Dear Editor:
Doug Corey’s piece published in
TheHorse.com’s AAEP Forum misses the mark about horses that end up at
slaughter plants. As the adjacent
property owner, for years I have seen the horses at the Dallas Crown horse
slaughter plant in
Despite what the Belgian butchers
would have you think, these horses are young, fat and healthy. They are
harvested by killer-buyers at horse auctions from across the
If you believe that slaughter is a
way to dispose of unwanted horses, you believe a lie. Europeans and Asians
don't want to eat old, spent horses any more than we want to eat old, spent
cows.
This is not about economically
disposing of horse carcasses. This is about making money for Belgian-owned
Beltex in
Here is the list of killer-buyers
registered to buy horses for Dallas Crown.
http://kaufmanzoning.net/horsemeat/Suppliers.htm
And here is the list for Beltex. http://kaufmanzoning.net/horsemeat/BeltexKillerBuyers06262004.htm
These killer-buyers must fill quotas
in order to maintain their favorable pricing arrangements with the plants.
People ("walk-ins") who bring in only one or a few
horses don’t get as much per pound as the killer-buyers.
Here is the Dallas Crown price list for “walk-ins.”
http://kaufmanzoning.net/horsemeat/DCPriceList.htm
A little quick math will demonstrate
that the Belgian horse killers don’t want a horse that weighs under 1,100
pounds. If a “walk-in” brings
a “good” horse weighing 1,100 pounds, he will receive $204.60.
That hardly justifies the time and trouble of taking the horse to the
plant.
So you see, this has nothing to do
with disposing of unwanted horses. This
has everything to do with making money for Belgians who harvest our horses at
auction.
Here is what the Dallas Crown horses
look like. http://kaufmanzoning.net/horsemeat/97a.jpg
Mary S. Nash
104
972-962-7706
NashHulme@msn.com
www.kaufmanzoning.net/horsemeat
