Help to Save The American Wild Mustangs

Tell President Obama to Suspend ALL Summer Round-Ups Immediately!

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Tell President Obama to Suspend ALL Summer Round-Ups Immediately!
With your help we can make this happen! Please tell your friends & help us Save America's Mustangs!

Time is running out... there are only about 30,000 Wild Horses and Burros left and if the BLM has it's way and we don't act they'll be gone for good!

Don't let it happen! Not in America we can stop this.
Take action NOW!

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ASPCA Urgent Alert


Dear Animal Advocates,

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is the agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior that administers America's public lands, including the animals who call these lands home. As part of its wild horse management program, the BLM periodically rounds up large numbers of wild horses and moves them into long-term holding facilities.

Over the weekend, the BLM began its latest roundup of more than 1,200 federally protected wild horses on public lands in Nevada. The use of helicopters to run the terrified horses over miles of scorching desert resulted in serious injuries and several horse deaths, which led to temporary suspension of the roundup.

This occurred in spite of the fact that the BLM, under intense public criticism, established an open comment period on its plans for wild horses that is not over until August. Instead of waiting to hear what the American public has to say, BLM officials decided to go forward with these cruel and brutal roundups in the blistering heat of summer (several more are scheduled for the coming weeks). This, of course, is funded by your tax dollars.

What You Can Do
Call the White House Comment Line today at (202) 456-1111. The Obama Administration needs to be told—politely!—that the BLM’s actions are underhanded and inappropriate, and that the current roundup and others scheduled this summer must be canceled immediately.

Please visit the ASPCA Online Advocacy Center at www.aspca.org/BLM to learn more about this issue and to see some tips on what to say when you call.

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I just called the White House Comment line and after waiting for a little while got through. I politely and passionately expressed that President Obama must do something to stop the round ups. Please take a few minutes today and make a call. The more call the better.

Horse meat from here? Just say no

Horse meat from here? Just say no

Originally published in the Wyoming Tribune Eagle on Sunday, May 2, 2010.

So Dale Steenbergen at the Greater Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce has no comment on a proposed horse slaughter facility here.

Well, here's one suggestion:

Not only no, but hell no!

That should be the message coming from Mr. Steenbergen, the Cheyenne City Council, the Laramie County Commission, Cheyenne LEADS, this area's legislative delegation, the governor (who signed this ill-conceived legislation) and anyone else who cares about progress and prosperity in this community.

There are so many things wrong with this proposal from state Rep. Sue Wallis, R-Recluse, that it is hard to keep track of them. But let's focus on the most important one: Cheyenne's image.

How could Mr. Steenbergen and other community officials here not speak out -- very loudly -- against a proposal that will draw national disdain?

Does Cheyenne want to be known to potential employers and possible technology-minded residents (remember, the world's largest supercomputer soon will be opening here) as a progressive community or as one that imports horses and puts some 7,000 of them to death every year?

Do community leaders hope to attract tourists or chase them away? Are they willing to face a potential national boycott from such groups as the Humane Society simply to allow a rogue state representative and her investors to try to peddle horse meat from Wyoming?

Does the Chamber of Commerce want people to enter town along a newly renovated West Lincolnway only to look across the railroad tracks and see holding pens for horses awaiting their turn in a slaughterhouse, mobile or not?

No, this is not what Cheyenne in 2010 should be about -- not to mention such issues as the odors of holding and slaughtering of horses and the environmental implications of such a facility -- and its leaders need to consistently speak up until this project is laid to rest for good.

It is true that the issue of what to do with horses as they reach the end of their lives is problematic. And parts of Ms. Wallis' proposal make sense.

She would bring in the horses, triage them and then move out those that can be adopted or rescued. Unfortunately, the rest would be killed in some yet-to-be-explained "humane way." Then the meat would be sold -- though to whom and for what use remains unclear, given that there presently is no market for it.

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http://wyomingnews.com/articles/2010/06/29/opinion/staff_editorials/ourview291.txt

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