Tri-State Neighbor: South Dakota Farm Newspaper

To the Editor:

In response to a letter that was written from Larry Gabriel, South Dakota Secretary of Ag.

If single officials write for support of horse slaughter then the facts all must be laid out. Mr. Gabriel fails to mention that the Southwestern Cattle Association gets $3 per horse slaughtered and $2 goes to Texas A&M for horse theft awareness which has failed to help the traditional horseman.

The truth is that these foreign-owned plants pay no income tax nor tariff tax on their exports as beef and pork do. You take away the profit and the sellout puppets will die out and go away. It’s all about the money. Take the example of a fella that represented himself as a preacher and bought many wild mustangs cheap for his so-called youth camp. A week later he sold them to the Illinois plant. What a lying sellout to our horses and American heritage.

They claim horse slaughter is humane and a means of euthanizing a horse, which is false. The horse is hit several times, sometimes in the neck. A bolt gun is used to put the horse in a state of shock so rendering its meat can be done safely. Euthanization is to put to sleep.

Larry needs to read the bill and to understand HR503 will stop the slaughter and transportation to slaughter from out-of-state lines including Mexico and Canada.

I have seen firsthand and talked to the neighbors of the Texas plants. They hear, see and smell the fear and stench in the air of the horses being torn apart bit by bit.

Manager James Tucker of Cavel says we are just a few, little does he know or lies to the public that we are thousands strong and growing. Sellouts like the AQHA, AAEP, AVMA and HCI are just a few organizations with a few board members that ignore their paying members because they are profiting from horse slaughter.

The AQHA is pro because they promote the new registries of new horses making them more money thus producing many horses. So they support slaughter to discard the undesired ones.

Let’s make horse abusers pay the price for their crimes. Who knows Jeffrey Dahmer started from abusing animals too. For more information, visit www.marynash.com, she has dedicated her life to the horse. And will we honest horse people? As Jesus rode on a mule, God will return on a white horse.

- Thomas Lee Trevino

Crossville, Ill.

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