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1 wrenchwench  May 10, 2014 4:48:55pm

I watched it. Good piece about working with and against the media as an activist. It could also be titled: How to substitute your own disinformation.

It’s good that she calls out erroneous and false information that’s being used to perpetuate an injustice, it’s not good that she leaves out what would go against her cause.

She said horse slaughter plants were not closed by the bill that defunded inspections, citing state laws in Texas and Illinois (I think). Although she mentioned the plant in New Mexico later, she did not mention that the defunding bill DID cause it to close.

Definitely there are too many cattle being grazed on public (and private) land. Definitely the rates ranchers are charged to graze their animals are too low. Attention to those facts is needed.

Asserting that horses are good for the range and will help it heal are ridiculous. but assert she does. She attributes the information to a biologist. The biologist has the same horsey agenda she has, and is a member of Protect Mustangs

Protect Mustangs is a California-based non-profit organization devoted to protecting native wild horses.

They are feral, not wild, and certainly not native. That there were equine species here before that died out does not make horses native.

She also disregarded the concerns of Navajos who aren’t grazing too many cattle and still have problems with too many horses. They were among those lobbying for the horse slaughter plant to open. Their concerns are being addressed by Bill Richardson and Robert Redford, who formed a group to manage the horse population on the Navajo reservation without killing any.

If enough cattle are removed from public ranges, they can support a horse population, but only if they reintroduce more predators to keep the population in check.

If they really want to ‘heal’ the range, they should remove all the cattle, horses and sheep, bring back predators, and bring back millions of bison.

2 theheat  May 11, 2014 12:47:19am

re: #1 wrenchwench

Actually, the greatest percentage of horses considered “wild” are mustangs, not feral horses, and are a mixed lot descended from the horses that arrived with the Conquistadors. Over the years, in many areas, those horses interbred with feral horses who, like feral cats, were domesticated horses that were either turned loose or got loose from those folksy folk that tamed the west.

The problem with any wild horse, regardless of its heritage, is that they multiply like feral cats. The BLM has attempted to stop the mares from breeding with hormone treatments, and there are several catastrophic roundups each year to gather the stallions and geld them. Oftentimes, horses are injured and killed during these roundups, causing outrage with wild horse advocates. Quite frankly, the BLM is akin to a bull in a China shop when it comes to handling any animal. (Cattle casualties in the Bundy roundup are a good example.)

Wild horses on reservations aka “reservation horses” have often escaped or been turned loose by its owners. In some cases Native Americans breed them indiscriminately as bucking stock for rodeos. Since not every foal to hit the ground grows up to be a rodeo star, and feed costs money, many of the horses are left to fend for themselves, or wind up in “kill pens” destined for slaughter.

Regardless of their origins, the Wild Horse & Burro Protection Act of 1971 was passed for “the management, protection and study of feral horses and burros on federal land,” largely because of efforts of advocates like Velma “Wild Horse Annie” Johnson.

Eckhoff has done an outstanding job documenting the dirty aspects of the horse racing industry, horse slaughter, mismanagement of public lands by the government, and exposed the quiet agendas of the welfare ranchers of the cattle industry.

Oddly, after all the blood and guts of the horse slaughter industry, it was the supporters of a racist welfare rancher and his wingnut militia that took her down. I, for one, will miss her.

3 theheat  May 11, 2014 1:02:07am
She said horse slaughter plants were not closed by the bill that defunded inspections, citing state laws in Texas and Illinois (I think). Although she mentioned the plant in New Mexico later, she did not mention that the defunding bill DID cause it to close.
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As well, the New Mexico Attorney General was against the proposed slaughterhouse. There was additional public outrage when this gun totin’ horsekiller (an employee of Valley Meats at the time) decided to show them tree huggin’ liberals a lesson by shooting a horse (which is not how they’re slaughtered, by the way) in an epic show of assholery, and filming it.

WARNING: Graphic

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Valley Meats has yet to open a horse slaughter facility in New Mexico. Even if the USDA funded inspection, the facility still lacked approval to open.


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