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Does it seem odd to anyone that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rounds up our wild horses to keep them in holding facilities, at the cost of millions of taxpayer dollars, when they could be left alone in the wild at no cost to anyone?
Yep. Our wild horses are still in trouble. But there’s still hope. H.R. 1018, Restoring our American Mustangs Act (ROAM) is going up before the House Natural Resources Committee this Wednesday, April 29th.
The Act is meant to restore the protections for our wild horses and burros that were stealthily removed by Conrad Burns from the Wild-Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, along with restoring about 19 million acres that were taken away from them.
Like I said in a previous post regarding Madeleine Pickens’ plan to save wild horses and burros, the BLM would rather continue to crap on democracy, cave to special interests and waste millions rounding up horses and keeping them crammed into holding pens to wait for slaughter, instead of going with a plan that’s sustainable and actually makes sense.
Over 6 million cattle are being grazed on this land, and there’s not enough to support some 30,000 wild horses that are left there? Yeah, right.
For more information, visit the Animal Welfare Institute’s Wild Horse and Burro Protection page.
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+ add your own'Managing' isn't caging and selling the problem, it's finding a compromise. I think the BLM should stop this practice, but if not, then definitely tone it down a lot.
We must stand together on this, be persistent until they are so sick of us, that they relent. Horses belong there, and as far as I am concerned there are tooooooooo many cattle on the ranges. They cause so much environmental damage and global warming their numbers should be kept in check...
To think our Limited Tax Dollars Pay for the Bureau of Land Management, Yet the BLM Manages Absoulely Nothing to benefit the Land, or the wildlife living on it.
Between the Wild horses, Bison, Wolves, Coyotes, etc. etc... the BLM Only Manages OUR land (of the free) for Special Interests and Unnecessary Government Projects.
We must Demand from the BLM to Start Doing The Job They are Highly PAID to do, and Protect the Land and the Animals on it, or Vote For Changing the exuberantly tax paid Government Officials, to Representative that WILL Protect Our Land and Our Wildlife on it. This is Way Over Due.
We have a responsibility to protect and care for the wilderness in our world. It should NEVER be mistreated for money, that is disgusting. If we don't respect our world it will turn on us and we will have no one to blame but ourselves. May God have more mercy than we do...
Let nature take its course!!! This is Horses and Wolves homes leave them be. I will continue to fight BLM as they have it for our deserts here in California. The Military wants to take over the majority of our public desert lands for war training and BLM is helping them, we have many animals and plants here that are in jeopardy the cali desert tortoise for one that is near extinction. I am digging my heels in on this one. This has to stop!
We need .R. 1018, to pass Restoring our American Mustangs Act (ROAM) is going up before the House Natural Resources Committee this today Wednesday, April 29th.
These horses should be free! NOT BEING SLAUGHTERED!
Make room for these 30,000 horses .....So they can run free as God planned.
The Ranchers' Association Lobbyists are equally culpable.
Understand, as reprehensible as the Wild horse round up is, the same BLM and Ranchers' Associations are directly responsible for Bison (American Buffalo) hunts, as the ranchers are fearful their meat will be contaminated by biological parasites transferred by close proximity to the roaming herds of bison. It doesn't matter that the meat ranchers are encroaching into the bison grazing land...Bison do not have lobbyists, so the story is that the nasty wild animals are encroaching into the poor defenceless ranchers LEASED PUBLIC LAND. Lobbyist cries to BLM---poof---let's channel the spirit of Buffalo Bill Cody (he got that name for the mindless slaughter of Buffalo for their tongues, horns and hides-he left the meat to rot.)
In addition, the BLM is also responsible for the hunting of the Yellowstone and Idaho wolves. Remember them? We just reintroduced them a few years back; there is not ONE CASE of a wolf taking down a rancher’s meat animal. But by God, they just know it's going to happen. Enter the Rancher's Lobbyists' donning little red riding hoods...oh, those nasty wolves they tell the BLM.--poof--let's hunt them down. We don't even know if they are genetically diverse enough to survive in Idaho, but heck, we have to keep those ranchers happy.
The BLM has been and evidently always will be corrupt. It is up to us to hold them responsible, but we need to keep the BIG picture in mind; it is far more damnin
Yet another reason for everyone who cares about all sentient life to forgo the products offered by animal agribusiness. For 30,000 horses to be considered as too many when ranchers are squandering our tax dollars, using federal subsidies, for their abominable business?
Our vegan community is growing in numbers and strength everyday; however, until more people join us, the abominable practices of animal agribusiness will continue, causing immense harm not only to cows, pigs, chickens, and other farmed animals, but to free-roaming animals as well, including horses, deer, bears, and so many others whose habitat is being destroyed for the sake of profit.
Just leave the horses to play in the wild like they have done since the beginning of time that is just not fair to do anything to these beautiful animals.
What would have done without these beatiful animals in the Old West we wouldn't be where we are today without them so they have a right to be free no matter what and no questiions asked and that is a fact.
Can't we leave anything to be free to roam our hills and valleys anymore? Does everything have to be in jail for just being free to do what they want to do when they want to do it?
This is insane! Please think of these precious horse and stop this nonsense! These horse should be free! NOT BEING SLAUGHTERED!
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