Schweitzer: “No governor in Montana history has sent more bison to slaughter than this governor.“
Opinion by R.T. Fitch, author of “Straight from the Horse’s Heart”
Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer endorses both horse and bison slaughter
HOUSTON (SFHH) – Montana’s Governor Brian Schweitzer garnered international notoriety, earlier this year, by allowing a controversial bill to linger on his desk and become law while he partied at the Kentucky Derby. Ironically; that bill, sponsored by Montana Rep. “Red” Ed Butcher, would allow for the construction of horse slaughter plants in that state. After an earlier veto over verbiage the state Legislators sent the bill straight back to the Governor without modifications. Instead of defending his earlier stance Schweitzer elected the coward’s way out and turned inaction into action by letting it become law through ignoring it, while sipping on Mint Juleps.
It has come to light that America’s wild and domestic horses are not the only creatures that Schweitzer enjoys putting a bloody axe to; apparently native Bison are also on his chopping block.
In a recent address to the Montana Stockgrowers Association Schweitzer proudly proclaimed before God and country that “No governor in Montana history has sent more bison to slaughter than this governor”. Schweitzer was, of course, referring to our native bison on public land i.e. Yellowstone National Park.
It appears that the Gov has a thirst for blood that just the horses alone cannot quench. Maybe we should give Schweitzer a point or two for slaughter diversity as he may need all the help he can get because his wishy-washy stance has managed to anger both sides of the political aisle. The failing Governor now finds himself being squeezed from every direction.
One inflamed group’s membership extends beyond Montana’s state boarders and encompasses the international community. This concerned body is seething over Schweitzer’s spineless manner of endorsing “Red” Butcher’s bogus bill to build slaughter plants in Montana by the Communist Chinese and, likewise, flies in the face of Federal law. Adding injury to insult, Schweitzer stood silent while the Bureau of Land Management decimated Montana’s Pryor Mountain Wild Horse herd this past Labor Day weekend. Hundreds of calls and letters to stop the inhumane roundup went unanswered; which seems to be the standard operating procedure for this current administration.
Meanwhile, the other side of the coin wants Schweitzer’s hide over his total failure to support the livestock industry and his continuing campaign to bloody Montana’s other major industry, tourism.
Gov. Brian Schweitzer has failed the good people, the once plentiful wildlife and the global perception of Montana. Formerly viewed as the last stronghold of the wild American frontier the beleaguered state is now on the vacationing blacklist of tourists from Spuds, Florida to Vic, Spain. The loss of tourist dollars is the direct result of the actions, or lack of action, of a Governor and State Legislators who have lost their vision and no longer support the will of their constituents.
Perhaps plummeting polls, droves of negative feedback and the focus of international disdain may drive the lost officials to relocate their collective moral compasses; if not, they may find themselves riding the last horse out of town come election day, that is if there are any horses left to ride.
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Straight from the Horse's Heart 
R.T., Wow ! Did you ever run with it. I will have to send it to the Buffalo Field Campaign as well as many others. This is just terrific. Great research and writing.
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RT, Here is a question for you and all of us and BLM, too. Why are the horses not earning money from all the alternate uses of their land?? If BLM had come at it that way, the horses would have been making money all along. Of course that would be illegal? but what the Hay, it would have beat the course taken. Mar
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Sweet, RT. When I lived in Montana i was confronted with the slaughter of Bison first hand. The Buffalo Campaign had just come to town and said they were staying. They have. The wolf hunt goes on, also. Montana is a place of great beauty that has been sullied by this Governor and other elected officials whose moral compass have not been registering with some excellent citizens for years now. Mar
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I put this at the Cloud blog, and here it is for you to see here. RT, do you want to go after him? I got this from Monika.
From a Washington state horse warrior….
http://www.judicialwatch.org/
“But according to Article I, section 6 of the U.S. Constitution (known as the “Ineligibility Clause”): “No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time.”
This clause is an absolute prohibition and the Constitution does not allow for any exceptions. Now, it is a matter of fact, as noted in Judicial Watch’s court filings, that “the ‘compensation and other emoluments’ of the office of the U.S. Secretary of State increased during Mrs. Clinton’s tenure in the U.S. Senate, including as many as three times during the second, six-year term to which she was elected.”
Therefore, according to the Constitution, Hillary Clinton cannot serve as Secretary of State. This should have been case closed, but then Congress got involved.
In an attempt to get around the “Ineligibility Clause,” Congress voted to “roll back” compensation for the position of Secretary of State to the level in effect on January 1, 2007. However, as we’ve noted in our complaint, “This [fix] does not and cannot change the historical fact that the ‘compensation and other emoluments’ of the office of the U.S. Secretary of State increased during Mrs. Clinton’s tenure in the U.S. Senate.”
With respect to the issue of standing, you can read our court filing for the complete response. But, in a nutshell, Judicial Watch contends that Mr. Rodearmel “has demonstrated that he is being injured in his employment by being required to serve under, take direction from, and report to a constitutionally ineligible superior, Mrs. Clinton” and that he has “been placed in a position where he either must violate his oath of office or risk substantial, adverse consequences to his employment.”
Mr. Rodearmel’s goal here is nothing less than the vindication of the U.S. Constitution. The “Ineligibility Clause,” may be seen by this administration as a nuisance, but it was designed by our Founding Fathers to protect against corruption, limit the size of government, and ensure the separation of powers among the three branches of government.
On far too many occasions, the “Ineligibility Clause” has been ignored in favor of political expediency. And President Obama may have set a record for constitutionally “ineligible” presidential appointments. In addition to Hillary Clinton, at least two other Obama appointees — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Army Secretary John McHugh — are also ineligible to serve in their positions under the “Ineligibility Clause.” We hope the Supreme Court assumes jurisdiction over this matter and puts a stop to these end-runs around the Constitution.”
Judicial Watch is a non-partisan, educational foundation organized under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue code. Judicial Watch is dedicated to fighting government and judicial corruption and promoting a return to ethics and morality in our nation’s public life.
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Maybe we would have to take Hilary off the payroll to get to Salazar… mar
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So many people are condemning Sara Palin for the wolf hunts in Alaska, why is it okay in Montana?
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Kathy, They are not OK. There is a suit and it is against Salazar for removing wolves from the protection of the Endangered Species Act. Wolves have barely established themselves and many have been killed this year as well as last. The use of a helicopter to gun down an entire pack just occurred. Aerial gunning has come to the lower 48. mar
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GROSS
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& this S.O.B. seems so proud of his “achievement.” WTF??? i’m stunned by the fact that he & so many others like him are in office AND creating policy that is so detrimental to the horses, the buffalo, the wolves, the environment….who & what else is on their bloodthirsty, destructive agenda??? sure made me change MY mind about wanting to visit HIS state this summer….eeps!!!
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Jo B, If you want to see the Pryor horses, go to Wyoming and just cross the border inside Their reserve. Mustang land. Mar
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Beautifully written, RT, and true. The people of Montana may be stuck with Gov. Schweitzer until 2012, but fotunately his true colors came out before he made his play for the national political stage. I would not bet him at 5 on Intrade to hold national office any time soon.
The American people have no stomach for his brand, and Montanans have a problem on their hands with his bloody policies, his disregard for the land and people, and even the tourist economy his neighbors rely on to put food on the table.
Nero fiddling while Rome burned – Schweitzer sipping mint juleps at the Derby the day his state became the bloody laughing stock of America.
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I tell you folks, I’m almost ashamed to admit that I’m a Montanan! I wrote to our govnor many times about the slaughter plant being built here and how it would sully our reputation………guess what! I also wrote, called, faxed and prayed that he would stop the roundup of our only wild horse band in Montana and he chose to ignore all our pleas. He makes me sick to my stomach.
Trish
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Its okay, Trish, you have redeemed yourself!
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Why Thank You Kas!
Trish
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Yeah, it really is a shame that these few officials have so sullied the beautiful state of Montana. I’ve been to Montana, and it is truly breathtaking. The people were great too. If I went back now, I wonder if my feelings would be different.
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I think the American people should hit these states in the pocketbook!
BOYCOTT MONTANA! NEVADA! CALIFORNIA! OREGON! WASHINGTON!
I bet the yuppies in Seattle don’t even know about the Mustang debacle!-
EVERY STATE THAT HAS A HERD MANAGEMENT AREA SHOULD BE A TARGET.
sorry for shouting
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If you go to the Yellowstone web pages they claim to have wild horses – but if you read further you find they are actually out side the park in the Pryos – I wonder if “National Park” enthusiasts know what is going with “Thier” wildlife?
I think I’ll try to blog on some of thier pages – they should be in fear of losing what they cherish and maybe join us.
Bison – I thought there were already bison ranches that are for bison meat industry – why do they need to take the ones from Yellowstone?
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Big Horn Canyon has some of the Pryor mustangs. The highway goes right through the Park….check that one out.
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Wild bison and elk in the Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) are the last remaining reservoir of Brucella abortus in the U.S. ….
Brucellosis in humans is usually associated with the consumption of unpasteurized milk and soft cheeses made from the milk of infected animals, primarily goats, infected with Brucella melitensis and with occupational exposure of laboratory workers, veterinarians and slaughterhouse workers.
Are these people encouraging the slaughtering the Bison and allowing the tainted meat in to the food supply? A store near me sells bison meat. OMG!!!
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The brucellosis the bisons and elk carry is not infectious except during calving, according to Defenders of Wildlife. It is not in the food chain. Bison is better than beef, fewer calories and less cholesterol. If you are what you eat…
The Park or Fish and Game now test the buffalo who leave the park and destroy those who are carrying it. This is an absurd waste and there have been no cases ever recorded of cattle getting this from the bison.
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Yes, what we need is more wasted resources and dead animals
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Outstanding, R.T.! Too bad Sarah Palin is already married….she and Shweitzer would be a match made in hell!
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You wrote exactly what I was thinking!
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Roxy, Many animals carry diseases and elk and buffalo carry a disease that sheep gave them. In buffalo, the only time this disease can be spread is during birth. This is what Defenders of Wildlife have said. But the cattle industry is so powerful they been demanding the capture, removal or the killing of any buffalo who wander from the park onto roads that lead to ranches. There has been a strong movement for over adecade to protect the buffalo and since the wolves joined the equation, them, also. A Greater Yellowstone Wildlife Corridor has been proposed for a long time so there would be a buffer zone that animals can cross into and still be safe outside the park. It is a boundary of natural topography. The irony of this is; cattle have declined in the area and even when they are present they are shipped in trailers in the spring and shipped out again in fall. Cattle do not stand around anywhere near buffalo calving grounds. hunters stay outside boundaries and execute known individual buffalo and wolf who have been known to cross the boundaries. Our system has no need for all the tension and problems that are created by the the powers that be when they refuse to improve and create new and safer management practices. These are problems easily solved, but DOI has a one way mind. It has alienated them from those who would make the system better, Like all of us. And, yes, bison are raised commercially and Ted Turner has a huge number, the most in the USA on several ranches. When I lived in West Yellowstone the Native people in Montana were the only ones to be given the meat from the butchered buffalo. They would have preferred they live and be allowed to come to reservations to be raised and bred by the people there. We ought to have a breeding program and be introducing buffalo to more public lands, but we don’t . Mar
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Animals that are indigenous are universally a threat to the livestock industry (not in my mind of course…I think it is Mother Nature saying what is best). Frankly, I think Mankind is the bigger threat in the ultimate scheme of things.
Good post Mr. Fitch. The slaughter of buffalo is so much livestock preferential treatment for the humans, not the animals. PBS did a great piece on this. Tragic, simply tragic. And the money spent eradicating, “managing” the so called offensive species in favor of livestock is staggering.
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Yep. They “manage” other native species just like they do the horses. Nothing comes before the cattle, even the land itself. It IS tragic.
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This is from High Country News a Paper for people who care about the West;
When cows are outlawed …
LETTER TO THE EDITOR – From the October 26, 2009 issue of High Country News
By Ben Haller
In a letter to the editor, rancher John Marble writes, “I doubt many items in the organic produce aisle are grown with as little environmental impact as our beef” (HCN, 9/14 & 9/28/09). A while back, I discovered a remarkable statistic: Making a pound of beef creates 36 times the greenhouse gas emissions that creating a pound of chicken does. If this statistic is true even within an order of magnitude, it’s still a big-enough difference to give one pause. If it’s actually accurate, though, then it should alter the behavior of anybody who really cares about the planet. Thirty-six times! That, to me, is big enough to justify anti-beef legislation, beef taxes, and a publicly funded anti-beef public awareness campaign using tools like billboards and television ads –– and I say that as a dyed-in-the-wool libertarian.
That said, I certainly sympathize with ranchers, and I do think they are often more ecologically minded than they are given credit for being. And yes, livestock grazing can have an impact similar to that of bison, and can actually promote native vegetation over invasives. All of this fades into the background, however, in the face of that amazing statistic. I think what is needed is a research program, conducted with some urgency, to decide what other grazing animal we ought to switch to. There certainly seem to be other possibilities, from llamas to sheep to emus to kangaroos to pronghorns to bison to goats.
Once we determine which of these is a better choice than cows, we ought to switch immediately, possibly by simply outlawing the raising or importing of cattle. We are only attached to cattle for reasons of tradition and culture, and quite frankly, that’s not enough of a justification.
Ben Haller
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Mar, good article! Too bad he did not include wild horses in his list of other possibilities to switch to. Or, actually to “return to”.
And he is referring to animals with some immediate human use. How do we educate peole about the horse benefits – digestive system, spreading seeds, how thier hooves better the soil, hooving through ice to water for other animals benefit, and reducing wildfire impact (that alone would save additional millions/billions of dollars now spent on human fire fighting efforts – and increasing every year, along with the removal of the horses – ah ha!).
And I guess he hasn’t heard of the supposed “pronghorn or wild bison overpopulation problem” spread by energy/cattle people – even using birth control on them too – are hunters warned that these are no longer fit for human consumption? Oh, what an ugly web they have spread!
Though I’m not going to give up beef, I’m certianly cutting back for lots of reasons – maybe I’ll try some bison! But they all give off gas!
Food, Inc. left me with a curiosity (not necesssarily to our wild horses benefit) – do the cattle that free graze on grass produce the same amount of gas as the ones in those stinking cattle yards where they are fed corn and God only knows what else. They showed a section of the bad stuff that happens in cattle guts with the corn and made a statement like “this would be cleared up in two weeks of grass”.
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I know my horses have a lot less gas when on straight pasture, no hay or grain. Even though cattle and horses’ guts are different, I would think the cows would have more gas when in feed lots. Look at it this way, when you eat certain foods don’t you have more gas, too?
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kas, Thank you for that comparison – and its nice to have a little laugh once in a while – and some say I am full of hot air no matter what I eat! But, yes, you are correct – that makes sense.
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Wild horse advocates need to start putting their money where their mouth is. As long as you eat any beef, you are supporting the harassment and killing of wild horses, period. Refusing to give up beef is a vote against the horses. And switching to another animal is pointless — they all cause greenhouse gas emissions. I am already a vegan for ethical reasons, but I often boycott products or places to protest animal killing, such as boycotting Idaho potatoes to protest the massacre of wolves in Idaho. I am also boycotting Montana for the eradication of our wild bison. All three of these animals are connected and are all being wiped out in favor of livestock. Until people stop supporting the cattle industry the wild horses will be persecuted until they are no more. Switching to bison, llama, sheep or whatever burgers isn’t the answer either. The wild horses’ land would still be taken away from them no matter what animal was being used as livestock. People are attached to meat out of tradition. They need to get over it for the sake of our vanishing wild equines (as well as the wolves and bison). It’s time to choose what’s more important — our wild horses or a Big Mac.
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Hi Equus;
I, for one, certainly appreciate you passion and totally understand where you are coming from. But I have issues with the idea that giving up beef will make a difference with the wild horse issue.
The percentage of beef that hits the market after grazing on public lands is only around 4%, not much of a serious market niche. Likewise, boycotts, in the big scheme of things, have little or no impact upon the boycottee regardless of how noble the cause may be.
Being that this is an open and public forum and those who we speak of actually check in here to read what we say: most anti-horse people, including the leadership of the BLM, think that all wild horse advocates are “tree hugging, city dwelling Vegans.” Of course, depending upon your interpretation of the definitions some may very well be. But the bulk of us are neither city dwellers or vegans. We are not against the Ag business nor are we against those who raise cattle, what we are against is “welfare ranching” on our public lands and the BLM’s continued practice of catering to them and fudging the numbers on how many cattle are present and also, horses.
Everyone has the right to choose whether to eat meat or not and they may do so due to various reasons, that’s the beauty of living in this country. But overall, I don’t believe that giving up beef will make any difference and publicly calling for a boycott plays right into the hands of the manipulators…we then become what they perceive us to be and I, for one, will not give them that satisfaction.
Keep the faith and thanks for your passion.
May the Force of the Horse be with You.
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You ARE correct about this, R.T. I just came from a forum where I took one to task for calling us “horse hugging Easterners.” Well, most of us ARE horse huggers, but, like I told him, many are from the very states where the horses live, and they SEE what’s happening to their horses.
Another thing that really pushes my buttons is linking us with PETA. “PETA wannabees” and “tree hugging PETA types” – this one in a discussion about slaughter. If they only KNEW… As an animal lover, I do NOT love PETA because PETA certainly does not love animals.
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Equus, RT, and Suzanne,
In support of your comments, but about “thier” comment about us – I thought this was all the United States of America? Where is it written that people, wherever they live, are or are not able to research and speak to whatever issue arises anywhere within our governance.
And in our culture, most people have lived at one time or another on both coasts and few places in between, and have a few more places to live in yet!
Sorry, just had to comment. But, then they read us, and some comment here, and how do we respond? Just food for thought. Thinking some latelty about “How to Win Friends and Influence People”. Perhaps WE are growing in number, but not because of our comments, but because of the facts of the matter – and the totally inconsistent comments from Salazar and BLM.
Those that have that rhetoric chisled in stone, I say let them be, respond as a opportunity to win over some real thinkers – they are out there, their buddies may not know because they don’t want to be outcast from their subsociety – but they are out there!
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Hi Roxy;
Just to clear the air; earlier I was not commenting on the fact that we did not have the right to voice our opinion, I was stating that there is an inherent danger in publicly making plans or openly discussing our collective way forward as these comments are read by the “Dark Side”. (A private discussion area is under construction, now)
I will give you an example:
My wife, Terry, attended the bogus BLM Advisory Board Meeting, along with many other fine advocates, on the 7th of this month. The advocates and the press were forced to sit through a boring and weak presentation facilitated by the notorious Don Glenn. The presentation attempted to attack each and every one of our talking points with junk science, unsubstantiated numbers and out right lies. They went after our stance point by point, bit by bit and, of course, failed to make their point in the eyes of the educated and those who can use multi-sylabel words. But during that presentation, Terry texted me half way around the world and 7 time zones away, “They have been reading the Blog!” and that’s a quote. It was an exercise in cut and paste.
Point is; they are lurking here, they are scared, they are grabbing at straws and they will do anything and everything to protect their cushy, government paychecks. So I only offer a word of caution; we are not, by any means, alone.
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Opps, I don’t know which comment you are referring to. I hope I did not mistakingly misrepresented my point of view. I don’t know what air needs clearing unless I made a mistake in presenting my point of view.
I can only speak for myself, but everything, including insults against BLM, and certainly the mismanagment aspects, and the inconsistencies from BLM recordings of Don Glenn and Salazar, etc., that I have written here I have also openly written to Obama, Salazar, Congress, the Entire White House staff and several Cabinet members, etc. So I have no problem with them reading, again, what I have already written to them. Maybe the more they read this rational it will start to make sense to them? I surely cannot figure out any “good” rational behind BLM! My point of view is formed by Craig Downer, Ginger Kathrens, all the Howling Ridge and other radio shows, George Knapp, Klienert, Horseback Mag writer (I hope he will forgive my temp lapse to remember his name here), usawildhores and you and all of your articles and all the great references and links your wonderful commenters provide. Then when I find a YouTube about how “great BLM is and how awful those wild horses are” I am fortified with a rational, fact filled responses, with links to back them up – hopefullly educating someone, or causing them to be further curious. Once one steps one foot into the truth, it cannot be denied.
Yes, I read the notes from the BLM Advisory Board Meeting on TCF. BLMs claim being that they were responding to the public comments they had received. No one would be able to determine that, as the comments from the notes all did sound just like the ones here, and had I sent a comment to them, it would have sounded like the ones here – and just like the ones from Craig Downer, Klienert, Knapp, Madeleine, Ginger, Makendra, Stillman, too many to mention here. I’m sure those comments sent to BLM came from most of the same people who write here (though I was pleasantly surprised at all the names I did not recognize on the petition to Congress to get rid of Salazar – we may be bigger than we think we are).
Perhaps you are referring to my response to the” tree huggers out east”? That was quoted here by one of our supporters, as a blog comment somewhere else from the anti wild horse bunch. I was responding that someone in the east has as much right to thier pro wild horse opinion and about the public lands in the west as anyone else – I apologize if my point was confused.
But, I really am taking stoke of teh old “Winning Friends and Influencing People” approach. Personaly, I wish more of them did comment here, I have decided to take on that challenge with confidence that I can begin to respectfully (oh, if only I could practice what I preach all the time!) counter every one of their points. And I can never seem to find the articles that everyone here refers to, or I would go there too. I have signed up and responded to several news article blogs. I don’t know if you read the posts on PBS Nature, or the YouTubes – one thing I have begun to point out in my replys to anit-wild horse people is that they NEVER provide any links or reference to support thier postions and I ask them to respond with those – they never do – other than Jody on this site (and I think we counter pointed all her points excpetionally well!) maybe a couple of others. I ask the audience to ask themselves why can’t the anti wild horse advocates just provide some links? I mention reports being tampered with during the Bush era and people resigning from BLM due to their practices, even prior BLM Directors have become agast at what is currently going on! And then I provide the link to TCF, and ask them to go to every link provided there, even BLM!
And about the boycott ideas, since I now understand that most beef is exported out of the United States, I don’t think that is probably a wise choice of effort – but certianly support those that want to take that path. That does raise another quesiton, why are we allowing welfare ranchers to use our public lands for a pitance for beef that is being sent out of our country?
And someone else said something brilliant – Let Salazar buy the $96 million dollars of land and move the “welfare” cattle there! Make it a Cow grazing zoo!
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RT, word.
I think putting our money where our mouth is is a good idea, and many people are doing just that: Donating to legal defense funds and taking direct actions for the horses.
The issue of food production is a bigger one than the wild horses, and it involves factory farms, NAFTA, local family farms vs multi-national corporations, the ethanol program – which directly raised the price of feed for domestic horses – and so on. Event the gmo, mass production of soy comes into play.
I think to require veganism as an entry point for this campaign, out of context, would be a big mistake politically, and miss the point: Results. If everyone working for the horses gave up beef tomorrow, do we think the BLM would change its destructive, corrupt ways?
The choices humane people make as far as their diet are varied. Some of the most humane people I know, full time workers, have not chosen to be strict vegans for health reasons. Doesn’t work for everybody.
Boycotts that can work are tourism. There was a boycott a couple years ago, of an airline that was air-shipping horse meat from US based horse slaughter plants before they were closed down. Photographic evidence went up on the web – the airline’s carrier crates at the slaughter house. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of corporate bookings were pulled, by people in corporate travel business who are educated about the issues. The airline dropped the slaughter house – almost overnight – as a customer to avoid more economic damage.
We have reason to celebrate our growing numbers, and the power of the voice of the people. Let’s focus our energy on working together, being strong for the horses, and getting the BLM out of the horse business.
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equus5- I agree, I do not buy beef from any fast-food or super market chains. Although I am not a vegan, I buy from a local farmer. I know what his cattle eat and I know they were humanely killed PRIOR to butchering. I heard someone say, regarding greenhouse gases, “until Americans get over their insatiable appetite for beef, there will always be a greenhouse gas problem”. The problem from what I have read is these mega ranchers only provide about 3% of this countries beef. The rest is exported. Someone please correct me if I am wrong on these stats. Thanks-
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I stand corrected on a couple of points- about beef stats- please see R.T.’s post above. The reason I buy my beef locally is just that, its local and it supports my local economy. Thanks-
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I have to agree with you, equus5. As a wild horse advocate and adopter, living in the heart of cattle country, my husband and I have given up eating beef. We can’t justify supporting an industry that is so powerful it influences public policy in defiance of the law. Call me a tree hugger if you want, but to me it is hypocritical to continue to eat beef while the beef industry and its supporters are in large part responsible for the decimation of the wild horse herds. Beef is not necessary to mankind’s survival, yet it is detrimental to our environment in so many ways. Giving up beef is just a small sacrifice compared to the sacrifice the mustangs have made.
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RT yup once again you beautifully stated exactly what imbeciles public officials are. I’m glad that this repugnant waste of human DNA has managed to tick off both sides by his cowardly silence. Hell if you wanted bills to pass into law unchallenged they coulda saved a lot of money by parking a scarecrow in his chair. One thing I had a question on was that I had read that there were no diseased bison leaving Yellowstone (the danger was actually the opposite-cows infecting bison) and that this was also a scam/scheme used by some ranchers to exterminate bison. Also that the ranchers most affected by any stray bison had no problems with this. Is this totally wrong? I don’t recall where I read this but I had read it from more than one source.
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Morgan, Yes, Mar wrote about that somewhere.
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Morgan;
There’s a detailed post further up this comment thread that details the information that you are requesting. I apologize for not being more specific and my failure of not giving credit to the fine person who supplied the information but I am answering via email and do not have access to a browser at this time. Later, if you do not find it, I will attempt to locate it for you.
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this GOV needs to go back home….HELL…..where him, the BLM and Ken Salizar all came from. they are what as known as the LIZARD people from another planet. COLD HEARTED!
ps, excellent insight, writting and profound truth!
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