In addition to (rightly) ridiculing Dr. Anthony Fauci, Tucker Carlson also raised the issue of slaughtering wild horses on his Fox News show tonight. During his segment he described an adoption program the Bureau of Land Management started in order to help manage the wild horse population. Carlson then interviewed wild horse photographer and advocate Carol Walker on his show in which she essentially accused the Bureau of Land Management as not being engaged to save wild horses at all.
Unfortunately, Carlson’s interview with Walker only tells half the story. Wild Horses are beautiful creatures but they are also subject to the limits of nature. During November of last year, The Washington Post published an excellent article describing the conflict over the creatures in the Western United States that has been going on for quite a while.
Essentially, The Post article points out, not only are ranchers and animal rights activists locked in a fierce conflict over what to do with wild horses, but the article describes in detail the issues ranchers and other proponents of them face when trying to come up with solutions. The wild horse’s populations are growing and slaughtering them in addition to establishing preserves for the horses are the best solutions to address the issue.
The horses aren’t being slaughtered or at times subjected to hunts out of a lack of care or compassion but as a means of preserving them. If there are too many wild horses, they will run out of places to graze and that means many will die of starvation. With elevated wild horse populations it also means cattle ranchers have reduced areas for their stock to feed risking the lives of their livestock.
Animal rights groups, however, vehemently oppose any means of trying to manage the wild horse populations since they obviously prefer the lives of the animals over humans. Simultaneously, The Post‘s article points out, the BLM has never been given the responsibility to manage an animal species before and wild horses and burros are now subject to their jurisdiction on federal lands. Consequently, the BLM is caught between wanting to control the wild horses but are subject to the whims of which political group shouts the loudest.
While Tucker Carlson’s show is primarily an opinion program, he is still a journalist and, hopefully, will interview someone on the other side of the wild horse issue to give the other perspective. It is abundantly clear the animal rights groups who claim to be protecting wild horses are, in fact, weaponizing them to use against cattle ranchers in order to undermine the human consumption of meat and that should be of concern to everyone
PHOTO CREDIT: Semi-feral Exmoor ponies. Though popularly called “wild” horses, feral and semi-feral horses had ancestors that were domesticated. By Marilyn Peddle – originally posted to Flickr as Exmoor ponies, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7781557
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WHY IS IT ALWAYS ABOUT MONEY??? NOT ANIMALS???
YOU KNOW WHAT, I THINK YOUR SO LUCKY TO HAVE WILD HORSES!!!!! THEY ARE A BEAUTIFUL ANIMAL!!!!
HUMANS ARE USUALLY ABUSING OR KILLING ANIMALS, HUNTING ANIMALS, NEGLECTING THEM, FREAKING EATING THEM????
WELL, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!
THIS IS THEIR LAND, HERE LONG BEFORE US!!!!
ALL THEY WANT IS TO BE LOVED!! AND HUMANS CAN NOT DO THAT???
MONEY, MONEY MONEY????
THE WOMAN ON TUCKER SAID THERE IS PLENTY OF LAND FOR THE HORSES!!
HOW IN GODS NAME WOULD KILL A HORSE JUST BECAUSE YOU SAY THEY ARE NOT NEEDED ANYMORE???
IF YOU ACTUALLY GO THROUGH WITH KILLING THEM, I PRAY YOU DO NOT, YOUR LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!!!
THEY HAVE A HEART, A BRAIN, FEELINGS, FAMILY AND THEY WILL ALWAYS BE WANTED AND NEEDED BECAUSE THEY BRING US HAPPINESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THEY ARE PETS TO KIDS AND ADULTS!!!
PLEASE DO NOT KILL THE HORSES AND BURRO’S, WE LOVE THEM!!!!!!!!
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If the horse’s population is not controlled it will be worse for them. Your opposition to controlling their population shows you really don’t care for them at all.
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Plus also a “wild horse” is just that, wild. Meaning if a human approaches it the horse could attack or pose a threat to the human. If you’re so concerned about them, you and your friends should start a preserve for the horses. Will you?
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OMG What a fucking farce this article is! Let’s kill the Wild Horses for their own good, is that the message? Really? Well let’s NOT & say we did OK? There are NOT, let me repeat myself are NOT too many Wild Horses! There are however Too many fucking livestock on Public Lands that belong to the Wild Horses & Burros! That gjihad & Washington Post is the PROBLEM!!!! Ranchers with help of the BLM, who aren’t caught in the middle at all, are using more land for their cattle & becoming richer than the millionaires they already are!
Wild Horses are just that Wild & you aren’t suppose to approach them “dummy” just enjoy looking! No injury that way huh? There are preserves & rescues galore & if you’d like to sponsor one or more with YOUR $$$ I’m sure lots of us would love to take you up on that, but that would take the Wild out wouldn’t it?
By the way have you ever seen a Wild Horse? Probably not! Well most of them pretty much look like show horses! They don’t look like they’re starving to death at all! If the BLM or ranchers show you a poor looking horse well that isn’t the norm that is just for SHOW so it looks BAD for us” bleeding hearts”!
The majority of Public Land that was left to the Wild Horses has been stolen from them by the BLM & ranchers to graze more cattle & sheep! There are millions if cattle on public lands & increasing all the time! The American tax payers subsidize the ranchers so they just keep getting richer & the Wild Horses & Burros keep going to slaughter so this can happen! YOU ALL need to seriously check the FACTS out & you will be astonished at the findings! It will make you SICK as well it should. The ranchers & cattlemen have a very POWERFUL lobby in Washington DC & it is very hard to fight when they pay off people to get what they want! I’m sure we all understand THAT! So don’t say just get rid of these most FABULOUS animals when you don’t know what YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT! DO SOME RESEARCH! These innocent iconic horses are being used as scapegoats for what’s really going on . There’s a lot of $$ in selling horses for slaughter! Check who you might think who’s getting some of this $$ & for what reasons!
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Well if there are lots of preserves then there isn’t a problem. The species of wild horses will survive. In terms of horses, they don’t own anything because they do not have the rational faculties of humans and do not know what private property is. That goes into what I have been saying on my site that animals cannot have rights in general because they have no idea what rights are since predation and not reason is an animal’s primary means of survival.
Your response is also telling because you curse, swear, and belittle anyone who thinks differently from you. I have done lots of research on this and other topics and I do not appreciate your hostile remarks. I will, however, post them to demonstrate how irrational and intolerant people like yourself are.
If you do not like my posts, there are plenty of other websites that have content more to your liking.
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