Posted on 09/28/2017 10:03:33 AM PDT by street_lawyer
The critical issue is whether or not the horses are “destroying their natural habitat and thereby starving for food. Pictures published by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) of the wild horses show healthy, well-fed horses capable of winning a national jumping completion. https://cbsnews3.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2017/09/27/db9d4fb1-6dde-45f7-b7a7-1f14b9866c8d/resize/620x/771dc9e69e24fe30c9354f38c0c35744/horse-smash.png
In September of 2016 BLM categorically stated that it would not euthanize wild horses. Its solution was to round up all the horses and sell for slaughter those it deemed “unadoptable”. government estimates that each one of the 45,000 wild horses will cost taxpayers $50,000 over its lifetime. That would mean $2 billion dollars, which is slightly more than the $1.7 billion in cash payments that the Obama Administration gave Iran earlier that year; furthermore, the National Academy of Sciences accused BLM of over counting in an effort to remove the horses in an effort to appease cattle ranchers. Some government estimates are as high as 70,000 horses and burros. Phoenix wild –horse lover Michele Anderson spoke out against the slaughter of horses for food. “"That means to kill-buyers who can truck them to Canada or Mexico for slaughter, which is horrific,"
The congressman to contact is Chris Stewart, R-Utah because he is the one who was the author of the euthanization amendment. His amendment did not make the horses available for sale since he believes that would result in their slaughter for food. Other congressman who support the euthanization amendment include Mark Amodei, R-Nevada referring in a congressional hearing to wile horses as “these things”. Others who support the amendment are Ken Calvert R-Calif,
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla prefers contraceptives to limit horse populations. The population of horses on the Out Banks of North Carolina is successfully limited using a fertility drug called PZP, according to David Price, D-NC. Stewart is opposed to contraceptives stating that they have been tried for 30 years and have not worked.
The House Appropriations Committee is leading the fight by removing language from the Interior Department’s budget that would have prohibited “the destruction of healthy, unadopted wile horses and burros in the care of the Bureau of Land Management or its contractors.
The same committee in July proposed a change to end the prohibition on the U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection of horse meat.
Suzanne Roy, executive director of the American Wile Horse Campaign (MWHC) said that ““The Stewart amendment is a mass slaughter amendment, and its proponents are trying to hide that fact from the American public.” According to Simone Netherlands of MWHC, there are 27,000 wild horses on 22 million acres and the reports of starving horses is “fake news”.
Horse burgers and burro burros, baby.
Horseys are livestock.
Interesting.
But I have little knowledge of the subject and no background. This starts rather in the middle of the issue and some background info would be appreciated.
There is a very simple solution. And it is not new. Let people capture them and keep them for free.
Free horses. But you have to come capture the wild animals like they had to do in the old days.
—I’ve seen the horse collection north of Sparks,Nevada.
—they are about the sorriest collectioin of nags ever beheld-—shipping them to France for consumption is far better than wasting tax money on them-—
Let people capture them
Thats a tv show I’d watch.
keep them for free
Don’t get a hobby that eats.
I have seen wild horses in/near the Bighorn Canyon, National Recreation Area, in Wyoming, and Montana.
After Nevada it is the 2nd biggest collection of wild horses.
They used to bring 100 of them to San Diego and sell them to the public. I bought a young Black yearling for my daughter on her birthday. She was wild for a couple months and then my daughter at age 10 started riding her. She was a awesome horse.
The bleeding heart Save The Horsies people brought a lot of suffering to those horses.
Think the article means "competition" - but, in any event, no. Just . . . no.
Person sees one pic of a horse rearing up to clear some knee-high wispy grass, and thinks that that horse is going to be able to carry a rider over 4' - 4'6" solid walls, oxers, and combinations against the clock?
Nope.
Even the BLM horses that are NOT sickly inbreds are mostly stock type, very short-backed, close-coupled and short-legged, with short necks and heavy heads. They can no more negotiate even a Novice level jumping course than fly to the moon.
Might be good on barrels, though.
I’ve seen horses in the same area. It was pretty amazing to see. The kids, especially, were amazed. They were running in a herd and kicking up dust just like the movies.
where can you go in sparks to see these horses?....we go thru Nevada once a year and would love to see them.
They can not give them away.
Thanks for point out the typo. Not a lot of time to do this article, but yes, these horses are not going to win the puissance but stuffing them into a truck to Mexico with broken legs and killed by a knife to the back of the head which paralizes then and the cutting them up alive is not worth the U.S. budget savings. Find the money elsewhere like not spending $500,000 to find out if a student drinks more beer in a fraternity than one who is not in a fraternity. If you went to college you don’t need a one-half million dollar study.
Yes, most people would agree with that, but have you ever owned a competition horse?
Yes, most people would agree with that, but have you ever owned a competition horse?
Great idea, maybe someone who is retired has the time to help me with this article.
God Bless you
There was one of those wild horse training challenges in Fort Worth recently, I know someone who went. He said the horses came back from the professional trainers so completely trained that some of them were doing tricks. They rode like competition reiners. Then they auctioned them off. My friend said most of those well trained horses sold for around $200. Doesn’t appear that horse people want those tiny little mustangs, even though they were pretty. (I only saw pictures and video). They aren’t much bigger than large ponies.
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