Wild horses facing slaughter after US government proposes new regulations

ABC News ^ | Jan 23 2018 | Gloria Riviera SHANNON CRAWFORD JAKE LEFFERMAN Lauren Effron

[where's_the_Outrage?]

A wild mustang charging across an open plain is a symbol of the untamed majesty of nature. But the predators chasing these horses are anything but natural.

Controversy has broken out over the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) practice of using helicopters to herd horses off public lands and sometimes permanently put them into holding facilities in an effort to control their population.

"Sometimes these horses get stampeded for miles and miles," said Simone Netherlands, an animal rights activist and a spokesperson for the American Wild Horse Campaign.

Now the government is considering culling these animals for the first time in nearly 50 years, putting the lives of thousands of wild horses at stake.

Most of the U.S.'s estimated 75,000 wild horses live on public lands, usually vast expanses that the government controls in the American West.

[vetvetdoug]

My Grandparents were poor and once a month the commodity truck would deliver powdered eggs, powdered milk, flour, butter, cheese and horsemeat to my Grandparents. It sustained them and many other poor people. I ate their horsemeat that was canned like spam fried like Spam and it was decent.

[gnarledmaw]

Even at that, there is some evidence that they werent first so they cant really even use that...at least not for mich longer.