In addition, the White House's 2014 Budget recommends that Congress block spending for the U.S. Department of Agriculture to inspect
U.S. horse slaughter plants.
On Friday we learned that the U.S. Department of Agriculture approved an application for horse slaughter inspections at a plant in Roswell, New Mexico, and grant inspections
at horse slaughter plants in Missouri and Iowa this Monday, July 1.
The Dallas
Crown horse slaughter plant in Kaufman, Texas was ordered closed by the town's Board of Adjustments in March of 2006, but managed to tie the process up with appeals until it was closed under an unrelated state law in 2007.
Horse slaughter plants do not want the old, skinny and lame horses, but are looking for the fat and healthy animals for a higher quality of meat.
That proposal was overwhelmingly defeated, and a local attorney has accused UE of possible fraud in solicitations to investors in the
proposed horse slaughter plant.
New Mexico's attorney general sued on Thursday to block
a horse slaughter plant scheduled to open next month from becoming the first facility of its kind to operate in the United States in more than five years.
(Reuters)- New Mexico's attorney general sued on Thursday to block
a horse slaughter plant scheduled to open next month from becoming the first facility of its kind to operate in the United States in more than five years.
That committee is expected to pass the bill to allow
a horse slaughter plant to operate in our state as they have already voted to pass SB 375, a senate bill which would repeal Oklahoma's ban on horse meat consumption.
Oklahoma may have
a horse slaughter plant with no market to sell to.
If their budget is large enough to support placing inspectors in
horse slaughter plants, possibly they have more money than they need.
You are obviously so uneducated that I can not even waste my time trying to tell you about the animal industry horrors because you probably used to work in
a horse slaughter plant and are angry because we shut your job down!!!!
To get started on the cost estimates for her dream
horse slaughter plant, Wallis might wish to consider the case of the Natural Valley Farms (NVF) horse slaughter plant that went bankrupt two years ago in Saskatchewan, Canada.
After two public meetings in which residents loudly expressed their opposition, Unified Equine and Chevideco announced they would withdraw plans to put
a horse slaughter plant in Mountain Grove, Mo., and look for another location in southwest Missouri.
Horse slaughter plants are notorious polluters.
Bacon said a community would be better off with a «lead smeltering plant or a sexually oriented business than
a horse slaughter plant».
Unified Equine LLC is based in Wallis» hometown of Recluse, Wyoming and recently distributed these materials in the Mountain Grove, Missouri community about plans to build
a horse slaughter plant there.