CNN’s Jane Velez-Mitchell Talks Wild Horses
As we always say, it’s about getting the message out and Ms. Jane did do that on CNN and brought into the living rooms of America the plight of our last remaining free roaming wild horses and burros. She didn’t pick the best spokesperson for the segment as Maddy P has not been nor is presently the leader in voicing opposition to stopping the roundups, and has been a friend and supporter of Salazar, but hopefully the message will linger long after the identity of messenger fades.
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Categories: Horse News, Horse Slaughter, Wild Burros, Wild Horses/Mustangs
Straight from the Horse's Heart 
This is sort of like the Sunday Funny’s…M Pickens is the leading voice of wild horse advocacy and helicopters stampedes are humane! Right!
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CNN or HLN??
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HLN
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Glad to see the word get out there. Wish she had chosen you, R.T. or Ginger to interview. But at least it went out there. I hope everyone will make comments on the program and encourage them to do more and find a better spokesman – someone who is a real authority on the subject.
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Many thanks to Jane for continuing to make the horses & burros plight public . While I agree with Ann Lawrence & Barbara Leonard that Madeleine’s eco-sanctuary will only showcase a herd of geldings; it WILL save these particular horses lives, but not their way of life. The fact remains that in order for her eco sanctuary to exist it will wipe out three (3) herd management areas with many herds of actual wild horses (stallions, mares & foals). It sort of defeats the whole purpose of saving the wild horses. Do we all believe these animals will be happier without their families as geldings???? And that brings the question of what is happening to all the mares & babies?????
Sure do wish she would interview RT.
Did want to comment on the show – but not on facebook.
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Petitions..no. Calls ignored.. And the bloody massacre goes on. Yes this Congress is behind it because they lack moral values. The BLM is the executioner with their private contractors and dishonest agenda. The ranchers are behind this. Oil, Mining, ALL OF EM! Is there no justice in this country?
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It is not Congress. It is the President, Senator Reid, and Secretary Salazar. They are a triumvirate. Anyone of these three not being in the place where they are now, weakens the other two. We could have had a two for one sale, but more than one someone betrayed the wild horses becaue more than one person planted a false story. Of course we have special interests. Of course we have conflicts over land use. However, once upon a time we were a country with laws that mattered. But that was then; this is now.
Over two million acres of habitat for the spotted owl, and not an acre for our wild horses.
What should send chills down all our spines is that The President is in the process of appointing a special Committee for Science headed up with Dr. Frankenszar himself. You know the BLM and Interior has access to quality science, but rather than use that science to create a better environment, it appears they review it, as if to learn how to make sure they destroy it. No one should hold on to any illusions here.
It doesn’t matter what pro-wild horse, anti-horse slaughter, or anything else that the House does, Senator Reid will crumple up the legislation in this taloned fingers and throw it in file 13. How do you think the President decided to choose Salazar in the first place. Who do you think protects Salazar by making sure no one gets a chance to shine a light on what the Secretary is doing. These guys are thick as thieves as the saying goes.
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Yup. Excellent. And independent study will give us the science to fight… and get it right.
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…and so Madeleine will replenish her herds with another load of geldings from LTH –year after year as needed–until they are gone. (whew–that lets TDavis off the hook.) And BLM will continue to sweep the breeding stock off the ranges ’cause you can go to Maddy’s and see “wild horses”. (ps —I have nothing against those geldings– but they won’t be able to double their population–even BLM can figure that out.) Lacking guns, I’m not sure what to do….
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Lots of inaccuracies again. Great footage tho’, from Mara LeGrand, Colorado film maker and her award winning work; “Wild Horses in Winds of Change”. I liked the way they split the screen 3 ways and the horses were there throughout the ‘interview’.
Jane did much better but Madeleine is not the leader of anything more than her own projects. She is not OUR leader. I am glad MP could say “the roundups must stop” and that her Mustang Monument was not even mentioned by name. So this was not bad… and it would make a person curious to know more?
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I don’t think the wild horses have that long left. I think Salazar has an end date in mind like the end of US horses sold for slaughter by the EU in July 30, 2013. It does not make sense that they would continue to accept contaminated US horse meat unless they are getting a supply of non-contaminated from somewhere. Anyone else think its suspicious that the EU would wait almost three years to quit accepting horse meat from the US? The US Wild Horse Slaugnter train has been out of the station for a while. I think we are supposed to be happy on August 2, 2013 when the President gives an Executive Order that no more US horses will be sold for or transported to slaughter (maybe? maybe not?). Then he can make the environmentalists, ranchers, miners, big oil, frackers, and hunters happy because he got the cockroaches of the West off the land, and didn’t lose a wink of sleep over it.
We could start a petition of moratorium for the House of Representatives the Secretary or Senator Reid. It would be nice if Nevadans recalled Senator Reid. Not sure if there is the political will there to do it because you’d see a lot of out of state union people there, but Nevada has suffered more economic loss that almost any other state in the country with Senator Reid in a leadership position. Maybe ranchers and a few miners are better off, but that is just a fraction of the state’s populations. Petitions are worthless. They made me feel empowered at first, but the only one I signed with legislation wasn’t sent out until after Congressmen had spent 10 years getting it passed into law, and the petition came after the bill was signed and the photo-op with the President had already been posted.
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I saw R.T.’s name was offered for a potential interview and I added my support. One of these days the discussions on finding solutions will become real.
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