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U.S. appeals court lifts ban on horse slaughter - Yahoo News Canada
12-14-13
By Victoria Cavaliere
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Horse slaughter could soon resume in three U.S. states after a federal appeals court in Colorado vacated a temporary ban on inspections at slaughterhouse facilities.
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver said on Friday that animal protection groups had "failed to meet their burden" for continuing an injunction barring the U.S. Department of Agriculture from providing horse-meat inspection services to Roswell, New Mexico-based Valley Meat Co, Responsible Transportation in Iowa, and Rains Natural Meats in Missouri.
The decision could pave the way for the first horse slaughter operations in the United States in more than five years.
A temporary injunction was granted to animal protection groups by the appeals court last month after the animal advocates lost a legal battle to ban horse slaughter permanently.
The advocates had argued that the Department of Agriculture failed to carry out environmental reviews before it allowed the companies to expand their slaughterhouse operations to include horses for human consumption.
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