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From: TSS ()
Subject: Re: Sen. Glenn Hegar, R-Katy SAYS SCREW THE LAW, LET THEM EAT HORSE
Date: May 24, 2007 at 8:12 am PST

In Reply to: Sen. Glenn Hegar, R-Katy SAYS SCREW THE LAW, LET THEM EAT HORSE posted by TSS on May 12, 2007 at 7:45 am:

General News
Texas horse slaughter plants denied in attempt to reopen

By Ann Bagel Storck on 5/24/2007 for Meatingplace.com


It appears the two horse slaughter plants in Texas will remain closed after they were denied reprieve by both state lawmakers and the U.S. Supreme Court.

A deadline of midnight Monday passed without the Texas House authorizing a bill that would have reopened Dallas Crown Inc. in Kaufman and Beltex Corp. in Fort Worth. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the plants' petition to overturn a federal appeals court ruling that effectively shut them down earlier this year.

The U.S. horse slaughter industry has been dealt a series of blows lately. The third U.S. horse slaughter plant, Cavel International in DeKalb, Ill., looks to be the victim of a ban on horse slaughter in Illinois, which Gov. Rod Blagojevich is expected to sign. (See Illinois lawmakers vote to close last U.S. horse slaughterhouse, Meatingplace.com, May 17, 2007.)

http://www.meatingplace.com/MembersOnly/webNews/details.aspx?item=18078

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