Actress Ali MacGraw Appeals To Senator To Keep Horses Out Of Dog Food Cans
April 4 2012, Published 5:00 a.m. ET
By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter
Esteemed seventies actress Ali MacGraw is actively professing her love of horses by appealing to her local senator to protect former racehorses from ending their days in a dog food can.
The Love Story star wrote a letter to Senator Tom Udall urging him to throw his weight behind the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act of 2011, which is now before Congress and would prohibit trucking horses across U.S. borders hundreds of miles into Canada or Mexico for slaughter, Breaking Celebrity News has learned.
"It would outlaw not only horse slaughter in the U.S. but also the transport of horses for slaughter elsewhere. It would effectively end the use of U.S. horses for food," wrote the animal rights activist in her letter to Washington D.C.
"Please, Tom, will you sign on to this bill right away, vigorously support it, and persuade others in positions of power to do the same? Time is of the essence. This extremely important bill cannot be allowed to fall through the cracks."
Earlier in her letter, 70-year-old MacGraw explained: “The previous ban on domestic horse slaughter, which is no longer in effect, was inadequate. It simply forced sensitive American horses, including thousands of casually discarded racehorses, to endure being trucked thousands of miles in all kinds of weather, fearful and thirsty, to the Mexican and Canadian borders, only to be slaughtered in those countries.”
The Democratic senator from New Mexico has already been pushing for uniform federal standards to make the horse racing industry safer following a New York Times investigation exposing the high number of accidents involving both horses and jock