Because it is Sunday, it’s once again time to feature one of our PSA friends. The obvious choice would have been to choose one of the PSAs that whined the loudest over this blog during the past week. I know of about two or three of them that are absolutely crying for a feature on here. However, I don’t really like giving in to bad behavior and this blog isn’t about pleasing them. I think it’s far more fun to make this a bit more challenging than going for the obvious every single time. This week’s PSA ticks all the boxes as far as being a stereotype and hateful, plus he has the added bonus of basically being a caricature of a cowboy. I think we’ll be about 50/50 on people guessing before the reveal this week. Let me know how you do!
Our PSA this week normally has a lot to say and fancies himself quite the little expert on all things Ag. I can tell you that he calls himself a rancher and is most definitely all about slaughtering horses, although he prefers to call it harvesting. He is regularly misinformed, but that rarely stops him from spewing out his garbled `facts’. It would be a safe assessment to say this PSA is batshit crazy. Are you ready to hear from the man himself?
“BTW he has been running with 20 mares for 3 years and his first bite of hay was today…after arruval”
- Talking about his no account stud which I will post a picture of at the bottom of this entry. Why is it that so may of these PSAs breed in mass quantities yet whine about too many horses and no slaughter to place a value on them? Just because you run a crapload of horses on the back forty and don’t bother doing anything with them does not a `remuda’ make. Just because your horse is a pretty color does not mean he needs to make more just like him.
“….charged with the crime of letting a dog be a dog” and “…not treating his dog like a kid.”
- This is our PSA’s thoughts on Michael Vick. No, our PSA is not Steve `Crazyass’ King.
“The respectful harvest of unwanted horses desperately needs to continue. Millions of kids around the world die of starvation every year and upity American citizens, attorneys and judges snub their noses at that by endorsing the wasteful disposal of an otherwise valuable resource. Once again I contend that only an overfed and ungrateful nation would enact a law removing potentially the greatest value a horse has to offer at the end of a useful life. I propose that, before we completely let the horse out of the barn, we go into one of the most poverty stricken areas of our nation and have a horse barbeque. I doubt that the hungry kids or the homeless veterans will tell us that it is against their morals to eat horse meat. I have the horse and if you have the grill, we have a date. “
- Respectful harvest. You gotta love all these euphemisms for slaughter they come up with to slide it down the public’s throats a bit easier. I also love the fact that so many PSAs figure that just because you are poor, you’ll eat anything or are willing to drop your values.
“And apparently the mission is to make the ownership of a horse something that only the elite in this country can have. And that, my friends, flies in the face of everything that the horse represents in the building of our great nation.”
- So slaughtering and eating horses better represents their part in building `our great nation’? Huh? BTW I don’t think you have a `right’ to own a horse if you can’t afford it or are willing to make the sacrifices to properly care for it.
“Factory farms do not exist. Companies like Chipotle have launched ad campaigns with selective portrayals of the truth that grossly mislead the consumer.
The size of the farm – or whether animals are confined or not – does not in itself determine the treatment of animals. Management, in all cases, is the most important concern in animal husbandry. You may be able to raise pigs outside, in all of Mother Nature’s grandeur, and get along just fine. The truth is – very few of us are willing to work that hard to get it done.”
- Remember that I mentioned he is a self-proclaimed expert on all things Ag? Well this is what he had to say about hogs. NO such thing as factory farms and nobody cares about the welfare of the animal because they aren’t `willing to work that hard to get it done’. Yet, people like this asshat are the ones saying they are concerned about the `welfare’ of horses.
“I hauled five young horses to the Loup City Commission Company’s monthly horse sale in October and two of them brought only $1 apiece. I actually felt fortunate because they did send me a $103 check for the bunch instead of a bill. Before I do that again, I will consider other options such as feeding dogs in the neighborhood.”
- Sounds to me like somebody needs to quit breeding horses if they are only bringing $1 a piece. WTF is wrong with these people?
Ok, now that we have had a sampling of where our PSA stands on certain issues, let’s get into some really fun facts about him. Remember how I mentioned he is batshit crazy? That may be an understatement. Environmentalist Robert F Kennedy Jr. has accused our PSA of stalking him. He writes all about it in his book `Crimes Against Nature’. Here’s an excerpt from the book and it’s also linked below: “His mission was to follow me around and to try to discredit me, but also to intimidate me. He shows up at speeches and press conferences I give, sitting in the front row. He records me, and then he prints distortions or outright misrepresentations of my statements. Sometimes he mumbles menacing comments. Once when I was in Iowa, he came up to me and whispered, “I’m your worst nightmare.” He waits for me in dark parking lots on my way home. He asks if I’d like to take a ride with him in his car, those kind of things. Which I don’t find intimidating, but that’s clearly his purpose.”
Pretty crazy stuff, huh? Our PSA has also been indicted and plead no contest to cattle fraud/rustling which meant he was caught selling cattle without a bill of sale and selling cattle without a brand inspection. Prosecuting attorney, Jason White, said:”It’s a long, drawn-out factual situation in which he bought cattle, never really paid for them, never got a bill of sale, and then he turned around and started selling those cattle,” What a great guy our PSA is! Details are linked below. Basically, this conviction was the only thing that stopped him from his stalking hobby because he wasn’t allowed to leave the state. I can’t make this stuff up! It also wasn’t our PSA’s only brush with the legal system. He also gained notoriety for being the manager for a 50,000 pig factory farm on the land of the Rosebud Sioux for Bell Farms. Such was the negative environmental impact of this facility that the Rosebud Sioux had to eventually file a lawsuit to evict our PSA and his operation. As you can see he is a typical Big Ag douche that has no care about animals, their welfare or even the environment as long as he’s putting money in the bank.
Have you guessed who our PSA is yet? I’m betting at least half of you know already. He is a huge fan of Slaughterhouse Sue, D-bag Duquette and Holy Theresa Manzella. He has a 501c3, (don’t they all?) and claims to be a sixth generation farmer/rancher. He says he has 200 cows, 40 horses, 20 meat goats and 40 sows, although he is so busy running around the country being a pain in the ass, it is widely believed that his wife (also indicted for cattle fraud/rustling) does all the work on their ranch. Even though he is not a buckaroo by any stretch of the imagination, he wears the costume which probably makes him an even bigger asstard than the actual buckaroos and that is no small feat. One last chance to guess, because it is now time to give a warm anti-slaughter welcome to our Sunday PSA!
Trent `I’m a Little Teapot’ Loos
Also, for your personal amusement, I’m going to share a link that was sent to me by one of our readers. It’s from the Summit of the Horse Eaters and good Ole Trent tries to insist that branded BLM horses do not end up in slaughter houses and Bill `Maggot’ des Barres repeatedly contradicts him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wWSApEUiq4&feature=youtu.be
Do not even get me started on all the reasons this horse should not have his balls…..kinda like his owner.
http://rapidcityjournal.com/article_070f5127-ddbc-5fdf-91e3-c4134f23f0b8.html
http://www.dickrussell.org/articles/clf_rfk.htm
http://www.equinewelfarealliance.org/uploads/Abbey-Summit.pdf
I knew it was Loos after the first couple of paragraphs….when you mentioned Kennedy, I knew it was clinched….Trent Loos, convicted cattle rustler that I think was pleaded down (again!…thank you US justice system, again).
Jerk off!…although he apparently hit the sweet spot more than once because, get ready for it world, he has children that he has indoctrinated as well as Goebells would have.
I’ll bet he did! His kids are just like him?! OMG! This is one of the most revolting individuals I’ve ever run across. Even the sound of his voice gags me. Ewwww!
You should ask John Holland about his experiences dealing with this DANGEROUS moron.
Doesn’t Loos-brains still have his radio show?…think it’s sponsored by…wait for it….BIG Ag (grain interests).
He is a legend in his own mind.
Yup, he still has his radio show. He regularly drools all over Holy Theresa and has her on as a guest and they both talk out of their butts about things they don’t know anything about.
I think the children of these people get desensitized. They go through the trauma of butchering and eating family pets at such a young age, that they have no appreciation for life. They are raised to be the `master race’, but the irony is they raised by bottom feeders.
I wonder how St. Theresa, the hypocrite, rationalizes her close connection with a known criminal. I guess that’s what rationalization is all about…. make that which is wrong, somehow OK in your mind because it serves your purposes.
He gives her air time and tries to get in her pants…..that’s probably all the justification she needs!
I agree, Holy Theresa, does that flirtation giggle ( you can just see her, twirling her hair, and looking shyly over her shoulder) every time she’s on there… GAG!
Next, observation is…. It seems that everybody that SW hooks up with, is some kind of criminal….. Have you guys noticed the same pattern here???
It’s beginning to look that way. I’ve clearly led a very sheltered life up until now. Nobody has sued me, no brushes with the law other than speeding tickets and none of my friends are felons either. I guess that’s what the PSAs mean when they say I have no life..
I really dont understand why they think that OLD horses would be a good meal???? Really???? Cattle Pigs Sheep and all meat animals are “harvested” and “consumed” when they are young and tender (Ugh!!! makes me sick to think about that), but these morons keep saying that they want to feed old, sick, dying horses to the poor and inmates of the prisons. God help us!
It’s because they are a deadly combination of being pathological liars and just plain ignorant.
I knew who it was when you got to the part about the hog farm! I remember reading about this several years ago, there was an on-line interview with the Rosebud Sioux about it. At the time I sent the info to John Holland, who told me Trent Loos was involved with that farm. Also at that time, the PSAs were hoping to build a horse slaughter plant on an Indian reservation (we suspected to avoid having to comply with environmental and humane regulations, and who knows what else). As if the American Indians haven’t suffered enough indignity.
I haven’t been able to find that link with the interview, but I did find this NY Times article which details some of the conditions at the hog farm: http://lists.envirolink.org/pipermail/ar-news/Week-of-Mon-20031110/010346.html
Thanks again for exposing the character of those who support horse slaughter!
“Because Indian lands are exempt from state environmental laws, Bell Farms, a major hog factory corporation, entered into a joint venture with the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Council to operate its proposed factory producing nearly one million pigs a year on reservation lands. However, the hog factory was subject to federal law, so the citizens’ coalition, with Humane Farming Association’s financial support, sued the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), challenging it for not first preparing an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).”
http://labanimals.awionline.org/pubs/Quarterly/sp03/0603p19.htm
This would have been the third largest hog factory farm in the world!
I guessed it!!! He’s such a pig himself, surprised he’s been able to keep his butt from being butchered….
He probably made his wife use a farrowing crate when she had their kids…
OMG! LOL! I bet he actually did. But, just imagine having children by this guy…. Isn’t THAT bad enough?
Several members of the Yakama tribe have been wooed by Wallis and Co., in an effort to build a horse slaughter plant on tribal land in Washington and/or Oregon.
The Yakama tribe needs to pay close attention to the hard lessons learned by the Rosebud tribe after allowing Loos and Bell Farms onto their land. Loos and his porcine pals targeted the Rosebud tribe, in part, because of the tribe’s depressed economic state — the hog farm would bring fabulous jobs and a booming economy to the tribe (sound familiar?) according to Loos’ pitch.
It was not long before the tribe realized the enormous clusterfuck that had been foisted upon them by Loos and Bell Farms, and they spent the next several years in court before they were finally able to get rid of Loos and his associates.
Loos, Wallis, et al are an absolute disgrace to *real* farmers everywhere — they are the folks who are making the term ‘agriculture’ synonymous with animal cruelty, environmental pollution, and large corporate interests.
Thankfully, due largely to the internet and social media, these people are being outed for who and what they are — the public is just beginning to get a whiff of the overwhelming stench that Loos and those like him have been trying to hide for so long.
Interesting info. I’m thinking yet another reason they target these poor, economically depressed areas is that they expect these folks won’t have the resources to fight back when things go awry (which they inevitably will with horse slaughter). Just makes me sick that they not only victimize the horses, but people too. All to make a buck. Not surprising though given the nature of the PSAs.
I was thinking the same thing about them wanting to put a slaughter facility on the Yakama land. Why not go in their and help them manage and zero populate that herd instead? Because that won’t make them any money. Lord knows the tribe isn’t going to make much money if Wallis et al get their way.
As I watched that clip , I couldn’t help but wish as des Barres & loos stood there shooting themselves in feet ,that they would have aimed just a bit higher …
LOL!!!!
Ditto, Kathy h!
Well said, Howard Larsen. How can we be sure that the Yakama tribe is fully aware of the Rosebud tribe’s experience?
I think some kind of tracking system needs to be in place. If you adopt a wild horse (or buy a sale authority one) and you send that horse to slaughter BLM should be barred from ever letting you adopt again!
Several years ago a man in Montana tried to sale his wild mustang at auction. Happily for the horse the brand inspector stopped that and through various channels another horse advocate was given the horse with the clear understanding the horse was not to be moved until titled.
Now to be fair, the cowboy had lost his job, his home EVERYTHING. Granted that’s no excuse for sending a horse to auction especially one he didn’t even have title for. I believe that the man panicked.
In the end the title was transferred to the horse advocate.
Not every case ends like this.
I’ve seen pictures of them with the freeze brands carved out or burned off. Short of a micro-chip system, I’m not sure how they could prevent it. While I’m certainly sympathetic to their situation, I don’t like to see any horse in that situation, wild or not.
We need a “like” button… I wanted to “like” all the comments on here… Full of educational information…
That’s the difference between anti-slaughter and pro-slaughter. PSAs just regurgitate the same old lies with nothing to back it up. The anti slaughter people, especially the ones that comment on here actually have taken the time to educate themselves and can produce hard facts to back up their stance. I love all the comments we get on here.
You’re right Shedrow, I’ve also found that anti-slaughter people are more likely to seek out external resources and actually READ them. Most of the pros don’t do this at all, and it shows. They read their own insular “information,” and regurgitate it by rote, without critical thinking either, I might add.
Another reader of your blog posted a screen shot on my FB page where someone surmised that grays aren’t slaughtered because of a biblical proclamation that “Jesus would return on a white horse.” Well they are slaughtered, there are records of them being evaluated for slaughter in Dennis Chavez log books and photos of them on feedlots in Canada.
I don’t know if there are extra protocols in slaughterhouses for grays, but most melanomas are found in the connective tissues, skin, and organs, and rarely in the “meat” anyway. Most of these aren’t consumed, although the restaurant we protest against serves horse heart, which I think is even more revolting, if that’s possible.
I think what they meant was they are not slaughtered for human consumption. I have heard that to be true. Of course a slaughter house will kill any horse you bring them, they just don’t use them all for human food.
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I knew there was more to Loos than met the eye……Nice to see there are verifiable facts that back up my instant abhorrence of the man.
If it talks like a douche, walks like a douche acts like a douche…..it likely IS a douche. Loos illustrates this perfectly.
Loos Douche….. lol.
Loos bowels…….
Loos Stool……….okay, I’ll stop now………
LOL! you guys are killing me!
‘Loos’ Cannon – “an uncontrolled or unpredictable person who causes damage to their own faction, political party etc.”
How appropriate!
loos -er
i feel the need to say that i know people who support slaughter who are *not* like the unethical, inbred, uneducated duchebags you profile. having added that disclaimer, the ones that you profile and that seem to be vocal are just offensively unethical – even a moral. it is so ridiculous. they continue to spout misinformation. everyone is entitled to their own opinions but they are not entitled to their own facts.
i just read that angela marshal – who sent her poor senior horse on a 30 hour death haul to slaughter – was whining to the nt about having 3 kids and is now pregnant with twins. good lord! just another example of poor choices. children are expensive. maybe if youre in a downed economy and your husband may loose his job you should be happy with the three children you have and start making a reasonable choice to use birth control before you have kids you cant afford that the rest of us will have to pay for. maybe she can afford them – who knows. good lord woman, its a vagina – not a clown car…
i swear you should have to at least be able to solve for x to get pregnant.just another poor decision. additionally – she is apparently under the impression that burying a horse is illegal in mn. good lord. shes either lying, too lazy to find out for sure or just dumb as a rock (no offense meant to rocks out there…)
every horse in mn is shipped 30 hours to slaughter?? really? what a complete waste of oxygen…
LOL….ready today’s entry. Although I didn’t think to mention the clown car….
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