A federal judge ordered animal rights groups to post a bond of nearly $500,000 in a controversial horse slaughtering lawsuit.

The bond will address any economic harms suffered by two horse slaughtering plants that have been barred from opening under permits they received from the Department of Agriculture. The facilities are in New Mexico and Iowa.

The National Congress of American Indians, the Navajo Nation, the Mescalero Apache Nation of New Mexico, the Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota and the Yakama Nation of Washington have supported the issuance of permits for the plants.

But individual Indians, including Chief Arvol Looking Horse, the 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Pipe, are opposed to the idea.

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