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Kaufman City wanting to shut down Dallas Crown

For years, residents of Kaufman, TX, have been dealing with the noise
and unbearable smell from the horse slaughter plant located behind their
residential neighborhood. In addition to several citations by the City
of Kaufman in regards to waste water rules, the horse slaughter plant
has been more than a nuisance.

After a city council hearing in June, where a courageous citizen Mr.
Eldridge asked the Mayor and the Council of the City of Kaufman to
finally put their foot down, the vote came in Monday, August 15, 2005.

The Kaufman City Council decided by unanimous vote that Dallas Crown is
out of compliance with their nonconforming use permit and has sent a
decision to the Board of Adjustments (Zoning Board) to terminate Dallas
Crown's permit.

When the permit is terminated, hundreds of horses will be safe.

Until then, horses continue to be slaughtered. Their pens are full as
they are now more eager than ever to slaughter what they can for profit
overseas.

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Kaufman may close slaughterhouse

Dallas Crown lawyer says horse plant would take legal action


08:27 PM CDT on Tuesday, August 16, 2005


By JIM GETZ / The Dallas Morning News


KAUFMAN – The Dallas Crown horse-slaughtering plant, already the
target of opponents ranging from its neighbors to Congress, now
faces action by a city board that could shut the facility down.

City Council members voted unanimously Monday to turn over to the
city's Zoning Board of Adjustments the question of whether the plant
has violated city nuisance laws. If that panel rules that is the
case, it could order the plant closed.

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By: Tamara Tragakiss
08/17/2005

Among the horses in residence at Kim Dore's modest stables along Route
63 in Morris are several with a striking government-issued freeze brand
on the left side of their necks.

The strange, right angle markings designate these horses as mustangs who
were born, and at one time ranged free, somewhere in the Western United
States.

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Wild horses' fans fear roundups will weaken herds

By BRETT FRENCH
Of The Gazette Staff

Wild-horse advocates are concerned that the roundup of up to 10,000 wild horses and burros across the West this year will lower their populations drastically and threaten the animals' genetic diversity.

The roundup includes the removal this month of 1,000 mustangs from two herds in Wyoming's Red Desert.

"You cannot preserve this gene pool with such reductions," said Karen Sussman, president of the Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros. "Each herd has a significant historical value."

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