President Obama should support the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act of 2011 to ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption:
1) Horses have contributed, for years, to building this country
(2) Horses are not raised to be slaughtered for human consumption, and, American horses are not raised, fed and medicated within the FDA guidelines for food animals, making them unfit and unsafe for human consumption;
(3) Horse slaughter is animal cruelty, not humane euthanasia; it means devastation for communities; and
(4) Banning slaughter would reduce the number of horses in need and improve horse welfare.