‘The Wild Horse Is Us’

After surviving the ice age, the industrial revolution and the slaughterhouse, America's wild horse population is facing a new threat: the U.S. government. The Bureau of Land Management announced this week that it is considering euthanizing wild horses to curb the population on the range and in federal holding facilities. There are an estimated 33,000 wild horses living in 10 Western states, and another 30,000 living in government corrals. The BLM is billing euthanasia as a way to cope with looming budget cuts, while still maintaining the mustang as a living symbol of the American West. But critics say that the herds have already been thinned to the edge of extinction with periodic roundups and auctions. A century ago, there were around 2 million wild horses roaming the West; now the BLM wants to cut that population to 27,000. In "Mustang," her new history of the wild horse in North America, Deanne Stillman explores why America is destroying the horse it rode in on. Read the rest of this article at Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/id/144279 In my opinion. It is all about money. Ranchers need grass lands for their cows grazing. We saw how they got rid of wolves a few years back. Now, due to laws protecting the wolves, they are some what flourishing...Well...compared to what they were, not really. How sad is it how much man destroys. We kill the Indians for their land, kill off the buffalo to kill the Indians, kill the wolves, we kill other people because they are not like us. Is it ok to kill before being killed? When will the governments and people in charge start taking this action with people. They all ready do with abortions. We need to get back to the Truth. All things the Lord has created has a purpose..FOR HIM!!! Not for us to decide when to play god. The Wild Horse is Us! Let them live.