horses and environment
Friday, February 5, 2010
It's Over
The latest BLM roundup is over. Over 1800 horses riped from out land to be forever penned in or worse at great expense to the taxpayers. All for their own sake? Did anyone ask them? Our us? Their ours as is the land that they were on.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
More BLM Bad News.
Over 100 Wild Mustangs killed to date in the latest round of BLM's removal. They were warned but didn't listen so our horses pay again.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Letter from Senator Charles E. Schumer
Dear Mr. Mancuso:
Thank you for your letter supporting S. 1579, the Restore Our American Mustangs Act. I share your concern about protecting wild horses of the Pryor Mountains, and believe that we must strive to protect wild animals from unnecessary harm.
As you know, S. 1579 would ensure that there is adequate land for wild horses to roam and would also prevent the sale or transport of horses or burros for processing into commercial products. S. 1579 has been referred to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Although I am not a member of this committee, I will closely monitor this legislation as it makes its way through the Senate.
Animal welfare is personally important to me. I am a co-sponsor of S. 727, the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2009, a bill which would prevent the slaughtered of horses for human consumption. In the 110th Congress, I also cosponsored several bills to protect companion animals: S. 714, the Pet Safety and Protection Act; S. 1880, which would make dog-fighting a federal crime; and S. 2439, which would require the Federal Bureau of Investigation to track animal-cruelty crimes nationwide. Provisions very similar to the Pet Safety and dog-fighting bills were included in the 2008 farm bill, and I am happy to report that they are now law.
I also strongly supported the Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act, which passed the Senate and is now federal law and I have pushed the Appropriations Committee to provide funding to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to develop plans for evacuating pets during emergencies, such as should have happened in Hurricane Katrina. In addition, I was proud to support the passage of P.L. 106-152, a law banning the interstate trade in "crush videos." Under this law, it is illegal to engage in the interstate commercial distribution of materials depicting animal cruelty, specifically the crushing of small animals by women wearing high-heeled shoes.
Although I am proud of the accomplishments made on behalf of animal welfare so far, I am aware that there are still many animal welfare issues remaining to be addressed.
Again, thank you for contacting me on this important issue. Please do not hesitate to contact me if I may be of further assistance on this or any other matter.
Sincerely,
Charles E. Schumer
United States Senator
Thank you for your letter supporting S. 1579, the Restore Our American Mustangs Act. I share your concern about protecting wild horses of the Pryor Mountains, and believe that we must strive to protect wild animals from unnecessary harm.
As you know, S. 1579 would ensure that there is adequate land for wild horses to roam and would also prevent the sale or transport of horses or burros for processing into commercial products. S. 1579 has been referred to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Although I am not a member of this committee, I will closely monitor this legislation as it makes its way through the Senate.
Animal welfare is personally important to me. I am a co-sponsor of S. 727, the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2009, a bill which would prevent the slaughtered of horses for human consumption. In the 110th Congress, I also cosponsored several bills to protect companion animals: S. 714, the Pet Safety and Protection Act; S. 1880, which would make dog-fighting a federal crime; and S. 2439, which would require the Federal Bureau of Investigation to track animal-cruelty crimes nationwide. Provisions very similar to the Pet Safety and dog-fighting bills were included in the 2008 farm bill, and I am happy to report that they are now law.
I also strongly supported the Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act, which passed the Senate and is now federal law and I have pushed the Appropriations Committee to provide funding to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to develop plans for evacuating pets during emergencies, such as should have happened in Hurricane Katrina. In addition, I was proud to support the passage of P.L. 106-152, a law banning the interstate trade in "crush videos." Under this law, it is illegal to engage in the interstate commercial distribution of materials depicting animal cruelty, specifically the crushing of small animals by women wearing high-heeled shoes.
Although I am proud of the accomplishments made on behalf of animal welfare so far, I am aware that there are still many animal welfare issues remaining to be addressed.
Again, thank you for contacting me on this important issue. Please do not hesitate to contact me if I may be of further assistance on this or any other matter.
Sincerely,
Charles E. Schumer
United States Senator
BLM's Funding Increase
The BLM's funding is supports special interests, not our Wild Mustangs. http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=20674&pst=1376569
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
FREEDOM???????????
Home of the Brave and the Land of the Free?
Frank M.59 min ago
"Freedom is just another word when there is nothing else to loose." Freedom in America is freedom for corporations to pollute, to send money off shore, to pay for political campaigns, to control health care, to own our politicians, to be people in a court of law and sadly to eradicate our wild mustangs. No power on earth can push back. BUT although we have lost our freedom and are about to loose the very living symbol of it we are still "THE BRAVE" and will push back regardless of what it costs, until our mustangs win back our freedom.
Frank M.59 min ago
"Freedom is just another word when there is nothing else to loose." Freedom in America is freedom for corporations to pollute, to send money off shore, to pay for political campaigns, to control health care, to own our politicians, to be people in a court of law and sadly to eradicate our wild mustangs. No power on earth can push back. BUT although we have lost our freedom and are about to loose the very living symbol of it we are still "THE BRAVE" and will push back regardless of what it costs, until our mustangs win back our freedom.
Monday, February 1, 2010
The air, water and certain lands belong to ALL THE PEOPLE get over it. It took 500 years for mustangs to evolve into what they are and surely would rather die in the teeth of a wolf then as baby back ribs for two. To remove Americans living symbol of freedom for food by locals would be like scraping the Statue of Liberty for copper by New Yorkers.
Deaths Keep Mounting
So far over 40 Wild Mustangs have died as a result of their removal from their land by government contractors. The Secretary of the BLM Salazar fluffs it off by saying "horse advocates are simply emotional." He's DAMN RIGHT WE ARE. It's our land and our horses, not his rancher friends.
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