A slaughterhouse employee posted a Youtube video of himself shooting a horse in the head with a handgun and now company owners are receiving death threats.
‘To all you animal activists,’ Tim Sappington says in the video as he draws his gun, ‘f**k you.’
Sappington strokes the horse gently then kills it with a point-blank gunshot to the head.
Protest? Tim Sappington shot a horse point-blank in the head and posted the video, in which he calls out animal rights activists, to Youtube
The video immediately enraged animal rights activists, who were already angry at the company where Sappington works.
Roswell, New Mexico’s Valley Meat Company is working with the United States Department of Agriculture to become the first facility since 2007 to slaughter horses for Mexico-bound meat.
That alone has activists complaining.
But members of the De Los Santos family say the complaints called in to their facility have now taken a dark and scary turn.
Rick De Los Santos, a part-owner of Valley Meat Co., said he has been inundated with hate calls and death threats, many of them tinged with racism, since the video hit the Internet.
He played some of the messages for KOB Eyewitness News 4.
Legal? De Los Santos admits Sappington shouldn't have posted the video on Youtube but supports his employee's right to kill and eat horses
‘You know what people should be slaughtering,’ said one caller. ‘You f***ing s***cs, should never have been allowed in this country.’
De Los Santos maintains that he has no connection to the video, while also supporting Sappington’s right to slaughter the animals.
'I didn’t have anything to do with that video, that’s the honest truth,' De Los Santos said. '...[but] he shot a horse, that’s what he eats, it’s not against the law to slaughter your own horse.’
De Los Santos says Sappington shot the video on his own time and on his own property, but admits posting the video to Youtube may have been a mistake.
‘I would not have done that,’ he said.
The FBI has now stepped in to investigate the threatening calls to the federally-affiliated facility.
Sappington is also under investigation, by state and county authorities looking into possible animal cruelty charges.
Meanwhile, inspections that could allow Valley Meat Company to legally slaughter horses are expected to take place in early April.
Re: ‘To all you animal activists f**k you.
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 11:23 pm
by Crackpot
I'm sure rube would applaud the tactic but not the message. After all making your point in the manner most likely to garner support for your opposition seems to be one of his mainstays
Mea culpa I know this was unprovoked but the comparison was just too good to pass up
Re: ‘To all you animal activists f**k you.
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 1:29 am
by Lord Jim
making your point in the manner most likely to garner support for your opposition seems to be one of his mainstays
Yes, that does seem to be the way he rolls....
(I have not watched the video, btw...I don't particularly care to see a defenseless, trusting horse getting shot in the head for no good reason...)
Re: ‘To all you animal activists f**k you.
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 3:26 am
by liberty
The reason that we don’t generally eat horse in this country is merely a matter of culture. There is really no difference between horse and cow. We as a nation think that the French are weird for eating horse and we both think the Koreans are perverted for eating dog but the Hindus think we all are savages for eating meat. It is just a matter of culture, if we were born and raised in Korea we might think that dog is good eating too. After all I have eaten squirrel myself and think it is a right tasty rat.
Re: ‘To all you animal activists f**k you.
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 4:39 am
by rubato
I cannot know what his intentions were in filming his shooting of the horse (which he was going to slaughter for food). But if his intentions were to make PETA and animal rights people look bad by inducing them to make violent threats and use racist language while being recorded then he succeeded very well. If his intention was to make the slaughterhouse owner look (who did not kill the horse) more sympathetic as the innocent victim and induce the public to be more supportive of his attempt to begin legal slaughter and export of horsemeat to Mexico and less receptive to PETAs arguments against then he might have been successful there as well.
Only a fool would try to convince an unthinking religious zealot like an animal rights person of anything. You can no more convince them by facts or reason than you can convince those who think microwaves cause cancer or that GMOs are harmful.
yrs,
rubato
Re: ‘To all you animal activists f**k you.
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 3:19 pm
by Joe Guy
liberty wrote:There is really no difference between horse and cow.
I'm an old cow hand... From the Rio Grande...
Yee haw!!
Y'all are right, liberty. That's why we calls them thar folks 'Cowboys'....
(only someone who wears cheap Reebocks wouldn't understand that)
Re: ‘To all you animal activists f**k you.
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 3:53 pm
by Lord Jim
There is really no difference between horse and cow.
Lib, I have to completely disagree with you there...
For starters, horses are much more intelligent (just try to teach a cow to do tricks or come to you when you whistle) after elephants, they are probably the most intelligent grazing animals around....
And like dogs, horses have an affinity for interacting with the human species that tends to create a much greater degree of psychological closeness and bonding between humans and horses than between humans and cows.
Of course culture also does have a part; the horse played a pivotal role in our ability to create and settle this continental nation, and I'm sure this history helps to elevate the position we give to horses.
We don't tend to look at animals that we we have close relationships with as prey items.
Re: ‘To all you animal activists f**k you.
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 9:13 pm
by TPFKA@W
Lord Jim wrote:
There is really no difference between horse and cow.
Lib, I have to completely disagree with you there...
For starters, horses are much more intelligent (just try to teach a cow to do tricks or come to you when you whistle) after elephants, they are probably the most intelligent grazing animals around....
And like dogs, horses have an affinity for interacting with the human species that tends to create a much greater degree of psychological closeness and bonding between humans and horses than between humans and cows.
Of course culture also does have a part; the horse played a pivotal role in our ability to create and settle this continental nation, and I'm sure this history helps to elevate the position we give to horses.
We don't tend to look at animals that we we have close relationships with as prey items.
Jim I wonder if you have ever actually spent time with horses. I have. Their intelligence is in now way much greater than a cow. I have found them to be somewhat more curious than cows but not more friendly in general. They do not give a rat's rear about people unless of course you offer them food and then they are your best buddy, till it's gone. I will agree with the pivotal role in history part. But there are some things to consider. Horses are bred indiscriminately by the wealthy. There are loads of them standing around on "Thoroughbred Retirement Farms" They were bred in hopes of running fast and when that does not pan out they are dumped on the market. Horses, with good care can live a long time, even as long as 40 years. Although I love horses I understand that this is not a sustainable practice. When they don't pan out as performers there needs to be a purpose for them. Of course even better would be to stop people from running businesses of churning out horses without any thought to their well being. But of course we as a race, human that is, can't even come up with a plan for that for ourselves so it's not going to happen with dogs, cats, or horses without some serious changes in thinking.
Thus I support shoving them (humanely) in the meat grinder. I am not going to eat it but someone will.
Re: ‘To all you animal activists f**k you.
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 11:25 pm
by Joe Guy
TPFKA@W wrote:
Thus I support shoving them (humanely) in the meat grinder. I am not going to eat it but someone will.
Re: ‘To all you animal activists f**k you.
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 3:56 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
I've eaten squirrel, muskrat, rabbit (wild), mallard duck, goose (canadian), rat (don't know what kind), deer, moose, bear and I'm sure I missing something. I would eat horse meat. Why not. Migt be a little less fatty than a cow, depending on it's "lifestyle" but I'm sure no less fatty than wild game.
The kid shot a horse, so what. Down with one shot. No suffering, no pain, no problem.
Stupid to put it on the internet, but that seems to be a habit nowadays, putting stupid shit on the internet.
Re: ‘To all you animal activists f**k you.
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:12 pm
by Miles
I have eaten just about every known species of animal and find no problem eating horse meat. As for the internet thing some people have no clue as to common sense.
