I have heard many twisted interpretations of the facts in the horse slaughter debate, but I never thought I would live to read something as outrageous as what you will see below. Of course, it has come from the mind of Sue Wallis, also referred to as “Slaughterhouse Sue” among horse lovers.
In an Op Ed piece entitled “Killer Horse Buyer are Heroes and Saviours”, this is Wallis’ response to the statement that “horse slaughter is a predatory business where killer buyers outbid people who just want to save horses.”
The typical horse buyer on the other hand has “rescued,” “re-homed,” and “re-purposed” thousands of horses, done it all on their own dime without a single handout from anybody, and don’t get any credit. Horse buyers are in the business of finding a purpose for horses that are unwanted, unneeded, or no longer useful.
Of course they profit from it, that is how one makes a living in this country. Last I heard paying someone a fair price for anything (including horses) that they don’t want, don’t need, or can’t keep, and selling it to someone else who has a use for it for a profit is still the time-honored American way.
I was not aware that the typical horse buyer in the U.S. is a killer buyer employed to supply horse slaughter plants. Is that what this country has come to?
Tuesday's Horse 
One thing I wish is that Horseback Mag would not give Sue slaughter- horse- queen a free lectern to spout her insanity. I asked them about this at one time and I was told that they wanted to give everyone a fair chance to speak. Because nothing could do more damage to her than ignoring her, and I still feel that’s the best way to treat anything she spouts. Because every time anything she writes is printed her chest puffs out three feet and so does her azz.
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We pretty much ignore her. We maybe cover her once or twice a year, if that often. She normally spouts the same nonsense and nothing really new comes from her that her forerunners used to try to fool the public with.
However, speaking for ourselves only, we have not seen her, or anyone else, hail killer buyers as heroes and saviors before. We thought that was worth a mention because it is about as ludicrous and desperate a stretch as there is.
And Horseback Magazine are not alone; R T Fitch outs her regularly (among others), and even EWA occasionally.
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I know that R.T. is unable to resist; and Steve is a Journalist and if he feels she is ‘newsworthy’ that is his call. EWA does it with a ‘gag’ alert and then Vicki prints it.
I wish all of them would stop giving her attention. Tuesday’s Horse gave a profound look into the mind of a sociopath.
Elle
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I have rescued for several and did not do it for a profit. I. Haven’t made any money doing this. My feed bill is around 3000.00 a month and its all out of pocket. I have paid 1800.00 for horses and turned around a week later amd gave them to great homes. The horses were in abusive neglectful situaions. So for sue’s greedy buffalo looking ass to say that we rescue for profit is insane. I spent 60,000.00 one year tam ng care of horses…. explain how that is profit when I live in a 1973 mobile home with a 2000 buick century to transport hay and feed in. Yes its soundcrazy but its trueand I do not have a non profit status for help either. SO SUE PLEASE TELL ME WHERE THE HELL MY PROFIT IS! You can’t help that your mother was so worthless that she did not know however to raise you right. You should do the world a favor and put a gun in your mouth and pull the trigger
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I understand your frustration. But I have a better idea Hannah than the old gun in the mouth.
How about she have a revelation about the evils of horse slaughter and put her time and effort instead into ending it, and becoming known as Anti Horse Slaughter Sue. Now that’s a thought!
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Positive thoughts are more powerful than negative thoughts. Vivian is an expert as she has studied this for a very long time. I still feel that we should just ignore her.
Elle
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Wow! You are mad as hell girl! We support you metaphorically of course as we are all in the same situation, Horse rich, cash poor!
Elle :)
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Sue Wallis needs to lay off the horse-meat. It clearly doesn’t agree with her. (I’ve tried talking diplomatically with pro-slaughterers, but it didn’t work. Ignorance abounds among that crew.)
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A horrific thought that she actually gets horse meat. California is the only state in the US where it is illegal to consume horse meat. That wacko probably finds a nice Quarterhorse at the feed lots and buys it it butchers it herself. That thought sickens me.
As much as we detest her we need to ignore her to drive her crazy. No mention of her will cause her to go on a rampage and then the world will see how nuts she is.
Elle
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80% of Americans are against horse slaughter . That’s the number. Any questions? That’s the vote. Why do pro-kill people not get it? not respect it? try to get us to change our mind? They aren’t changing their stand on the issue! Do they think that money (there will be employment and offal) and platitudes (It’s good for the horses),and videos (see –it only took 11 shots to drop that terrified animal) are going to change our position? Even ” Not in my back yard” works for me! Is SSue putting her plant in Your back yard? 80% says it all.
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I am always amazed how the pro-slaughter view is so ignorant of economics. Yet they nod their heads in agreement with each other as they point their fingers as us “do-gooders” as the cause of their market falling apart.
Sue says, “Rescue” is code for stealing horses without compensating the owner, and then holding them hostage so that they can be “re-homed” or kept as poster horses to raise more and more dollars.” Yah, all that cash is just falling out of my pockets as I walk along filling my rescue horses’ buckets. Yours, too, I bet.
Sue also says, “Prior to 2007 people who were good with horses would buy a horse that went through the sale ring without saddle or halter, take them home and try them to see if they could train them, fix some bad habits, tune them up a little and sell them for a tidy profit. If the horse didn’t work out, they always had the option of taking them back to the sale and holding their money together for another try because any horse in reasonably good shape would hold their value as a meat animal.” Umm, Sue, what has changed? The kill buyers are still in attendance at auctions.
Then, she says:”That opportunity to “rescue” and “re-home” horses is now gone, and the total responsibility for the number of suffering, starving, mistreated horses falls squarely in the lap of the animal rights do-gooders who have destroyed the chances for thousands of horses. Not only are these horses not getting the chance that they used to–far too many bad outlaw horses that are bound to hurt somebody are now getting passed around from person to person because there is nowhere else to sell them.” Huh? Yeah, yeah, that’s right, Sue.
And finally, she sums it up: “The supply pipelines to the Canadian and Mexican processing plants are plumb full of grade A meat horses and the price for even the best candidates is pathetically low. ”
And our rescue efforts are affecting this how?
Oh, I just got it! All that prime meat is not going through the slaughterhouses built by you and your cronies. That’s your real complaint, Sue. You just can’t wait to employ minimum wage workers, pollute the air and water of the communities stuck with your abatoirs, and send all that Grade A meat laced with carcinogens out into the open market. (Oh, I guess that’s where wild horse management would come in handy. Genuine American Mustang…All Natural!)
Yup, it’s all about the money for you.
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All I can say is: “Touche'”
Awesome analysis of Sue Wallis and her teeny tiny mind!
:)
Elle
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Sue Wallis is an ignorant ugly fat a55 that needs to take a look at herself because not only is she ugly on the outside she is ugly on the inside as well…..I guess she has to draw attention some way. She would be better if she did it in a positive intelligent way.Then again she fits in with the low life slime balls that keep this business going…Birds of a feather flock together when you look at her and the kill buyers the truckers that transport these poor helpless animals they are all the same. Not very educated and no other way to be productive except at the expense of innocent lives being the horses.Sue Wallis probably eats horse meat and anything else she can all one has to do is look ate her. She is a disgrace to the human race.
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We MUST ignore her as she craves attention. That will make her nuts and any ‘investors’ will NOT want to deal with her. I agree she is sub human.
Elle
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CRAZY SUE, THE HORSE KILLER IS AT IT AGAIN. SHE IS “BEYOND THE PALE” INDEED.
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she needs to be ”culled out”,as they say.
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Sue Wallis is a former Coal Miner. She has only a High School education, which in some cases is just fine, but that depends upon the quality of the High School. Hers was evidently sub par. This ‘creature’ is beyond the pale and I, for one, think the less attention she receives the better we will all be. Her logic can be reduced to an absurdity. Reductio ad Absurnam. Just monitor her but do not pay her any attention in newsletters, etc. She is on all of the lists so if we don’t speak about her she will become even more outrageous causing people to leave her.
Elle
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Im very let down about the horse slaughter business, and want to give up after watching the film at BOUVRYS PLANTS and now he wants to open a slaughter house in washngton close to the boarder of canada, we cant let this happen.
the suffering is so hard to even believe.And sue the horse killer girl, shame on you. She doesnt care, look at her.
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