A heart for horses
Wild horses could be sold for slaughter under new law
December 27, 2004
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Wild horses and burros could be bought or sold for slaughter under a provision in the $388 billion spending bill that President Bush signed into law this month.
The new law lets the animals be sold, potentially for use as meat in foreign markets, if they are more than 10 years old or, if younger, after they have been offered unsuccessfully for adoption three times. It also requires that any money from sales go to the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management adoption program for wild horses and burros.
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