Horse Slaughter Prevention Acts

The issue of horse slaughter has become one that is increasingly prominent in today's society. Thankfully, many people recognize this and are putting forth efforts to prevent the spreading of horse slaughter throughout the US.
One of these efforts is the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, introduced by the Animal Welfare Institute. On June 9th, 2011,  LA Senator Mary Landrieu and South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham proposed that the act "will end the slaughter of American horses here and, most urgently, will stop these horses from being exported abroad for slaughter"(Graham, Landrieu, 2011). On September 19th, 2011, Indiana Representative Dan Burton and Illinois Representative Jan Schakowsky reintroduced a House version of the bill, H.R. 2966.
A new version of this bill, H.R. 503 was reintroduced on January 17th, 2012. It was overwhelmingly passed by the House of Representatives last year but died in the Senate at the end of the 109th Congress. It would prohibit permanently the slaughter of horses for human consumption as well as the exportation of live horses intended for the same purpose, making sure that no American horse is slaughtered in the US nor shipped to be slaughtered abroad. This bill has since been referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the House Committee on Agriculture.
Although larger bills like these have not yet been passed, smaller acts have been put into action all over the US. Most of these are from small groups of people involved with horses in the own hometowns and want to put an end to horse slaughter. What are some ways in which these groups are raising awareness of horse slaughter?
Animal Welfare Institute. (2012). American horse slaughter prevention act. Retrieved from http://awionline.org/content/american-horse-slaughter-prevention-act