Undercover video footage taken inside the Québec facility revealed that at least 40 percent of the horses were still conscious after receiving a captive-bolt shot to the head. One horse suffered through an agonizing 11 shots before finally collapsing. In another instance, a worker was taped waving good-bye mockingly to a dying horse. In February, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency temporarily closed the slaughterhouse, but the plant resumed operations just days later and is now attempting to use rifles in place of captive-bolt guns. For the full story please go to http://www.peta.org/action/action-alerts/Canadians--Act-Now-to-Ban-Horse-Slaughter-.aspx Your voice is needed today. If you are a Canadian citizen, please urge your Member of Parliament to support C-322, which would ban the import and export of horses for slaughter for human consumption in Canada. (http://www.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Compilations/HouseOfCommons/MemberByPostalCode.aspx) If you are an American citizen, please tell Congress that you support the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, which would prevent U.S. horses from being sold, shipped, or transferred to slaughterhouses, effectively ending the use of U.S. horses for food (https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4089)