Oct 20, 2008

John Holland, is a freelance writer, author of 3 books and senior analyst for Americans Against Horse Slaughter. Cavel International owned the last remaining U.S. horse slaughterhouse in Dekalb, Illinois, which closed in September 2007.  John has compiled an exhaustive list of non-compliance issues at Cavel from 2005 to 2007. Cavel was owned by Velda Group, a Belgian-based corporation that has now taken over the operations at Natural Meat Company, formerly Natural Valley Farms, the Saskatchewan horse slaughter plant that went into receivership in October 2008.