By LAURENNE RAMSDEL
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
STRATHAM — Those looking to aid a 9-year-old boy's campaign to end the inhumane treatment of horses can do so by attending a letter-writing party at the New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on Sunday afternoon.
After having been exposed to the methods used throughout the United States to slaughter horses, Declan Gregg has focused his energy on voicing his concern in order to make a difference.
With the help of his mother, Stacie Gregg, Declan has been providing readers through a blog with links to various equine related websites, information about legislation related to the meat packaging industry, pictures and video clips about horses. The blog,www.children4horses.blogspot.com, has been viewed thousands of times by readers in nearly two dozen different countries throughout the world.
The 9-year-old Greenland boy's efforts to publicize the inhumane nature in which horses are being killed went beyond blogging when he testified before a packed house at the state capital in Concord. Declan testified before members of the House Environment and Agriculture Committee about House Bill 1446, which was proposed to be amended in order to include a sentence that excludes horse meat from inspection, processing and sales.
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