People are all upset that this guy filmed himself telling PETA to go phuck itself and then shot his horse.
Americans seem to have to great a sentimental attachment to what many in the world consider a food source.
As far as I am concerned this guy killed the horse humanely.
If, upon further investigation, we find he killed the horse not for its meat or because it was suffering from old age/disease but for the “show” of doing so, then he should be prosecuted.
Otherwise, calm down.
An employee of a southeastern New Mexico slaughterhouse that is seeking federal approval to slaughter horses has posted a video online showing him fatally shooting a horse in the head, sparking outrage among animal activists and prompting death threats to the Roswell meat company.
A maintenance contractor with Valley Meat Co. is shown in the video bringing a horse out of its pen, swearing at animal activists, then killing the horse with a single gunshot.
“All you animal activists, fu** you,” he says before taking out a handgun and shooting the animal point blank.
Rick De Los Santos, a part-owner of Valley Meat Co., said he has been inundated hate calls and death threats since the video hit the Internet.
“I didn’t have anything to do with that video. That’s the honest truth,” De Los Santos said.
De Los Santos told KOB-TV that Sappington was a contract worker who made the video on his own time and at his own home.
“He shot a horse. That’s what he eats. It’s not against the law to slaughter your own horse,” De Los Santos said. “Now, putting it on YouTube, I would not have done that.”
Here’s the unedited video:
