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On March 1, thousands of wild horse and burro advocates and concerned citizens will be joining forces to protest Interior Secretary Ken Salazar‘s appointment of Callie Hendrickson to the Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board.
The advisory board is, in theory, supposed to advise the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on ways to manage wild horses and burros on federally designated public land. Unfortunately, the board is made up of individuals who support special interests, not the interests of wild horses and burros, or the interests of the general public.
Callie Hendrickson, who was appointed as a “Public Advocate,” represents ranching interests and is supportive of horses and burros being removed from their rangeland and being sold without limitation, including to kill-buyers for slaughter. She is also pro-horse slaughter, an issue that has consistently remained something the majority of the American public is opposed to.
“The nine-member BLM Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board recommends management strategies to the BLM. Hendrickson would join Jim Stephenson (appointed June 2011) on the Board. Stephenson openly advocates for horse slaughter. BLM has discussed killing wild horses in holding since at least 2008. With Hendrickson, they may have just the Board they want —a Board that could recommend to BLM that they dispose of the wild horses in holding,” according to the the Cloud Foundation.
TAKE ACTION!
If you don’t want Callie Hendrickson to represent wild horses and burros, or you, please ask Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to rescind her appointment immediately by calling 202-208-3100 or emailing feedback@ios.doi.gov.
Please also sign the petition supporting the American Horse Slaughter and Prevention Act, which will ensure that horses are not slaughtered on American soil, which was recently legalized, or abroad for human consumption.
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+ add your ownIf you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
---St. Francis of Assisi
Horrendous treatment of wild animals eventually leads to horrendous treatment of domestic animals, then to people. This must be stopped! Go to whitehouse.gov and send a private e-mail to the president asking for Ken Salazar's "retirement," and let's get a real animal advocate on at the Bureau of Land Management. It's our money, people!
Get all wildlife together, and stop the slaughter!
already signed, thanks for sharing :)
Neuter and or spay, I do not know which would be better for equines. A campaign must be launched, directed especially to politicians STRESSING THE TIES OF ANIMAL ABUSE AND VIOLENCE AGAINST HUMANS. If they do not care about the animals, then stress the fact that animal abusers sooner than later abuse children, spouses, the elderly and finally kill other humans. This is especially true with animals of burden and raised for food or used in entertainment.
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revolting!
heartbreaking :(
Thanks for the article.
After watching the undercover documentary (on the CBC-2009 or 2010) here in Canada, I was absolutely horrified for these beautiful animals. The agency or agency responsible did nothing to stop the same cruelty from happening again, and it did!! When the slaughterhouses were not legalized in the U.S. the horses destined for slaughter were just trucked up here to Canada's slaughterhouses!! No difference-- slaughter is murder, plain and simple!!
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