US Horse Welfare And Rescue National Coalition
Getting Ahead Of The Curve
A Statement from Our President and Founder
My life as a rescuer started in 2013 after foot surgery landed me on a couch, leg up, online looking for some great horse to buy. Over the next several weeks I came to know a great deal about horse slaughter, reading through information available to us all, but for many Americans it is not a topic on their radar. I get that, Americans are busy. Most Americans go to work, come home, fix dinner for the family, fit in gym time, kids games, and a social life. Few have been afforded the opportunity to delve into the bowels of the underground horse slaughter pipeline as I have. Who knew how much that surgery would change my life and drive a new passion in me! But, this is beyond a passion, this is a moral responsibility, an obligation. Americans Need To Know The Truth About The Plight Of Our Horses!
After supporting several rescues across the country for week after week and for several months, I said to myself, “ we are chasing our tails”. Week after week we are doing the same thing over and over again and we get nowhere. We get a pit in our stomaches, beg for money to rescue one last soul before the end of the kill buyer’s day and next week we do it all again. We struggle with PTSD from seeing and knowing how many horses we are failing to help each week. Every week we only save roughly 15% of the horses shipping to slaughter. It’s not enough. It’s not good enough! We can and MUST do better as a nation!!
Over the next few years I got to know several of my fellow rescuers fairly well. I watched them closely for a sense of sameness, a feeling that they aligned with me and my philosophy. It has taken time, but I am excited to say that I have found a wonderful group of ethical, philanthropic, like-minded rescuers that USHWR can confidently bring into the fold as advisors and governing members of the newly launched US Horse Welfare and Rescue National Coalition. Please join us in this ever important movement! The horses need each and every one of our voices to make the necessary permanent change to keeping America’s horses safe from abuse, neglect, and slaughter. Please join the coalition today.
IT’S TIME! Time to take action, to speak for the voiceless, to come together on a united front… to become a cohesive coalition of Americans from all walks of life and demand the humane treatment of America’s horses, pass the SAFE Act, and put an end to horse slaughter.
Respectfully,
Susan E. Mitchell
BECOME A PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER THAN YOURSELF, BECOME A PART OF THE MOVEMENT, JOIN THE COALITION TODAY. #ALL4HORSES
On April 12, 2019, USHWR softly launched the US Horse Welfare and Rescue National Coalition, a coalition with one goal: to STOP the inhumanity suffered by our equines through abuse, neglect, and slaughter. Several of us have been working behind the scenes preparing for something bigger….and we hope you are ready to join this movement.
Horse slaughter is an ugly underground industry. Collectively, the Officers of the Coalition have spent decades in the bowels of this slaughter pipeline so well hidden from the untrained eye. We contend that there are only 3 reasons to believe in the continuance of horse slaughter
1) you financially gain from the horses going to slaughter
2) you are cold hearted human or
3) you do not know how truly horrific the horse slaughter pipeline and “process” is.
Don’t find yourself in one of these 3 catagories. Be one of the leaders, setting the pace for change, join the coalition and we will help you help us to help them!
We believe that while we can not save every horse from death, we can save many more than we do now, and with the help of our fellow Americans, we can provide those equines whose time has come, regardless of the reason, with a safe, pain-free, humane ending to their lives. NO LONGER will we allow America to hide this ugly underground slaughter pipeline from the public. NO LONGER will our politicians get away with passing the buck and failing to pass the SAFE Act. NO LONGER will we allow the shipping of our horses from auction to kill lot to slaughter only to have them be hung upside down by one leg and eviscerated while fully conscious. NO LONGER!
In recent times we have seen a multitude of movements here in America addressing grave injustices. Well USHWR-NC says America’s horses deserve to be the center of the NEXT BIG MOVEMENT, exposing the largely underground and often criminal horse slaughter industry along with the inhumanity and heinous cruelty these sensitive and loving sentinel beings are forced to endure.
10/12/2020 Press Release
US Horse Welfare and Rescue National Coalition
Gets Its Legs!
An important message about our wild horses: Go to https://www.facebook.com/SandySharkeyPhotography/videos/564051331669707/
US Horse Welfare and Rescue Organization, a CT based 501(c)3 nonprofit now in its fourth year, is excited to announce the official launch of its long-dreamed-of spinoff, US Horse Welfare and Rescue National Coalition (USHWR-NC), a registered 501(c)4 aimed at educating the American public and changing local, state, and federal laws to protect America’s equines from abuse, neglect, and the horrors of the slaughter pipeline. The Coalition plans to put a large emphasis on the passage of the SAFE Act and other important legislation while implementing important solution-based programs designed to protect America’s at-risk horses.
The Safeguard American Food Exports (SAFE) Act (H.R. 961/S. 2006) is federal legislation that would prevent the horse slaughter industry from reopening operations here in the U.S. and ban the export of American horses across our borders for slaughter.
The programs are designed with our horses, horse owners, and nonprofit rescues across America in mind. USHWR-NC believes American tolerance for horse slaughter is the result of lack of knowledge and multifaceted problems within our system and culture, requiring a multitude of evidence-based solutions. Based on experience and research America’s at-risk horses are in dire need of national programs to provide education as well as options to horse owners to keep horses out of sales barns, auctions, and the slaughter pipeline.
USHWR-NC believes that horse slaughter is inherently more heinous than anything a sentient being should ever endure. We further believe that by creating cohesiveness amongst horse rescues, the American public, and our politicians we can prove there is no need for slaughter.
Programs to include advocacy and legislative efforts, awareness and education for horse owners and the public, safe surrender and rehoming efforts, emergency hay and feed banks, low-cost euthanasia, and others coupled with significant sustainable income-generating programs for horse rescues are all to be rolled out over the next few months.
The journey is just beginning for this new organization but the key players have years of experience and are well-connected rescuers and professionals you can trust.
To learn more about us and to become a member go to https://ushorse-nc.org