Save Clouds band of Mustangs

[ams3651]

i saw the special just last week, just beautiful. I love PBS.

 

[rufus]

The special, like so much stuff on PBS, was long on sentiment and short on logic. People concerned about the fate of wild, feral horses always seem to be people that don't have to live with them.

Unfortuneatly, due to difficult financial times and the increasing cost of feeding and caring for horses and mules, a lot of the dime store cowboys are dumping their unwanted livestock on federal land and Indian Resevervations. This is causing a real problem.

As the population of feral animals increases, the range is being damaged in a way that will take years to repair.

Cattle ranchers provide meat to our society, feral horses and burros on the other hand are a negative factor in the food supply. They will drive livestock away from water tanks, salt licks and feed provided by the ranchers.

Since the dunderheads in Washington, DC passed some laws that make it almost impossible to butcher horses, horse meat has disappeared from the market in the US.

Horse meat is a tasty, nutritous source of protein. We need to contact our representatives in Washington and have them correct this situation. It should be available to those of us that like it.

Rufus

 

[Florida chick]

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I must have missed the part about cattle becomgin indigenous. HORSES RAISED THIS COUNTRY,FOUGHT THE WARS AND MADE THE US WHAT WE ARE!

 

[Florida chick]

REAL American's don't eat their horses!

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[michickenwrangler]

AMERICAN INDIANS ATE THEIR HORSES!!! As romantacized as Plains horse culture is, they were not sentimental fools who kept horses who could not carry a rider or pull a travois. Lame horses were eaten as a matter of practicality.

Please do not succumb to the idea of horses as noble creatures. I love mine, but they are PREY animals. Horses are common food in Europe and Asia. The only reason that English speaking people generally do not eat horse is because the practice was banned by the Christian church in the 11th century because the newly arrived pagan Vikings ate horseflesh as part of the worship of Odin.

Union and Confederate armies in the Civil War ate horses. In any siege situation during wars, horses were eaten. The horses Imperial French stables during the siege of Paris 1870-71 were slaughtered to provide food. Until comparatively recently, most butcher shops offered horsemeat and poor people commonly ate it.

Those lovely horse paintings in Lascaux were painted by people who hunted and ate them.

Cattle are not feral in this country. We manage their herds and as act "predator" and eat them. Cattle are not running in large unmanaged herds.

Now that slaughter is no longer an option for horses, there will sadly be a lack of homes for them all. Feed is going up in price and it will be difficult to feed them all. If we open up slaughterhouses that process horses, it will provide cheap, high protein meat for humans and pets and handle the excess of equines in our country.

Watch the news! There are food riots in many nations already. If you were starving, I doubt you would be so judgmental of those who would eat a horse.

My uncle told me that horsemeat (he ate it in Austria--home of the Lippizans) tastes a lot like elk.

 

[FLchook]

Its closed now.

Wont let me sign the petition. Did we get enough signatures?

 

[Florida chick]

Yes

thank you there were plenty. I hope it helps.