One Step at a Time: Defending Horses and Burros Living on Public Lands
The U.S. Senate passed an amendment on Tuesday, voting 68-29 to prohibit the use of federal funds to kill horses for food exports. Many thanks to our concerned visitors and members who insisted that the senators take this action.
Friends of Animals will continue to keep the pressure on, mindful that slaughter is not the only danger that wild horses and burros face in their rugged western territory. As long as ranchers continue to usurp land for animal agribusiness, mustangs, burros, and other free-living animals need tireless support, and we plan to provide it.
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On September 25, 2005, Kim Oasis wrote:
Fight For animals’ Rights!
On September 29, 2005, tenzin wrote:
i am…….
absolutely opposed to the slaughter of wild horses and burros. we need more humane efforts to control an exploding population…fight on for their safety always.
[ Blog editors’ note: Thanks for your support. We’ve met with environmentalists from the western states. Seems the populations of horses and burros will in fact not be so intense as officials like to tell us. This is because the forbidding terrain itself keeps the population in bounds.]
On October 7, 2005, Pam Leitt wrote:
Federal lands should not be made available to ranchers. If they don’t have enough land to graze their herds, then they need to reduce the size of the herd. Federal lands belong to all of us and, should not be leased. The ranchers are greedy and forget that this land is to be shared and the small amount they pay, per acre, does not give them the right to kill everything that eats the grass on those lands.