A POWERFUL INFORMATIVE SEGMENT
Thank you, Jann Arden, for your unwavering commitment to advocating for the protection of horses. Your efforts, particularly in helping to ban the live export of horses for slaughter, have made a tremendous difference. (That is an understatement – where would this cause be without you?)
It’s inspiring to see you continue to use your platform to raise awareness, and your recent features in the press are a testament to the importance of this cause. Your dedication is deeply appreciated!
BILL C-355 IN THE HANDS OF CANADIAN SENATORS
Even though not a single member of the Conservative Party was willing to vote in favour of Bill C-355 -- and every step of the way Conservatives fought to block Bill C-355 - designed to ban the export of horses for slaughter...
The Liberal Party persisted and Bill C-355 has now passed through Parliament - it is out of the hands of the Prime Minister and Members of Parliament and it is in the hands of Canadian Senators.
Canada’s 105 senators are men and women of accomplishment and experience.
They are business people and scientists, judges and teachers, athletes, community leaders and senior civil servants who use their lifetimes of expertise to ensure Parliament acts in the best interests of Canadians.
Senators come from diverse ethnic, socio-economic and cultural backgrounds; they use the wisdom gleaned from their own experiences to give minorities a strong voice in Parliament.
Free to speak their minds (THEY ARE NOT ELECTED - they are appointed) and act on their consciences, senators play an essential role in Canada’s parliamentary democracy.
WE ARE CURRENTLY RAISING FUNDS IN SUPPORT OF...
We didn't really start out with the idea of fund raising, we started out with the idea to help educate Canadians and others that horse slaughter is alive and well in Canada (and other countries).
We were frustrated that when someone asked us questions about the horse slaughter industry that we didn't have a spot to send them to learn more.
We found ourselves copying and pasting press articles into private messages and onto social media posts, and constantly writing and re-writing - and copying and pasting the same things -- so https://banhorseslaughter.com and the accompanying blog were created.
Our team has years of experience taking in horses, attending to their needs, and carefully re-homing. Since the inception of this website that work has quietly continued.
Additionally we've supported and promoted many rescues - and many of the BHS team are responsible for establishing a registered not for profit.
Each organization has a different mission statement.
Here at Ban Horse Slaughter - our main mission is exactly that, to ban the slaughter of horses for any purpose including for human consumption -- within Canada -- and the export of horses for that same purpose -- and you'll notice that we are not shy about locking arms with American advocates. After all many of the horses slaughtered in Canada are imported from the USA.
We work hard at consistently funding advertising on social media platforms - and continuing on that theme we'd love to fund bill boards.
We believe that if more Canadians were aware about the fact that horse slaughter exists, there would be an even greater uproar and that we can make the slaughtering of horses illegal - like it is in the USA and other countries.
We've been lucky enough to have room to continue to take in and re-home horses - to prevent them from entering the slaughter pipeline - although again that was never meant to be our main focus -- in the last couple of years we've been able to find a handful of experienced, amazing, kind, generous foster homes (in British Columbia and Alberta) to do the same.
When it comes to all of our work, we've been incredibly lucky to have generous and consistent sponsorship from individuals across Canada, the USA, the UK and Australia. To our supporters -- thank you -- we can't do what we do without support.
Additionally our board members and foster homes have dug deep time and again to continue and expand the work we do - not only with countless hours but with funds.
Thank you to all who have supported, and continue to support. We hate to ask but we need help to save another 12 horses.
T-SHIRTS IN SUPPORT OF HORSE RESCUE FUND
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CANADA SLAUGHTERS HORSES FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION
It may be hard for some to believe that tens of thousands of horses, including pets, are routinely slaughtered in Canada, for human consumption.
Some of the meat is consumed in Canada and much of it is shipped to the European Union and other markets, including Japan.
The barbaric slaughter of horses is currently not legal in the United States, BUT horses, including pets and ex-racehorses, from the United States are shipped to Canada and to Mexico to be slaughtered.
In addition Canada allows for the transportation of live horses to Japan, to be slaughtered for human consumption, and unfortunately the transportation of horses destined for slaughter within Canada, and by air, is far from humane.
VIDEO: KAITLYN MITCHELL ANIMAL JUSTICE
STANDING COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOODFEB. 29, 2024: Director of Legal Advocacy, Animal Justice Canada, lawyer, tireless advocate AKA superhero Kaitlyn Mitchell spoke before the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-food on Bill C-355. To say we were...
VIDEO: LEAH TAYLOR ROY
STANDING COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOODLiberal MP Leah Taylor Roy is a driving force behind Bill C-355. We love how she made use of the short time given her to set the record straight as to how pet, show, sport and race horses are shipped by air versus the...
VIDEO: LIANNE ROOD BILL C-355
STANDING COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOODConservative MP Lianne Rood who voted against Bill C-355 going to committee questioned Director of Legal Advocacy for Animal Justice Canada, Kaitlyn Mitchell...The brief mentioned in video, jointly submitted by Canadian...
