12/23/2012
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CALL TO ACTION FOR THE HORSES!
Via Heather Clemenceau
Animal Advocates – Please respond to this call-to-action! Jorge Ortega, who was arrested for selling horsemeat in Florida, has made a plea deal - under this deal he will serve 18 months probation and will pay more than $1,000 in restitution to the USDA. He also must not have any contact with any horses, and after successfully completing probation, the charges will be dropped.
Dropping the charges sends the WRONG message about horse slaughter in Florida, an issue that puts horses and humans lives in danger. Horses are being stolen from private homes and being slaughtered cruelly on farms, often hacked up while still alive. We must send a strong message to law-makers in Florida that these types of lenient sentences are not acceptable! To quote Richard Couto of ARM – “Ortega had his hand in many of those farms, as far as killing the animals and selling their meat.” These slaughter farms are violent places that no one should have to live near.
Please contact the following people to ask that the case be fully prosecuted!
Contact: Governor Rick Scott on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/scottforflorida?fref=ts
And on the web - http://www.flgov.com/contact-gov-scott/
Contact: Attorney General Pam Bondi on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pambondi?fref=ts
And on Twitter –
Contact the Clerk of the Circuit Court - http://www.hillsclerk.com/publicweb/home.aspx
Please read:
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/20393966/2012/12/20/plea-deal-for-man-arrested-in-horse-slaughter-investigation
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/20211630/2012/11/28/arrest-in-horse-slaughter-investigation
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