BLM Stampedes and Removes All Wild Horses from Antelope in Arctic Temperatures -February 9, 2011

http://blog.grassrootshorse.com/2011/02/steam-rises-from-public-outrage-as-blm.html

All to let big cattle ranchers have more grazing land....

Hmm.. 7 degrees isn't cold.

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it is if you run horses for miles in it and then corral or put them in trucks...they often get pneumonia from it, not to mention just plain dying from running away from asshats in helicopters.

Asshats is My word---please ask for permission in the future before using it. permission will be denied.

sorry, but I used said word for years on another forum. Never used it here b/c I feared BC would censure me. F%&ktard is another fave, but I don't we are ready for it here...

To protect your rights, you better check Google . . .

I have seen asshats on the Miataforum. I always smile when I read it. Of course it is not allowed here.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

That's just dumb. Why can't the horses and the cattle exist on the same plain?

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They can. The BLM's focus however is not on the coexistence of species. It's on the "productivity" of public lands. The ranchers who run cattle on public lands, who I call Welfare Ranchers, don't believe in any competition for their cattle and sheep, be they wild horses or elk, and they have a very strong lobby. It's the same lobby that encourages the use of aircraft to gun down predators. Keep in mind that a significant amount of the beef in your supermarket started life on western public lands, where businessmen are subsidized by the government to help them control the overhead on their products. Such a deal. All the romance and mystique of the individualist western cowboy while being propped up by the feds so we can all have cheap meat.

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Horses and cattle are an exotic invasive species in North America in the holocene.

emphasis on the "cheap" part, pumped full of steroids and enough antibiotics to start a drug factory. ummmmmmm, good!

So are white ranchers.

Ranchers of any hue.