A New York Times story regurgitates animal rights propaganda.

Wild horses are magnificent animals, yet they remain bound by the constraints of the natural world and this controversy has been litigated before. Four years ago, The Washington Post published a superb report examining the long-running dispute surrounding these animals across the Western United States.

The article emphasizes that ranchers and animal-rights advocates remain locked in a bitter struggle over how to manage the herds. It also carefully outlines the practical difficulties that ranchers and other stakeholders encounter when seeking workable solutions. With wild-horse numbers continuing to rise, the most effective approaches identified are a combination of culling and the creation of dedicated preserves.

Wild horses are not slaughtered or occasionally hunted due to indifference or cruelty, but rather to safeguard their survival. Overpopulation leaves insufficient grazing land, leading many to starve. Excess numbers also shrink available forage for cattle, endangering ranchers’ livestock.

However, the Biden administration’s record on this issue is far worse then Trump’s. But not a peep from human hate groups when their guy was in the White House.

Animal-rights organizations, however, fiercely reject every approach to regulating wild-horse numbers, clearly valuing the animals’ lives above those of people. At the same time, The Post article observes that the Bureau of Land Management has never previously been charged with overseeing any animal species, yet wild horses and burros now fall under its authority on federal lands. As a result, the agency finds itself torn between a desire to manage the herds and the shifting demands of whichever political faction raises the loudest outcry.

It is obvious that animal-rights advocates, while professing to safeguard the horses, are in reality deploying them as a weapon against cattle ranchers in an effort to erode human meat consumption—a tactic that ought to trouble us all.

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