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After being forced to close twice in the last two months,
the last U.S. horse slaughter plant will be allowed to reopen
while it challenges the state law that shuttered it, a federal
appeals court ruled earlier this week.
The general manager of Cavel International in DeKalb, Ill.,
told the Associated Press that the facility "will be up
and running soon."
A state law banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption
first closed the plant almost two months ago, and while
it reopened briefly while appealing the law, it closed again
in early July after a judge refused to extend the order
allowing the facility to operate during the appeal process.
(See Illinois
horse slaughterhouse loses another legal battle on
Meatingplace.com , July 6, 2007.)
On Wednesday, however, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of
Appeals in Chicago ruled that "irreparable harm" would come
to Cavel if it were not allowed to resume operation while
the appeal is pending, and granted the processor's request
for an injunction barring officials from enforcing the state
law. |
