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Missouri Facing Internet Boycott That Could Go Viral
By Steven Long, Editor Horseback Magazine
HOUSTON, (Horseback) - Missouri lawmakers should take heed if a warning which has appeared on Facebook is true. That state's legislature is one the edge of passing stealth legislation placed on an omnibus bill that would inadvertently legalize the slaughter of horses.
Facebook calls for action can telegraph worldwide resulting in millions of viewer responses in a matter of minutes.
The message that appeared in Facebook friends boxes calls for a boycott of the state by the nations millions of horse lovers. It names members of the Missouri senate and gives their email addresses.
Emails, faxes, and calls, from around the world have reportedly flooded the state since word leaked that the provision had been attached to the bill. The Facebook message reads:
Subject: BOYCOTT! BOYCOTT!!
THIS IS NOT OVER!! PLEASE EMAIL THE SENATORS NOW WITH THIS BOYCOTT MESSAGE!!!
VOTE MAY BE AS SOON AS MONDAY OR WEDNESDAY!!!
jbray@senate.mo.gov
Frak.Barnitz@senate.mo.gov
dan_clemens@senate.mo.gov
Jane.Cunningham@senate.mo.gov
tom.dempsey@senate.mo.gov
timothy_green@senate.mo.gov
Rob.Mayer@senate.mo.gov
chuck.purgason@senate.mo.gov
eschmitt@senate.mo.gov
charlie_shields@senate.mo.gov
wes.shoemyer@senate.mo.gov
bstouffer@senate.mo.gov,
Yvonne.Wilson@senate.mo.gov
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED:
WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE GO AHEAD FOR A STATEWIDE BOYCOTT BY MANY OF YOUR MO REPS, ET AL.
I HAVE RECEIVED AN ASTRONOMICAL DONATION TO ENSUE THIS STATE BOYCOTT!
ENOUGH TO ERECT 30 BILLBOARDS!! ONE FOR EACH MAJOR HIGHWAY AND ONE FOR EACH DIRT ROAD THAT LEADS TO YOUR STATE!
I-70, 44, 55, 29, 35 AND 435 TO START!
SAY NO TO SUB S.B. 795 THAT INCLUDES HORSE SLAUGHTER LANGUAGE. THE BILL THAT WAS HIDDEN BY SPONSOR VIEBROCK IN ORDER TO CIRCUMVENT THE PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED WITHDRAWAL OF THE NOW DEAD H.B.1747
***IF THIS PASSES GET READY**
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Wallis Statement | Fact: There are as many meals of horse meat served every day, world wide, as there are McDonald's hamburgers. [Yes, worldwide is spelled incorrectly but I left it as posted.]
To properly analyze data, you must compare like segments of all available data. In this case, only one subset segment of an industry is compared to the whole of another. It's like analyzing the sale of all oranges to only Golden Delicious apples to prove more oranges are sold than apples.
Not only was it only one segment of the beef market but only one subset of the chains that sell hamburgers vs. all meals of horse meat. A proper comparison would have been McDonald's to the like major chain selling horse meat burgers. Oh, wait. Do any exist?
Given the absence of a like segment, data must be expanded to provide quantitative analysis. In this case, since all horse meat meals was being used as a benchmark, all beef meals, or at the very least, all hamburger meals, should have been used for the comparison.
Hence, you have more disinformation with meaningless data being stated as fact in an attempt to lead readers to believe that horse meat is as popular as hamburgers. |
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