Protect vulnerable horses. Act NOW and you WILL make a difference!
Protect vulnerable horses. Act NOW and you WILL make a difference! | |
At least half of all MEPs must sign this Declaration before 21st January 2010.
If this is achieved, then the campaign will be a step closer to ending these journeys for good!
 | Support needed by 50% of MEPs However if the Declaration is not supported by 50% of MEPs it will fail, weakening the case for new laws to stop these cruel and unnecessary journeys. Please contact your MEPs, asking them to sign Written Declaration 54/2009, and ask your friends in Europe and the UK to do the same. Director of Campaigns and Communications, Jo White, comments: "We're extremely grateful to Liz Lynne MEP, Sidonia Jędrzejewska MEP and Carl Schlyter MEP for tabling this important Written Declaration. It's a great opportunity to increase pressure on the European Commission to release a proposal on amendments to the Transport Regulation. |
"A huge amount of suffering is still happening every day as the single biggest abuse of horses in Europe continues. 100,000 horses a year are forced to endure inhumanely long journeys, where they become dehydrated, injured, exhausted and stressed. This cruelty can be ended, but only with public action." Each region in the UK and across Europe has a number of Members of the European Parliament (MEP) who are there to be your voice at the European Parliament. They can only represent your views if you make them known. |  |
Please contact your MEPs, asking them to sign Written Declaration 54/2009, and ask your friends in Europe and the UK to do the same. A template letter (available in a range of languages) is available online: www.worldhorsewelfare.org/takeaction or by calling 01953 497226. To find out who your regional MEPs are, visit http://www.europarl.europa.eu
Hannah Westen's Diary
This summer Hannah Westen, World Horse Welfare's Campaigns Officer for Research and Education, followed one of Europe's slaughter routes for the first time. This is a passage taken from her diary.
"A tiring eight hour journey from Romania to a control post in Hungary, where one horse in particular caught my attention. He was a large elderly chestnut gelding showing signs of complete exhaustion. His headcollar had come off and was hanging down from his neck, where it was fastened tightly, and a short rope tied to the metal railing prevented him from lying down. On either side of him stressed stallions fought viciously with each other. He was trapped in the middle with no means of escape; but he didn't join in - he just stood there with his head down, unable to rest. Following a disturbed night's sleep, during which I struggled to banish the image of the old chestnut gelding, we were up early for a second day of observations. Many horses at the control post bore the signs of an uncomfortable night of ‘rest'. In an end pen was a large quiet bay gelding. He was extremely gentle and affectionate but had bleeding bite wounds on his quarters where he had been attacked in the night by another horse. His injured limbs were also clearly causing him considerable discomfort." |  |
Please help protect vulnerable horses. Act NOW and YOU will make a difference!
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Added on: 21/10/09.
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