Horse Slaughter Sue promotes her mission in New Mexico under new guise

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Sue Wallis has created yet another organization to front her pursuit of horse slaughter. It is called the International Equine Business Association (http://www.ieqbassn.com/). Beware anyone who does business with this association.

We give as little attention as possible to Horse Slaughter Sue, but feel in this instance it is warranted.

Wallis, in an attempt outrun the embarrassment — and perhaps even legal action — connected with her other failed horse slaughter enterprises, is attempting to rebrand herself, again.

It is under this new name Wallis is now promoting her grisly mission in New Mexico. The first offering we have come across from her new organization is a letter to the State’s Governor defending Dennis Chavez against horse cruelty charges. Dennis Chavez is the owner of the Southwest Livestock Auction and Feedlot in Los Lunas, New Mexico, the subject of an Animals’ Angels’ expose of gross mistreatment and cruelty on his premises (video report below).

It opens with:

The International Equine Business Association (IEBA) has been formed to protect and promote the horse industry and steps forward to assist equine businesses under attack from dishonest, and unethical, radical animal rights organizations.
 
Dennis Chavez and Southwest Livestock of Los Lunas have been under scrutiny, and have been vilified on the Internet and in media outlets because of disturbing videos of horses in very poor condition, that were subsequently euthanized. Most of these reports contain biased and speculative information implying that the horses were mistreated by Mr. Chavez.
 
Missing from the public discussion are any voices from the livestock industry, veterinarians, or experts in animal care and handling. While we wait for the results of the New Mexico Livestock Board’s investigation, IEBA has been gathering facts and testimony. The analysis of these findings results in an alarming picture of special interest group stalking and harassment of a legitimate livestock business.

It continues with:

Instead of charging Mr. Chavez with negligent mistreatment or animal cruelty, and trying to ruin his business…if these groups really cared about horses they would be honoring and applauding him, as we do, for providing care and sustenance to horses that would otherwise have no chance of survival.

READ ENTIRE LETTER

IEBA_Letter_Governor_New_Mexico_12April12 (pdf, 3 pp) >>

SEE VIDEO REPORT (WARNING: GRAPHIC)

Wyoming House leaders will ‘look at’ Wallis ethics complaint

JOAN BARRON reports for the Trib.com

CHEYENNE — The leadership of the Wyoming House will look at an ethics complaint filed against a Gillette lawmaker after the Legislature convenes Jan. 11, said new House Speaker Ed Buchanan.
The complaint filed by Patricia Fazio of Cody claims that Rep. Sue Wallis, R-Gillette, sponsored and voted on bills in which she has a financial interest.

“Rep. Wallis is on a crusade to return horse slaughter for human consumption to the U.S.,” Fazio’s letter said. “I believe she is improperly and even fraudulently using her position as a Wyoming representative to promote and misrepresent the issue to her financial benefit,” it added.

Fazio is an animal rights activist.

In her response, Wallis claimed the complaint was based on “lies, tortured manipulation of the truth and innuendo.”

“About the only charge that has any validity in this entire attack by vicious so-called ‘horse advocates’ is the one that I will proudly defend … and that is that I am working diligently to restore humane and regulated processing of horses in the United States, because we believe that to be in the best interest of the equine industry and the best way to ensure the well-being of horses,” she said.

Wallis believes it is better to humanely kill a horse than allow the animal to starve to death.

Wallis said she does not raise horses nor does she receive compensation for her work on behalf of the horse industry.

You can practically hear Wallis sputtering through her quotes.

This is the reason we asked you not to sign any petitions or write letters regarding the complaint. It would be then be viewed as an animal rights’ vendetta against a politician. Better to let the complaint stand on its own merits. It can, however, be argued it would have been turned into that anyway by Wallis. Here we go again.

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Cheyenne may have a horse slaughter plant

Horse Slaughter Sue of Wyoming is going full speed ahead to bring horse slaughter back to U.S. soil. The targeted city is Cheyenne.

Michael Van Cassell reporting for the Wyoming Tribune Eagle tells us:

A Wyoming state representative from Recluse is interested in opening a horse slaughtering facility in Laramie County, according to the director of the Wyoming Livestock Board.

Earlier this year, Rep. Sue Wallis, R-Recluse, was one of several legislators to sponsor a bill that allows the “disposal of” stray animals, as opposed to their sale.

She is interested in doing something with the horses that have no value anymore,” said Jim Schwartz, director of the Wyoming Livestock Board.

Sue Wallis did not return phone calls for the article.

There is no outlet for the sale of the horse meat except within the State of Wyoming itself. The USDA suspended federal funding for the necessary inspections allowing horse meat to be exported to the countries who eat it.

Most likely the horse meat will go to feed prisoners, the mentally ill, the elderly and other people living in state maintained facilities. “A Wyoming bill allowing state livestock to process abandoned horses and sell their meat to prisons and other state institutions was signed into law last month.” See TheHorse.com >>

It has been widely publicized that horse meat contains drugs residues that are potentially carcinogenic to humans. The EU has mandated a six-month quarantine on American slaughter horses for this very reason. But it’s just prisoners, the mentally ill, and the elderly, right? So Horse Slaughter Sue considers human just as dispensable as horses. No surprise there.

Judging by the comments section, please are getting the idea that the proposed horse plant is a rendering facility with the horse meat going into products such as pet food. No, sorry, folks. This is a horse slaughter plant. Horses would be brutally murdered there for their meat. A rendering facility is a place where the parts of an already dead animal are processed into a variety of products, including pet food. The last we looked, there were no rendering plants specializing in horse carcasses.

As of this writing, the Wyoming Department of Agriculture has not received blueprints or permit application for a horse slaughter facility.

So will Wyoming become the Horse Capital of the United States? Only time will tell.

In the meantime, contact the Governor of Wyoming and the Wyoming Department of Agriculture and tell them you are opposed to horse slaughter. You can send them this document (it is a 24 page fully referenced document) or you can use the Table of Contents as talking points.

Just because Wyoming can open a horse slaughter plant does not mean the State is obligated to.

Governor Dave Freudenthal
State Capitol
200 West 24th Street
Cheyenne, WY 82002-0010
Email: http://governor.wy.gov/contact-dave/default.html Webform

Jason Fearneyhough, Director
Wyoming Department of Agriculture
2219 Carey Avenue
Cheyenne WY 82002
Email: jfearn@state.wy.us

Read Cassell’s article here >>