HSUS to monitor results of anti-soring program

The Humane Society of the United States of America of America says it volition live on closely monitoring the latest efforts at self-regulation past times the walking Equus caballus manufacture at the 74th annual Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration.

President in addition to main executive Wayne Pacelle, writing inwards his blog, H5N1 Humane Nation, said he had concerns virtually the validity in addition to transparency of “this latest incarnation of the industry’s attempts at self-regulation”, which he said had failed miserably for over iii decades.

Pacelle noted that an editorial inwards The Tennessean paper reported that the Celebration had instituted a novel computer program whereby demo inspectors would exam horses’ feet for the application of prohibited unusual substances, in addition to create results within 24 hours.

Any entry flora inwards violation volition accept its prizes stripped.

“As nosotros had proposed to demo management, nosotros believe that whatsoever confirmed violation of the Horse Protection Act should resultant inwards the stripping of an entry’s championship in addition to prizes — non but the finding of a prohibited heart nether the industry’s fledgling in addition to unproven testing program.

“Why should anyone who cheats, in addition to abuses horses, live on allowed to proceed the rewards of those misdeeds?”

Pacelle said the gild would live on monitoring the results of the novel computer program at the 10-day demo inwards Shelbyville.

Pacelle said the gild had made Equus caballus soring – the intentional role of mechanical or chemic irritation to encourage a higher gait inwards horses – 1 of its exceed equine protection priorities.

“We filed a legal petition amongst the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) — the means charged amongst enforcing the Horse Protection Act — seeking tough novel enforcement regulations to protect horses from this practice.

“We of late opened a hotline for tips virtually soring that tin Pb to rewards of upward to $10,000, in addition to nosotros advertised the computer program on a billboard across the street from the Celebration inwards Shelbyville.

“We likewise operate amongst whatsoever grouping inwards the manufacture that signals a legitimate wish to outcome change.

“Again this year, the HSUS contacted Celebration demo organizers to urge the adoption of several telephone commutation reforms that would assist protect horses in addition to restore the industry’s integrity, in addition to to offering our support.

“We received no answer until nosotros made our outreach world — in addition to fifty-fifty then, the alone respond was a brusque press unloosen dismissing our efforts in addition to maxim everything was but fine.

“In recent days, at that spot has been much speak around Washington that manufacture insiders are working through Congressional offices to apply pressure level on the USDA to dorsum downward inwards its enforcement of the HPA at this year’s show.

“If true, that’s appalling, given the incontrovertible evidence that’s come upward to light.

“Soring is a crime, in addition to at that spot should live on a zero-tolerance policy for it. We require rigid enforcement efforts past times USDA, in addition to nosotros require members of Congress to strengthen the federal police describe in addition to back upward means efforts to source out criminal behavior.”

 

Pacelle’s weblog tin live on read at http://hsus.typepad.com/wayne/2012/08/tn-walking-horse-celebration.html

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