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ANTI-HORSE U.S. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
The job of this federal agency is to protect wild horses and burros but
critics charge that anti-horse forces have corrupted and diluted the wild horse
and burro protection law of 1971. For over 30 years now millions of acres, once
designated for the freedom of wild horse and burro herds, have in effect been
taken away from wild animals so ranchers can increase the size of their sheep
and cattle herds since only so many grazing animals are allowed to graze on
public land.
In fact, there may be as many wild horses held in government holding
facilities as there are in the wild waiting to be adopted by horse
slaughterhouse suppliers, many of which may be Bureau Of Land Management (BLM)
employees!
The confiscated land and wild horses may never be returned. The BLM is
taking the wild horses out of the wild to supposedly protect the public lands
from over-grazing but there are only 50,000 wild horses left in the wild while
over 5 million sheep and cattle and over 2 million deer and elk share the same
public grazing land! Yet by 2005, the BLM wants to remove 25,000 of the
remaining 50,000 wild horses to protect the cattlemens' grazing rights critics
contend!
Is the BLM bowing to powerful corporate interests? Its costs taxpayers
$6000 for each horse that is removed from the wild and the horse, once adopted,
may likely get sold for slaughter for as little as $1000 per head.
When wild horses are rounded up they are run until nearly exhausted using
helicopters. Intricate social and family units are split up and foals are
orphaned in the process.
The sham adoptions are then allowed by the BLM to begin as wild horses may
end up being crammed into trailers which hauls them off to slaughter and death
via a spike shot to the head. The lucky ones die instantly but too many are
only stunned, hoisted up by their hind leg still struggling and screaming as
they are put on the processing line to be dismembered alive!
It is illegal to slaughter and dismember a horse while it is still alive but
this federal regulation too often goes unenforced and it is getting worse!
SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: THE CHARITY: RETURN TO FREEDOM MAY 2004
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