Commercial horse slaughter allowed to resume during appeal
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Denver yesterday lifted a Nov. 4 temporary ban on food-safety inspections at the slaughterhouses and denied a request by opponents of horse slaughter, including environmental groups and the state of New Mexico, to keep the stay in place while they pursue their appeal.
Bloomberg Businessweek reports that the opponents hadn’t shown they were likely to succeed in the appeal and hadn’t presented “non-speculative” evidence that they or the environment would suffer irreparable harm from limited horse slaughtering operations, the appellate court said.