Rockville Mo horse slaughter plant another misfire for Sue Wallis

CHICAGO, July 18, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Equine Welfare Alliance (EWA) – Despite dozens of articles about the imminent opening of a horse slaughter plant in Rockville, Missouri, EWA has learned that the plant is not opening anytime in the foreseeable future.

The announcement by Sue Wallis that the plant was undergoing renovation and would be open in September turns out to have been as premature and misleading as her earlier announcements in Wyoming and Mountain Grove, MO.

Wallis has not in fact purchased the plant, and cannot legally do so (had she the resources) because its ownership is entangled in a complex web of civil and criminal issues involving dubious deeds of trust through a shell company called Six Bears, and criminal theft charges against its Canadian operator Vincent Paletta.

Paletta had already been charged with two counts of felony stealing by deception when Wallis’ announcement brought the plant to the attention of Mountain Grove attorney Cynthia MacPherson. It was MacPherson who uncovered the elaborate plan by the Palettas to protect the plant from creditors.

On behalf of one creditor, Elvin’s Refrigeration, MacPherson has sued the Palettas, asking the court to block all transfers of the property until the ownership can be determined and creditors protected. The petition claims the Palettas violated MUFTA (Missouri Uniform Financial Transactions Act).

Elvin’s has also filed a Nonconsensual Common Law Lien against the plant’s owner charging that the Palettas fraudulently used bogus deeds of trust, and even sued themselves through their shell companies to protect their assets from creditors.

Although Wallis and her Missouri attorney Dan Erdel did form two new companies and have requested federal inspections, they do not own the plant for which the request was made thus rendering the filing moot. Moreover, records show that they have made no application to Missouri agencies for the required permits.

Undeterred, Wallis has already announced a plant in Oklahoma, where selling horse meat or possessing horse meat for sale is illegal. This announcement too has been widely reported as factual.

EWA has published a comprehensive report on the Gordian legal knot encasing the Rockville plant.

Report link: http://www.equinewelfarealliance.org/uploads/Rockville_plant_report-final.pdf

Source: Press Release

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Horse slaughter plant planned for Rockville, Missouri

Just because there is a market for horse meat in some countries does not mean the U.S. must be their supplier. Sue Wallis and Unified Equine continue to work to return horse slaughter to U.S. soil, recently applying for a permit in Rockville, Missouri.

Sue Wallis’ United Equine, LLC has filed an application with the the Food Safety and Inspection Service to slaughter horses at a former cattle slaughter facility located in Rockville, Bates County, Missouri.

Unified Equine are reportedly raising the funding necessary to convert the plant into a horse slaughtering operation through private investors with plans to then lease the plant to one of two foreign corporations currently interested in the proposition.

Wallis is informing interested parties that they expect to begin slaughtering horses for human consumption and other purposes in September 2012.

Wallis hints her plans for horse slaughter plant in Missouri are apace

Cross-posted from Riverfront Times Blog

by PAUL FRISWOLD

Sue Wallis, the CEO of Unified Equine, resurfaced in the media recently to hint that her plans for a horse slaughter plant in Missouri continue apace. Wallis claims that the company has designs on a shuttered cattle processing plant in “western Missouri,” with the exact location being kept a secret. The secrecy is necessary at least in part because of the public outcry over Unified Equine’s initial proposed location in Mountain Grove, Missouri — the local populace strongly opposed the plan.

Let’s say Unified Equine follows through with this new location, and a plant opens and processes horse meat for human consumption. What exactly would be in that meat?

Valerie Pringle of HSUS mentions just a few toxic items.

“Horses aren’t raised to be eaten, not like cattle,” Pringle says. For example, the United States and the European Union both have prohibitions against phenylbutazone being used in food producing animals. According to Pringle, phenylbutazone is at the top of the list of drugs given to horses as a matter of course.

“Phenylbutazone is kind of like horse asprin. We keep a big container in the barn. It’s used to treat pain or swelling from a bug bite — horses seem to injure themselves all the time. It’s very, very common,” Pringle explains before rattling off a list of further commonly dispensed medicines. “They get wormer generally every eight weeks. Fly spray, fungicidal shampoos, hoof treatment, copper tox for their hooves — that kills bacteria — all of those drugs are common for regular horses, including show horses. These things are done to keep them healthy. None of them are approved for human consumption.”

In case anyone other than a horse owner has any doubt about this, Pringle adds:

“I own a horse, Sue Wallis doesn’t. I know what’s in horse meat.”

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The Springfield News-Leader reports Unified Equine is considering western Missouri because of large horse populations nearby.

The Int’l Fund for Horses is campaigning to put boots on the ground to lobby and speak to local business leaders in Oklahoma, Missouri and Wallis’ home state of Wyoming, where she and her colleagues are busy working to get horse slaughter plants into operation by the end of the year.

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