WASHINGTON — Animal-rights activists launched a major campaign Thursday to pressure Congress for legislation that would prohibit the export of horses to Mexico and other countries for slaughter. The campaign, months in the making, includes grisly video of horses crammed into cattle trailers and hauled to a Mexican plant where they are slaughtered with knives.
“This is not how Americans want their horses treated,” said Nancy Perry, a vice president with the Humane Society of the United States.
The Humane Society distributed the video and other materials to lawmakers in the House and Senate, where efforts to pass anti-horse slaughtering legislation has stalled in the past.
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