Comment from Karen Moulder
AnonymousOpposeIndividual
Summary: The commenter opposes the management practices of the BLM and USFS regarding wild horses and burros, specifically criticizing the use of "poisonous toxins" like PZP. They argue that the agencies are unfairly targeting wild horses to benefit cattle ranchers and call for an end to roundups and sterilization procedures.
Please stop using poisonous toxins on the US wild horses. Because of greed it is in the best interests of the cattle ranchers ( over 95% of whose beef is shipped overseas) to use the Federal Land for their personal profit , the land their cattle destroys. Wild horses and burros , however live harmoniously with the land. These are scientific facts. To achieve their end, the BLM and USFS must scapegoat wild horses and remove them from their rightful home as per Freeroaming Wild Horse and Burro Act of 1971. They have in the cruelest fashion captured these magnificent,sensitive, family devoted whb and kill pens are now flooded with them. There are more wild horses in prisonlike holding lots than there are on our federal land designated for them ( and already shrunken in size by BLM). They claim overpopulation, in fact they are underpopulated. In their helicopter roundups, foals are lost and run off their feet trying to kerp up, legs snd necks if horses are broken. Those they will return, already ripped from their families and herds, should NOT. Receive PZP ( or Gonocan or any other system interruptor- PZP is classified by the USDA as a toxic chrminal) which has terrible effects on health and mortality and also renders them sterile- these magnificent bloodlines, some dating past 5 million years ) are being lost forever, indeed lack of genetic viability equals total extinction. To say nothing if the fact that this is incredibly cruel and sending all into obscurity