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Last updated on Monday, May 5, 2014
(INDIANAPOLIS) - High-fence hunting operations and the disease risks associated with deer farms could be studied by Indiana lawmakers this summer.
Republican Senate President Pro Tempore David Long is calling for a study committee to analyze the disease risks and how to regulate hunting preserves.
The Indianapolis Star reports that state lawmakers have spent more than a decade trying to reach agreement on legislation about high-fenced hunting preserves. A bill that would have set regulatory standards for preserves was narrowly defeated this year in the Senate.
A Star investigation that examined the risks and ethical concerns of the captive-deer industry has renewed calls for change.
The captive deer industry is a $1 billion enterprise in which farmers breed deer with huge antlers, then sell them to be killed as trophies.
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