Fire kills 500,000 hens

 ROGGEN,  Colorado–An April 30,  2012 fire at the Boulder
Valley Poultry egg farm razed three of the 10 barns at the facility,
killing nearly half a million of the one million resident hens.  Fire
crews from Wiggins,  Hudson,  and Fort Lupton fought the blaze,
which attracted a large crowd,  including an  unidentified lone
demonstrator who stood with a sign reading “Save the Chickens,”
reported Sharon Dunn of the Greeley Tribune.

The race to revive horse slaughter

RIVERTON,  Wyoming–Trying to become the first U.S. entrepreneur to kill horses for meat since 2007,  Unified Equine company founder and Wyoming state representative Sue Wallis (R-Recluse) hopes to open a horse slaughterhouse near Riverton within the next year,  she told Jeremy Pelzer of the Casper Star-Tribune on May 22,  2012–but first Wallis has to find the investment capital.
“Wallis said Unified Equine, is looking to bring in local investors to help finance the plant,  which she said could cost between $2 million and $6 million and would initially create about 50 jobs.  The facility would process up to 200 horses a day for sale abroad and to ethnic markets within the U.S., she said,”  reported Pelzer. Read more