Did you lobby MP? my copy added

[jl]

Did you lobby MP? Do you have a copy for others to use or get a good idea from?

H & H forum members are keen to get lobbying, so have asked for a draft of we have been bombarding our MP with. I cannot find mine, did anyone save a copy? It may give people ideas on what to add to strengthen our fight.

[debutante]

or does anyone have 5-10 mins and a good brain that can put one together for us i would but im rubbish at writing letters as you can see from many of my posts!! i for one would be willing to print and send one off , im sure others would be to.

[jl]

Go to www.writetothem.com to write to your MP OR MEP's

Ok just sent mine. Heres what i wrote, i hope you may find ideas from this.

My name is Lisa Carrera, i am the founder of an about to become non profit organization Equine Section (www.equinesection.com), i write to you to ask for your support in ending the trade for live export for slaughter, we want to replace this with a carcass only trade.

Over 100.000 horses each year are live exported throughout the EU to their deaths! Horses traveling from Spain to be fattened at farms in France only to then take a grueling 3 day trip to Italy for slaughter. These include many mares in foal and or with foal at foot, France wont slaughter pregnant mares so they are sent to Italy also where they fetch a higher price due to the quality of their meat, these mares can be slaughtered right up until 90% of the gestation period. Their rights.. they have none. All equines traveling throughout the EU for slaughter have no entitlement to food water or even rest stops. Many perish in the sheer panic, heat and fight for life during these journey's.

Not our concern some may think, so I'm here to be a voice with your help if you may, to speak louder and to tell everyone it IS our concern. As a civilized country we set standards and examples.

This is outlawed in our own country, only there's a loophole. Our own horses are now being exported for meat via Ireland over to France, Belgium and Mainly to Italy, where not going directly to Italy many still take that road prolonging the suffering.

We are currently now trying to hit this market in the heart of where it lies the EU. Once this is outlawed in the EU, which i do believe will be enforced one day is actively underway we are also closing off the profitable trade through the loophole for our own British equines. It makes sense yes? With a carcass only trade animals will be put to sleep and be carcass driven making the meat trade more profitable as more animals can be exported on the hook than on the hoof. We are backing the ILPH (International League for the Protection of Horses) HOOK not HOOF Campaign run by ILPH Officer Emma Seel. www.ilph.org/campaigns_details.asp?id=733

You may have seen the article in our local paper with my new rescue mare saved from such a journey. I hope this was a story you read to the end and therefor now see that this does effect us right here in the United Kingdom.

I am more than happy to invite you to attend our local horse sale/market with me/ By attending you will see first hand the reality and destiny of our own British Equines. Also to invite you to come along and meet one of the horses that has been removed from this live export fate, She is the bay mare on the Equine Section website and is now our mascot. For a brief in-site into our work and for a visual on what we want to stop, i present you the Equine Section Video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaduNQORoOE


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Kindest Regards
Lisa Carrera - Equine Section

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