Wild horse defenders criticize plan to manage mustangs, urge removal of cattle (Econut Alert)

Minneapolis Star-Tribune ^ | October 17, 2009 | Martin Griffith AP

[jazusamo]

RENO, Nev. - A new federal proposal to manage wild horses is rekindling debate over another fixture of the Western range: cattle.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last week proposed moving thousands of mustangs to preserves in the Midwest and East to protect horse herds and the rangelands that support them.

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Many horse defenders and others who had been working to save the romantic symbols of the American West and might have been expected to welcome Salazar's solution instead stampeded the other way. They want Salazar to remove livestock to make room for the mustangs and argue that cows are the real threat to the range and native wildlife.

[jazusamo]

Animal rights nazis want to remove domestic livestock from BLM lands so "romantic symbols of the American West" (non native horses) that are productive for nothing can thrive. You just can't make this stuff up.

[jazusamo]

Please bump the Freepathon and donate if you haven’t done so!

[jazusamo]

AR Nazis Ping!

[bitterohiogunclinger]

Tried the new “Palamino” burger at Wendy's yet?

[Mikey_1962]

Well horses are an “Invader” species brought by the hated Spanish and deserve to die.

Right envirowackos?

[jazusamo]

That’d be fine but being we don’t eat horsemeat they should reopen the horse slaughterhouses and start shipping frozen horsemeat to Europe again.

[vetvetdoug]

I agree. Open up the horse slaughterhouses and start canning the horsemeat for the poor and sell the sides of horse to the Europeans. I am seeing way too many horses neglected and starving because there is no bottom to the industry. The good intentions have been a disaster IMO to the horses. At least when they go to a slaughterhouse they die quickly. Starving takes months.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Having a cow, or maybe not having a cow is a better way to put it.

[sig226]

that would make them illegal aliens - er, undocumented workers.

[jazusamo]

You’re absolutely right and you’re in a better position to see it than most. Like you say, it’s not just the feral horses but the domestic ones people can no longer afford to take care of, there just isn’t a market for the number of horses being bred.

Several reservations here in the West have talked of starting a slaughterhouse to take care of too many horses running on their lands.

[1rudeboy]

There is a private sector solution to this problem: Madeleine Pickens has offered to take the 30,000 or so wild mustangs onto her ranch/reserve for them, and the gubmint is blowing her off.

Presumably, the government is doing so in order to give the wackos on both sides something to scream about, and to kick the can down the road until the government is the only one left to solve the problems it's created.

Oh, btw, beef producers . . . check the price of beef, lately? You don't need the land, either.

[MaxMax]

Dancing with Horses

[jazusamo]

Got a link?

[1rudeboy]

Got a link to what?

[GinaLolaB]

Well, I love cows and horses, so I think the humans should stop interfering with the animals. The idea of “livestock” makes me sick. Why don't people stop exploiting animals? People suck when then exploit animals.

[jazusamo]

LOL!

We’ve been through this before and you presume a lot. A link about Pickens and the govt blowing her off.

[1rudeboy]

LOL is right . . . so you didn't need a link in the first place? Am I reading your reaction correctly?

Or are you calling me a liar? In that case, please be specific so I can knock your ass back to Facebook.

[jazusamo]

I’m not sure I understand what you mean about exploiting animals. The majority of people eat meat in this country, do you consider growing and slaughtering beef for human consumption exploiting them?

[jazusamo]

Tough guy aren’t you. LOL!

[1rudeboy]

No, not really. I’m up for a challenge, whenever it comes (still waiting).