By Edvard Pettersson | Bloomberg Businessweek
A horse slaughterhouse in New Mexico that’s opposed by the state’s attorney general and the U.S. Humane Society was temporarily barred by a federal judge from beginning operations.
The Humane Society sued the U.S. Agriculture Department, for agreeing, without an environmental review, to provide inspectors so that the Roswell plant and one in Iowa could start operations. New Mexico Attorney General Gary King said he was pleased U.S. District Judge Christina Armijo in Albuquerque today suspended the grant of inspection for the Roswell slaughterhouse.
“Federal inspectors are also barred from further involvement with the facilities,” King said in an e-mailed statement.
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