From: DanielCorderoFernandez Cordero Fernandez [mailto:fletosojoi@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 6:20 PM
To: EdWalton@kaufmancounty.net
Subject: Request of prosecution of Dallas Crown Packing Inc.

June 5, 2003.

Attn: Mr. Ed Walton,

Kaufman County District Attorney.

Kaufman County Courthouse

100 W. Mulberry Street

Kaufman, Texas  75142

Dear Mr. Walton:

     As a concerned horse lover, I am writing you in order to request that you PROSECUTE DALLAS CROWN PACKING INC., the slaughter facility located at in Kaufman County, (2000 West Fair Kaufman), Texas, for their ILLEGAL OPERATION and for their CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES AS PER TEXAS AGRICULTURAL CODE 149 AND 148. These chapters of the Texas Agriculture Code  make it illegal to sell, offer to sale, or transfer horsemeat for human consumption WHEREEVER IT TAKES PLACE, and, therefore make it ILLEGAL the activities of the two only slaughterhouses remaining in the United States. It is whithout saying that I am absolutely opposed to the criminal activities of that facilities

     Horses are not mere animals. Horses are a symbol of freedom for many Americans and, for  many people –like me- , they are like people but in the ‘right way’ (there are only good and kind horses, despite their condition, not ‘evil horses’, the only ‘evil’ here is the human being and it´s overwhelmingly cruel behaviour toward these lovely creatures, who haven´t got hurt anybody or anything). Please, think in all the things that horses have done for humans and specially for the United States:  They have worked in farms improving agricultural production when there were not tractors or combinated harvesters, they have been used as a transport  -specially by  those who conquered the United States-, they have worked in mines and they have been forced to take part in the most ‘dirty business’ of the human being like wars, terrible things that a horse will never do. Think that if you have your job, it is because you are a ‘Representative of Justice’, (Justice who says that you MUST PROSECUTE that facility) and that has been possible because millions of horses died to pull your country into the ‘developed world’; and how do humans pay them?, by an horrible and fateful fate, proper of a nightmare, by killing them to satisfy the most evil and cruel feelings of a bunch of hateful and hardhearted snobs (foreign, by the way). Think in all the horses that the United States has killed along it´s, unfortunately, bloody History; think in the thousands of horses killed by irresponsible and cruel owners, think in the tens of thousans of indian ponies killed by the Army during the XIX century, think in the millions of wild horses killed by the USDA as well as the BLM and their wrong and stupid measures during the XX century (specially in 1929, like horses were the responsible of the economic crush); measures that still going on today with no reason except the ‘improvement of the wallet of a bunch of egoist and odious mustang-murderers’ over the public lands (yes, I said PUBLIC LANDS). Think that horses are your far cousins. Please help us to save lives. PLEASE, PROSECUTE DALLAS CROWN INC. In addition, the Texas Attorney General has ruled that these plants’ activities are illegal, and that killing a horse is a FELONY. Please, PROSECUTE IT, START PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THAT FACILITY.

     In short: You MUST PROSECUTE DALLAS CROWN PACKING INC. because (in addition of the previously commented):

     1.  Horses are wonderful creatures with feelings and conscience of theirselves, like humans, so they DO NOT deserve to be killed in any way, included the slaughtering, just like humans do not slaughter theirselves. In addition they have been forced to do a lot of things for humans, so they HAVE won THEIR RIGHT TO LIVE AND TO BE FREE as well as human´s respect.

      2. The ‘slaughter methods’ used to murder (torture and exterminate) these horses are anything BUT painless. The 2000 Report of the American Veterinary Medical Association Panel on Euthanasia has ruled that the methods used by murder them are ANYTHING BUT ‘PAINLESS’: They hit horses with a steel-articulated hydraulic bar (bolt) in their skull (smashing the bones and the brain with a HUGE AND TERRIBLE PAIN, like a motorbiker without helmet in a high-speed traffic crush,) repetiously (even 5 times). The terror and pain the horses experience at this moment is unimaginable. The aim of the bolt is NOT to kill the horses, but just to immobilize them with the force of the blow; then they are literally carved up and their trhoat is cut open when they ARE STILL ALIVE AND CONSCIOUS, so the blood will drain out until the horse's heart beats for the last time. If you would like to see this, the truth, with your own eyes, visit these web sites:     

       http://www.equus.org/ifyou.htm

      http://www.equineadvocates.com/hs/inside.html

     3. Horses are intellingent creatures with conscience of theirselves so they have feellings like humans. In fact they experience not also physic pain but PSYCHOLOGIC PAIN AND SUFFERING TOO: they suffer a huge depression while they are on their fateful way to death as well as they are waiting in the pens (‘killer pens’ ). In addition, appart from their intelligence, they have an acute sense of hearing and smelling, well beyond human development: They could literally heard and smell the danger and death, their violent and cruel death. Now, depression has turned to terror. What you see is unmistakable. The horses are trembling violently and urinating on themselves, the smell of death is palpable and the horses are reacting with PANIC and FEAR. They clearly perceive they are next in line for horrific pain and death.

     4. The transportation of these horses is cruel and painful. Horses are often transported in double deck cattle trailers, which prevent them from standing upright and causes SEVERE head, back, and neck INJURIES. Horses are trucked for days with no food, water, rest or medical attention. This scene is the same as the Jewish prisioners overcrowded in train´s wagons in their way to the extermination camps during the ‘Second World War’.

     5. The majority of horses slaughtered in these plants are NOT old, sick, or lame, but instead, are YOUNG, HEALTHY American horses, including PREGNANT MARES AND MARES WITH FOALS AT THEIR SIDE, bought by killer buyers who attend horse auctions where they compete with families and horse brokers looking for good, sound horses. In  this way, killing, murdering horses by sending them to the slaughter´s nightmare because they are old, sick or lame is also a CRIME: Horses are NOT paper-hankies that humans can ‘use’ and then throw away like garbage when they are ‘useless’.

       6. Horses are part of the American Heritage as, for example, the former President, Mr. Clinton said: “Horses are a vital part of our Nation´s culture and History. Their strenght and stamina enabled our forefathers to explore and settle America, and they have become our faithful companions in work, sport and leisure”…. President Bill Clinton. 

       7. THE TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS RULED that the sale of horsemeat for human consumption is a CRIMINAL OFFENSE WHEREVER IT TAKES PLACE.

       8. THIS POINT IS CRITICAL : H.B. 1324 the bill which was introduced by Rep Betty Brown (R-Kaufman)      IN RESPONSE TO A RECENT TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL OPINION (No. JC-0539) RULING THAT THE TWO HORSE SLAUGHTER PLANTS IN TEXAS – one in KAUFMAN  and one in Ft. Worth – ARE OPERATING IN VIOLATION OF SECTIONS 149.002 AND 149.003 OF THE AGRICULTURE CODE WHICH MAKE IT A CRIMINAL OFFENSE TO SELL, POSSESS, OFFER TO SELL, IMPORT, EXPORT OR TRANSFER HORSEMEAT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION WHEREVER IT TAKES PLACE is DEAD, so the activities of that facility REMAIN ABSOLUTELY ILLEGAL AND PUNISHABLE, because they are AGAINST THE LAW, like assassinations or narcotics trafficking. Therefore, Mr. Walton,  we are facing an INTOLERABLE AND OVERWHELMINGLY HUGE SUBVERSION AND DEGRADATION OF JUSTICE: SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT. ANYBODY IS BEYOND JUSTICE, NOT EVEN ATTORNEYS NOR FOREIGN OWNED COMPANIES, and NOT PROSECUTE that plant in order to make ALLOW IT TO CONTINUE WITH ITS ABSOLUTELY ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES and to profit from it; from the death, pain an suffering of these lovely and defenseless creatures called horses; improving  wallets (as well as, respectfully,  some Texan politician´s wallet) is not also a FLAGRANT INJUSTICE as well as a IMMORALITY and a LACK OF ETHIC but an obvious symptom of CORRUPTION too. Anybody, Mr. Walton, can just change laws or AVOID PROSECUTION in order to profit from it, and as District Attorney you MUST, you HAVE to PROSECUTE that plant. Legislature, LAWS, are make to PROTECT WEAKER AND DEFENSELESS ONES (horses) FROM THE ABUSE OF THE MIGHTIER ones, not to improve wallets and portfolios. This is the meaning of the word JUSTICE, the meaning of a ‘FREE’ and ‘DEMOCRATIC’ country; country which example is the United States. If these horrible examples of INJUSTICE, CRUELTY, CORRUPTION AND IMMORALITY still going on, Texas, as well as the whole United States will stop of being the example of Freedom and Justice, to become the country of the ‘everything for the money’, where, the Justice has been misdirected from the art of protecting weaker´s rights to the craft of portfolio management. And if there are LAWS WHICH PROTECT HORSES in the law books, these laws MUST BE RESPECTED AND PUT INTO EFFECT, NOT IGNORED NOR MANIPULATED AT WILL OF CRIMINALS to allow them to CONTINUE with their CRIMES and ASSASSINATIONS with complete IMPUNITY; and if a JUDGE, furthermore, if the TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS RULED THAT THESE ACTIVITIES ARE ILLEGAL AND MUST BE STOPPED AND PUNISHED BECAUSE THEY ARE AGAINST LAW, YOU CANNOT IGNORE THIS LAW TO ALLOW THIS PLANT TO EVADE THEIR PUNISHEMENT AND TO CONTINUE WITH ITS CRIMES. This is like not prosecute narcotics traffickers despite there are tons of proofs of their guiltiness because an Attorney “have not intention of prosecute them”. This excuse, appart from become the Judicial System in a joke, is not only meaningless, stupid and ridiculous, but also abject, malicious as well as perverse; and such SUBVERSION AND DEGRADATION OF JUSTICE MUST NOT BE TOLERATED.

     9. The only two horse slaughter plants in this country are here in Texas and they are operating ILLEGALY.

     10. The most part of the public opinion is AGAINST these horrible CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES:   A scientific poll showed that 70% of those polled support a ban on horse slaughter. Non-scientific polls show up to 90% in favor of banning horse slaughter. The Texas State Senators have received over 1.000.000 calls, faxes, letters and emails asking them to REJECT HB 1324 and to BAN HORSE SLAUGHTER (so this plant´s activities too).                            

     11. In other States like California, Indiana or Pennsylvania killing a horse is a CRIME and that is punished by their PENAL CODE with PRISON punishements.

     12. One is owned by a Belgian company, the other by a French company. ALL ‘profits’ from horse slaughter in Texas go to those foreign companies.

     13. All horsemeat produced at these slaughter plants is sent to France, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Japan.

     14. Last year these plants slaughtered approximately 43,000 American horses, and their sales of horsemeat to foreigners exceeded $40,000,000.

     15. If you do not prosecute Dallas Crown Packing Inc., it will irremediable and severely damage the image of Texas at all levels, national as well as international; Texas will become an horrible and hateful State which permits murderers to kill innocent and defenseless horses in order to improve foreign wallets (respectfully, I also would say some Texan politician´s wallets). In addition the Horse Lovers Community will have no choice but to boycott Texas and it´s economic activities at all levels: Anyone of us will not invert or spend our money in Texas industries nor Texan products; neighter anyone of us will vacation there nor we will do or accept any work on behalf of a firm in Texas. I am absolutely sure that this will cause severe damages to Texan Economy, not the closing of those two MURDERERS plants and their CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES.

     16. Last but not least, let's address the economic aspect of closing these two slaughter houses. The 6 million horses currently in the U.S. have a direct impact on the U.S. Gross Domestic Product of $25.3 billion, or over $4,200 per horse. Slaughter bound horses represent less than 1 percent of the total number of horses in the U.S. If these horses are absorbed into the current horse population, it would mean adding almost a quarter of a billion dollars to the economy each year. The economic impact of closing the slaughterhouses would be the temporary loss of 130 minimum wage, high-turnover jobs in two counties in Texas.

     17. There are many organizations (for example: Equus Sanctuary, Equine Advocates Inc., Habitat for Horses Inc., and many other) which  will recover and look after all the horses which, if this plant is closed, will be safe from this nightmare; and these organizations will be very pleased to recover, look after, shetler, feed as well as give medical attention to them if it is necessary; in addition, any horse deserve to be murdered, killed because somebody discarded him/her like on a whim. Horses are NOT paper hankies, tissues or toys which humans can use and then throw away like garbage when they are old or ‘useless’; so the excuse of what to do with the ‘unwanted’ horses (all horses are wanted, at least for these organizations and for people like me) is refuted, because it is FALSE, ABJECT AND MEANINGLESS.

     18. If these plants are closed there will NOT be an increase of abused or neglected horses. During the last  5 years have been a decrease of the number of horses killed, murdered by these plants (from 200.000 to 43.000) and there were NOT any increase or buid up of abuse cases, because these horses has been absorbed into the U. S. horse´s population. If the population have absorbed 200.000 horses with no problem nor increase of abuse cases, it can abosbe this 43.000 horses without any problem. In fact, since California BANNED horse slaughter in 1998 there were NOT any increase or build up of abused or neglected horses. Also these plants do NOT want abused or skinny horses, they only buy YOUNG, HEALTH AND SOUND horses. So this excuse, given by these plants, is REFUTED because is FALSE, ABJECT AND MEANINGLESS.

     19. The BLM´s and USDA´s adoption program FAILED to protect wild horses, because wild horses captured illegaly (the BLM and the USDA are in violation of ‘WILD FREE-ROAMING HORSE AND BURRO ACT’ - PL 92-195-) are sold even by the own BLM´s and USDA´s staff (who serve their own family interest) to the slaughterhouses in a FLAGRANT case of CORRUPTION and such DEGRADATION AS WELL AS MISDIRECTION OF JUSTICE MUST NOT BE TOLERATED.

     20. Horse slaughter DOES PROMOTE horse ‘thiefing’. Point case: Since California BANNED horse slaughter in 1998 there was a 50% DECREASING on horse ‘thiefing’. This is because the most part of the ‘stealed’ horses are sold to the slaughterhouses WITH THE PLANTS´ KNOWIEDGE AND CONSENT.

     21. The most part of the owners who sell their horses in auctions are UNAWARE that they horses could end at the slaughterhouse; even these owners are DECEIVED by the killer buyers, who told to them that the horses will go to good homes where they will be loved and respected.

     22. The whole of the Horse Welfare Groups as well as the Ecuestrian Associations like Wild Horse and Burro Freedom Alliance, The American Horse Defense Fund, New Jersey Racing Commission, the New York Racing Association, the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, and the Breeders' Cup, Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, etc…. are AGAINST the CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES of that plants.

     In conclusion: Killing a horse is a CRIME and must be punished by law, like in California or like the Texas Agriculture Code; law that you are ignoring, so you are commiting SELECTIVE PROSECUTION. In addition not also the horses who live in Texas are being murdered by these plants and their cruel and hateful killer buyers and irresponsible owners, but horses from all around the country are being murdered too; because these plants, in violation of some States PENAL CODE, illegaly ‘buy’ horses to equally guilty killer buyers, and then send them to Texas in order to murder them there. This is UNBEARABLE, because these plants not also are violating Texas Law but other States Law too, and Texas, appart from putting an end to these CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES, must RESPECT other States Law and their citizenship´s will to protect horses. Also, Texas´ reputation would be severe and irremediablely damaged as a result of this SEVERE SUBVERSION AND DEGRADATION OF JUSTICE. You can help to prevent  and to put an end to these cruel and horrible criminal activities by PROSECUTING THAT FACILITY. You can argue that Texas is an honest and ‘humane’ State, and as such, will not allow nor take part in these horrible CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES. If not, I and many other Horse Lovers will have no choice but to boycott Texas: If you do not prosecute that plant, neighter I nor the whole of Horse Lover Community will buy Texas-made products nor will invert our money in Texan industry; we will invert our money in ‘horse-caring’ States like California and their ‘horse-harmless’ state-of-the-art technological industries such as telecommunications or computer industries, instead Texan classical chemical and heavy industries. We will not vacation on Texas, nor will we do any work on behalf of a firm in Texas. That´s how much that plant´s prosecution means to me and to many others Horse Lovers like me. The Texas Senate received over 1,000,000 calls, emails, and faxes from all over the world concerning the horse slaughter bill in order to stop it.  The Senate did not pass it. Therefore, horse slaughter in the state of Texas IS ILLEGAL.  Will you listen to their voice?  Will you listen to our voice? The activities of that plant are pork-barreling in the worst sort of way. It is time to do justice to horses.

     PLEASE, PROSECUTE DALLAS CROWN PACKING INC. Thank you for your time and consideration of my letter.

Sincerely,

Daniel Cordero Fernández.

A Horse Lover.

P. D. : Please, I would like that you write to me a reply letter in which you explain to me what are you going to do about this horrible issue. Thank you, again, for your time and consideration of my letter.