The shuttered slaughterhouse, owned by the Belgian firm Cavel International, is located in DeKalb, Illinois, sixty miles west of Chicago.
Cavel's lawyers will appeal Thursday's ruling by federal judge that kept a the plant open during the appeal process. Governor Rod Blagojevich signed into law banning the practice of slaughtering horses for human consumption last month.
On the federal end, a different federal judge ruled that slaughterhouses didn't have the authority to directly pay US Department of Agriculture meat inspectors. Last year, a law took effect that fulled public funding of the inspectors.
Cavel has two big legal obstacles to overcome to re-open--its struggle may not be insurmountable, but it's darn close.
I got a lot of heat from commenters on my earlier horse-slaughter posts. It looks like that horse lovers have won, but it'll be interesting to see what becomes of horses that owners no longer want to care for. And because of the push for ethanol, animal feed costs are skyrocketing.
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