Congressional Action

Legislation & the S.A.F.E. Act

The bills moving through Congress right now that could end the slaughter pipeline and ban helicopter roundups for good. Track them, understand them, and demand your representatives vote yes.

S.A.F.E. Act

Save America's Forgotten Equines Act • H.R. 1661 / S. 775

Currently Before Congress

Permanently prohibits the slaughter of American horses for human consumption and outlaws the export of horses across US borders to Canadian and Mexican slaughterhouses.

Closes the catastrophic commercial slaughter pipeline once and for all.

Ends the trucking of horses in cramped cattle trailers without adequate vertical clearance across borders.

Protects horses from being purchased at auction by predatory commercial kill buyers.

Bipartisan legislation with overwhelming majority public support (over 80% of Americans oppose horse slaughter).

Wild Horse and Burro Protection Act

H.R. 3656 / Federal Companion

Active Congressional Advocacy

Mandates an immediate ban on the use of helicopters and motorized aircraft to pursue and capture wild horses, requiring humane, on-range fertility management.

Bans helicopter stampedes that cause broken limbs, neck fractures, and orphaned foals.

Requires transparent, ground-based fertility vaccines (such as PZP).

Mandates telemetry and public transparency during any federal range activities.

The Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971

Congress unanimously declared wild horses “living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West” and protected them where they were found. The S.A.F.E. Act and the Wild Horse and Burro Protection Act restore the intent of that federal mandate — which the BLM has spent decades undermining in favor of subsidized commercial livestock grazing.

Read the 1971 allotment analysis

Tell Congress: Pass the S.A.F.E. Act.

Add your name to the petition demanding immediate passage of H.R. 1661 / S. 775 and an end to the helicopter roundup pipeline.

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