Posted on 01/23/2018 7:37:02 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Leases for public land grazing of cattle have diminished greatly in the last 40 years. If the land can not support the cattle the livestock is not allowed on the ground or moved as soon as it is discovered.
The horses are left to destroy the land and starve to death.
That report is stupidity. This is NOT 20,000 BC, and the horses are ones that got loose and bred. And bred. And bred. And they eat, eat, eat. Thousands of years of domestication has left an impact.
NYC is full of it, modern horses, the mustangs, are defiantly not indigenous to the USA. They are the result of the original Spanish barbs brought over by the Spanish and domesticated horses that have escaped or been taken by the wild studs.
The are not a native indigenous species.
There is, I once adopted 2 of them. They’re not all that beautiful and almost impossible to break.
They ruin the range, they need to be thinned way down.
Can we slaughter horses in the US again?
There is a control but just for one or 2 years.
Are you from the east where grass is lush and green? Its not like that in their range.
Seems like there should be an adoption program basically giving the horses away as long as you come pick them up.
They are doing that.
There are more horses then there are people who want to have them.
Maybe as the economy improves that will change but people are still not paying top dollar for even for pure bred trained horses.
No, they were brought here.
“send the horses to Venezuela”
Believe it or not I think that is almost a super idea. Butcher and ship as sides of horse (like they do beef).
Unfortunately the Venezuela GVT would dork up any equitable distribution system.
“almost impossible to break.”
You burst my bubble. There is a movie where some black guy is breaking the wild horses and selling to the US Cavalry as they move. He made is seem like breaking wild horses was not that difficult, just stay on until they give in.
No they aren’t, they just had about an 11,000+ year hiatus here after the last glaciation and the first people arrived here.
It was essentially a reintroduction. The last horses here were almost genetically indistinguishable from modern horses.
People wouldn’t even be having this discussion if it weren’t for douchebags in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s catching them by throwing a rope tied to a log or a cement filled tire over them or sloppily gut shooting them and letting them run off to die.
“Actually, my wife has had horsemeat and it tasted very good to her.”
It’s a scandal wild horses are allowed to be culled and simply wasted, at high costs at that, by the same people who profess to be good steward of nature. It’s yet another bureaucratic waste while culling permits could have been sold to a meat processor.
Harder to adopt
I understand reality bites but even this forums most deliciously depraved scolds would likely not get aroused by shooting wild Horses say the same way they would hanging pot smokers
Shooting Horses is not pleasant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQmmaiWHYHQ
Unbranded follows four men and sixteen mustangs on an epic 3,000-mile journey from Mexico to Canada through the American West to inspire adoptions for the 50,000 wild horses and burros in government captivity.
Actors
I really enjoyed watching that film.
The wild horses are quite inbred and mostly useless, like feral hogs. They have done tremendous damage to sparse rangeland. They need to be transformed into petfood.
Agree, a disgusting Sea hag from the left side of the Bell IQ curve, that’s Oprah.
The French president Macron is coming to meet with Trump in DC. Perhaps Trump can have his head chef prepare Cheveau a la Maison Blanc for him and his mother, oops, I mean wife. Trump will just have a 32 ounce Porterhouse, thanks.
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