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Update: California Equipment Rental Company Bought Oregon Land for Horse Slaughter Plant

Posted: June 12, 2012 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter
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By R.T. Fitch ~ president Wild Horse Freedom Federation

Secrecy Behind Possible Horse Butchering Operation Evaporating

Anti-Horse/Pro-Slaughter Activist Dave Duquette from Hermiston, Oregon.

Public records reveal that Liberated L&E LLC, an equipment and machine rental company based in Palmdale California bought a 252-acre parcel of land in Hermiston,OR for $600,000 last March with the expressed intent of building an alleged horse slaughter plant on the location.  Hermiston, OR is the hometown of Dave Duquette, president of an anti-horse/pro-slaughter lobbying organization,  announced in March that a horse slaughter plant was to be built in his community and that the land would be donated; Duquette was, and still is, short on details.

Internet sources and the California Secretary of State indicate that listed managing members of Liberated L&E LLC are Robert Joseph Zamrzla and Jonny Lee Zamrzla who are also directors of the California firm Stone Roofing East, Inc.

According to a recent report in the Hermiston Herald City Planner Clint Spencer sent a memo to City Manager Ed Brookshier alerting him to the possibility of the proposed intent of a horse slaughter plant being built upon the purchased parcel.

“There has been no movement with Umatilla County in terms of meeting with staff or submission of land use applications for the horse slaughter facility,” Spencer was quoted as saying, however he did go on to clarify that the land sale has been completed.

Mayor Bob Severson and councilors Frank Harkenrider and Jackie Myers spoke out against such a facility in the Hermiston area. Severson has also voiced opposition to such a facility in recent weeks.

“I cannot see where a horse slaughtering plant would do anything to improve our community or our image for attracting new business and industry,” Severson wrote in a letter read May 14 to city council in his absence. Severson wrote in response to a letter to the editor from Kaye Killgore of Portland published May 17 in the East Oregonian. Killgore, who described herself as a frequent visitor to the area and with friends here, wrote that slaughterhouses elsewhere can be environmental nightmares, among other criticisms of Duquette’s plan.

“The biggest thing I’m concerned about is, I don’t want anything with odor or anything like that to detract from the community we have today,” Severson said, “To me a horse is a recreation animal or a work animal. We don’t need to slaughter them for food.”

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Duquette’s Hometown Mayor Says Horse Slaughter Stinks

Posted: May 26, 2012 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter
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Story by by By ANNA WILLARD of the East Oregonian

Hermiston mayor opposes slaughterhouse for several reasons — especially the smell

“As of late, Dave Duquette, alleged president of the anti-horse/pro-slaughter organization United Horsemen, has been touting the prospect of destroying his local community of Hermiston Oregon by opening up a predatory horse slaughter plant virtually right in his own backyard.  With wide-sweeping boasts of acquiring land, in town, and plans to build a multimillion dollar plant for a product with no market Duquette has run into some local resistance from not only the mainline townsfolk but from the very town mayor himself.  Duquette, along with his partner in horse butchering Sue Wallis, is hell bent on acquiring attention and grasping a spotlight, or even a flashlight, with no regard to whether the attention is positive or negative.  But one thing is now glaringly true, we have been saying it for years and now it comes to us in bold print, “Horse Slaughter Stinks, right along with Duquette and Wallis; it’s enough to make you lose your lunch” ~ R.T.

“Slaughterhouse” Sue Wallis and Dave Duquette at their first and last Slaughter Summit of the horse in early 2011 ~ photo courtesy of Summit of the Horse

Hermiston Mayor Bob Severson opposes the horse slaughterhouse proposed in Hermiston.

The potential odor is the thing that troubles him most, he said Thursday. But the mayor said he opposes the idea of slaughtering horses for consumption itself.

“The biggest thing I’m concerned about is, I don’t want anything with odor or anything like that to detract from the community we have today,” Severson said.

The U.S. in November 2011 lifted a ban on horse slaughter. Soon after, Hermiston resident David Duquette, president of United Horsemen, a non-profit, pro-slaughter group, proposed a slaughterhouse at the intersection of Interstate 84 and Westland Road.

In March, Duquette said outside investors and five Northwest American Indian tribes are backing the plan, which would employ 80-100 full-time workers. Neither the investors nor the tribes have been named. Duquette said an anonymous donor gave the 252 acres proposed as the project site.

Severson said he recognizes a problem with neglected or abandoned horses, and with high hay prices and a suffering economy the problem is compounded. However, Severson said he doesn’t think much of slaughtering horses in general.

“To me a horse is a recreation animal or a work animal. We don’t need to slaughter them for food,” Severson said.

According to the Southwest Farm Press, China, Mexico and Kazakhstan are the world’s top consumers of horse meat. About 4.7 million horses a year are produced for human consumption, the paper reported in December 2011.

Severson also said he wants to see concrete information about how problems like odor will be managed.

“I need to know more rather than they just say so,” he said.

Severson said he has not met with Duquette.

Duquette said odor wouldn’t be an issue. Offal would be cooled and disposed of daily and hides also cooled and hauled weekly.

Severson said a slaughterhouse would do nothing to improve the livability of Hermiston.

“I cannot see where a horse slaughtering plant would do anything to improve our community or our image for attracting new business and industry,” Severson wrote in a letter read May 14 to city council in his absence. Severson wrote in response to a letter to the editor from Kaye Killgore of Portland published May 17 in the East Oregonian. Killgore, who described herself as a frequent visitor to the area and with friends here, wrote that slaughterhouses elsewhere can be environmental nightmares, among other criticisms of Duquette’s plan.

The facility would be 20,000 square-feet and process between 100-150 horses per day. The land is also set to be the site of a rescue and rejuvenation facility employing 20-30 people, Duquette has said.

Severson said the city has turned down other facilities looking to place facilities in Hermiston such as a “humus” plant — a waste composting facility to produce fertilizer.

“We opposed other things too, a while back a rendering plant was proposed for this area and I felt the same thing there,” Severson said Thursday.

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Horse Slaughter Prohibition Pushed

Posted: April 26, 2012 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter
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by Jordon Blum of  The Advocate Washington bureau

Anti-Horse Arguments Pale before the Facts

Declan Gregg with Senator Landrieu, Senator Brown, Congressman Moran (behind him), Lorenzo Borghese, John Corbett, and Manda & Pamela of Seraphim 12 ~ photo by Stacie Gregg

WASHINGTON — Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., teamed with celebrities Bo Derek and John Corbett on Wednesday to tout her horse slaughter ban legislation during a “Horses on the Hill” event.

Landrieu has repeatedly pushed for a ban on slaughtering the animals for meat that is exported mostly to Europe and Asia. She is upping her efforts now that applications are in the works to open the nation’s first horse slaughterhouses since 2007.

“There’s no humane way to slaughter a horse,” Landrieu said. “Most horses going to slaughter are not old and they’re not sick.”

Expressing a lifelong love of horse riding like her daughter, Mary Shannon Snellings, who was present, Landrieu said she was “horrified” to learn in the past that horse slaughterhouses existed in the U.S.

But now, horses are exported under allegedly poor conditions to Mexico and Canada for slaughter and efforts are under way to open slaughterhouses domestically. About 100,000 horses are estimated to be exported for slaughter a year.

In November, Congress failed to renew a five-year ban on funding federal inspectors at horse slaughter plants in the United States, opening the door for a return of horse slaughter to American soil.

Landrieu’s American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act would prohibit the killing of American horses for human consumption in the U.S. and stop the transport of horses across the border to Canada and Mexico for slaughter.

Actress and anti-slaughter activist Bo Derek said it is “truly obscene” that she is still fighting after 10 years for a ban on the slaughter of animals that provide so much “companionship.”

Landrieu also received bipartisan support Wednesday from Republicans such as Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., and Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-Ky.

Landrieu said the lobbying of the horse industry has prevented Senate and House floor votes on her legislation thus far.

Dave Duquette, president of the pro-slaughter group United Horsemen, said the lack of horse slaughterhouses in the U.S. only leads to a poor market for the value of horses, which forces financially struggling horse owners to abandon their animals or keep them under poor conditions.

“We don’t advocate that everyone needs to slaughter their horse,” Duquette said. “But the option needs to be there.”

Duquette, who said he regularly receives death threats, said there are currently plans for horse slaughterhouses in Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa, Oregon and Washington.

“There’s a lot of efforts going on, and I think it’s probably going to happen in the near future,” he said.

A 2011 Government Accountability Office report advised either an outright ban on horse slaughtering or to legalize it, in order to stop the negative side effects of current practices, such as increased horse abandonment, the poor condition of horses exported to be slaughtered elsewhere and the overall decline in the price of horses.

Duquette, a self-described horse trainer, contended it is hypocritical for people to argue that horses must be treated differently when they go home and eat the meat from cows and pigs that were slaughtered.

“What makes them different? They’re not really,” he said. “That argument is emotional, not reality.”

“That argument is ridiculous on its face,” Landrieu said. “Cows are raised for slaughter.”

“We don’t eat our dogs and our horses,” she added.

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Horse Hating Wyoming Politician Sides with Known Animal Abuser

Posted: April 12, 2012 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter, The Force of the Horse
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(In My Outraged Opinion) by R.T. Fitch ~ author and President of Wild Horse Freedom Federation

Slaughterhouse $ue Wallis Sinks Deeper into Depravity

The prattle from the Horse-Eater’s camp has been quiet for about a week or so; only the constant drone of sharpening butcher knives can be heard across the trenches of the battlefield in the quiet of the night.  The perverse dredges of society have suffered some pretty serious defeats over the past several weeks and they are all tucked under their rocks licking their putrid wounds.  Let’s count their failures (not all but the biggest ones):

1.)  Several weeks ago the Queen of Cut and Paste, Wyoming state Rep. $ue Wallis, issued a a press release from one of her dubious organizations with a “united” in it that she was opening up a predatory foreign owned horse slaughter plant in Missouri and the residents were “100%” behind it.  Yeah, she looked kind of cute in all those tar and feathers as the good towns folk ran her out on a very big rail when she showed her bloated face in town. (Click HERE for story)

2.)  United Dead Horsemen (another “united”) prez., Dave Duquette, gave a miserable performance when he attempted to debate the horse killing issue on Oregon public radio with Scott Beckstead, Oregon HSUS director.  Caught in several lies, as usual, and unable to answer direct questions Duquette ducked and dodged to such an extent that the PBS radio show actually researched some of Duquette’s spew, after his failed debate, and updated their website with the truth as pointed out by Beckstead.  (Click HERE for story)

3.)  Not to be outdone, or miss any press, Sue Wallis, grand marshal. poobah and potentate of anything that has the word “United” in it, knowingly accepted an invitation to another PBS/NPR radio talk show which included equine welfare advocates, Wayne Pacelle, Madelaine Pickens and myself.  The show was advertised around the web, including on our blog, with Wallis getting full billing but when asked a simple question the delusional psychopath (in my humble opinion) hung-up and ran for the hills; she is just a tad smarter than Duquette as she knew when she was out gunned.  (Click HERE)  Within hours she released a press release through one of her puppet organizations with a “united” in it where she slammed the show, host and guests saying she was ambushed and ranted like a little 6 year old sissy with a pathological propensity to be disengaged from the truth.

4.)  Days after her demise on national radio Wallis’ genius and bigoted husband, Rod McQuery, (yes, that is really his name) penned a rant on Facebook where he labeled anyone who shows compassion for companion animals to be “Nazis” and no, he is not behind bars, yet.  (Click HERE for story)

5.)  Days before their much heralded Scummit of the Dead Horse in Oklahoma City the Duo of Dishonesty, Wallis and Duquette, announced that the big annual event was “postponed” until next year while the two redirected their mental resources to figuring out how they could screw people by building a horse rescue operation on the grounds of a bloody, foreign owned slaughter plant.  What happened?  Did the fact that in New York a Pro-Horse Summit was being held during the same time frame have anything to do with it?  Was it because Respect4Horses and Wild Horse Freedom Federation mounted a huge “Don’t Slaughter Me!” billboard in front of their proposed hotel push their buttons or was it the fact that there was a press conference planned on their opening day called the Summit of the LIVE Horse within walking distance from their intended debacle just too much to handle?  Probably closer to the truth is that their major, covert financial backers couldn’t handle the bad press from the two bafoons any longer and pulled the plug.  Inquiring minds want to know.  (more on that to follow)

So it’s been kind of quiet for a few days which means that Wallis has been in front of that cracked and distorted mirror chanting, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the most perverse of them all!” and suddenly BLAMO, she has an idea, something sick, twisted and so disgustingly perverted that everyone will be awed and dumbstruck by her stupidity.  It worked when she felt sorry for the woman who got naked and climbed into the dead carcass of a horse to be photographed prior to slicing and dicing the equine into BBQ burgers, poor girl, she was so misunderstood.  But now this is even better…

Watch out, take cover as we just heard the turd launcher go off over in enemy territory…

Here it comes, screaming through the air and, SPLAT, the turd has landed and the stench is enough to make even the strongest stomach hurl it’s cookies and the biggest man call for “Buick”…

Get this, the plump sicko has written to the Governor of New Mexico, under the guise of yet another bogus business with a “United” in it, to extol and thank the known and documented kill buyer Dennis Chaves for all the wonderful things he does to help all those homeless and sick ponies.  BARF!!! (Click HERE to read Chaves investigation)

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, there is no bottom to the slimy barrel that Wallis and company try to sink to, they exceed their own depravity and set new records for reproach each time her fingers touch the magic keyboard, it is truly revolting.

Of course, all the evil, lying and disgusting animal (rights)? Nazis are to blame for Chaves ‘woes and while sitting in a family commune amidst the mountains of Wyoming Wallis KNOWS all the facts, just like she KNEW all the facts about Kaufman Texas and was caught lying on the PBS show; quoting a city engineer…Kaufman didn’t even have a city engineer you bombastic twit.

So grab yourself a bucket to puke into and curl up in your reading chair and wade the latest, greatest collection of cut and paste propaganda to spew out of anyone’s mouth since the great war, it’s vintage Wallis and more documented proof that the men in white coats should be coming to Recluse, WY soon to help this poor, lost tortured soul and NO…it is not Halloween, for the real world, the ghouls and goblins dance only in Wallis’ head and we are forced to witness their aftermath.

We give you two options in which to abuse your sensibilities; you may read the revolting letter inserted, below, or you may click (HERE) to download it if you would like to make yourself sick offline.  The choice is yours but please remember, you have been warned:

 

April 12, 2012

The Honorable Susana Martinez

Governor of New Mexico

490 Old Santa Fe Trail, Room 400

Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501

Dear Governor Martinez,

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.

Here are the facts so far as we have been able to ascertain:

  • On a busy sale day, March 10th, 2012, when hundreds of horses and hundreds of people were at Southwest Livestock, two activists found four horses in very poor condition.
  • According to the activists’ own reports they arrived on the scene at 7:19 am.
  • It is indisputable that they spent an extended period of time videoing each of these horses from every angle before they reported their condition to anyone.
  • They did not show up in the office to report the horses until 2:30 pm.
  • The horses were not part of the auction. They were in a separate area.
  • The horses in question were in a “hospital pen” with plenty of hay and water, which was carefully framed out of the videos, as were the hundreds of healthy horses in good condition on the premises.
  • The video was not released until weeks later when the carcasses had been long disposed of; preventing any examination to determine whether there was foul play.
  • Horses in poor condition who are given the kind of feed and care given to every horse at Southwest Livestock usually recover in 60 to 90 days.
  • Mr. Chavez has documentation to prove that he has purchased nearly a million dollars of hay, feed, and veterinary supplies in the past year. His livestock are never without free choice hay, and clean water.
  • Practically all of Dennis Chavez’s customers are repeat customers, if horses were abused he would soon be out of business, and this is a well-respected and successful operation that has been in business for over forty years.

Dennis Chavez has the support of his neighbors, Native Americans, the entire agriculture industry, and people who understand the realities of livestock and the circle of Life. It is sad that these horses died, but it was not the fault of Mr. Chavez or Southwest Livestock. We do not believe that it was the result of any sort of intentional animal abuse.

It is the position of the IEBA that the fate of these suffering horses, and far too many others, are the direct result of the actions of animal activists who in a misguided attempt to “save horses from slaughter,” have instead rendered them worthless, or nearly so, and have condemned good horses to a fate far worse.

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.

Mr. Chavez, and other hardworking, taxpaying, livestock businesses in New Mexico deserve our support and appreciation for the care and feeding of otherwise doomed horses. They do not deserve the blatant stalking and harassment of out-of-state special interest groups, the negative impact to their ability to conduct business, nor the mental stress and anguish of hate mail and death threats to family members incited by this vicious, uncalled for public vilification.

We would welcome the opportunity to meet with you, and to provide you with documentation of the nationwide scope of the animal rights activist threat to agriculture and our food supply, and the consistent pattern of attack of innocent individuals and businesses. Below are statements provided by Mr. Chavez in regards to this matter, in which he expresses very articulately the attitude and beliefs of the horse industry in particular, and of animal agriculture as a whole.

Sincerely,

 

Sue Wallis, Chair, United States

International Equine Business Association

CC:

New Mexico Livestock Board

New Mexico Agricultural Organizations

 

STATEMENTS FROM DENNIS CHAVEZ…

“Our number one concern is the care and condition of all animals, and our concern is as great, or greater, than the concern of those who have brought these accusations. “

“Southwest Livestock receives all kinds of horses in all kinds of conditions. Some are brought to the facility because they have been abandoned. Some are left tied to the fence overnight by anonymous people. Many come off of Indian reservations and other facilities. Some arrive off of trucks and trailers already in sad condition. We do everything in our power to handle horses that arrive in a compromised condition appropriately.”

“We have and will continue to fully cooperate with the New Mexico Livestock Board investigation of this incident. We are confident that the political motives behind the complaints will be revealed, and that we will be cleared of any wrong doing.”

“Far too many poor horses arrive at this facility and other livestock facilities across the Nation as a result of the poor economy, the drought, and the high price of feed.   When they arrive we supply feed, clean water, and care.”

“We appreciate the support of the entire livestock industry.”

 

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Horse Slaughter Promoter Destroys Self on Public Radio with Defamatory Rant and Hang-Up

Posted: March 31, 2012 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter, Wild Burros, Wild Horses/Mustangs
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OpEd (In my outraged opinion) by R.T. Fitch ~ Author and President of Wild Horse Freedom Federation

“Slaughterhouse” $ue Wallis Shoots Self in Foot, AGAIN

Wallis/Duquette Standard Public Stance

Imagine, if you will, that hypothetically you found yourself in the position of representing a very unpopular cause but you pursued it as it meant great fame, even though it is all negative, and a bunch of money in your pocket and being that you have had a few iffy fiscal woes in the past you embrace the new found income source.  

In your heart of hearts you know that you are not an expert on the subject yet you sit before the computer, cut and paste from Wikipedia and issue ill-conceived statements from the safety of being behind your computer’s firewall.  

With a limited education and minimal knowledge of the subject you find that you are required to either read from a script or are forced to memorize the bogus material that your handlers and  foreign financial backers feed to you.  

It is an unsettling situation but manageable as long as you do not find yourself in a position of debating your unpopular issue with someone who knows the truth, understands the facts and has science on their side; if ever cornered by a legitimate question you would crash and burn.  But none the less, you accept an invitation to a well advertised PBS/NPR national radio show where not one, not two but three of your most feared honest advisories will be, likewise, present.  

You listen to the show and after thirty minutes realize that they have not mentioned you so it’s time to change the direction of the dialogue and point the spotlight on yourself.  

TaDah, you enter the conversation with the crisp crackle of your script’s paper rustling in the background and usher in an immediate insult to all present while misrepresenting who you are before launching off into a ten minute in-cohesive rambling until the show’s host stops you and asks you a question, you retaliate as you are not prepared and it begins to head south almost instantly.  

You reply with an unprepared, or vetted, statement on a former condition in a Texas city that you have never visited and very quickly you slide down the slope of inaccuracies by making slanderous and libelous comments about a former elected official until one of the guests calls your bluff and speaks the truth with you being identified, in his humble opinion, as a liar.  

In fear for your credibility you hang up in a panic, call your handlers and then issue a press release that attempts to disguise your poor performance while allowing you to attack not only the guests but the host as you are tucked away snuggly behind your computer’s firewall with your partner in crime and president of the organization you run from afar issuing a rant of profanities on the speaker phone.  

And then you are lame enough to go onto Facebook and publicly post the link to the show so that those who drank your Kool-Aid can wring their hands and pat your head because your lies were exposed…awwww.  

Just imagine…if you were to act, behave, think and sound like just such a person you would/could or might be the Queen of Cut and Paste and the disposable mouthpiece for the meat industry, one $ue Wallis of Recluse, Wyoming.  Here’s your sign!

Yes ladies and gentlemen, “Slaughterhouse” $ue Wallis rolled into an hour long radio show where Madeleine Pickens, Wayne Pacelle and myself had been discussing wild horse issues, primarily, never mentioning Wallis and the first words out of her mouth were that no one person present, except for herself, were horse industry “horse” people.

Guess what $ue, Madeline has owned many a horse in her day and currently has several hundred under her care.  I am a horse owner and support a vet, two horse trainers, a tractor supply and feed store with our endeavor while you ain’t got zip.  

$ue Wallis does not own horses, publicly admitted by herself, she does not represent the horse industry but instead the meat industry as she raises…ahhh, what do they call them, COWS. (I have nothing against cows, only in this case the company that they keep) Wallis, in my humble yet experienced opinion, is a sham and a fake and if ever there were a bully, she is and always has been one.

Over the past several weeks Wallis and her trusty side-kick Duquette have been handed a multitude of defeats:

1.)  Wallis issued an idiot press release about opening up a slaughter plant in Missouri where “100%”, how stupid is that, of the residents were behind it.  Guess what, she was run out of town on a rail and even her foreign money men were embarrassed.

2.)  Duquette was actually allowed to speak, live, during a Oregon PBS broadcast opposite the very knowledgable Scott Beckstead who ended up sweeping up the floor with Duquette who, by the way, ducked and dodged every ligimate question.

3.)  This past week a very successful congressional letter writing campaign was brought to D.C. by the very children who wrote the letters beseeching congress to ban predatory, bloody horse slaughter.

4.)  Duquette/Wallis canceled their “Annual” Summit of the Dead horse allegedly due to lack of support, interest, speakers and money.  Their first “Annual” summit left them in the hole and did nothing but generate bad press and public disapproval for their bloody cause.

5.)  Equine Welfare groups filed a detailed 79 page petition with the FDA listing 110 dangerous chemicals found in the non-food animal, horse, and demanded that horse meat be permanently ”unqualified” for human consumption.

6.) This weekend a Pro-Horse/Anti-Slaughter Conference is taking place in New York while another Summit (for the LIVE horse) will take place on Tuesday in the very location were their failed slaughter summit was scheduled to take place, Oklahoma City.

Bit by bit, piece by piece the fraudulent front that is posed by the anti-horse/pro-slaughter faction is beginning to crumble and the wall of lies is being disassembled by hard working, every day Americans who work for a living, do not make millions of dollars, do not take money from non-profits, pay their taxes and assume proper liability and accountability for companion animals under their care…that would be the 80%.

Keep the pressure on America; Wallis and Duquette have publicly documented that they are not credible and their platform of horse slaughter (not processing) is a phony deck of cards and is crumbling beneath them as I type.  

Call a spade a spade and shine the spotlight of truth on the cockroaches and watch them run for their rocks to crawl under, just listen to the radio shows and hear for yourselves…between the two of these snake oil salesmen there is not one ounce of credibility or sincerity.  

Sue ran and hid; she wouldn’t hear the truth but here it is, in American we do NOT eat our friends and likewise, we don’t take kindly to our friends being lied about…there will be hell to pay for that one!! 
Click (HERE) to Hear Wallis Dissolve
Click (HERE) to Hear Duquette’s Dimise
Click (HERE) to Read Juvenile and Unprofessional Press Release
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Breaking News: Summit of the Slaughter Horse Canceled

Posted: March 27, 2012 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter
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Information supplied by multiple sources

Horse-Haters Run from Pro-Horse Counter Conference

Simone Netherlands, organizer of the Summit of the LIVE Horse to be held in Oklahoma City, April 3rd

In a vague and jumbled press release, Quarter Horse trainer, Dave Duquette announced that the 2nd Annual Summit of the (Slaughter) Horse, which was touted to be held in Oklahoma City next week, will be “rescheduled” to sometime in January of next year.  Doubt and defeat of Duquette and Sue Wallis’ attempts to reintroduce foreign owned horse slaughterhouses into the U.S. have dogged the duo as they try to convince a doubting American public that butchering and eating companion animals and pets is a good thing.

In defiance of the “Summit” equine advocates from across the nation have organized several counter conferences in an attempt to get the “pro-horse” message out to the American people.

Simone Netherlands of Respect4Horses and lead promoter for the Summit of the Live Horse, to be held in Oklahoma City next week spoke with SFTHH early this morning:

“We received a heads up, late yesterday, that horse slaughter promoters Dave Duquette and Sue Wallis had called off their “Summit” so we called the Embassy Suites to confirm and indeed it appears as if they have decided to put their tail between their legs and give up! I believe that all of scheduled impressive speakers, the equine welfare community working together and the confirmed press coming to our summit has scared them off and they realized they were better off NOT being there.”

Netherlands continued:

“By no means does this mean that we will cancel anything that we have planned. Our Press Conference in Oklahoma City on April 3rd and live Web broadcast will move full steam ahead. Fox25 is planning on doing a segment about racehorses and slaughter tomorrow and also announcing our press conference. I will be on the Robert Dover Radio show tomorrow at 6 pm EST advertising the live broadcast.  We have a message to get out to the American public and now that the horse-haters have gotten it we need to ensure that everyone is aware of the plight of the American Horse.”

“This sort of behavior is nothing new for Duquette and Wallis,” said R.T. Fitch, co-founder and volunteer president of Wild Horse Freedom Federation, “they have operated under several different names in recent years and ran their finances into the ground with their first attempt at a slaughter summit last year.  Meanwhile the Equine Welfare Alliance held a multi-day event that attracted leading scientists, scholars and equine subject matter experts from around the world.  In the end, the truth will always rise to the top it’s simply a matter of getting it out to the public.”

To learn more about the Summit of the LIVE Horse visit Ms. Netherlands Facebook page by clicking (HERE)

Click (HERE) to attempt to decipher Duquette’s press release

More news to follow.

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United Horsemen Slaughter Prez Tanks on PBS Radio Show

Posted: March 23, 2012 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter
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Horse Slaughter: Humane Society debating Dave Duquette on OPB.org

Dave Duquette Crashes and Burns When Faced with Horse Slaughter Facts

Dave Duquette

“UPDATE 3/22/12 4:30 pm: During the show, our guests debated whether the use of phenylbutazone, or “bute,” would prohibit horses from being eaten in the U.S. and E.U. We fact-checked the issue and found phenylbutazone is banned from being given to ANY food-producing animals, including horses, in both the U.S. and the E.U.”

The Oregon state Humane Society director debating Dave Duquette live on the issue of horse slaughter on OPB radio.

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