SAFE Food SAFE Horses March on DC 2016: September 22 – 23 Where: Jamie L. Whitten Building

SAFE Food SAFE Horses Coalition ^

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

I saw this and thought to share.

1ST- BASICALLY, I AM AGAINST THE SLAUGHTER AND SALE OF WILD HORSES

2ND- IF TEH BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT IS FOR THEN I AM AGAINST.

INFORMATION:

Join us! The BLM Advisory Board has voted to "EUTHANIZE" over 40,000 wild horses in long and short holding. Ginger Kathrens was the only person on the Board that voted "NO".

Ben Masters (of the movie "Unbranded" ) voted YES! (You may want to boycott that movie). We don't know what the BLM considers euthanasia: Shooting? Anesthetic? Gassing? Slaughter?

But why wait to find out???!!! We need to stop them!

We need YOU!!! We need YOU to March and shout with us!!! Be there on Sept 22! Be a voice for America!

Mission Statement: This year, our march will be dual purpose. We are raising awareness to the world of the loopholes we have in US legislation that allows US equines (horses, donkeys, mules and burros) which are laden with pharmaceuticals, into the global food supply, and a "public hearing" on the wild horses to dispel myths and bring the truth to light.

UN Members of CODEX will be attending a food safety meeting at the USDA to discuss veterinary drug residue in the global food supply. We want to make sure they know that the US is responsible for the slaughter pipeline which results in toxic horsemeat around the globe.

Congress has made it clear that they want to send all wild horses and burros in holding, and most remaining on the range, to slaughter.

The time is NOW to let the UN and Congress know we need to shut down the US horse slaughter pipeline by passing the Safeguard American Food Exports (SAFE) Act S1214/HR1942, and to let Congress know we wont allow our wild horses to go to slaughter. Our government is knowingly contaminating the global food supply.

☮ Date, Time, Place: September 22, 2016 at 10:00am. The meeting point will be in front of the USDA Whitten Building on Jefferson Drive between 12th and 14th Avenues, Washington, DC 20250-9911.

We will march down Independence Ave to the Capitol Building. Directions to USDA Building: http://bit.ly/1RPP3ep

☮ Tee Shirts for sale... we request that all attendees wear a purple tee shirt in solidarity for a ban on horse slaughter: http://www.yes2safe.org/march2dc.html

☮ Agenda: We will meet promptly in front of the USDA building and have several speakers, well known in the wild horse and anti horse slaughter communities. We will rally at the USDA building until after the CODEX meeting begins at 1:00pm, and then march to the Capitol Building where we will convene for a rally on the Capitol Grounds, then listen to Ginger Kathrens of the Cloud Foundation speak about the plight of our wild horses and burros, an opportunity that wasnt afforded to her at the Natural Resources Committee Hearing on WH&B in June. Additional speakers will be announced shortly.

☮ Speakers: Ginger Katherns, Executive Director of The Cloud Foundation, Emmy Award-winning producer,cinematographer, writer and editor and award-winning author.

☮ Things To Do: We strongly urge attendees to meet with their congress members the day before and/or the day after the march, Wednesday September 21, 2016 and/or Friday September 23, 2016.

☮ Who Is CODEX? The Codex Alimentarius (Latin for "Food Code") is a collection of internationally recognized standards, codes of practice, guidelines, and other recommendations relating to foods, food production, and food safety.

Its name is derived from the Codex Alimentarius Austriacus. Its texts are developed and maintained by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, a body that was established in early November 1961 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), was joined by the World Health Organization (WHO) in June 1962, and held its first session in Rome in October 1963.

The Commission's main goals are to protect the health of consumers and ensure fair practices in the international food trade. The Codex Alimentarius is recognized by the World Trade Organization as an international reference point for the resolution of disputes concerning food safety and consumer protection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Alimentarius

☮ Travel: *Airports: IAD, DCA and BWI *Train: Amtrak- www.Amtrak.com *Driving: http://bit.ly/1RPP3ep *Accommodations: The Americana

☮ Need help with travel arrangements? http://bit.ly/29xZne7

☮ Note to march and rally attendees: ** INFORMATION IS POWER ** We are not permitted to pass out literature inside the Capitol. However, SFSH Coalition will be passing out flyers on why we need to shut down the US horse slaughter pipeline at the USDA and Capitol rallies, and we encourage other organizations to do the same. ** NO FUNDRAISING ALLOWED AT ANY OF THE SFSH EVENTS **

☮ Public Relations: Nancy Watson 631.742.4167

[wrench]

Banning the use of horses for meat means many thousands will die a horrible death due to starvation.

Do-gooders are not helping horses by making unwanted horses worthless. They are livestock, not furry pets. Meat markets allow a humane end to their life if they are no longer usefulm otherwise they are often just abandoned and meet a horrible, painful end.

[exDemMom]

Horses are not native to the Americas. They are an invasive species. Environmentally speaking, feral horses should all be destroyed.

[nathanbedford]

What exactly is the core objection to the proposed slaughter of 40,000 feral horses?

Is it that the slaughter itself is inhumane? Is it that the slaughter will somehow disseminate antibiotics into the world food supply? Both? If the fear is that horsemeat will be consumed by humans or animals containing antibiotics and hormones, how does that occur? Does it occur through human waste and animal waste entering the water supply? Or does it occur simply because the "toxic" meat is ingested?

How is it these animals have so many drugs in them in the first place? If the animals are captive enough to inject, are they not subject to castration? Or slaughter without administering drugs?

I don't understand what the complaint fundamentally is. Is it not clear that the land cannot tolerate 40,000 animals grazing? Is the problem that this is a land grab by the Obama administration? Is it that there are competing views of the wilderness, that is, while the horses versus wolves or Buffalo?

[piasa]

Mixing two issues here...

1. Slaughter of wild horses who have no “pharmaceuticals” in their systems but are, like it or not, free range non GMO-fed meat on the hoof.

And

2. Slaughter of domestic horses which often have been treated with pharmaceuticals because their primary function is as a beast of burden and for most of their lives they were more valuable than their meat.

The author is trying to oppose the slaughter of the former by implying the meat is unfit for human consumption because of the latter type of horse’s veterinary treatments.

[piasa]

Actually, horses ARE native to the Americas but went extinct here some time after some had spread across the land bridge into Asia, where they survived the event that caused American horses to go extinct.
Other animals which originated in the Americas but went extinct here later include: rhinos, hippos, and camels.

[DesertRhino]

We have to kill them to save them! lol Then let them go. cant do that because the true reason comes out, welfare ranchers on dirt cheap grazing leases don’t like anything to eat grass except their cows.

Horses have been here longer than grazing cattle, or at least at about the same time. BLM needs to quit rounding them up.

[piasa]

Prehistoric Americans dined on horse... a lot.

Paleoindian tool made from horse bone:
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/vertpaleo/aucilla11_1/tibia.htm

[Axenolith]

Destroying North American wild horses and burros seems to be a holy grail for Ecoturds/Globalists because it cuts deep into the heart of the independence and mythos of the western United States. There are more horses in the US now than there ever was prior to vehicles in the US and killing off a few tens of thousands subsisting on marginal lands that had legislation specifically enacted to protect them and the frontier heritage they represent is bullshit.

Given that, I wouldn’t put it past a group to utilize their plight in their efforts to eliminate the processing of unwanted or injured domesticated horses for human consumption which, as distasteful as I personally find it, I wouldn’t ban.

[piasa]

Hunting megafauna TX
https://www.sanantonio.gov/MissionTrails/PrehistoryHistory/PrehistoryofSA/PaleoindianPeriod.aspx

Carolinas:
https://38da75.com/time-periods/paleoindian/

[piasa]

Review of horses in Paleoindian sites of the Americas.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15109033

[gnarledmaw]

"2ND- IF TEH BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT IS FOR THEN I AM AGAINST.

Pretty good rule of thumb. Most rules have exceptions and this is one of them.

Im not even sure where the problem is in the authors understanding...looks like intentional conflation.

If we have too many horses then: Licence breeders/ranchers to take what they need from the wild gene pool and let Americans eat the rest of the wild ones. (Its delicious.)

Send the domestic ones for glue, hide, dog chow, etc.

Horses arent people and dont and shouldnt have more rights than other animals.

[Axenolith]

There’s an awful lot of fossil equines that call that BS. If anything, they were one of the many species terminated by human migrations onto the continent with the last, nearly identical to domesticated horses genetically, becoming extinct between 10-15K years ago at the end of the Pleistocene.

If we were to follow bureaucrat logic (that any thing “non native” needs to be aggressively eradicated) to its end, they have a damn sight better claim to being “native” here than people do...

If the government needs to devote resources to getting rid of introduced biological mayhem maybe they should work on the crap like tumble weed, star thistle, cheat grass, zebra mussels, mitten crabs etc... First and when they’ve chalked up some success (snort, ha ha) we can talk about it...

[blueplum]

I’m all in for maintaining a healthy population of wild horses with as many protections as the prairie sage grouse enjoys since they are an endangered (from the BLM) native American species, too. But if the issue is going to be tied in with global warming, GMO food, gaia and unicorn worship, yeah, no can do. It’s disrespectful to horses.

[exDemMom]

I am well aware that there were equines on the continent in the prehistoric past. That does not mean that current feral horses can be considered native.

[FreedomStar3028]

Donate the healthy ones to ranchers that could use them. Kill the useless ones. Use the meat to feed someone, and use the rest for whatever else the corpses are good for.

[dsc]

“they should work on the crap like tumble weed, star thistle, cheat grass, zebra mussels, mitten crabs etc...”

Asian carp, walking catfish, boa constrictors, anacondas, pythons, snakeheads, Canadian thistle...

[RegulatorCountry]

Wild horses have been on the Outer Banks of North Carolina since the 1500’s. I don’t think a species that has been present for going on 500 years should be termed invasive. The size of the herd is managed by roundup and auction of yearlings. There is no reason to cull or slaughter them, in fact there is a Bill to increase the size of the herd to improve genetic diversity.

[Mr Rogers]

“welfare ranchers on dirt cheap grazing leases”

Don’t know much about ranching, do you...or about horses.

Horses are extremely destructive to the environment. They also end up starving. Far better for them to be shot, and I’d support selling them as food, or giving the meat to the poor.

BTW - I own horses, including a BLM mustang who is an outstanding horse!

[Axenolith]

Why not? Elaborate. They populated the west and were adopted as a salvation by several Native American tribes several hundred years before European settlers made the slightest inroads across the Mississippi.

The Feds are only working a symbology angle here. That pitiful remnant has an unmeasurable effect on the lands they live on considering those same lands are immensely altered by the depopulation of the mountain valleys of beaver, the introduction of annual grasses, tumbleweeds, and on and on.

There are many things that could be done to ameliorate past damage on western land that would go immensely further than killing off some symbols of the old west. The only problem is that most of them don’t serve the interests of a bunch of communist and elitist douchebags.