Cavel International Inc., owner of the last U.S. slaughterhouse for horses, lost its challenge to an Illinois law banning horsemeat production for human consumption.
The U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago today ruled the Illinois Horse Meat Act doesn't violate the U.S. Constitution. Cavel has said if it lost the case, it will be forced to shut down.
"Even if no horses live longer as a result of the new law, a state is permitted, within reason, to express disgust at what people do with the dead, whether dead human beings or dead animals,'' U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Posner wrote for the court.
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