The Bureau of Land Management has been debating a decision to kill and slaughter for meat our American wild horses in Northern Nevada for meat. This "meat" is to be shipped overseas and purchased by the wealthy in Europe and other countries. Those folks who are to purchase the "meat" have no respect for the history or place in our history of the wild horses.
The Spaniards supposedly brought the first horse into the Americas. Prehistoric horses had been here long before. Like the woolly mammoth disappeared as mankind arrived.
The American Natives adopted the horse to travel and help in day-to-day life. Pioneers moved west and put the land to plow using the horse. Some Americans still use horses in daily life. The West was built with horses, as was the rest of the world at one time or another. Our horses have been there for the Pony Express, delivering mail through hostile territory. Horses have helped and given their lives in several American wars to win our freedom. Horses have been there to fight in major wars, including WWI and WWII. It is true.
These horses do not harm the areas they run. They have become a natural part of the land and nature. They are majestic to watch running as if in waves. They are truly poetry in the herds that move in unison. Running free and wild as they have for centuries. Free from the madness of men. They are visions of a time before this and a vision in the future when we will come to depend on them once more. Horses left to their own only need what they can find to run, to eat, and to raise their young.
Mankind has taken much of the lands they once called theirs. The usual excuse is that the herds are too big to support themselves, and they will starve in winter. Strange, but that was also said about the Native Americans after their lands were taken. Historically proven, that one. I am surprised that a government department didn't also suggest eating them to prevent starvation.
Why is it we kill everything that fits neatly into our technological world? We kill gorillas for body parts, as well as rhinos, lions, and tigers. Just name it, and ...yup, well, kill it. Each other if we can get away with it. The goal here is to kill; if it is profitable, then it's ok. Let me try to explain this, Claus, in killing.
It is OK to kill if it will not be called or labeled murder: If you are told THOSE PEOPLE are bad kill them.
If the victims are non-humans or you don't consider them really an important life form (i.e., BUGS, horses, bison), things are being driven to extinction.
if you feel they have no real importance in the scheme of life or history.
If they are life forms, you can use them to focus your hateful, fearful, sorry self to organize other sorry saps like yourself against, as it is the only way you will ever have anything in life: IE Nazis/Facists/Red
Guard/ISIS, ETC., & millions in WWII. Many Holocausts before and after all others in the world.
Is it OK? But I digress...
If we allow those magnificent animals to become a food commodity. Greedy people will profit, and the American landscape will be left with the same human-caused pox that was the fate of the Primal horse, the woolly mammoth, the wolf, and the buffalo. The beaver was killed for only the fur to adorn Rich ladies' hats.
We must save our heritage and protect it from greedy entities that care nothing for that Heritage. This slaughter is based on only a couple of meat packers at this point. They are lobbying for the license to begin this killing and processing. It is not the first time.
Once enabled, the trend and greed will expand till there are no horses left to enjoy, to see, or to photograph. It is also being powered by a US department that is our government office. WE THE PEOPLE can save this from happening before it is too late. Please write the Nevada Land Management Office to strongly protest this decision. Before it is too late.
Once enabled, the trend and greed will expand till there are no horses left to enjoy, to see, or to photograph. It is also being powered by a US department that is our government office. WE THE PEOPLE can save this from happening before it is too late. Please write the Nevada Land Management Office to strongly protest this decision. Before it is too late.
Please write to your people in the office to make your voices heard. You may not have a lifestyle that ever encounters the sight of those graceful animals in their natural habitat. Do you really want them to end up on a person's dinner table for wealthy delicacies? Do you honestly not care? If that's the case, then perhaps you will have a better answer than I when a child, years from now, asks why they were killed off in our modern world...
Talk to you again, my friends. There's much wrong with the world, but only WE THE PEOPLE can change it for the better. We can work to make it positive.
RJP
PS: There are articles on the internet that President Trump has authorized the slaughter of America's wild horse herds to feed the wealthy Europeans. I truly pray that this is not true. I would never eat a horse. My mind and soul would never let me sleep again. I have seen the wild herds in the west as they run across the plains. I seem to remember they were in the great basin of the Southwest. Mankind, if you use your imagination to call it that, has been responsible for the extinction of the world's plants and animals throughout history. I hope and pray enough people who also believe this to be unnecessary, as I do, will speak up and stop this. There are now videos of dead horse carcasses hanging on meat hooks in American slaughterhouses to be processed. It is now 2026, and there's an election in several days. Please, in the name of God, make your voice heard to save our heritage.
RJ Pickering
