The main priority of Congress this fall is getting re-elected. They had to put in a few extra days to pass the bail-out bill, giving it the barest once-over, at best. They passed a bloated continuing resolution for the budget, good until next March. And then they left Washington for the campaign hustings.
Many bills were bottled up in committee or were the victims of other parliamentary sleight of hand. One such victim was yet another horse slaughter bill. It will resurface when Congress gets serious again next year, but for know, is buried in the legislative abyss.
It's just as well. No rational thought or discussion goes into the subject. The Horses as Pets crowd have scared enough solons witless, so rather than think rationally, they mindlessly do their bidding.
Western ranges are over run by wild horses, which are multiplying at breakneck speed. Official U.S. policy is that the wild horses have to rounded up and broken to become saddle horses. This is accomplished largely at prisons, and then the horses are available to the public.
There is a shortage of adoptees to start with, and those that do, quickly discover that the horses are not formerly wild. They still are. They last in their new homes a very short time, and then wind up at sale barns or horse rescue farms.
Ultimately, the horses formerly went to slaughter, and the carcassees shipped overseas to countries like France, where they eat horse meat. This was too much for the Horses as Pets crowd, so Congress has horse slaughter restricted and on hold for the moment.
The backlog of unwanted, but unresolved horses is piling up, waiting for something to happen.
I just want to make sure I understand. You think that 30,000 horses are overrunning the land. If that’s the case, what do you call the 6 MILLION cattle that share the same land? Are you saying that 30,000 horses are doing more damage than 6 MILLION cattle?
ReplyDeleteYour argument on horse slaughter doesn’t hold water. You claim the horses are backing up but fail to mention that anyone wishing to send their horse to slaughter can still do so. Why aren’t those horses going to slaughter? The same number of horses are being slaughtered so you are contradicting your own statement.
Please give us the locations of the horses that are “backing up” and we’ll send an investigator and if the claim is valid, we can send a rescue to the location(s).
A little research goes a long way and you obviously haven’t done any research.
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If 30,000 horses were overrunning the land, then there would be mass accidents resulting in horse casualties on highways from California to Vermont. The dopes who own horses that end up slaughterbound are all connected to the cattlemen who own semi-trailers and double deckers. All of these cowboys are connected to killer buyers and killer haulers who will gladly ship these 30,000 horses off to Canada and Mexico. American horses are being slaughtered every day, so this article is Western fiction. Not only do they go off to Canada and Mexico, but also to back alley American slaughterhouses where horses are killed for zoo consumption and pet food. Excess horses have nothing to do with where America is at with horse slaughter. This article was written to continue moronic cowboy propaganda so the price of horses and cattle will rise at slaughter sales. If Cavel, Beltex, and Dallas Crown re-opened tomorrow, the value of horses and cows would rise at slaughter sales. It's all about about the dirty dollar for you inbred cowboys. Let's call a spade a spade.
ReplyDeleteWild horses are not the problem, it is over grazing of the cattle. Why? Because ranchers pay to use the land and that is the bottom line for BLM management.
ReplyDeleteBLM management would cut back in the cattle there would be more than enough for the horses. If BLM would use birth control methods to keem the horses down, there would be no problem. If BLM would bring a small amount of these wild horses for adoption during the year they could be absorbed.
These horses are our national treasure and we should be doing more for them, than what is being done.
The transportation of horses to the slaughter facilities is horrid enough for domestic horses, it is even worse, a nightmare for the wild ones that have never known the touch of a person's hand.
Please get your facts straight before printing mis-information like this.
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To say that you are a fool, is an understatement.
ReplyDeleteThirty thousand horses in pens is an absolute crime against all our laws, since our wild horses were supposedly protected.
Instead of those 30,000 wild horses roaming US citizen's land, 6 million private cattle graze on those lands intended for our horses.
If not a fool, perhaps you are a cattle rancher, reaping the benefits of the suffering of our wild horses.
In any case, the American people want our horses returned to our land. We've made that point loud and clear, but the money hungry government along with those who are getting the gravy keep fighting.
Don't worry, we will win because we are the most committed. We will not give up this fight.
Our tax dollars go to the wild horses of this country, BLM your job...is to protect them and their land. Not accommadate cattle ranchers , and to making up ridiculous stories is pathetic. It's bad enough that our demesticated horses are basically getting bred to be butchered. Now you want to chance that the free roaming will be killed off the same. They are butchering them alive. It is a disgrace that the United States let this happen and it is going to stop. Save our Horses.
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