Wyoming Rep Sue Wallis Spouts Disinformation on Horse Slaughter

Straight from the Horse's Heart

Wyoming's Horse Slaughter Promoter - Rep. Wallis

written by Vicki Tobin of  The Equine Welfare Alliance

Misguided Politician Misleads Public

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.