Posted on 02/25/2023 11:56:55 AM PST by GailA
BIDEN ORDERS EARTAGGED COWS KILLED IN NEW MEXICO TO PLEASE ENVIRO WACKOS!
Less than 24 hours before bullets are set to fly, a group of animal activists including the Humane Farming Association hopes an 11th-hour lawsuit stops the planned aerial slaughter of 150 cattle in New Mexico.
During a federally-approved, three day-event set to start Thursday, the U.S. Forest Service plans to shoot feral cattle from a helicopter roaming a southwestern area of the state.
The federal agency announced its decision on Feb. 16, explaining feral cattle on the 560,000-acre Gila Wilderness Area “pose a significant threat to public safety and natural resources."
Opponents including The New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association (NMCGA) this week asked a judge to grant a temporary restraining order to stop the mass killing. A hearing on the scheduled slaughter is set for Wednesday morning, court records show.
Scheduled slaughter of 150 cattle:150 feral cows to be shot from sky in New Mexico national forest as US Forest Service issues kill order
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THEY ARE NOT FERAL COWS.
Cattle ranchers and local business owners told U.S. District Judge James Browning earlier on Wednesday at a hearing in Albuquerque the four-day hunt of about 150 stray or unbranded cows, due to start on Thursday, would violate federal laws and Forest Service regulations and likely kill cows they own.
how very wasteful and cowardly. time for a stampede.
Will they use a trebuchet to get them in the sky?
In denying the plaintiffs’ bid for the emergency order, Browning said they were unlikely to succeed on the merits of their case and that of the approximately 300 cattle removed or killed over the last several decades “only one has been branded, and it was removed rather than killed.”
Jessica Blome, an attorney for the ranchers, said they are “deeply disappointed that the court green lit” the plan.
The Forest Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Forest Service announced the hunt last week, the second in as many years, saying feral cows were damaging habitats and menacing hikers who visit the vast Southwestern national monument known for its mountain ranges and plunging, rock-walled canyons.
U.S. Department of Justice attorney Andrew Smith, representing the Forest Service, argued on Wednesday that blocking the cull would allow feral cow populations to “rebound, and last year’s efforts would be wasted.”
Aerial hunting of feral hogs and predators like coyotes is a common practice in the American West but efforts to gun down cattle from above have been met with protest.
The New Mexico Cattle Growers Association (NMCGA), which had filed a lawsuit on Tuesday alongside other ranching, farming and business interests, said aerial shooting puts at risk privately owned cattle that may have strayed through broken fences or to find water. That loss harms an industry already hard-hit by climate change and rising costs, it said.
The money it costs to operate a chopper plus crew, plus shooters would go along way to paying several cowboys to do the job on the ground and harvest the meat. In fact I’ll take 100 lbs. now.
This is the result of liberalism infiltrating the NPS and Forest Service for the past fifty years. The NPS, Forest Service, and Department of the Interior are predominantly left wing Democrat organizations.
If they have ear tags, the would’ve been captured at one time where they could’ve... Oh, just skip it.
CAN’T POST, ON THE RESTRICT LIST.
Never mind all that. Shoot down the drone cows!
Awww, c’mon, man! What’s wrong with you, Corn Pop? Dontcha’ care about the environment, the brown speckled desert tortoise, prairie dogs, rattle snakes, gila monsters, illegal aliens or Mudder Erf? /s
“ feral cattle on the 560,000-acre Gila Wilderness Area “pose a significant threat to public safety and natural resources.””
Do they drive SUV’s?
Remember the outcry from these wackos when Sarah Palin told everyone that she hunted from planes? She advocated shooting wolves from aircraft to reduce their population.
Now our government is advocating the very thing they opposed in 2008!
What the heck is wrong with this country?
What in hoovin's name is going on?
What is your source that shows these cattle are eartagged? Also, why were they eartagged, but left unbranded?
And if they are eartagged, why has the owner not rounded them up and removed them from the restricted area.
Is the Forest Service refusing access to let known owners round up their property?
If only we could deploy F-22s with Sidewinders to take out the cows.
Brandon protecting the USA!!
Couldn’t they cull them the old fashioned way - send a train down from Ohio ?
(“pose a significant threat to public safety and natural resources.”)
Oh, OK.
They be driving SUVs?
Maybe COVID-19 shots 💉💉💉💉 and boosters?
Once again a government decision results in less food.
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