Horse Activist | Karin Hauenstein

I  am Karin Hauenstein and I am currently riding from Lompoc to Los Angeles on 3 horses, a Thoroughbred, a Quarter Horse and an American Mustang to End Commercial Horse Slaughter. Please join me to abolish this cruel, unnecessary, poisonous industry by contacting your legislative representatives and making comments against commercial horse slaughter online today! Thank you and the animal that we built the world on thanks you too!

Mission: END COMMERCIAL HORSE SLAUGHTER IN THE U.S.

Impact: Inconceivable actually, but the SUFFERING of the equines and the ADRENALINE/CORTISOL NOT CONSUMED by people has serious beneficial results for the health of so many living beings.

What we need and what you get: We need $100,000 to start a foundation that will protect and maintain rescued horses, providing them as individual therapy animals for abused and neglected children to receive counseling on. We will be locating in large urban cities across the Nation.

Other ways you can help: CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN/WOMAN and REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE. Inform your family and friends in other states and encourage them to call, asking the legislators to SUPPORT THE AMERICAN HORSE SLAUGHTER PREVENTION ACT (S.1176/H.R. 2966)

LET’S LIGHT UP THE PHONE LINES IN WASHINGTON D.C. so Glory, Coley, Smoke and I do not have to travel there to ride through the area in the Spring. We can accomplish this together NOW! and then use all the donations to help horses, children and the rest of us increase quality of life in the U.S.

Dr. Lester Friedlander, DVM & former Chief USDA Inspector, told Congress in 2008: “The captive bolt used to slaughter horses is simply not effective. These animals regain consciousness 30 seconds after being struck, they are fully aware they are being vivisected.”

(link: http://www.manesandtailsorganization.org/captive_bolt.htm)

The USDA is required by law to test for the levels of Adrenaline/Cortisol in commercially slaughtered beef because of the serious health risks to consumers. Why are they not required to test for the levels of these hormones/steroids in commercially slaughtered horse meat? Could it be because the levels of Adrenaline/Cortisol production in equines is far, far greater than that of cattle? Bovines and equines are completely different species of animals, especially when considering the commercial slaughter process and product.

Horses cannot be slaughtered humanely in commercial settings because of the nature of their extremely sensitive fight/flight responses and their keen herd mentality. There is no way to disguise the horse’s imminent death in a commercial environment. Horses have a sense of smell more sensitive than dogs. They hear, smell, see, feel and taste death. They do not trust the strange handlers and they often FIGHT FOR THEIR LIVES! The proponents of this issue are great at spreading misinformation and sensationalism, they are great at marketing and spin, they are great at trying to hide the facts of this issue, and aside from them being able to build a fully contained facility where nobody but them sees in or hears in, we will not rest until they are COMPLETELY TRANSPARENT! (The board of directors and financial records of their sham nonprofits also!)

The public needs to be informed and this “industry” needs to be exposed for what it truly is: a few people making a lot of money off A LOT of suffering by A LOT of animals.

If you want to become a tortured animal, eat a tortured animal.

email:  karin@horseactivist.com

My facebook page: www.facebook.com/karin.hauenstein

Cross-Country Horse Packing on facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/155052944559606/

www.ridetostophorseslaughter.org

www.indiegogo.com/HORSE-ACTIVIST-SAVING-THE-WILD-MUSTANG