Take action

Thank you for all of your hard work - an extension has been granted on Written Declaration 54/2009!

However, we need your help more than ever to get the support of 93 more MEPs, in order to bring a parliamentary review of the long distance transportation of horses to slaughter.

 

5 actions you can take right now:

 

1. Find out if your MEP has signed Written Declaration 54/2009.

2. If they haven't, download and send the template letter. (translations available below)

3. If they have, why not write and ask if they would raise awareness amongst their colleagues? Download a template letter.

4. Spread the word in Europe. Although we already have support across Europe, we always need more. Please ask friends and family to contact their MEPs. If you can speak another language, why don't you get in touch?

5. Tweet! An increasing number of MEPs have accounts on sites like Facebook and Twitter - why not get in touch with them about the Written Declaration?

 

Every year, 100,000 horses are transported across Europe for slaughter. The terrible conditions endured during these long journeys mean that they suffer from disease, dehydration, exhaustion and injury – all for a needless trade. The infrastructure already exists to make slaughter at source and a carcase trade possible.

 

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are elected to represent you in Brussels and can influence the laws governing these journeys – so tell them what you think of this practice. Please write to your MEP asking them to sign Written Declaration 54/2009. If more than half of all MEPs sign this before 11th February 2010, we will be one step closer to ending these brutal and totally unnecessary journeys.

 

If less than 50% of MEPs support the Declaration it will fail, weakening the case for new laws ending the long-distance transportation of horses to slaughter in the European Union.