AR-News: (US DC) Bo Derek to Call for an End to Horse Slaughter March 1

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3/15/2004 10:31:00 AM 



To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor 
Contact: Chris Heyde of the Society for Animal Protective Legislation, 
703-836-4300, or Liz Clancy Ross of the Doris Day Animal League, 202-546-1761, ext. 
30
News Advisory: 
WHAT: Derek calls for an end to horse slaughter and asks Congress to pass the 
American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (H.R. 857).
WHY: More than 49,000 horses were slaughtered in the U.S. last year at two 
foreign owned slaughterhouses for human consumption in Europe and Asia. Tens of 
thousands more were exported live and slaughtered abroad.
WHO: 
-- Movie star Bo Derek of "10" fame




full story:

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=119-03152004 
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