This past Monday, SOS showed LAST OF THE SPANISH MUSTANGS, a movie about the plight of the Spanish mustangs- our country's wild
horses are being wiped off their range to support the foreign horse meat market. After the movie, Liz Cherry, a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Georgia, discussed her experience witnessing the popularity of horse meat in France during the year that she lived there. Liz also talked about the current efforts to end horse slaughter through creating more effective legislation- H.R. 503 and S. 311. For more information and to find out how you can help, please visit this HSUS site.

For more information on our ongoing movie fest, please visit our FilmFest page.

"Person with Interests"

Interesting news item today out of Austria. It is about a chimpanzee, Matthew Hiasl Pan, who an Austrian group, Association Against Animal Factories, is trying to have declared legally a "person with interests" rather than a "thing without interests" in order to help provide for his future care (the shelter he has been living at has gone bankrupt) and to ensure he isn't sold to someone outside the country where he would no longer be protected by Austrian animal cruelty laws. The article notes that they are not trying to have him declared "human" just legally a person rather than a thing.