Horse slaughter plant planned for 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…

Unified Equine may have met its Waterloo in Missouri horse slaughter battle

In a letter to Unified Equine's attorney of record, Cynthia MacPherson Esq, who has been leading the battle to make sure horse slaughter does not return to US soil in Missouri, challenges the way Unified Equine, led by Sue Wallis, has solicited investors. Also from the contents of this letter, it appears MacPherson has uncovered…

Missouri horse slaughter plant meeting closed to media

MIKE PENPRASE reporting for News-Leader writes: The owner of a Mountain Grove livestock auction where proponents of a horse slaughter operation plan to hold a meeting Monday [March 12th] said he doesn’t want news media on his property. “I’ve been lambasted by the people who don’t want to see it,” Wright County Livestock Auction owner…

Horse slaughter promoter alleges death threats to YMCA Director

EQUINE WELFARE ALLIANCE PRESS RELEASE March 10, 2012 – Mountain Grove, MO (EWA) – A bizarre chain of events has followed the contentious meeting of the Mountain Grove City Council on March 6th concerning the Unified Equine proposal to build a horse slaughter plant near the town. Unified Equine CEO Sue Wallis claimed that the…

Return of horse slaughter to US soil planned for the Ozarks

Cross-posted from KY3.com Written by LINDA RUSSELL KY3 News MOUNTAIN GROVE, Mo. -- (Feb. 24, 2012) A company called Unified Equine wants the Ozarks to be home to its first processing plant for horse meat for human consumption. The proposed plant would be just east of Mountain Grove near the Wright-Texas County line in the…