WLNS reporter Alison Himelhoch narrates:
"Mark Blumer is in charge of prosecuting the pair. He says in March of 2007, animal control workers found 69 horses at the ranch, starving and malnourished." ...
Chief Assistant Prosecutor Mark Blumer, on camera with WLNS:
"The goal of this type of case, is first and foremost to protect the animals" ... "We won because we successfully protected those animals."
Mr. Blumer, are you on the same planet that we are?
First, I wonder if you'd like to repeat under oath that there were 69 starving horses, since it was testified in court months ago by equine experts that the vast majority of the herd was in near optimum body condition at the time of the seizure—neither over nor under ideal weight. Are you a licensed large animal veterinarian? Are you familiar with the Henneke system? Do you understand that, much like humans, thin is preferable to fat?
Second, you protected them? By sending them to slaughter?
What exactly did you protect them from... life? How many more Turn 3 horses will be traced to a grisly end before you admit that seizing them and selling them at auction was the wrong thing to do?
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