NM man films horse killing to send message to activists

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7. This is where Valley Meat Company fucked up. In their response:

Which you can read HERE (required PDF reader).

VALLEY MEAT STATEMENT REGARDGING TIM SAPPINGTON
Valley Meat Co. does confirm that Mr. Sappington does work doing maintenance for Valley. We have seen the video showing Mr. Sappington euthanizing a horse for slaughter which we understood he did as was his legal right for his own consumption and in which he did complete the processing for consumption. We agree that his comments were regrettably crass, not contributing anything to this dialogue so we do not condone his statements, but he was within his lawful rights to slaughter and butcher a horse
and he was not acting as an employee of the company in that action. The emotion of the situation is what is most troubling especially since the opposition is now resorting to terrorist tactics by calling in bomb threats and death threats against our families. And while Mr. Sappington's personal comments are inappropriate they palein comparison to threatening to bomb people and kill their families. We respectfully request that the media and the public remember that we are discussing the processing of horses as livestock and no animal is worth threatening or ending a person's life.

Don't ever pay a lawyer to write a statement for your company to distance itself from an employee doing something on their own time, especially a heinous symbolic execution such as this, and have them run cover for your shit employee.

Valley Meat does not want to be giving anybody the impression they support anything that dude did.

They shoulda just left that part out.

PB