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Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 | 2:14 p.m.
CARSON CITY — More than $20,000 has been raised to protect 41 wild horses being put on the auction block by the Nevada Department of Agriculture. Wild horse advocates say the mustangs are purchased, sent to Canada and Mexico for slaughter and the meat shipped around the world. The American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign said Wednesday it received the donations to buy the mustangs and care for them until they are adopted. Deniz Bolbol, communications director for the preservation campaign based in San Francisco, said there were thousands of donations from the U.S., South Africa, Europe and Canada. The horses ...
I hope it is enough to save them. I wish the Governor would listen to the residents and also people from other states who are threatening to boycott Nevada because of wild horse policies. Hundreds of thousands of people asked the BLM to stop putting wild horses in danger of slaughter but the State of Nevada continues to do so.
What do you drooling horse lovers think about what happens to the thousands of quarter horses that run at Los Alamitos in So Cal? Do you think that when they slow down by the age of four, that they end up on a nice farm, being fed and having vet treatment as needed? No, they end up in Mexico being chopped up for deluxe dinners in France. Face the facts, fools.
Dapperdoog ~ Your comment is totally irrelevant. We DO know what's happening to race horses, performance horses as well as wild horses, stolen horses and any other unfortunate horse that happens to fall into the slaughter pipeline.
They all get shipped to Mexico and Canada and are brutally butchered for sale overseas. Now, tell me something I DON'T know. I've been fighting this illegal, cruel and unethical "business" for over 30 years when I lived within 40 miles of the two slaughter plants in Texas. Slaughter is slaughter, no matter where the horses come from.
WHO is a fool?