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2013-03-05 17:51:31 UTC
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Animal rights advocates urged members of a
federal advisory board on wild horses and burros Monday to recommend
an absolute ban on horse slaughtering in the U.S. and condemned the
Oklahoma Legislature’s attempt to authorize the slaughter of horses
for human consumption.
The advocates, many representing wild horse and mustang organizations
across the western states, told the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild
Horse and Burro Advisory Committee that Americans are against
slaughtering wild horses and that poor management practices are
decimating the nation’s wild horse population.
“Can you hear us?” activist Simone Netherland asked, tapping her hand
against a microphone from a table where she addressed the panel. “I
don’t think this thing is working. I don’t think this process is
working. Please, listen to how the public loves and wants our wild
horses.”
Following public comments, Joan Guilfoyle, BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro
Division Chief, characterized the issue as “astonishingly complicated”
and said there are no simple solutions.
“It’s not a black and white issue,” Guilfoyle said.
She denied suggestions from some members of the public that the agency
knowingly places horses at risk and said BLM does all it can to
prevent wild horses and burros from getting into the hands of people
who will harm them.
22,000 wild horses are being held in Oklahoma, where legislation to
authorize horse slaughtering has cleared the state House and Senate
The American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign, a national coalition of
wild horse advocates, is urging the advisory group to recommend ending
federal wild horse roundups as well as the government’s policy of
selling wild horses for as little as $10 apiece. The coalition also
wants an outright ban on horse slaughter.
Coalition activist Suzanne Roy said the BLM has mismanaged the
nation’s wild horse program by rounding the horses up and corralling
them instead of leaving them on the range and managing their numbers.
She said BLM has removed 37,000 wild horses from native rangelands in
recent years and now has 50,000 in government holding facilities —
more than are left in the wild. A total of 22,000 wild horses are
being held in Oklahoma, where legislation to authorize horse
slaughtering has cleared the state House and Senate.
“The end game is slaughter and everyone knows it,” Roy said.
“Americans overwhelmingly oppose horse slaughter.”
http://tuesdayshorse.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/advocates-call-for-horse-slaughter-ban-at-wild-horse-and-burro-meeting/
LAS VEGAS – A grass-roots community group in northern Nevada watched
helplessly Wednesday as federal officials removed most of what
remained of a band of wild mustangs with which residents say they have
peacefully coexisted for years.
About two dozen residents of a subdivision called Deer Run outside
Carson City say they have tried unsuccessfully to negotiate the fate
of 11 mustangs with the Bureau of Land Management, which governs
public lands in Nevada and elsewhere and has purview over the wild
horses.
But on Wednesday, residents watched as four horses were lured into a
trap by officials using a bucket of alfalfa and barley.
“They were like the Pied Piper,” Annie Jantzen, a local photographer
who has taken pictures of the horses as part of an educational book,
told the Los Angeles Times. “One guy led the horses for half a mile
before they were tricked into the trap. It was heartbreaking to
watch.”
Jantzen said the mustangs were mild-mannered and tolerant of visitors,
sometimes even nuzzling them.
The debate over wild horses has raged across 11 Western states. BLM
officials say the horses overgraze and damage public lands. Animal
advocates and others say BLM officials are intent on removing as many
wild horses as possible, without considering such alternatives as
birth control.
“We put forth a comprehensive proposal, but they wouldn’t work with
us,” Jantzen said. “We offered to pay for a fence and for birth
control and just about everything else you could ask for; that’s how
much these mustangs mean to us. But the BLM ignored us.”
BLM officials in Reno and Washington did not respond to requests for
comment from The Times . . . :
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-nevada-wild-horses-20130228,0,4811727.story
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23wildhorses&src=hash
This may seem shitty, but there's a whole ten dollars per horse in it.
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And that's all that matters.
federal advisory board on wild horses and burros Monday to recommend
an absolute ban on horse slaughtering in the U.S. and condemned the
Oklahoma Legislature’s attempt to authorize the slaughter of horses
for human consumption.
The advocates, many representing wild horse and mustang organizations
across the western states, told the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild
Horse and Burro Advisory Committee that Americans are against
slaughtering wild horses and that poor management practices are
decimating the nation’s wild horse population.
“Can you hear us?” activist Simone Netherland asked, tapping her hand
against a microphone from a table where she addressed the panel. “I
don’t think this thing is working. I don’t think this process is
working. Please, listen to how the public loves and wants our wild
horses.”
Following public comments, Joan Guilfoyle, BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro
Division Chief, characterized the issue as “astonishingly complicated”
and said there are no simple solutions.
“It’s not a black and white issue,” Guilfoyle said.
She denied suggestions from some members of the public that the agency
knowingly places horses at risk and said BLM does all it can to
prevent wild horses and burros from getting into the hands of people
who will harm them.
22,000 wild horses are being held in Oklahoma, where legislation to
authorize horse slaughtering has cleared the state House and Senate
The American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign, a national coalition of
wild horse advocates, is urging the advisory group to recommend ending
federal wild horse roundups as well as the government’s policy of
selling wild horses for as little as $10 apiece. The coalition also
wants an outright ban on horse slaughter.
Coalition activist Suzanne Roy said the BLM has mismanaged the
nation’s wild horse program by rounding the horses up and corralling
them instead of leaving them on the range and managing their numbers.
She said BLM has removed 37,000 wild horses from native rangelands in
recent years and now has 50,000 in government holding facilities —
more than are left in the wild. A total of 22,000 wild horses are
being held in Oklahoma, where legislation to authorize horse
slaughtering has cleared the state House and Senate.
“The end game is slaughter and everyone knows it,” Roy said.
“Americans overwhelmingly oppose horse slaughter.”
http://tuesdayshorse.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/advocates-call-for-horse-slaughter-ban-at-wild-horse-and-burro-meeting/
LAS VEGAS – A grass-roots community group in northern Nevada watched
helplessly Wednesday as federal officials removed most of what
remained of a band of wild mustangs with which residents say they have
peacefully coexisted for years.
About two dozen residents of a subdivision called Deer Run outside
Carson City say they have tried unsuccessfully to negotiate the fate
of 11 mustangs with the Bureau of Land Management, which governs
public lands in Nevada and elsewhere and has purview over the wild
horses.
But on Wednesday, residents watched as four horses were lured into a
trap by officials using a bucket of alfalfa and barley.
“They were like the Pied Piper,” Annie Jantzen, a local photographer
who has taken pictures of the horses as part of an educational book,
told the Los Angeles Times. “One guy led the horses for half a mile
before they were tricked into the trap. It was heartbreaking to
watch.”
Jantzen said the mustangs were mild-mannered and tolerant of visitors,
sometimes even nuzzling them.
The debate over wild horses has raged across 11 Western states. BLM
officials say the horses overgraze and damage public lands. Animal
advocates and others say BLM officials are intent on removing as many
wild horses as possible, without considering such alternatives as
birth control.
“We put forth a comprehensive proposal, but they wouldn’t work with
us,” Jantzen said. “We offered to pay for a fence and for birth
control and just about everything else you could ask for; that’s how
much these mustangs mean to us. But the BLM ignored us.”
BLM officials in Reno and Washington did not respond to requests for
comment from The Times . . . :
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-nevada-wild-horses-20130228,0,4811727.story
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23wildhorses&src=hash
This may seem shitty, but there's a whole ten dollars per horse in it.
--
And that's all that matters.