Bureau of Land Management Votes to Slaughter 44,000 Wild Horses to Make Room for Beef Cattle

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The U.S. Bureau of Land Management voted to kill 44,000 of the 67,000 total wild horses in the country to make room for more beef cattle last Friday.

The vote came two months after beef industry representatives testified on Capitol Hill, demanding that the agency kill all 44,000 wild horses currently held captive in BLM holding facilities and round-up the majority of the rest for sterilization.




In a House Subcommittee on Federal Lands meeting, California Congressman Tom McClintock (R)  said wild horses are overpopulated and eating up all the grass that could be used to support more cattle:


There are currently around 67,000 wild horses in the United States – a 15-percent increase from last year and the highest number in 30 years. Without “management,” McClintock said, the wild horse population would double every 4 to 5 years.

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“Nature is brutal in dealing with overpopulation,” he said. “It manages it by disease and starvation.”

McClintock and the cattlemen the represents says a much more humane way to deal with the “problem,” is slaughter and surgical sterilization.

It’s not just the horses that are threatened by their recent “population explosion,” McClintock said. It’s “agricultural development … and the human population that depends on crops and livestock taken from the same land.”

The BLM says the cost of caring for a horse in a coral is nearly $50,000 over the lifetime of each animal. That equates to over a billion dollars based on the current number being held, McClintock said.

Director of The Cloud Foundation Ginger Kathrens – who spent decades documenting wild horses for PBS – followed up with testimony that made McClintock look either dumb or dishonest.

Not only are wild horses not “overpopulated,” Kathrens said. They are managed at levels “far below the population required for genetic viability” and are in danger of disappearing for good.

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Wild horses live on only 11 percent of BLM-managed land (27 million acres in 10 states), and in most cases they share the land with privately owned cattle, she said. “Livestock outnumber horses and burros 47 to 1, and livestock are allocated 82 percent of the forage.” Who’s starving out who again?

And the reason the wild horse population went up 15 percent last year? Because birth rates among horses remaining in the wild go up when over half of their population is removed from the land and placed in feedlots.

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“Current management practices of round-up, removal and warehousing … cause compensatory reproduction – an increase in populations as a result of decreased competition for forage,” Kathrens said.

Kathrens says there are humane population control alternatives to castration, , long-term confinement and slaughter, such as shooting birth control darts at the animals in their natural habitat. Of course, she would prefer the animals be left alone and not have to compete with ever-growing populations of cattle, which are often artificially inseminated to feed ever-growing populations of humans.

Kathrens was the only person on the 7-member BLM Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board to vote against the mass slaughter Friday.

Who to Contact:

Email your comments to the six members of the BLM Advisory Board who voted for wild horse genocide:

June Sewing: mustangs@infowest.com

Fred Woehl: prtfred@gmail.com;

Robert Cope: cowdoc75@hotmail.com;

Julie Weikle: jweikeldvm@yahoo.com;

Sue McDonnell: suemcd@vet.upenn.edu;

Steven Yardley: steven.leslieyardley@yahoo.com;

Ben Masters: benmasters@unbrandedthefilm.com

BLM Advisory Board General Contact: whbadvisoryboard@blm.gov

Here’s the full list of  U.S. Representatives on the Federal Lands Subcommittee, which oversees the BLM. Be sure to get in touch with Chairman McClintockRep. Rob Bishop of Utah – who threatened to fire everyone on the Bureau of Land Management if they didn’t cull the herds of wild horses immediately and aggressively harassed Kathrens during her testimony – and Rep. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming – who called for the “lovely and peaceful euthanasia” of the horses “whose wild lives are over.”

Sign the petition to stop the slaughter here!




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348 responses to “Bureau of Land Management Votes to Slaughter 44,000 Wild Horses to Make Room for Beef Cattle”

  1. Deborah Avatar
    Deborah

    Would like to share but link to petition misding

    1. Tina Avatar
      Tina

      You click on the highlighted word “here”. That is the link to the petition.

      1. Susan Avatar
        Susan

        I can’t find “HERE” in blue either!!!

        1. Susan Avatar
          Susan

          I FOUND IT!!! Scroll down past the last photo of the chestnuts and all the credits and the last word in small letters is “HERE”

    2. Sherry Avatar
      Sherry

      There is a link. First line “Sign the petition to stop the round-up and slaughter of wild horses here!” Go back and click on “here”

    3. Julie Fleiser Avatar
      Julie Fleiser

      You have to click on the word “here”, that is highlighted in blue at the top of the page.
      https://www.change.org/p/defund-and-stop-the-wild-horse-burro-roundups

    4. Susanne Harford Avatar
      Susanne Harford

      Agree, someone is cashing in the horses for pet meat or the like, but the other side is unclear. Suggestion,. Let’s just let Nature alone for a while…we are not in charge…. Nature us. Just let’s stop making more babies, then we won’t need more Beef – to kill, too. XS peace……..

      1. janice Avatar
        janice

        i couldn’t agree more Susanne Hartford!!

      2. Jones Avatar
        Jones

        Yes; It’s name is unclear but his initials are John McCain. The BLM is messing with a treaty on Indian territory. I don’t know about the baby thing beyond my own kids. But I do know a little bit about law.

      3. Tracy Avatar
        Tracy

        Stop making babies? Really? How about just stop eating beef???

      4. Cjw Avatar

        Babies do not need meat to survive, neither do adults.

    5. Joyce Smith Avatar
      Joyce Smith

      The petition is right at the top where it says “sign Here” in blue.

  2. Mary Vaughn Avatar
    Mary Vaughn

    Please consider reducing the number of cattle instead of killing the horses.

    1. Susanne Harford Avatar
      Susanne Harford

      Yes. Agree. XS peace

    2. Kathy Gray Avatar
      Kathy Gray

      who are the lobbyists?

  3. l Avatar
    l

    disgusting the greed of humans

    1. Susanne Harford Avatar
      Susanne Harford

      Agree totally. Peace, Susanbe XS

  4. Brenda Avatar
    Brenda

    I am against this 100%!

  5. nancy Avatar

    this is a crime on our heritage, they should be running free!!!!!!!! I get so sickened how money and big business distroy thing all in the name of greed

  6. Vera Morgan Avatar
    Vera Morgan

    They are bowing to big money. How sad!!! The horses have learned to survive without man so please let them be. There is so little of true nature left on this planet. Maybe Americans should quit eating so much meat. It’s not healthy to eat as much as we do. Less meat eating more healthy Americans.

  7. Candi L. Avatar
    Candi L.

    NO!

  8. Jasmine Avatar
    Jasmine

    Don’t kill the animals!!!

  9. Jo Avatar
    Jo

    Why would you want to kill 44,000 horses to provide room for beef cattle that you’re going to kill in the end anyhow??? How could you do such an awful thing!? There is plenty of room and land for the horses and beef cattle!! I can’t believe people could do something like this!! You aren’t even using y’all’s brains!! Think through this…didn’t even make since in the long run does it????

    1. Susanne Harford Avatar
      Susanne Harford

      Totally agree. Humans are the thugs of the animal world xx peace, S .

  10. John Avatar

    That’s wrong

  11. Aimee Stearns Avatar
    Aimee Stearns

    Killing these animals is not the answer to your problem. It just creates another one.

  12. Chelsea Sarnecki Avatar
    Chelsea Sarnecki

    This is completely illogical. Have you considered the negative repercussions of raising cattle? Such as the high amounts of carbon dioxide emissions and altering the natural ecosystem? Let nature take its course!

    1. Michael Avatar
      Michael

      Do you remember the American Bison? Went the slaughtered also come on guys think with you head not you bank account

  13. Jennifer Gordon Avatar
    Jennifer Gordon

    Let’s call a thing a thing! They want more land because beef is so profitable right now! Money, it boils down to money! When will we as a people wake up and realize everything in nature has a purpose and the more we molest it the worse it is for us all!

  14. Margaret Gonzalez Avatar
    Margaret Gonzalez

    Don’t slaughter these majestic beautiful animals! They can be relocated if necessary.

  15. Robin Ungaro Avatar
    Robin Ungaro

    This is disgusting!

  16. Kim Thompson Avatar
    Kim Thompson

    This must be stopped!! I have forwarded an email to all email address that you provided. Some of which I can not get. PLEASE don’t let them do this…

  17. Jesse J Thomas Avatar
    Jesse J Thomas

    This is wrong.

  18. Jesse J Thomas Avatar
    Jesse J Thomas

    WRONG!

  19. Melanie Ianni Avatar
    Melanie Ianni

    Tell me this can’t be true

  20. Robin Howe Avatar
    Robin Howe

    Please don’t kill these horses. They don’t deserve it. Find a better way.

  21. Angela Avatar
    Angela

    Please save wild horses’ lives. No slaughter!

  22. carol gill Avatar
    carol gill

    I adopted two horses from blm 12 years ago. They are wonderful pets. I love them.

  23. Desiree Avatar
    Desiree

    Disgusting the BLM is

  24. zach Hardin Avatar
    zach Hardin

    How would you like being killed or your nuts cutoff

  25. Karen Christopher Avatar
    Karen Christopher

    This is wrong! Do not kill these historic icons! They are alive breathing beautiful horses!

  26. alexandra Steinicke Avatar
    alexandra Steinicke

    You will all come back as a Wild horse and suffer the same fate. Good luck with that. We know the the Big Meat thinks they can do whatever they want. Watch http://farmageddonmovie.com/

  27. Teri Ismail Avatar
    Teri Ismail

    WE will not stop destroying everything for profit until it kills our planet and the animals we share it with.

  28. J Berggren Avatar
    J Berggren

    Doesn’t BLM land technically belong to everyone? Not just cattle ranchers? This land is for public use and not everyone wants it to be strictly for cattle. What about people who enjoy hiking, camping, photographing wildlife, ect… And not everyone eats beef! So how is it that they get to decide to slaughter all the native horses that inhabit the land. Doesn’t it belong to them too? Oh yeah, just like the Native American Indians, they have no say even though this land was supposedly given to them. It can be revoked at anytime. Who gets to make these deductions??This is so lame!!

  29. Jennifer wendell Avatar
    Jennifer wendell

    This is so wrong.t his needs to be appealed this can’t happen .these horses are a part of the history of this land this isn’t necessary

  30. Marilynn Avatar
    Marilynn

    Unfortunately too many animals on certain lands kills the grass, etc. and will cause erosion that will strip the land further. They have to either kill, or if people will step up and adopt 40,000 + animals, not much they can do. I love horses too but can’t adopt any. And if we quit eating so many cattle….

    1. Donna Wright Avatar
      Donna Wright

      Too many humans on the planet. We can start castrating them now, too, right? How dare the BLM declare which animal is more important. And people back east would love to adopt these horses!

      1. Ellen Branch Avatar
        Ellen Branch

        There are tens of thousands in pens now.Not adopted. The economy is better,the cattlemen want to cash in. the fact of the land use between the present horses vs. cattle now should tell it all.

  31. Bernadette Novak Avatar
    Bernadette Novak

    This is terrible

  32. Aurora Madrigal Avatar
    Aurora Madrigal

    Incredible what special interests can do and who they can buy.

  33. Patricia Avatar
    Patricia

    This is truly disgusting!!! how dare you kill innocent animals, so big business survives. I guess big business wins again because of the paid off Republicans.The Republicans are thieves and are stealing from America, how sad.Thank God for karma!! Maybe not in this lifetime but they will be judged!!!

  34. Susan cassese Avatar
    Susan cassese

    Please please do not murder the beautiful wild and free horses..they are zen outstanding symbol of our magnificent country..please have a heart and do the right thing!!!

  35. Kat Saalfield Avatar

    These actions are unacceptable. Those wild horses need more room to roam and be free. Give them top priority over cattle and track housing.

  36. Susan Gauthier Avatar
    Susan Gauthier

    HOW DARE THEY!!!

  37. Susan Gauthier Avatar
    Susan Gauthier

    HOW DARE THEY

  38. Dulce Avatar
    Dulce

    This is so sad. We do not need more beef.

  39. james Avatar
    james

    Would it be better for them to over-graze and destroy open range land then die of starvation?

    1. Ellen Branch Avatar
      Ellen Branch

      They need to do more of the birth control.

  40. Madeline Avatar
    Madeline

    Please save the horses lives.

  41. FU DC Avatar

    instead of slaughtering the horses why don’t they just grab everyone in DC…problem solved.

  42. Corinne.indiana Avatar
    Corinne.indiana

    A Shame.

  43. M Gabrielides Avatar
    M Gabrielides

    I find this deplorable !

  44. C Davis Avatar
    C Davis

    why will humans not be happy until all wildlife is smothered for their own personal gain …. these are our horses too when do we get to friggin vote ??????

  45. Najla Jefferies Avatar
    Najla Jefferies

    Please consider other options

  46. Diane Avatar
    Diane

    This is the saddest thing I can’t understand why they are spending so much on round ups, when it could be going to research on some kind of birth control. The BLM needs to be on the side of the public, no privet cattelmen. All of this bullshit comes down to.the money. Just remember there are no do overs,when there gone there gone. It really is a shame.

  47. Jonae Bertapelle Avatar
    Jonae Bertapelle

    This is in humane! Find other land to have cattle on or farm on it, but do not kill innocent animals for your benefit. They depend on us for survival & this is wrong..mass killing. Please save these beautiful, smart, loving animals!!!!

  48. Corinne.indiana Avatar
    Corinne.indiana

    I wonder if a request to UNESCO is something possible, considering Mustang horses like a part of the heritage of USA. I don’t know.

  49. Varouge Mesrobian Avatar
    Varouge Mesrobian

    Stop feeding animals to feed people. We don’t need it anymore. I vote to save the wild horses.

  50. Michael Avatar
    Michael

    Fuck them! Something must be done!

  51. Rebecca Tait Avatar
    Rebecca Tait

    This is horrible. I have been a vegetarian for the last two years. All of this killing of innocent creatures should cease.

  52. Terri Russell Avatar
    Terri Russell

    Thank you Sara for sharing this article. The BLM has be exposed by advocates. Their cattlemen association backgrounds tell it all. The same garbage that spews from their mouths is from type cattlemens point of view. The blatant lies that they keep telling only proves them to be pathological liars. Maybe America had dumbed down but the advocates who have been following this have not. Their genocidal agenda must be stopped and either they get rid of them entirely or they clean house and put people who have the best interest of type horses and wildlife at heart, people who are honest and abide by v the law. The current members have broken every law that concerns the wildlife out there.

    If out doesn’t change NOW this part of our American heritage week be gone for good.

  53. SAARA MÄKINEN Avatar
    SAARA MÄKINEN

    THIS AINT GONNA HAPPEN ,SUCKERS!

  54. Dianne Avatar
    Dianne

    Humans also need “management” !!!!

  55. Emma dowd Avatar
    Emma dowd

    Hellbent on upsetting the natural cycle of the environment for the sake of greed

  56. Jean k Avatar
    Jean k

    Don’t do it. It won’t be worthwhile and it is Inhumane.
    People are eating less beef and In the future even less will be in demand.
    It won’t work out – don’t do it.

  57. Annie Avatar
    Annie

    STOP the killing of wild horses. They mean no harm n leave them alone for Christ sake.

  58. Cheryl Foster Avatar
    Cheryl Foster

    Please don’t slaughter all these horses… Find homes for them. There are so many people who would love to have a horse and take good care of it and give it a wonderful loving life.
    Thank you!

  59. Iris Wells Avatar
    Iris Wells

    Leave these Beautiful Critters Alone!!!

  60. Belle Avatar
    Belle

    This is yet another disgrace to how the human race should act. Those horses are wild in their natural habitat where they are obviously meant to flourish. Leave them to THEIR land and stop trying to conquer the world that is not yours. More cattle = equal more methane = more global warming. If we have no world where will you then make your money? Stop being cruel and selfish and think of the bigger picture before there is none left to see!

  61. Kristian heilo Avatar
    Kristian heilo

    ?

  62. Michelle Moss Avatar
    Michelle Moss

    We can not kill one species to accommodate another. This needs to end. Please reconsider the treatment of the wild horses.

  63. Jan Lyon Avatar
    Jan Lyon

    Are you crazy?! Put the CATTLE in the feed lot holding pens and spent 12 months placing horses with people who want them. There are organizations that will do this for free for you and plenty of horse lovers across the country. Stop mass killing for your convenience and start getting creative solutions that don’t require murder.

  64. Jeannette F Avatar

    STOP KILLING JUST BECASUSE YOU CAN! LEAVE THESE PRECIOUS HOSRES ALONE!

  65. Mathieu Bilal Avatar
    Mathieu Bilal

    Save the wild horses!

  66. Susi Price Avatar

    I truly fail to understand the mentality of people who can cold bloodedly decide to kill 44000 wild horses. For financial gain? This makes me sick.

  67. Daniel Avatar
    Daniel

    Well where’s a link to harass? That’s info too late for me, and these days people could care less for beef.

  68. Patsy Gregory Avatar
    Patsy Gregory

    Please do not kill all the wild mustangs they just need to be managed PLEASE

  69. Patsy Gregory Avatar
    Patsy Gregory

    Please don’t kill the wild mustangs especially for greedy cattle and just manage them

  70. Kamie Bledsoe Avatar
    Kamie Bledsoe

    Shoot the BLM instead of the wild horses. At the very least STOP the welfare ranching on my tax payer funded lands.

  71. Sunny Avatar
    Sunny

    Beef cattle raising is one of our biggest challenges to the environment. We should not raise more cattle, but actually we need to reduce the land desecrated by this horrible, dirty industry of slaughter. The land should be left as it is.

  72. cory morrison Avatar
    cory morrison

    This should not be allowed…

  73. Maureen Davis Avatar
    Maureen Davis

    This must be STOPPED! Our American horses founded this great country – they should be shown respect – not murdered!!

  74. cory morrison Avatar
    cory morrison

    This MUST be stopped…

  75. susan a liddell Avatar
    susan a liddell

    killing these beautiful majestic creatures ? what on earth …what kind of barbarians does america grow now ? ?

  76. Brooke Avatar
    Brooke

    Do not slaughter these beings for any reason! Stop the greed!

  77. Auroura Marlene Starup Avatar
    Auroura Marlene Starup

    Please stop the killing of these beautiful creatures. Be humane. Stop thinking only with the money book !!!!! And please think with your hearts!!! We won’t tolerate this slaughter. Thank you !

  78. Kathy Wagener Avatar
    Kathy Wagener

    Please don’t kill any horses. Please work around them.

  79. Susan greene Avatar
    Susan greene

    When is our voice heard. We love our wild horses

  80. Karie Avatar
    Karie

    Not ok. Sterilization is not the answer nor is mass slaughter for greedy folks. The damage the cows will do vs Horses, is grossly higher. These animals, horses, should be celebrated and some of the family lines are rare. They have been getting illegally round up and slaughtered in free and protected areas. Now it will just be ok… we don’t need more cows, we need to protect what is there and deal with what is, not make more mess.

  81. Lynn Avatar

    Set these beautiful horses free they are what made USA…

  82. Loos Avatar
    Loos

    I am appalled that the Unitrd States government is bowing to the cattle industry. We have enough cattle in our stockyards, private pastures, etc. Many of our horse rescue organizations have solutions but the BLM refuses to listen. It sadly is about greed….

  83. Teresa Boyer Avatar
    Teresa Boyer

    Stop this killing.

  84. Mary Rish Avatar
    Mary Rish

    STOP – DO NOT DO THIS!!!! IT IS A TRAVESTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  85. lidia Avatar

    STOP NOW KILLING HORSES.PROTECT ANIMALS FIGHT HARD USA.Animal Protection must help now.NO MORE KILLING

  86. lucia G. Miller Avatar
    lucia G. Miller

    I can’t believe I am living in America, where they murder horses who actually help the land and instead appease the cattlemen and sheepherders for WHAT?? THEY DESTROY THE LAND. I will soon be 78 ears old and my heart is broken over this. What kind of people do we have running this country, I say EVIL, Conniving, inhumane, and honestly, If Trump doesn’t win, just take me away Lord, I can’t take this anymore, the democrats are all about the MONEY.

  87. Laura Page Avatar

    The world has more than enough beef. Please open your hearts and use your minds, diversity is what the planet needs, not more extinction

  88. Misty Avatar
    Misty

    If you are a rescue – I have 6.5 acres, just not the funds – I’ll give them a good home if everyone can chip in for the fencing and food. This is so sad. And I’m serious – wish I was rich, I’d take every single one

  89. cheryl cross-leal Avatar
    cheryl cross-leal

    Kathrens sounds like the only person who has done some research into what is happening. Why don’t they listen to someone who makes sense and stop gathering the horses, causing the overpopulation?

  90. Carmen Avatar
    Carmen

    Destroying earth , live and nature! Stop this crazy slaughter, there is not excuse to do so!it is only a money matter !!!

  91. Carmen Avatar
    Carmen

    I love nature and respect life

  92. TL WILEY Avatar
    TL WILEY

    The BLM has become as corrupt as the other government agencies who are enfluenced by special interests.
    DO NOT KILL THESE HORSES!
    BLM has lost it’s credibility to tell the truth about the true reasons driving their decisions regarding management of our government land.
    An investigation of the BLM is warranted regarding many of their dec

  93. Sheila Lawson Avatar
    Sheila Lawson

    I HAVE NO WORDS ONLY TEARS, PLEASE PLEASE HAVE A HEART AND DON’T DO THIS WICKED EVIL THING, THANKING YOU MUCHLY ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  94. Jane Lloyd Avatar
    Jane Lloyd

    Beyond cruel.

  95. Lydia Winn Avatar
    Lydia Winn

    Senseless and horrible.

  96. Mary McGinnis Avatar
    Mary McGinnis

    Slaughter is the wrong solution

  97. Pete Battaglia Avatar
    Pete Battaglia

    Please don’t kill those poor wild horses.

  98. Diane Mangert Avatar
    Diane Mangert

    WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!!!

  99. Bonnie Avatar
    Bonnie

    Let’s castrate and sterilize all these representatives and leave the horses alone. I’m sure if the truth be known the ones voting for it are all in debt to the big cattle people and know they will lose money and votes if they don’t get this done.

  100. Rita Chmiel Avatar
    Rita Chmiel

    Your decision will not effect you personally but will effect the many generations after you…do not do this to your children’s children..

  101. Kathy Allen Avatar
    Kathy Allen

    This is a disgrace for our Country. God demands we take care of his animals.

  102. Ashley Atwood Avatar
    Ashley Atwood

    What the fuck is wrong with all of you? You’re killing the world in pursuit of the ever fleeting dollar.

  103. Bettie Sue Riddle Avatar
    Bettie Sue Riddle

    This insanity must be stopped now.

  104. Bettie Sue Riddle Avatar
    Bettie Sue Riddle

    Do not kill these horses.

  105. Bettie Sue Riddle Avatar
    Bettie Sue Riddle

    What do you want me to say as a comment? I am against murdering the wild horses.

  106. Lori Onesko Avatar

    Absolutely no slaughtering of wild horses, how sick are we? To raise more beef cattle??
    I am against slaughtering these horses, we the people have a say so on this!

  107. liz Avatar
    liz

    “Freedom”is exactly that!! These horses are the heaith of the land and they take care of their own reproduction process!!
    This is all about money not common sense!! Let the horses be!!!!!!!

  108. Nicole Fackler Avatar

    how dare you think its ok to end an animals life for no reason at all. that was their land first leave them be. you took the lands from the native americans so let the horses live free and in peace like they have been for 100,000 of years.

  109. Ginger Pizzurro Avatar
    Ginger Pizzurro

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    You CANNOT destroy this BEAUTY, FREEDOM, and TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!

  110. andy lillestol Avatar
    andy lillestol

    As much as I love horses and understand they are increasing to what the BLM sees as proper. it seems stupid to kill these wild creatures to make way for beef. Perhaps a better course of action is to slaughter a horse as opposed to a cow and serve it for lunch to the dorks pulling the strings. In terms of protein horse meat has it’s merit’s. After lunch it would be announced that they all ingested wild horse. The cook may get fired and a deep search would ensue for the person who put this plan together but the paradox of killing one species to make way for killing another would end the debate. If all members of the BLM would become dependent on plant based foods and maybe some of the wild hoses could be sterilized and run free. This entire event shocks me. The plan stinks !

  111. R.Hawk Avatar
    R.Hawk

    Long ago mustang advocates all should have researched where these beef cattle are going to slaughter and what stores sell their flesh. The best way to prevent as many ranchers from putting ten times the cattle out there for the mustangs they round up is to not eat beef from that source. Find a local farmer if you want to consume it or just stop consuming it. It would take a lot of people to make this change, there are enough horsey people, but oh those taste buds are very selfish. Ten minutes of consuming beef to release dopamine in our brains is worth the horses lives too?

  112. YOLANDA TAMEZ DBA RIGHT TOUCH THE Avatar
    YOLANDA TAMEZ DBA RIGHT TOUCH THE

    Why can’t they try to relocate them or find homes..this is just Deplorable…and INSANE …WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE TODAY…NO ONE CARES ABOUT THE FACT THAT THEY DESERVE TO BE HERE JUST AS MUCH AS THEM…

  113. JULIET WILSON Avatar
    JULIET WILSON

    Please reconsider this terrible act that you are about to commit

  114. Victoria Hobson Avatar
    Victoria Hobson

    This act is horrendous! We need to protect these horses. As stated, there are only 66,000 wild horses and you want to kill 44,000? For beef cattle.

  115. Anik Minasian Avatar
    Anik Minasian

    Please stop the slaughter of these beautiful creatures.

  116. Valorie Avatar
    Valorie

    As usual, big beef wins out. Mustangs are supposed to be federally protected on public lands, but the beef industry wants the land so the horses get rounded up and sent to auctions and slaughter. Shame on you people! Did you know that many people are boycotting beef because of this? Stop lying to the public that the BLM cares at all about wild horses and stop the corporate cattle welfare. You aren’t fooling anyone with your ridiculous politics.

  117. Jan Markarian Avatar
    Jan Markarian

    This is a cruel and inhumane policy that needs to end. There are humane solutions!!

  118. Alice Avatar
    Alice

    It is a sick world we live in
    Government is getting rid of the natural inhabitgants of the earth and make more room for the rich

    We need a balance on the earth, the natural balance of nature, do not disturb.

    We will end up paying

  119. s damone Avatar

    i want to sign the petition against the slaughtering of wild horses, its an atrocious idea. where is the official petition to be signed ?

    1. Jill Wayne Avatar
      Jill Wayne

      I AM AGAINST THE SLAUGHTER OF WILD HORSES!!!

  120. Margaret Kelso Avatar
    Margaret Kelso

    BLN is sick, heartless & corrupt. They need to go!

  121. Omar Garcia Avatar
    Omar Garcia

    Let the horse live!

  122. Ashley pellerino Avatar
    Ashley pellerino

    Leave the wild horses alone. They are not hurting anyone or anything just living their free life. There is plenty of room for cattle other places. I have seen the beauty of them running free

  123. Connie Chambers Avatar
    Connie Chambers

    Has anyone presented this story to the media? That’s the coverage needed here.

  124. Joan Gray Avatar
    Joan Gray

    How can I help. I have room for 2 horses,,

    1. Andrea Avatar
      Andrea

      In South Jordan, UT there’s an annual adopt a wild horse or burro event. I think the adoption fee is $100. Google wild horse adoptions for your area.

  125. Radu Avatar
    Radu

    Very sad. On another note it’s the perfect depiction of the current perception of “welcome marlboro country” an image of horses and death.

    1. Lisa Ledbetter- Barnett Avatar
      Lisa Ledbetter- Barnett

      I don’t understand your comment at all? Please explain? This land is their land! Horses are smart and very good for our environment! Why doesn’t anyone understand that man takes their land like our forefathers did when they landed her in America? Duh

  126. Liana Avatar

    Stop the insanity

  127. Melanie Wilson Avatar
    Melanie Wilson

    I grew up with horses. This I devistating to me.

  128. Jeri Wicket Avatar
    Jeri Wicket

    Do not slaughter wild horses

  129. Michele Reeves Avatar

    Horses are God’s creatures.

  130. Tamara Avatar
    Tamara

    Killing off three-quarters of our US Wild Horse population for the beef industry which has been declining in sales since 2014. Makes no freaking sense at all.

  131. Toni VanPetten Avatar
    Toni VanPetten

    Stop the slaughter of wild horses. They are part of our American culture. Preserve wild horses, preserve our culture!!

  132. John Virgilio Avatar
    John Virgilio

    Are they at least offered to the public?

  133. Destiny Avatar
    Destiny

    This is wrong on all accounts

  134. Kelly Baker Avatar
    Kelly Baker

    This is so wrong on so many levels!!!!!!!!!!

  135. nancy attaway Avatar
    nancy attaway

    So sad, hope my signature helps to save the horsies…….

  136. Amanda Nooitgedagt Avatar
    Amanda Nooitgedagt

    Omg this breaks my heart, please don’t kill them. Wild horses have to have the chance to be free and not slaughtered because there’s to many of them. Wild horses have the same purpose on this earth as us. Please don’t take their freedom away.

  137. Laquitta Andrews Avatar
    Laquitta Andrews

    Don’t do this! It’s not humane.

  138. Henry Bernard Avatar
    Henry Bernard

    McClintock needs to keep his opinions in California he has no business sticking his nose in other states business. Slaughter wild horses has everyone gone mad. Travel the states spend one day in each and tell me how many wild horses did you see! He says it costs us money who’s money i guarantee he doesn’t spend a penny of his own money on saving anything. That’s why he doesn’t give a #### about wild horses.

  139. William Magie Avatar
    William Magie

    BLM land is public land, meaning it belongs to all of us! Who the hell do ranchers think they are to think OUR land is available for their cattle and profits?!
    Wild horses are harm less and beautiful and God will cull the herd naturally.

    1. William Magie Avatar
      William Magie

      What does ” moderations” mean?

  140. sherrie deal Avatar
    sherrie deal

    Absolutely sickening. Why more cattle? So we can send more beef overseas? Our wild horses are American for God’s sake. They live here. We are all helpless against this cruel government decision aren’t we? Sickening !

    Sherrie N. Deal

  141. Anette Hiltunen Avatar
    Anette Hiltunen

    Please find more appropriate ways to feed ever-growing populations of humans than by increasing the ever growing population of artificially insenimated cattle,which is foremost just unsustainable in long term.

  142. Petra Domay Avatar
    Petra Domay

    Stop this cruelty

  143. Patricia giddings Avatar
    Patricia giddings

    And the only thing that company is worried about is making more money that’s just wrong for them to kill all them horses n tosteriliz them is kill them off altogether just ove time

  144. Jeanie Fuller Avatar
    Jeanie Fuller

    Please stop the slaughter

  145. Jeanie Fuller Avatar
    Jeanie Fuller

    Please stop the round up and slaugter of these animals

  146. Karen Balot Avatar
    Karen Balot

    This is disgusting, that a companion and sensitive animal like horses and burros could come to such a horrific end. What kind of people are they, who do such things to living creatures.

  147. Pat Crocco Avatar
    Pat Crocco

    Stop this slaughtered

  148. ann burton Avatar
    ann burton

    Wild west all over again.

  149. Chrisleine COMTESSE Avatar

    Mustangs are a great inheritance which if not destroy ♥

  150. Sherry Goodyear Avatar
    Sherry Goodyear

    I knew this was coming. They have been screaming for a long time to empty the holding facilities and send them all to Canada or Mexico for slaughter. They will not be content until every wild horse is exterminated from the earth. Our petitions to BLM and our Congressmen have been as “chaff in the wind”. There is no way with a corrupt government that you can fight back. Nothing speaks to the BLM but the money they and the so called representatives of the people receive from the Cattle and slaughter industry.

  151. Harriet Kaufman Avatar
    Harriet Kaufman

    How can you do this? They are sentient beings! They matter!

  152. Letha Steele Avatar
    Letha Steele

    Save are wild horse’s

  153. Letha Steele Avatar
    Letha Steele

    Save are wild horse’s.Mustangs Burros

  154. Margaret Olney Avatar

    Wrong! Just Wrong!!!

  155. Elizabeth Minor Avatar

    This is sickening!!

  156. Moira Hammel Avatar
    Moira Hammel

    OUTRAGEOUS!!!!

  157. Rachel Lamons Avatar
    Rachel Lamons

    Save the horses❤

  158. Bev Wolff Avatar
    Bev Wolff

    Stop all the slaughter !

  159. A Baran Avatar
    A Baran

    Utilize humane solutions rather than killing these beautiful animals

  160. Christine Young Avatar
    Christine Young

    These horses have a right to live and people do not have the right to take that away. Better management is the answer

  161. Dawn Avatar
    Dawn

    This is an absolute outrage!! BLM has been trying to illuminate the mustangs for years and it doesn’t matter to them what the American people think or say!!

  162. Emerah Avatar

    This is ridiculous, outrageous,you don’t hear people saying, “kill off large amounts of humans” do they? Stupid.

  163. SUE THOMSON Avatar
    SUE THOMSON

    LEAVE THE WILD HORSES ALONE YOU PEOPLE HAVE TO CONTROL EVERYTHING LEAVE SHIT ALONE YOU GREEDY ASSSHOLES!!

  164. SUE THOMSON Avatar

    leave the wild horses alone YOU GREEDY ASSHOLES,WHAT EVER DOES NOT WORK FOR YOU,YOU JUST DESTROY!!!

  165. Robyn scatena Avatar
    Robyn scatena

    Please stop killing animals it’s cruel and messed up.

  166. Barbara Hunter Avatar
    Barbara Hunter

    We took this land from the Indians, now we are continuing to screw it up. It is time we let the Muslims in to take over the government. If you jerks stay in office we won’t have any wild animals. It is bad enough that you have no protection from Animal abuse. That should be a crime the same as child abuse.

    1. AJ Avatar

      We have had One Running our Country for the last 8 Years and how has that turned out?

  167. Bliss Avatar

    What doesn’t the government want to manage and we all know the rest of the story……government management equals….major screw-ups.

  168. kory chatelain Avatar
    kory chatelain

    Every animals deserves a life.

  169. Vanessa Avatar
    Vanessa

    Horses loves matter!!

  170. Julie Estep Avatar
    Julie Estep

    Unacceptable.

  171. gary castille Avatar
    gary castille

    Where’s the beef? Who cares? Leave the horses alone.

  172. Lisa Fisher Avatar
    Lisa Fisher

    How do 67,000 wild horses lose the home in the the first place?! This killing of the over 44,000 is an outrage. Fucking ranchers have taken control of the goverment. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

  173. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    There has got to be a better answer than slaughtering two thirds of a population of animals! This was your best solution! Think again, longer and harder!

  174. Casey Avatar
    Casey

    This is BS. The beef industry is killing the planet. How do they have the right to kill the only home we have?

  175. Ann Willis Scott Avatar
    Ann Willis Scott

    I am, of course, APPALLED, as an sensate person should be.

  176. Brenda Beatty Avatar
    Brenda Beatty

    These horses are our heritage, our past and should be our present. Their forefathers fought for this country too!!!

  177. Connie Avatar
    Connie

    Why don’t we just nuke the planet and kill,off everything that was here from the beginning and we’ve taken control of and destroyed!

  178. fiona keen Avatar

    Just geld all the sralions

  179. Debora Hauser Avatar
    Debora Hauser

    This is just wrong…..let them alone!

  180. Pat Thompson Avatar
    Pat Thompson

    Let them live

  181. Michelle Barowski Avatar
    Michelle Barowski

    Please don’t allow this

  182. Cathy Travis Avatar
    Cathy Travis

    Stop slaughter.

  183. Charlotte Quinn Avatar
    Charlotte Quinn

    Slaughter is not the answer. Why should these animals die in the name of money and greed.

  184. keita colton Avatar
    keita colton

    This is a horrendous money grab! Who could do this??????
    There are so few beautiful creatures that we, so far don’t eat or kill for trophies, just allow some nature in this corporate takeover.

  185. tom woodid Avatar
    tom woodid

    Leave the wild horses alone!

    1. Dee decroix Avatar
      Dee decroix

      I’m against killing the horses. Leave the Wild horses alone……to live in their own habitat.

  186. Betheny Merola Avatar
    Betheny Merola

    This is outrageous, please stop this evil from happening!!!

  187. KAREN RICHARD Avatar

    please save the horses the ranchers r way 2 f in greedy trying 2 kill off everything for their cows money hungry that’s all life is more important than money thank you they try get rid of the Wolves them ranchers

  188. Maryruth Renee Roncelli Avatar
    Maryruth Renee Roncelli

    More cattle is not the answer to feed more of the population. Cattle uses more water, produces more methane, and depletes more resources than it supplies to feed people. How about eating less meat and sustaining more organic farming!

  189. Melinda Bogert Avatar
    Melinda Bogert

    These horses are our Native History – arab blood lines and wild horses mixed to become the MUSTANG! My TAXES go to protect those horses!! How dare you butcher them!!!

  190. Kathleen Schaedler Avatar
    Kathleen Schaedler

    This is absolutely disgusting that this has gotten this far. Let us round up our representatives so they can enjoy “a lovely and peaceful euthanasia.”

  191. Jessica Rodriguez Avatar
    Jessica Rodriguez

    Please do NOT slaughter these horses and demoralize the food industry even more!

  192. Amanda Gunnell Avatar

    You are killing culture and history. Cows contribute highly to green house gases, and climate change. The power is in your hands, do what you can and save what’s left.

  193. Jasmine Puskarcik Avatar
    Jasmine Puskarcik

    This is sickening awful horrible and evil! It’s wrong and It’s that simple!

  194. Leonida Avatar
    Leonida

    This has to be prevented!

  195. K reed Avatar
    K reed

    We truly do need to have a roundup…of our elected and appointed officials who are patently incapable off telling the truth. Shame on them! Their mentality has not changed since the order to round up the Native Americans and put them on reservations. They refuse to learn.

  196. Florence Cooney Avatar
    Florence Cooney

    Everyone should be shot except for kathrens. You people are crazy.

  197. Hobbs10 Avatar
    Hobbs10

    This article is embarrassing to say the least. Someone is very misinformed. Having lived for 40+ yeas in wild horse country and Indian pony country I can’t believe your propaganda. First, horses don’t compete with cattle or sheep for the same forage unless of course the are all starving. Second, horses aren’t as magical as some people believe. Stallions breed ther own daughters, Grandaughters, etc. The results are many congenital defects of in breeding causing an inferior off spring, they all can’t be “Wildfires”. Yes, they are above the projected numbers allowed to graze BLM. In a severe winter I’ve seen horse carcasses alongside the road from starvation and freezing. It’s sad and mis management and mainly it’s worsened since the “do gooders” closed the slaughter houses to horses. So thanks, the big push to save the wild horses has only led to much suffering and torture.

    1. Yvonne Reese Avatar
      Yvonne Reese

      The Mis informed one is you, as someone who Knows both horses AND cattle they absolutely compete for the same forage , true , cattle can eat and digest Things Horses cannot , but they require MUCH more forage to get near market weight as for In breeding , with enough area , there are more separate groups , limiting that, the BLM and Humans in general would sell their souls and everything else on the planet for any profit, and wreck the world completely if ANYTHINH needs “Management” it is the skyrocketing Human Population

  198. Debbie Avatar
    Debbie

    All of you should be ashamed of yourselves. Total lies, selfish, greedy cattle ranchers, that is what this boils down to. Have you forgotton that it was horses used in wars to fight for our freedom across the Globe. Have you also forgotten that horses date back long before you existed? They have every right to survive and to be left alone to run wild and free. Quit making excuses and telling lies. The world will be watching you. Think twice before you do a horrific act.

  199. Marco Avatar
    Marco

    Let them be free.

  200. Cynthia Porter Avatar
    Cynthia Porter

    The BLM exaggerates the population numbers. Only people getting paid cost the Government. The horses shouldnt be slaughtered at all period. This is a tool to completely reopen slaughter plants in US making it appear as though this is needed. All this is and has been an elaborate lie. They will kill every horse if you Do not speak against this. Call Congress and Demand these horses lives be spared. If they opt to kill them demand they give them to qualified rescues and owners instead.

  201. Susan Mishlet Avatar
    Susan Mishlet

    Do not kill the horses!!!!

  202. Kari Avatar
    Kari

    Gorgeous creatures deserve to live

  203. MightyMouse Avatar
    MightyMouse

    Once again our government is bought by special interest groups. I thought “we the people” were suppose to run this country, not the cattle industry. Leave “our” wild horses alone!!!

  204. Tonya Avatar
    Tonya

    McClintock and the cattlemen the represents says a much more humane way to deal with the “problem,” is slaughter and surgical sterilization.
    How about we do that to humans? If this planet is over populated with anything, it’s people

  205. Rose Avatar
    Rose

    The BLM doesn’t “vote” on anything, they make final decisions about what’s supposedly best for millions of acres they own. Many horses are starving because there’s not enough feed on the range lands. I think you should call for transporting them to national parks instead of a petition to keep them on barren desert lands. There’s a lot of places they could transplant horse herds.

  206. Zee Avatar
    Zee

    The BLM doesn’t “vote” on anything, they make final decisions about what’s supposedly best for millions of acres they own. Many horses are starving because there’s not enough feed on the range lands. I think you should call for transporting them to national parks instead of a petition to keep them on barren desert lands. There’s a lot of places they could transplant horse herds.

  207. Nadine Zimmer Avatar
    Nadine Zimmer

    This is horrific! These horses are beautiful, majestic, beings who deserve protection, compassion, empathy, dignity, and respect. It is greed, power, and control. that causes this! STop and let them live free!!!!!!!!!!!!

  208. Shirley Avatar
    Shirley

    I’m Native American, you people slaughtered our Buffalo’s to almost extinct, now your doing it tour our Horses! May our God have mercy on yalls soul’s. Save the Horses O Heavenly Father I pray …

    1. Keith adkins Avatar
      Keith adkins

      Not true they brought horse here. Their really bad animals for three land and water.

  209. meredith chivers Avatar
    meredith chivers

    DISGRACEFUL!

  210. Zatarra Avatar
    Zatarra

    Don’t kill these animals . All blood sacrifices are made to Satan

  211. Pam Avatar
    Pam

    These animals have been free their whole lives for centuries. So who are we to say they should no long be that way and have a right to live their lives in the wild…

  212. Laura Bouyer Avatar
    Laura Bouyer

    How ’bout advertising for FREE HORSES and allow locals to come take them to care for them, rather than point blank slaughtering them!

  213. Denise Davis Avatar
    Denise Davis

    Horses died out long before white man stepped onto land in America. White man brought the horses back over to America. So it’s not your horses number one. And my relatives didn’t slaughter your buffalo just like we didn’t have slaves.

    I happen to own two mustangs one captured in NV and one in WY where I lived. Ever see a horse starve to death? it’s a hard thing to look at.

    The BLM has been full of horses for years. I lived 1/4 mile away got one of mine there. Everyone who has an opinion should have to adopt one first. Other wise your part of the problem not the solution. Put your money where your mouth is spend $125 and go rescue one.

  214. Shannon Sterner Avatar
    Shannon Sterner

    I am sickened by the fact that 8 people make this decision. I wonder if they can hold their heads high when their children and grandchildren ask them what kinds of decisions they have to make. You should be ashamed to be so greedy to take the lives of 44,000 horses. I hope that one day, each of you who voted for this slaughter suffer the same way they do. And by the way, beef is disgusting.

    1. Sara Burrows Avatar

      This article is irrelevant. It doesn’t deny my article, it actually supports it – that the BLM supports more “management” aka opposed to lagging “nature cull the herd” … and it’s from May. The vote was last week.

  215. Susan Yoder Avatar
    Susan Yoder

    This is such an atrocity!! Stop, don’t slaughter our precious wild horses!! They deserve to live and continue life living free!! We don’t need more land for cattle. The private ranchers that raise beef just want more money out of greed and disrespect to our native wild horses!!

  216. Tercia Avatar
    Tercia

    Stop the slaughtering of these beautiful wild horses. It is despicable to want to kill these horses in their natural habitat for your selfish gain. I cannot comprehend such hideous action. Please stop this and let them live.

  217. Jenil Avatar
    Jenil

    Horse should live no 1 has right to kill them

  218. Marlaine DeLorenzo Avatar
    Marlaine DeLorenzo

    Wild horses are a part of our heritage and need to be protected, not slaughtered. The demand for beef should not outweigh the demand to keep wildlife, such as these horses, thriving. This is about money and greed and cannot be allowed. I am sure there are alternatives to destroying these majestic animals. If the general population were to be made aware of this, I’m sure the majority would be horrified. Don’t kill off our national wildlife to appease cattle ranchers !

  219. Nicholas Halsey Avatar
    Nicholas Halsey

    BLM have lost their way from land management. They make money by leasing to farmers and ranchers, but still they forgot they were hired to manage the land and wildlife in their nature…not ranchers and farmers who do not own public lands. The Office of BLM catters to them more than taking care of Public stock…and even lost the knowledge of how to maintain the horses in their Nature.

  220. Nicholas Halsey Avatar
    Nicholas Halsey

    Denise Davis: Horses didn’t die out before the white man stepped onto this land in America. The Spanish brought most of the horses here, and the Mexican Rancheros were the masters of horsemenship back then before they cut horses loose in the southwest. We Tribal people eventually found these wild horses roaming around, and soon became a different breed of horsemen that was never seen before by the invaders of this lands…until they raided our way of life. Now…the BLM forgot what they were hired to do. Take care of the Public Lands and the Nature on it, which includes the Wild life..and Wild horses are part of that Nature. Some Ranchers and Farmers leased these Public lands, and are now acting like owners of public lands. Now the Mustangs have to take the blame ford their greed by living on their land, because these ranchers and farmers want more land and water… Sounds firmilar to Tribal People.

  221. Distressedu Avatar
    Distressedu

    America needs to
    Trim its lard
    We are a nation of obese users

  222. Distressedu Avatar
    Distressedu

    America needs to
    Trim its lard
    We are a nation of obese users

  223. Lisa Ledbetter- Barnett Avatar
    Lisa Ledbetter- Barnett

    Please leave our natural horses, mustangs alone! How could you possibly feel by dealing with paperwork ever realize that nature has to be left alone! Do not touch our nature that God has given us the pleasure to still have in the United States of America! Shame on any man or woman to take this small part of our beginnings away and change the normal way of life away from our children of the future! Shame on you!

  224. Joselline Avatar
    Joselline

    My heart is broken, this is very sad. Please STOP this massacre!!!

  225. Carrie Avatar
    Carrie

    Let the horse’s live
    Let the people who love them get them

  226. Kathy Hallock Avatar
    Kathy Hallock

    GREED !!!

  227. Pushpa mukundan Avatar
    Pushpa mukundan

    Plz,let the horse’s live their life full term,cows are slaughtered to feed humans ,and horses are getting killed in the name of rearing cows which are killed .

  228. Frances Weidmann Avatar
    Frances Weidmann

    Such a shame. Let them all live…free!

  229. Keith adkins Avatar
    Keith adkins

    Are u all dumb theses animals are not indigenous to this land. They should of never been allowed to exist to begin with 1 is overpopulation.

    Simple true learn ur facts

    1. terry Avatar
      terry

      And cattle are native?

  230. Marsha Higginbotham Avatar
    Marsha Higginbotham

    This is outrageous. Stop listening to big ag whose only interest is making money. Protect our wildlife; that includes wild horses. What we need is to end the production of animals for food and revert back to clean food … plants. NO MORE BLOOD!

  231. Leonie Willis Avatar
    Leonie Willis

    “The BLM says the cost of caring for a horse in a coral is nearly $50,000 over the lifetime of each animal. That equates to over a billion dollars based on the current number being held, McClintock said.”. Surely Mr McClintock means the horses are being kept in a “Corral” or has he taken them to the sea side for a holiday?? How can any public representative be credible when they can not even spell correctly? All wild populations have natural rise and decline in their numbers, that is why it is known as ‘nature’. As has been shown many times, when you remove one section of the eco-system either another takes over or the section which has been removed over-populates themselves to compensate. Why are more cattle needed to be produced when there is already so much waste food being dumped? This, as well as many other situations needs much careful thinking before any thing is done.

  232. Zing Avatar
    Zing

    At the very least, we could eat the horses that we slaughter…and all the cats and dogs we euthanize every day…might not have to raise so many cattle that way, since we’re just going to eat them, too.

  233. Rick Habein Avatar
    Rick Habein

    Where and when is it ok to so completely polarize a subject and issue, so that no one can come to an understanding on the truth of an issue. The slant and fire kindling of the article is unconsciouable. Stir it up and reap the dollars, is that today’s journalism? Has anyone considered the BLM employee who is charged with the impossibility of managing without funding? Or the rancher who for generations has eased a living off the lands of the west only to have the resource ground into the dirt by miss management. How is it reasonable to have ones lively hood mandated by an urban sect who have no understanding. It’s like feeling like a wildlife manager after watching Bambi. My parents were old school journalists. They would not stand for this.

  234. Michael Flaherty Avatar

    While I agree that some of public land in the west should be left for horses and that they should be managed for sustainability, and also think that cattle ranching has far too much influence within the BLM, this issue is much more complex than it’s being presented.

    For one thing, these are feral horses that were originally released by settlers and ranchers in the 19th century. The modern horse is native to central and western Asia, not here. Yes, the horse family did evolve in North America, but they were far different creatures with a far different (human-free) environment.

    Horses will definitely starve as their populations continue to increase beyond the land’s carrying capacity. That’s how nature works. And that’s with or without cattle. Yes, ranchers see horses as competitors for grass their cattle need. But they lease that land for a purpose and we shouldn’t expect land managers to totally ignore their concerns.

    Finally, this is a “problem” long in the making. For years the BLM has rounded up and cared for horses to prevent starvation. They aren’t cruel to them and do not want them kept in enclosures long-term. They’ve tried to adopt out as many horses as they can, but there definitely aren’t enough people who are willing to adopt, train and care for a mustang. BLM personnel on the ground are nearly all horse-lovers. The decisions get made in Washington.

    Although I certainly don’t agree that that many horses need to be put down, I do see the obvious need to control populations of a beautiful but non-native species. Aside from letting them starve I don’t see many good options. This is public land but it’s under lease. Still public land, so by all means make your voices heard. But educate yourself and don’t come off as 100% emotional, or nobody will take you seriously.

  235. Yvonne LeFort Avatar
    Yvonne LeFort

    This is so wrong!

  236. Frog Avatar

    How would you like it if all the people against killing the horses, started killing you asshole…

  237. […] on only 11% of BLM-managed land, and in most cases they share the land with privately owned cattle. Livestock outnumber horses and burros 47 to 1, and livestock are allocated 82% of the forage. Who’s starving out who […]

  238. […] on only 11% of BLM-managed land, and in most cases they share the land with privately owned cattle. Livestock outnumber horses and burros 47 to 1, and livestock are allocated 82% of the forage. Who’s starving out who […]

  239. kathy rankin Avatar
    kathy rankin

    This is absurd!! Leave the horses alone!! Greadd for money is killing everything in this country!

  240. Lori Piccirillo Avatar
    Lori Piccirillo

    We need to change horses as companion animals not livestock. Look what the horse has allowed us to do. They helped form who we are today. Give them what they have earned and deserve. Love dignity and compassion. It makes me sad that this is even a thought and that people would do this. SHAME on the BLM.

  241. Carol Foster Avatar
    Carol Foster

    At least give it two years for people to find another way to leave the people fighting for horses’ “rights” a way to live and let live.

  242. Patsy Johnson Avatar
    Patsy Johnson

    Get rid of all the trash that voted for this, that is our land those cattle are on get rid of them, keep our Beautiful Horses they are our heritage! Get rid of all those sorry Congress, Senate and House of Representatives! Now!

  243. Melissa Loughan Avatar
    Melissa Loughan

    Why not start a horse rescue or sell them? Killing is not the right thing to do – horses are such a beautiful gift from God!!

  244. Marilee Lear Avatar
    Marilee Lear

    Marsha Higginbotham, we must be related but I will never claim it. My name is Marilee Higginbotham Lear, yes, that Lear and what are you gonna vote on next. Slaughter 4 million Americans to make way for 4 million Muslims to enter this country. You should be slaughtered!

  245. Julie Hill Avatar
    Julie Hill

    Please consider the preservation of these beautiful animals for future generations. This decision is not humane nor should it be able to be rationalized – it’s simply complete slaughter.

  246. rhonda kleinheider Avatar
    rhonda kleinheider

    those horses like the Indians were here 1st!!!!!!!!!!!!

  247. Helen Dennert Avatar
    Helen Dennert

    Stop this insane horse killings !!! They are not overpopulated but are being killed by competing cattle industry that has big pull on Congress !!! This post explains why there was a jump in birth rates last year it was because so many had been rounded up in feed lots !
    This is another story of corporate greed !!!

  248. […] on only 11% of BLM-managed land, and in most cases they share the land with privately owned cattle. Livestock outnumber horses and burros 47 to 1, and livestock are allocated 82% of the forage. Who’s starving out who […]

  249. jon kramer Avatar
    jon kramer

    PLEASE……….SOMEBODY who knows …..Post the Names and Locations of those at the BLM that have the ability to vote on this issue…..WE THE PEOPLE want to know just WHO makes these decisions…..Maybe a little “FACE TO FACE” might change their minds and keep them from receiving some sort of compensation for their decisions…

    1. Sara Burrows Avatar

      It’s at the bottom of the article under “Who to Contact”

  250. roxsann Avatar
    roxsann

    i can only say this God is watching and i would hate to be the greedy assholes that w kill wild horses for their own material gain….wouldnt WANT to be you on judgment day

  251. Ariel Fine Avatar

    The BLM lands are PUBLIC lands. We support the BLM with our tax dollars and therefore we ought to be the ones who decide how that land will be used. I vote to spare the mustangs and tell the cattlemen to purchase their own grazing land just like real Americans do. The U.S. government doesn’t cut REAL Americans a break for growing gardens and the cattlemen have no business STEALING grazing land from you and me so that they don’t have to pay for the land they use.

    These equines are part of our American Heritage. As such they are part and parcel of MY American Heritage. I personally think that every one of us who objects to the cattlemen stealing our land for their purposes should cease to eat or wear anything from a cow. No beef on the table, and no leather on my feet. We have alternatives. And I promise that if these wild horses are slaughtered for the greed of the cattlemen and the politicians who are undoubtedly taking favors for their votes, I will never ever eat beef or wear leather again. And my fellow and sister Americans, if every one of us does this it will change the course of history in the United States of America. Regardless of weather it stops the slaughter, we will have an experience where we are no longer sheeple. So far we just bitch and moan but we have done nothing active to deliver a serious consequence to those who think we are pushovers. When the cattlemen are forced to cut their beef prices by 70 or 80% just to get rid of their animals, all of North American politics will sing a different tune and will stop disregarding that ours is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. NO WILD HORSE SLAUGHTER; NONE HERE, NONE IN MEXICO, NONE IN CANADA. If you must eat flesh then eat chicken, pork, or fish.

  252. Remy Benoit Avatar

    This is obscene. Where do some get the idea they can kill anything in their way? Put these horses out for adoption across the country and stop the murder!

  253. Dorothy Williams Avatar
    Dorothy Williams

    I am 100% against this. Wanted to sign petition but couldn’t find it.

    1. Sara Burrows Avatar

      At top of article

  254. Anne Daves Avatar
    Anne Daves

    This is what happens when you vote in the wrong people and they decide without consent of the entities who truly own the land – taxpayers. If BLM manages it, it isn’t privately owned – so they should not have the right to make such decisions without getting it approved by the true owners – US. Government needs to get a grip and stop thinking it has rights that it doesn’t. Let the Wild horses roam!!

  255. Lea Cullen Boyer Avatar

    Stop giving our natural heritage to big beef producers. Get cows off federal land.

  256. John Avatar
    John

    If certain people such as the illegals wouldn’t breed like mice than we wouldn’t have an overpopulation of people.

  257. Ann Avatar
    Ann

    This makes me furios! Killing off 44,000 wild horses so cattle can have the land is wrong!First off the wild herds have been here before the ranches were, and second cattlemen ate just out to make more money. I think the cattle ranchers should have to cut the size of their herds so that the horses have room
    Has anyone thought about moving the to another state and try to balance them that way or is killing them your ONLY plan? You talk about making them sterile which would end up making wild mustangs extinct!!! Maybe we need people on the land management that love horses and NOT just cattle. The ranchers that belong to Cattleman Association have money to throw around and it seems to me that THEY are the owned saying what is to be done.People talk all the time about buffalo and others animals that have almost become extinct and here you ate wanting to do the same thing with these horses!It’s time to THINK about what you’re proposing! It’s so wrong in so many ways!

  258. […] landmass (261 million acres). However, these public lands are frequently leased to cattle ranchers. Cattle consume 82% of the forage on the lands they share with wild horses, who are outnumbered by livestock 47:1. […]

  259. John Engler Avatar
    John Engler

    STOP THIS MADNESS!! Horses are the Spirit animal of America! When you slaughter them for Your Greed you kill the Soul of Our Country! They represent the best qualities of Us! I’m disgusted and sad…

  260. John Engler Avatar
    John Engler

    The LOVE of Money is the Root of All EVIL!!

  261. A Rios Avatar
    A Rios

    Typical brainless government who think they have all the answers but really don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground.

    I vote to round-up all the suits at this meeting, slaughter them and feed them to the horses.

  262. Stephanie Avatar
    Stephanie

    All life is sacred, regardless of what form it takes.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN6PEXJj3yo

  263. A Rios Avatar
    A Rios

    Un-American! These beautiful horses represent FREEDOM in America. They are part of the American spirit in the wild.

    Killing these horses is like destroying the principles this great country was founded on. Our forefathers would be appalled.

    STOP this senseless and expensive coral management. Sterilize and please release these wild animals back to their natural habitat.

    They deserve the same freedoms you enjoy.

  264. […] landmass (261 million acres). However, these public lands are frequently leased to cattle ranchers. Cattle consume 82% of the forage on the lands they share with wild horses, who are outnumbered by livestock 47:1. […]

  265. Jeanne Sisneros Avatar
    Jeanne Sisneros

    How long has this been going on? Is this a new practice? This is evil, evil, evil!!
    How can these people sleep at night?? Worst human beings ever!!!

  266. […] landmass (261 million acres). However, these public lands are frequently leased to cattle ranchers. Cattle consume 82% of the forage on the lands they share with wild horses, who are outnumbered by livestock 47:1. […]

  267. Richard B Farkas Avatar
    Richard B Farkas

    Couldn’t find the link

    1. Sara Burrows Avatar

      At the top of the article

  268. […] landmass (261 million acres). However, these public lands are frequently leased to cattle ranchers. Cattle consume 82% of the forage on the lands they share with wild horses, who are outnumbered by livestock 47:1. […]

  269. Carol W. Korns Avatar
    Carol W. Korns

    This is unconscionable and unnecessary and motivated solely by GREED and UNCARING (especially GREED). I protest this. UGH.

  270. Elizabeth Purdy Avatar
    Elizabeth Purdy

    This is a horrible, offensive act! There’s a better way to handle this situation, it just takes a small amount of conscience and some leg work. Please, find another solution!

  271. O.H. Avatar
    O.H.

    You want to live and every living creature wants to live.
    Stop killing wild horses!!! whether it is a horse or a cow, each of the animals has the equal right to live! Where is your conscience?

  272. […] landmass (261 million acres). However, these public lands are frequently leased to cattle ranchers. Cattle consume 82% of the forage on the lands they share with wild horses, who are outnumbered by livestock 47:1. […]

  273. Tamsin Ramsay Avatar
    Tamsin Ramsay

    From Snopes:

    http://www.snopes.com/blm-euthanize-44000-horses/

    WHAT’S TRUE: On 9 September 2016, an advisory board to the Bureau of Land Management voted to authorize the destruction of several thousand wild horses, and the outcome of that vote was forwarded to the BLM for review.

    WHAT’S FALSE: The BLM itself did not vote to slaughter horses and has not yet made a decision on the recommendation that they should do so.

    1. Sharon Akins Avatar
      Sharon Akins

      I have ZERO faith in ANYTHING coming from Snopes, and here’s why – http://accuracyinpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/05/snopes-got-snoped.html

      They have ZERO background in investigation and are NOT a neutral party, being severely left leaning.

  274. faith Avatar
    faith

    Leave the wild horses alone! They have a right to life and breeding just like the rest of us.

  275. […] landmass (261 million acres). However, these public lands are frequently leased to cattle ranchers. Cattle consume 82% of the forage on the lands they share with wild horses, who are outnumbered by livestock 47:1. […]

  276. Irene Broussard Avatar
    Irene Broussard

    I think it is a sin and a shame that anyone is even thinking about killing these horses. Man thinks they can just kill every creature that is in his way to make money. It’s disgusting.

  277. M. Haley Avatar
    M. Haley

    How about we cull the heard of politicians instead?

  278. Anthony Avatar
    Anthony

    Save these wild horse.

  279. Anne C. Klein Avatar
    Anne C. Klein

    Don’t do it. Please don’t do it.

    It’s a blot on all of us. Everywhere and for a long time to come.

  280. […] landmass (261 million acres). However, these public lands are frequently leased to cattle ranchers. Cattle consume 82% of the forage on the lands they share with wild horses, who are outnumbered by livestock 47:1. […]

  281. […] landmass (261 million acres). However, these public lands are frequently leased to cattle ranchers. Cattle consume 82% of the forage on the lands they share with wild horses, who are outnumbered by livestock 47:1. […]

  282. Ms. Mary Selles Avatar
    Ms. Mary Selles

    This idea to engage in mass killing of these horses to make way for more cattle is brutal and bad policy. Cattle are responsible for ruining much land, not horses! Familiarize yourselves with the film Cowspiracy for a clearer picture. Stop the notion that killing is good! Americans must learn to care for what is left wild, because the more “taming” we do, the worse our artificial situation becomes, to everyone’s detriment. And ignorance of this fact does, and has never, made it right!

  283. Maria Stith Avatar
    Maria Stith

    dispicable

  284. Ulrike Paulus Avatar
    Ulrike Paulus

    Don´t do this. Wild horses have the right to live there. Don´t kill them because of profit.

  285. Mack Avatar
    Mack

    This is the same reason we have deer season: to thin the herd to avoid suffering by starving animals to death. It’s not just horses. This is sad, but it’s how nature works.

    Besides, this story is bullshit. The BLM hasn’t **voted** to do ANYTHING. It only received a recommendation.

    http://www.snopes.com/blm-euthanize-44000-horses/

  286. Barb Avatar

    This is criminal! Where is PETA? Slaughtering all of those horses because of beef cattle? This damnable government is out of control! Here in Arizona the Saudi’s just bought thousand of acres of land to raise beef cattle so I presume they are calling the shots on this! In order to have water for all of those beef cattle that they are raising they are raiding the already low supply of water here in Arizona. How are they getting this done? Where is our government to protect America and Americans? This is Obama at work again…..doing nothing to protect America only endanger it more! Why don’t the Saudi’s stay where they belong and it is not HERE!

  287. Eric Gibble Avatar
    Eric Gibble

    We reap what we have sown. The decision makers in this and most wildlife,and environment cases, are stooges for industry-agriculture/industry, and a slew of other business interests who are more than happy to pay off these corrupt officials. There really are NO LIMITS to their greed, ignorance, and arrogance…I don’t look to miracles in this life.I can only wish that someday those responsible for this slaughter, would experience the terror,the panic, and pain that these poor animals will suffer

  288. Tierra Chapman Avatar
    Tierra Chapman

    If you’re still eating beef and lamb, you’re complicit in this Dark Ages methodology. Why must our species first line response to a perceived problem be to KILL ‘IT’ as if these horses were non-sentient beings. Aren’t we who consider ourselves to be the superior species better that this??? We are long overdue to join the 21st century with our thinking and our treatment of ALL non-human beings, including these horses.

  289. Sharon Akins Avatar
    Sharon Akins

    So an unConstitutional ABC agency is going to kill off animals that are NOT legally in their rights to oversee and regulate, being unConstitutionally formed themselves, instead of allowing the PEOPLE of the States to adopt and care for them.

  290. […] you have a Facebook account you’ve probably already heard: last week the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) voted to kill 44,000 of the country’s 67,000 […]

  291. […] you have a Facebook account you’ve probably already heard: last week the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) voted to kill 44,000 of the country’s 67,000 […]

  292. […] (261 million acres). However, these public lands are frequently leased to cattle ranchers. Cattle consume 82% of the forage on the lands they share with wild horses, who are outnumbered by livestock […]

  293. Robert Avatar
    Robert

    So you want to kill horses to make room to kill cows?Can’t you find a way that dosent include murdering innocent creatures that migrate there as thier home?,How you like if someone came into your home to your home and hurt you ?All in the name of profit,wow great job government,great job.You sicken me.

  294. […] landmass (261 million acres). However, these public lands are frequently leased to cattle ranchers. Cattle consume 82% of the forage on the lands they share with wild horses, who are outnumbered by livestock 47:1. […]

  295. […] landmass (261 million acres). However, these public lands are frequently leased to cattle ranchers. Cattle consume 82% of the forage on the lands they share with wild horses, who are outnumbered by livestock 47:1. […]

  296. […] landmass (261 million acres). However, these public lands are frequently leased to cattle ranchers. Cattle consume 82% of the forage on the lands they share with wild horses, who are outnumbered by livestock 47:1. […]

  297. […] landmass (261 million acres). However, these public lands are frequently leased to cattle ranchers. Cattle consume 82% of the forage on the lands they share with wild horses, who are outnumbered by livestock 47:1. […]

  298. […] landmass (261 million acres). However, these public lands are frequently leased to cattle ranchers. Cattle consume 82% of the forage on the lands they share with wild horses, who are outnumbered by livestock 47:1. […]

  299. […] landmass (261 million acres). However, these public lands are frequently leased to cattle ranchers. Cattle consume 82% of the forage on the lands they share with wild horses, who are outnumbered by livestock 47:1. […]

  300. You're Avatar
    You’re

    Eath them

  301. […] landmass (261 million acres). However, these public lands are frequently leased to cattle ranchers. Cattle consume 82% of the forage on the lands they share with wild horses, who are outnumbered by livestock 47:1. […]

  302. Donna Huffstetler Avatar
    Donna Huffstetler

    Please do not hurt these horses.It is very wrong, There have been people who have given so much to see that these horses survive generations to come. Future generations have a right to view these horses that are a part of our culture & heritage.

  303. […] landmass (261 million acres). However, these public lands are frequently leased to cattle ranchers. Cattle consume 82% of the forage on the lands they share with wild horses, who are outnumbered by livestock 47:1. […]

  304. J battaglia Avatar
    J battaglia

    senseless killings

  305. Elaine Avatar
    Elaine

    Ben: please commitment suicide. Because one less evil puke like you in the world actually would inturn help save quite alot of beautiful animals in this world. Thanks, and like yesterday!

  306. garth jones Avatar
    garth jones

    c’mon, really?

  307. […] landmass (261 million acres). However, these public lands are frequently leased to cattle ranchers. Cattle consume 82% of the forage on the lands they share with wild horses, who are outnumbered by livestock 47:1. […]

  308. […] landmass (261 million acres). However, these public lands are frequently leased to cattle ranchers. Cattle consume 82% of the forage on the lands they share with wild horses, who are outnumbered by livestock 47:1. […]

  309. […] landmass (261 million acres). However, these public lands are frequently leased to cattle ranchers. Cattle consume 82% of the forage on the lands they share with wild horses, who are outnumbered by livestock 47:1. […]

  310. […] landmass (261 million acres). However, these public lands are frequently leased to cattle ranchers. Cattle consume 82% of the forage on the lands they share with wild horses, who are outnumbered by livestock 47:1. […]

  311. […] landmass (261 million acres). However, these public lands are frequently leased to cattle ranchers. Cattle consume 82% of the forage on the lands they share with wild horses, who are outnumbered by livestock 47:1. […]