Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 1:47 PM
Subject: Stop the Cavel horse slaughter plant
To: City Officials, City of DeKalb
I understand that a company named Cavel plans to
construct a horse slaughter plant in your city and that the plant property
enjoys a "special use permit" that allows this plant.
Would you consider amending your zoning ordinance
to prohibit the construction of this plant? Would you consider issuing a
moratorium on the granting of building permits while you consider amending
your zoning ordinance?
I own property in Kaufman, Texas next to one of
only two live horse slaughter plants currently functioning in the United
States. Both plants are in Texas and both are operating in violation of
Texas law. I support HR 857, the American Horse Slaughter Prevention
Act, which is currently before the U.S. Congress, and I believe that allowing
Cavel to construct a live horse slaughter plant in DeKalb will hurt our
efforts to pass HR 857.
According to statistics from the California Bureau
of Livestock Identification, after voters outlawed horse slaughter for human
consumption in 1998, horse theft reports dropped in California by 34%.
If you would like to learn more about live horse
slaughter for human consumption, please visit http://kaufmanzoning.net/horsemeat/ where
I have posted numerous documents and news articles relative to horse
slaughter.
Thank you for reading this message.