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New Mexico Attorney General Gary King is trying to block
Valley Meat Co.'s planned opening this month with a lawsuit alleging it would
violate the state's food safety, water quality and unfair business practices
laws. Although the meat would not be sold domestically, it would be processed
and shipped to other countries for human consumption.
The state lawsuit is just
the latest in a series of setbacks for Valley, which sued the federal
government to get a permit after Congress lifted a ban on horse slaughter in
2011. But its planned August start up then was delayed by a federal lawsuit
from animal protection groups, who eventually lost but are appealing.
The
company claims the state lacks jurisdiction.
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