Posted on 04/29/2014 6:15:10 PM PDT by blueplum
...This recent roundup ended a season of wild horse “gathers” in which the government captured and removed thousands of mustangs from nearly 32 million acres of public land in 10 Western states.
Afterward, the Bureau of Land Management reported new numbers likely to shock many Americans unfamiliar with the economics and politics surrounding the roundups: A record number of wild horses – almost 50,000 – are now living in captivity, far more than the 32,000 left on the range.
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In January 2013, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order halting another roundup after Leigh produced photos of a BLM helicopter driving wild horses through a barbed wire fence
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Judge Miranda Du later lifted the order, but barred the BLM from using “hot shot/electric prod treatment” on weanlings and “rushed and aggressive loading tactics.”
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The Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 states that wild horses and burros “shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death,” but activists say the BLM program subjects them to that very treatment.
(Excerpt) Read more at investigations.nbcnews.com ...
Horse owner here.....thoroughbreds....Hanoverians.....TWHs
I really detest folks being cruel or murderous to horses.....but no I’m not PETA zealot with my sights on Shelbyville TN or the Derby or the Iroquois
Horses are no joke...they are tough and kick your ass but as a rule they don’t fear humans by nature anymore
Its just wrong
They can be so inspiring.
Horses....saved from being what’s for dinner Jewish wise by having solid and not split hoove
No, it is not.
In the book of Acts dietary restrictions are removed.
The Christian is free from the ceremonial food laws of Judaism.
I even get to eat bacon.
I like cows. I like horses too, tame and wild ones. I even like goats. And ‘feral’ barn cats. But the question of whether horses should take grazing precidence over cows or cows over horses on multi-use public land isn’t the point I’m trying to highlight. There are 88 million cows in the USA, 9 million domesticated horses and 30,000 wild horses. I’ll leave it at that.
Besides pointing out Guilfoyle admitting, it’s all about controlling water, my intent is to show video evidence that the BLM is no stranger to inhumane handling of animals, be it a Bundy cow, a Dunn or Gage bull, or a ‘feral’ wild horse or burro (or cat) in Utah with broken legs. Like the Utah roundup, the treatment of Bundy cattle wasn’t just a single case of “BLM goes on a wild an crazy weekend”. People who abuse four legged animals will abuse two legged animals. Labeling rangestock ‘feral’ is not permission to run animals to death, whether cow or goat or sheep or horse or burro. Is that overly sentimental? I don’t think it is.
Culling wild horses to protect the rangeland and the BLM taking owned cattle such as Bundy’s are different episodes. The rights of owners have to be observed. Wild horses have no owners.
Culling leading to slaughter or sales to new owners should be the main management step. Catch & release after castration or fixing mares is costly and should be done only on wild horses for special reasons, not as rangeland protection.
Then change the law - other animal meat can be exported!
you said — “Wild Mustangs are exported for human consumption”
Not from this country. Get your facts right. There is no way you can sell a BLM branded horse for slaughter, especially overseas.
How are they different? Bundy’s cattle were labeled ‘feral’, too:
“The resolution claims many of Bundy’s cows have been running loose on the range for so many years that
they can no longer be considered domestic...and would be a menace to those handling them, it said.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/57792018-90/utah-cattle-county-blm.html.csp
Sounds like a typical resolution to destroy wild horses, doesn’t it? Maybe it was that ‘feral’ labeling that led to the mindset it was ok to use Bundy bulls for shooting practice.
One doesn’t have to be a PETA drumbeater to realize different rules for handling rangestock is a beartrap, when ‘feral’ versus ‘domesticated’ is subject to arbitrary determination at the whim of some alphabet agency.
As for wild-roaming horses, just like Bundy cattle they also have owners, under 1971 Public Law 92-195 and 2009 H.R.429. I’d like their rights to humane treatment upheld as much as I want Bundy’s rights to humane treatment of his cattle upheld. I see no difference.
No, no dietary restriction was ever removed. All you have to do is read the chapter fully, instead of inserting what you want to be true.
Peter declared the interpretation of his vision to be that he was not to call any MAN common or unclean. It had nothing to do with food.
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The horses are mostly not remaining in the US.
There are no adoptions for the ones that BLM destroys.
Horses, wild or domesticated, are good for range land, just as cattle are.
The turf needs heavy animals to break it up, or invasive species like ‘cheat’ kill off the native grasses.
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WHo cares what the BLM destroys? They are feral or abandoned, or overpopulated animals on land they manage. Were there too many cattle, wolves, deer, etc. their numbers would be reduced or they would be left to naturally thin. Now I agree that the Feds should not have all this land, and were it in private hands, they should be able to remove them. They are not native.
I know of no way to get a BLM horse out of country. It is a very difficult thing to do at best. Brand inspectors check aggresively for this. They certainly do not go for slaughter out of the US or in the US.
You’re a dreamer.
The BLM manages no land, nor should they.
Land management is for interested persons, not distant thuggish government.
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