November 26, 2004

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  Thursday, November 25, 2004

  
  

  Bill would allow slaughter of wild horses

  
  

  By FELICITY BARRINGER
  THE NEW YORK TIMES

  
  

  WASHINGTON — In a reversal of three decades of government policy that protected all wild horses, a provision approved by Congress last weekend would allow them to be sold to slaughterhouses.

  
  

  Horse advocates were furious that the legislation passed without a public hearing. Tina Kreisher, a spokesman for the Interior Department, said yesterday, “We did not ask for this language.”

  
  

  The Bureau of Land Management has for years rounded up horses and offered them for adoption.

  
  

  Before this measure, which the president is expected to sign, older or unadoptable horses in the bureau’s holding facilities were returned to the range.

  
  

   

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