Posted on 11/05/2015 5:04:58 AM PST by Daffynition
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) wrongly sold hundreds of federally protected wild horses to a Colorado rancher who in turn sold most the animals to be slaughtered for horse meat, according to a new watchdog report.
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Love, Jane
Most likely the best use of them.
Ken Salazar—first Secretary of the Interior under Obama.
Maybe it was the best use of them. However, the BLM is a corrupt and abusive govt agency which should be disbanded.
I’m wondering if they have gone ahead and taken the Wild Horses of the Salt River. The hubbub has quieted down and the Government SAID they would leave them alone. I have seen NONE grazing recently in the area. I guess they cause damage to the wild areas, but there is just something so American in seeing wild horses running free. Hoping they are not confiscating these horses in the dead of night......but this Government lies all the time, so who knows.
Or not.I’ve got a formerly wild mare,smartest saddle horse I’ve ever rode.The Spanish bred some of the best ranch horses ever,and generations of natural selection has produced some great animals.There’s some great horses out there.
Law??? Our “betters” need no stinkin’ law!
Does no one here on FR remember President Obama authorizing on Thanksgiving, by Executive Order, in either 2011 or 2012, establishing EIGHT horse slaughterhouses?? I knew he did it for a friend because no one noticed, and yet, in America, we don’t eat horsemen (not knowingly, anyway). I always wondered what was going on with those EIGHT slaughterhouses!!! Now I think we know......gues that’s where Taco Bell is getting meat????
*HORSEMEAT, not horsemen (sorry)
Yes yes yes, THIS!!! http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/30/obama-congress-restore-us-horse-slaughter-industry/?page=all
But then, the horse slaughtering was supposedly blocked.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/01/17/horse-slaughter-blocked-by-federal-law/4604929/
You mean long pig, the other white meat?
” there is just something so American in seeing wild horses running free.”
And, no species is less indigenous to North America!
I despise the BLM but honestly there are just too many wild horses. It costs a fortune to keep them on those feedlots and there just are not enough people to adopt them. Sometimes you have to cull the herd.
Sorry, the Native American Times disagrees with you.
http://www.nativetimes.com/news/environment/5505-are-wild-horses-native-to-us-blm-view-challenged
But they can’t explain the 10,000 year gap.
‘Jay F. Kirkpatrick, a leader in horse reproduction research who directs ZooMontana’s Science and Conservation Center in Billings, Mont., is among those who say BLM’s view is outdated.
“On the face of the science, it is just absolutely incorrect,†said Kirkpatrick, who has studied reproductive physiology for decades since earning his degree at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University.
“It wasn’t the predominant horse on the continent but it was here. It is native to North America,†he told AP.
It’ wasn’t the predominant horse on the continent, but it was here. It is native to North America.
... it, and the mastodon.
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