Sam travels to Nevada to investigate why millions of our tax dollars are spent rounding up, jailing, and sometimes killing wild horses and then helps the American Wild Horse Campaign administer birth control to wild horses using a dart gun. If only human birth control were that easy. Sigh.
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“I am the bread of life, for without me, there is no… did that leaf move?” * bolts away, whinnying and kicking *
Reply-Horse Jesus.
Sam’s a Horse Girl. XD
ReplyI do like the BLM adoption programs, but wild horses are important, and deserve a place in the US. I agree that I don’t want my tax dollars going towards the abuse and slaughter of these animals. Population control is important to avoid mass starvation, but it feels like there’s room for wild horses and corporate interests want to say there isn’t.
Need some male contraceptives too.
ReplyThat target block has been trying to conceive with her long term boyfriend for 8 years. Shame.
ReplyYeah, those horses are an issue actually. I’ve worked with horses professionally for close to half my life. They go crazy in the wild of the US because they have almost no predators. They blot out all other species given the chance, they’re actually an invasive species. This argument you’re making for leaving them alone isn’t a good one. Round them up, then give them to a good home.
I’m totally with making sure they’re taken care of, I love those animals with all my heart, but don’t leave them in the wild. Bad idea
ReplyDo you just start with the hot ones?
ReplyModern horses on the north and south American countinents are invasive, not native. Most people see cowboy movies and assume that horses were here before European conquest. They are not.
ReplyGreat job highlighting the bs greed of society damaging my horses!!!
ReplyAs others have said, horses in the US are an invasive species. They have virtually no predators and overwhelm public lands displacing native wildlife. They’re an ecological disaster.
It should obviously be done humanely, but from an ecological/environmental perspective they absolutely need to be removed.
I’ve volunteered with programs to help remove invasive species. I can’t imagine what a PITA It must be to be involved with removing the invasive horse population. I had enough trouble convincing people certain trees were damaging to the environment, explaining the damage horses can do must be next-level frustrating.
Sorry Sam, pushing for them to be treated, humanely is a wonderful cause, but pushing for them to stay on public lands is like fighting to keep gas-guzzlers on the road because you like the way they look.
ReplyThe sheer irony that is America in the modern era vs the reason for it’s reason for independence (Americans disliked paying tax’s and not receiving adequate representation)
ReplyYet flash forward to the modern era and we have mega corporations that get the representation for little to no tax, and the average person (votes) gets gerrymandered/filibustered/vetoed by the electoral college or straight up the representative elected just ignores the wishes of their voters and turns to corporate money any way (examples: Joe Manchin and Kyrsten).
So it is a mystery that America is still not fighting harder to get the representation they pay in tax’s for.
PS: Religion is another example of a tax free political powerhouse that profits and even persecutes others with government support, while the tax payers who are targeted suffer in silence and have no real representation.
Yeah but what about the boy babies from dairy cows, where do they go?
ReplyI guess wild horses COULD drag me away.
Reply“The New York energy vibe” haha, priceless.
Replyhow do they collect the used darts? I hope they pick them up
ReplySome of the “round up & removal” videos I e seen are just horrific. Animal abuse on another level. Like Russia in Ukraine kind of atrocities. And a wild mustangs only exist here in North America and we’re allowing our government to eradicate them for no reason. No reason at all. Because those are public lands. And those corporations have no right to let their cows push out the animals that belong to that public land and for our government to not only allow that to happen but to pay these corporations money to do it is insanity! I am a carnivore I love a good steak but seeing this knowing what happens on our public lands because of these corporations wanting to graze their cattle just makes me so sick to my stomach! What is wrong with our government that this is at all something that is given a thumbs up? Is horrific on a level that I am ashamed of as an American. I’m ashamed that we elected people to our government that would sign off on atrocities of this nature. You know, it really makes me think that nothing’s getting better in our country. It’s all just getting worse. And it’s going to continue to get worse until the four horsemen come. And when they do it’s everything that we deserve.
ReplyLet’s go Brandon!
ReplyHorses that look like Jesus? John Oliver would cream his pants.
ReplyWild Horses in North America are an artificially added invasive species. This is one of those “save the animals” efforts that are completely missing the mark.
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