Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 7:39 AM
Subject: [againstslaughter] Cavel article
Dear Mr. Rickert,
Are you aware that Cavel falsified critical
information on their federal permit applications and their permits are
suspended and being pulled? Did you perhaps leave out this critical
information "by accident"?
We're thrilled to hear that Mayor Sparrow and
the other city officials are finally admitting that they ARE hearing from
people, after claiming in past articles that they have received
"minimal" input.
America's horses are trucked from all over the
country into the 2 current slaughter plants and will be into Cavel. Thus
this is not JUST a DeKalb issue. The question, though, is does DeKalb REALLY
want the blemish on their record as one of only three cities in the country
who allows this atrocity to occur?
I am unaware of any PETA efforts to close Cavel.
If they are working on this project, htey are working in parallel to the National
Horse Protection Coalition, as the 2 groups are in no way related or
connected.
Please understand, sir. This is not a
"bleeding heart attempt to bring all animal farming to an end" as
some have implied. Horses are not born, bred, OR CARED FOR with the intent to
become human food. They are medicated and treated EVERY DAY with carcinogenic
substances that should NEVER find their way into the human food chain.
We are NOT opposed to horse rendering plants --
which answers the question of "where would the horses go" for those
that actually ARE near death (MOST horses slaughtered in the US are young, fat
and healthy) -- but only to live slaughter for human consumption. We are
NOT looking to end meat production of agricultural livestock that is born,
bred, raised, medicated and cared for AS HUMAN FOOD. We are asking only to
bring the slaughter of America's horses -- our history, our culture, our past
AND our future -- to an end.
Did you know, Mr. Rickert, that these foreign
owned slaughter houses pay no tariffs whatsoever on their meat? NOTHING. The
small amount of salary and property taxes they dump into your county is all
they provide to America in return for slaughtering our horses. Yet the meat is
sold in Europe for as much as $15/pound! Perhaps you and your readership
might want to stop and think about that a moment. *WE* aren't making a threat
to American farmers way of life, to America's cattle industry. But if I were
apart of America's cattle industry, I'd sure want to know why THEY don't have
to pay the same tariffs and meet the same meat care requirements to be tapping
off America's resources as our own companies, our own countrymen do.
Sincerely,