Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Wyoming lawmaker expects at least one horse slaughterhouse in the state
At least two Wyoming groups are considering opening horse slaughterhouses in the state after Congress passed legislation allowing USDA inspection of horse meat and plants, a proponent says. State Rep. Sue Wallis, R-Recluse, is a member of the United Horsemen. She said her group formed the company Unified Equine to explore the creation of a horse meat processing plant in Wyoming. The possibility only opened Nov. 18, when President Barack Obama signed an agriculture spending bill. The bill reversed a 2006 decision by Congress prohibiting U.S. Department of Agriculture inspections for horse meat and plants. The last horse slaughterhouse in the country closed in 2007. Without the inspections, horse meat couldn't be transported out of the state, Wallis said. So, technically, slaughterhouses weren't banned, except in a couple of states that passed laws prohibiting the businesses. But it is impossible to run slaughterhouses without inspections, Wallis said...more
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The proposal by sue wallis has more wind in it that is needed to power the largest wind farm in the state or any other for that matter. If she is promoting this idea as a legislature and using her position as a legislature to gain access to the media she is in a direct conflict of interest and or a ethics violation. If this is the case she should resign. If this is not the case and promoting it for the horse industry then let it be, but there is no indication that she won't derive any monetary value from a plant which is years away from being realistic despite what she and her cohort says.I am for the good use of horse meat to feed whatever or whoever needs it.
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