AR-News: (US DC) 'Americans Don't Raise Horses for Food and We Don't Eat Them, ' Bo Derek

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

3/16/2004 8:37:00 AM 



To: National Desk 
Contact: Chris Heyde of the Society for Animal Protective Legislation and the 
National Horse Protection Coalition, 703-836-4300, Liz Clancy Ross of the 
Doris Day Animal League and the National Horse Protection Coalition, 202-546-1761 
ext. 30, Greg Stevens of Barbour, Griffith & Rogers, 202-661-6363 
WASHINGTON, March 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Movie star Bo Derek of "10" fame was 
on Capitol Hill today to voice her support for the National Horse Protection 
Coalition's campaign to end the slaughter of American horses for human 
consumption. 
"Americans don't raise horses for food and we don't eat them," she stated in 
support of the National Horse Protection Coalition, a group that includes 
leaders from the horse industry and animal protection community. The Coalition 
supports passage of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (H.R. 857), a 
bill currently before the United States Congress that would ban the practice.
Derek told legislators and government workers, "Tens of thousands of horses 
are cruelly slaughtered in this country every year, just so someone in Europe 
can have a fancy dinner. It's just plain wrong. Americans don't raise horses 
for food, and we don't eat them. I want to help end this horrid practice." 
Derek, an able horsewoman who keeps five Iberians at her home in California, 
traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet and discuss the issue with Members of Congress.



full story:

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=108-03162004 
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