HORSE SENSE
Periodic updates about issues and actions concerning New York City's Carriage Horses +
Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages
www.banhdc.org
Horses Without Carriages International
www.horseswithoutcarriages.org
PLEASE FORWARD TO FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES ** new ad campaign ** NYC mayoral race ** NYS Avella/Rosenthal bill - take action ** Equine Advocates anti horse slaughter conference
OUR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN LAUNCHED
Ban horse-drawn carriages
Thanks to all of you who have donated to this cause, the Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages' advertising campaign has been launched. Ads will appear in various NYC papers in all boroughs throughout the next few months.
This past week's ads appeared in City & State - see p. 30 and in Metro. In this coming week, we will have an ad in the Staten Island Advance
If you would like to contribute to our advertising campaign and help us to get the message out in more papers, please send us a donation via this link. Click here. Donations by PayPal or check are welcome. Depending on the size, how many times an ad is run, and the newspaper, the cost has ranged from $350 to $700 per ad.
WHAT'S NEW IN THE NYC MAYORAL RACE?
Every week, we address the most important media coverage in the NYC mayoral race. To see past newsletters, please check out out archives - click here.
We often look to the Facebook page of Defeat Christine Quinn for the latest news on the race. If you are on Facebook, please like this page.
EQUINE ADVOCATES' CONFERENCE AGAINST HORSE SLAUGHTER
Support the Safeguard American Food Exports Act (SAFE Act)
Equine Advocates held the "2013 Annual American Equine Summit Unites Against Horse Slaughter" in Chatham, NY on Saturday and Sunday, April 27th and 28th. This is a run down of the schedule and participants. People like John Holland, president of the Equine Welfare Alliance, is just one of the leaders of this movement who came to speak. Paula Bacon, former mayor of Kaufman, Texas, also spoke. She was instrumental in closing the horse slaughter plant in Kaufman in 2007.
The resounding message that came out of the summit was to get the SAFE Act - S. 541 and H.R. 1094 passed and signed into law. This bill would prohibit the sale or transport of equines or equine parts in interstate or foreign commerce for purposes of human consumption. Scroll down the Kaurmanzoning.net page to Federal Legislation to learn more about this important bill. Contact your legislators and ask them to support it. (photo of Nelson - a rescued wild American mustang) from Equine Advocates)
Although I am not an anti horse slaughter expert, I do know something about the carriage trade and why it should be shut down in NYC. This is also an issue that Susan Wagner, EA's president, strongly supports. I was invited to speak about the carriage horse issue and the Avella/Rosenthal state bill that would prohibit the operation of horse-drawn carriages in NYC. My talk was received with much support and enthusiasm. However, when the carriage trade and their supporters learned that I was on the program, they went CRAZY.
Always bullies, the carriage trolls and their pals sent nasty, bullying e-mails to Equine Advocates, made comments on EA's Facebook page demanding equal time and insulting me. They put out a call on the Internet asking people to pressure Equine Advocates. When they were ignored, they escalated their fight by calling the publicists, board members and speakers. One of them walked into the veterinary office of one of the speakers in New Jersey and demanded she do something about me speaking at this conference. This Summit was a meeting of people who are opposed to slaughter - leaders in the field. It was not a place for a commercial enterprise that exploits horses. Nowhere on the Facebook pages of the groups that were involved in this disgusting behavior is there any talk of the horrors of horse slaughter and what can be done about it. There is nothing on these Facebook pages asking their supporters to contact their representatives about the SAFE Act. Even if I were not speaking, they would have absolutely NOTHING to offer such a conference.
This is a group of bullies who has gotten their way in the past by sheer aggressive, bullying behavior. In 2008, they had our fund raiser shut down by bullying the restaurant owner who canceled one week before.
BILL TO BAN HORSE-DRAWN CARRIAGES IN NYS LEGISLATURE
Please make calls - Bill Numbers: S667 and A997 + Sign the petition
The only bill to support in the campaign to ban horse-drawn carriages in NYC is the Avella/Rosenthal bill in the State Legislature. It is a pure ban. There are no strings attached. This is a link to a petition we have on change. org. Please sign it if you have not done so already.
You can read the legislation by clicking on the bill numbers, S667 and A997 . Text in CAPS is new. Text with a strike through is deleted. (photo of horse parked over steam - by Mickey Z)
WHAT YOU CAN DO
to support S667 and A997 - The horses need your help!
Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to make calls and write e-mails to state legislators. If you have not yet done this, please do it now. It does not have to be done at one time. The horses need your help.
All of the information we previously published on our newsletter is now on our web site under What You Can Do. Please read it and take action.
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"Never doubt that a small group of
thoughtful, committed citizens can change the
world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever
has." Margaret Mead.
