{"id":2216,"date":"2013-07-31T16:51:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T00:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2013-08-02T16:54:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T00:54:01","slug":"company-to-start-slaughtering-horses-next-week-despite-arson-and-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2013\/07\/31\/company-to-start-slaughtering-horses-next-week-despite-arson-and-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Company to start slaughtering horses next week, despite arson and lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Hey,<\/a>

Hey, horse, did you try to burn down that New Mexico slaughterhouse?<\/p><\/div>\n

By John Upton<\/a><\/p>\n

A\u00a0New Mexico slaughterhouse plans to begin killing horses for meat on Monday \u2014 despite a looming lawsuit and an apparent arson attack.<\/p>\n

Refrigeration units at the Valley Meat Co. in Roswell., N.M., lit up in flames on Tuesday. Firefighters extinguished the blaze, but not before five compressors were damaged beyond repair. The company pledged to replace them in time to begin slaughtering horses and chilling their meat on Monday. From Albuquerque\u2019s KOB Eyewitness News 4<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Chaves County Sheriff\u2019s Department said substances that could have been used to start the fire were found on the units and there is reason to believe it was arson. The owners are sure of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We\u2019re not endorsing arson. But this was the same meatpacking company whose worker shot a horse in the head on camera<\/a> and said,\u00a0\u201cAll you animal activists, fuck you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps an animal activist out there reciprocated the \u201cfuck you\u201d sentiment.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Other horse lovers have been taking a different tack in attempting to prevent the facility from starting its slaughter. From a July 2 New York Times<\/em> article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Several animal rights groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the Agriculture Department, seeking to prevent it from inspecting horse meat that some companies want to produce for human consumption. \u2026<\/p>\n

The animal rights groups involved in the lawsuit \u2014 the Humane Society of the United States, Front Range Equine Rescue, Marin Humane Society, the Horses for Life Foundation and Return to Freedom, along with five individual plaintiffs \u2014 contend that the Agriculture Department did not perform reviews required by the National Environmental [Policy] Act before authorizing Valley Meat to operate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe U.S.D.A. has failed to consider the basic fact that horses are not raised as a food animal,\u201d Hilary Wood, president of Front Range Equine Rescue, said in a statement. \u201cHorse owners provide their horses with a number of substances dangerous to human health. To blatantly ignore this fact jeopardizes human health as well as the environment surrounding a horse slaughter plant.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A hearing for that lawsuit is scheduled for Friday.<\/p>\n

The slaughterhouse\u2019s attorney is reminding reporters that the Bush-era\u00a0Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act<\/a> could lead to the arsonist being charged with terrorism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By John Upton A\u00a0New Mexico slaughterhouse plans to begin killing horses for meat on Monday \u2014 despite a looming lawsuit and an apparent arson attack. Refrigeration units at the Valley Meat Co. in Roswell., N.M., lit up in flames on Tuesday. Firefighters extinguished the blaze, but not before five compressors were damaged beyond repair. The … <\/p>\n

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