No, the Federal Government Will Not Kill 45,000 Horses.

[elleng]

Source: nyt

Angry animal advocates can calm down: Tens of thousands of wild horses and donkeys will be spared the threat of an untimely death.

The federal government said this week that it will not consider a suggestion to euthanize the animals or sell them to slaughter.

The pronouncement, issued by the Bureau of Land Management, followed a public outcry over an advisory board’s recommendation on Friday that the agency kill or sell all of the 45,000 horses and donkeys in its custody that cannot be adopted.

In a statement and blog post in response, the Humane Society of the United States described the recommendation as “unhinged advice,” “a complete abdication of responsibility,” and “a sort of ‘Final Solution.’ ”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/us/no-the-federal-government-will-not-kill-45000-horses.html?

[macandsandy]

1. Thanks for the update!!

Ever so glad!

[Igel]

2. Next we can protect zebra mussels, kudzu, and the anacondas in the Everglades.

Oh, wait. They're not cute, just invasive and crippling to native wildlife.

[Sunlei]

5. clear evidence horses existed in North America until about 12,000 years ago

They are a native species with about a 54 million year old evolutionary history.

[msongs]

3. all the people who love invasive species that are cute can adopt them, right? nt

[Sunlei]

4. BLM won't even put an ID pic of the horses on the BLM website so people CAN adopt them.

But they'll pay a good old boy 'private contractor' $3,000 each to run wild, terrified animals into steel pipe corrals & directly into a stock trailer. They don't get paid for the foals who can't survive a 40 miles stampeed anyway.

[adigal]

6. I just rescued three horses from the Stanley Brothers kill buyers

It's horrible what they do to horses - including foals. My mare has a huge wound on her back end and if I hadn't bought her, that would have gone into the food chain. They've shopped horses loaded with bute and antibiotics. They are in Balstrop, Louisiana and after selling a horse with a horrid infection to a rescue, they are being investigated by the USDA. I'll never eat meat again.