High court overturns California slaughterhouse law
January 23, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
The Supreme Court has blocked a California law that would require euthanizing downed livestock at federally inspected slaughterhouses to keep the meat out of the nation’s food system. Continue Reading
Minnetonka, Minn.-based Cargill is one of the nation’s largest beef processors. Federal workplace regulators this week cited Cargill Inc.’s Milwaukee beef slaughterhouse for 23 serious safety violations, the most violations the agribusiness giant has received at any of its U.S. plants in at least a decade.
Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be up and running in as little as a month. 
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