[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.

[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.

[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.