Honorable
Mayor :
The 50
jobs that Cavel International will provide for the approximately 35,000
residents of DeKalb will not benefit your city. There is no benefit
to mention in either added income being spent in your town, or the image
you will present to the rest of the country by letting this business
rebuild. Having this business in your town will serve as an embarrassment for
you to be known as a "Horse Killer" town, much like
it has placed the same stigma on our town of Kaufman Texas. We
want rid of that moniker. Please listen to us. We don't want your city to
fall in the trap that we are trying to crawl out of. Listen to us
and understand... and it's not like we give a rats ass about what people
in Illinois are up to. It's more like somebody put a puppy on the
kitchen table, and we're trying to keep the puppy from walking off the
edge. We'd hate to see you fall off. Just don't do it. Forget Cavel.
In
Texas, the last two remaining horse slaughter operations in the US
are operating illegally and in defiance of State law. A Federal lawsuit is
pending with our hopes to finally close down the Dallas Crown operation
in Kaufman. It's an embarrassment for our city.
There
are numerous instances of stray dogs that live in the wooded
areas near the horse plant here and they drag body parts from the plant
out into the road, or into people's yards. It's nothing to drive by the
plant and see a Mother stray dog and her pups in the ditch eating
some bloody body part. While these instances may only be of our local
concern, they should concern you as well. Well meaning workers may be
feeding stray dogs out of their kindness to the strays, while they
participate in the slaughter of beautiful stallions inside the plant. As
much as that probably doesn't make sense, it probably actually does from
my own experiences:
I
am not a stranger to meat packing plants, having worked at both Beef and
Hog plants in Missouri working on the kill floors. It's a very
bloody business, and workers get very casual about being surrounded
by kicking and bleeding and screaming animals hanging upside down and
dying in the blood pit. I have had to dodge many a kicking cow hoof while
squeegeeing their coagulating blood towards a drain that fed a tanker
truck. Not a Spring Virgin here.
While
slaughtering animals for human consumption is a very daily and common
event- when you wake up at 5:00AM to enjoy your coffee, toast and bacon- I
want you to think that in ONE PLANT ALONE, there is a new hog being put to
death every 30 seconds at that time of day in order to fill the American
wants and desires for bacon. In the hundreds of plants that
process beef and hogs alone to fill the wants and desires of the American
palate, I would really question you as to why you in Dekalb might be
willing to allow yet another "Killer Plant" to process
American horses for foreign palates- How could you possibly
even consider letting this business rebuild after you have rid yourselves
of the embarassment? Why invite the blight back to your city to rebuild?
Be well rid of it!
Think
of it... two plants processing horses in Texas illegally by State Law.
Federal suit pending... And you would allow such a plant to open in your
town to provide 50 ordinary paychecks? You should think pretty hard on
this issue.
And
Don't say we never warned y'all!
Damn,
if we ain't tried.
Respectfully
yours,
Clair
Willeman
P.O.Box
878
Kaufman,
TX 75142