Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Horse slaughter plant plans stall
The primary backer of a proposed horse slaughtering operation in western Missouri said she isn't giving up, even though plans have stalled because of legal problems surrounding the plant that was to be used for the business. In June, Wyoming legislator Sue Wallis announced that a former beef processing plant in Rockville was being retrofitted to be a horse slaughtering plant, raising hopes of bringing much-needed jobs to the town 100 miles south of Kansas City. But Wallis' company, Unified Equine, has not acquired the plant and no work has been done at the site, The Kansas City Star reported Monday. Wallis' critics said that is typical of how she has operated since she began pushing to reopen horse slaughtering plants in the U.S. after Congress voted in 2011 to restore funding for horse plant inspections by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Wallis insisted she plans to continue working to acquire the Rockville plant, noting that organizations such as the Missouri Equine Council support her effort...more
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Just more of Sue Wallis's lies and deceit. I understand the need of Rockville to have a viable employer in their town and they have been sold a bill of goods. SOP for Sue Wallis.
The question is where is the feed coming from to feed the horses and who is going to bear the cost? This amounts to 50,000 feral horses in captivity, 30,000 on the public lands, and a greater number of domestic horses, and now with hay going above 225.00 per ton , if you can find it.
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