Slaughter ops seek ramp-up (UPDATE: Inspection funds blocked)

[OldDog]

Horse-Slaughter Plant’s Lawyer Says Opening Three Weeks Away

The lawyer for a New Mexico meat plant that wants to be the first to slaughter horses in the U.S. since 2007 says the facility may be operational in three weeks.

“We’re getting ready to go,” A. Blair Dunn, attorney for Valley Meat Co. in Roswell, New Mexico, said today in a phone interview. The plant may eventually have about 100 employees processing as many as 100 horses a day for export, he said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-0...eeks-away.html

Horse-Slaughter Jobs Embraced in State Where Cowboys Roam

Tim Sappington is ready to buy horses for Valley Meat Co., which is seeking to open the first U.S. horse slaughterhouse since 2007.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...e-cowboys-roam