Tag: Horse Slaughter

Update: Wild Horse & Burro Legislation

Our sources tell us that the Senate Appropriations Committee passed the Fiscal Year 2019 Appropriations legislation, yesterday, with no amendments regarding our wild horse and burros.  At first glance it appears that the bill maintains protections against destruction of healthy horses and burros and sale for slaughter and […]

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BLM is considering shipping America’s wild horses to Guyana to an area with jaguars, and to a Siberian tiger refuge in Russia to be used as prey

A couple of notes to preface the Huffington Post article below: Regarding Russian-American company OOO Rancho Khasan: “On Nov. 1, Anatoli Lebedev, the organization’s co-founder, wrote: ‘[F]or marketing we need a very clear picture ― how are we able to extract some horses for meat from the whole […]

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Jumping the gun: Interior Secretary Zinke gives oil and gas companies what they want before they can even ask for it

by Jesse Prentice-Dunn as published on WestWise Public comment opportunity rings hollow as Interior staff don’t bother waiting for end of meeting to send official memo granting oil and gas industry wish These days, when the oil and gas industry says “jump,” Secretary Ryan Zinke’s Interior Department asks “how […]

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House Votes to Inhumanely Rip Ovaries Out of Federally Protected Wild Horses & Burros

We didn’t think the House Appropriations Committee would vote to make our few remaining wild horse & burros non-reproducing and single-sex herds, they did.

We never in a million years thought that our lawmakers would vote to put our federally protected wild horses & burros through a grotesque, deadly and inhumane procedure, they did.

We just knew that our elected representatives would vote in favor of the wishes of their constituent’s, they did NOT!

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Opinion: ‘Here is your country’

By Maryann Hendrickson / Commander, U.S. Navy, Retired, Las Cruces, Ruben Roybal / U.S. Marine, Retired, Las Vegas, N.M. and Jeff Swanson / Veteran and Military Chaplain, Alamogordo as published on abqjournal.com “Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who while claiming to be a disciple of Theodore Roosevelt has had […]

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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s conduct attracts unprecedented scrutiny from government investigators

By Greg Zimmerman as published on Westwise New analysis finds 12 government investigations into Zinke’s actions at Interior — more than the last four secretaries combined Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s tenure at the Department of the Interior has been marked by a series of ongoing scandals, with the secretary’s actions […]

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FALSE STATEMENTS ARE A FEDERAL CRIME PUNISHABLE BY PRISON TIME BLM – RELEASES FALSE POPULATION STATISTICS FOR WILD HORSES AND BURROS

By Grandma Gregg “BLM states biologically and mathematically impossible annual wild horse population rates…” The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently posted their annual Wild Horse and Burro Herd Statistics and as usual, it is full of false statements. WHY is this so important? Because these are the […]

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