizations in your state do not represent your views on horse slaughter and horse welfare, write to your state representatives and let them know that these organizations do NOT represent you, a member of the horse industry, on this issue.
• Inform the horse organizations that you are a member of that you are opposed to the use of double cattle trailers to transport horses & opposed to the slaughter of horses for human consumption.

 

State Statute

New Jersey State Statue Dead Animals

4:5-11.  Disposal of dead or slaughtered animals;  disposal for food a misdemeanor


    When, by reason of the locality of an infected animal or herd within a city, or by reason of frozen ground or extreme heat, it is, in the judgment of the  department of agriculture, inexpedient or impossible to bury any such dead animal or slaughtered animal on the premises, the department may authorize any veterinarian acting for it to slash the skin and cut the flesh of the animal and, either under his direct oversight, or that of a city board of health, or contractor for the disposal of dead carcasses, to give over the same to the use  of a bone-boiling or glue or other establishment for the disposal of dead animals, but in no case shall the animal or any part thereof, be disposed  of for food, and any such disposal of the same shall make the party concerned  guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine of not more than one hundred  dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding six  months.
 
4:5-12.  Post-mortem examination of dead or slaughtered animals
    If, between October first and May first of any year, a veterinarian who has  been regularly graduated in veterinary medicine, desires to make a post-mortem  examination of an animal he has attended or at the request of the owner of an  animal that has died within the city limits, he may do so, if the examination  is made within twenty hours of the death or slaughter of the animal.

    In every such case he shall notify the city scavenger, or remover of carcasses of animals, of the hour of the examination, and the scavenger shall arrange to remove the carcass in not more than three hours after the beginning of the examination.
 
4:5-13.  Authority of department
    When a county, city, township or district is threatened with a contagious or  infectious disease among animals, or poultry, to such an extent as to seem to  require more general precautions, the department of agriculture may for such  time as it shall deem necessary and proper, quarantine such county, city,  township or district and prohibit the bringing of any animal or poultry,  subject to such contagious or infectious disease, into such county, city,  township or district, or the removal of any such animal, or poultry, out of or  from one place to another within the county, city, township or district without  inspection and a written permit signed by the department or its duly  constituted agent or representative.