Wild horse or burro roundups that BLM call humane, this is what really happens:

[CousinIT]

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/video-exposes-the-horrifying-reality-of-wild-horses-in-america/

The image of wild horses running free is so majestic and beautiful that it’s long been the subject of songs and the opening scene of movies. Yet, wild horses in America do not live a beautiful, majestic reality. Despite the fact that “Public lands are the birthright of wild horses and the American people,” as Ginger Fedak, wild horse campaigner at In Defense of Animals told One Green Planet, wild horses in America are mistreated and injured by the government.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has long been having “roundups” in which they use helicopters to frighten horses and round them up. The wild horses are absolutely terrified and confused as the video shows. Foals are separated from their mothers and many horses suffer injuries. These roundups take place so that corporations can exploit the public land that wild horses should have a right to. They’re rounded up for cattle ranchers to have more space for their “livestock” and for oil corporations to use the public land.

Describing just one roundup, Karin Brulliard of the Washington Post writes: “Over four hours, two helicopters pushed 117 horses into the trap. Foals, some weeks old, struggled to keep up. A lone black stallion stumbled under the chopper before relenting and heading into the pen, the gate clanging behind him. Three horses were later euthanized due to injuries, the BLM said.”

To expose the reality of the treatment of wild horses in America, Wild Horse Education and In Defense of Animals (IDA) united forces to put together the graphic video above. They displayed the video on a giant screen outside a key meeting in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, October 29th “where decision-makers prepared to sell out mustangs to animal agriculture and extractive industries for the next 10 years.”

Fedak told One Green Planet: “This is the last chance for wild horses, they are facing a killer blow. We came to the Capitol to expose the scapegoating and horrific suffering of horses on public lands which are being plundered by ranchers and big oil. Public lands are the birthright of wild horses and the American people, not the agriculture and oil industries. We need everyone to take action urgently against this betrayal at www.idausa.org/savehorses.”

[Bayard]

1. I'm trying to keep down the grilled cheese sandwich I just ate.

The BLM has been maintaining this atrocity for many years. Back in the day when there were still horse slaughter horses in the U.S., laws were past that prohibited crowding them onto trailers. Stallions had to be shipped separately from mares and foals. Apparently the government doesn't feel they have to abide by those laws--much like tRump. The conditions of the round ups and holding pens aren't managed by caring veterinarians--What's one more dead horse?

The ranchers have always ruled. Per The American Wild Horse Campaign, "80 percent of BLM land grazed by livestock has no wild horses on it, the cattlemen continue to push for mass roundups, and the BLM, under Zinke, has been happy to oblige. The agency is on course to round up and remove over 10,000 horses from the range this year (2018). The horses will be sent to holding facilities where 44,000 mustangs are already warehoused at taxpayer expense."

The BLM trashed an Obama (of course) era rule, that prohibited selling wild horses for slaughter. Used to be, they could only sell 6 horses to any one buyer, to discourage slaughter. Now, they let anyone buy 25 for $25 a piece, with no restrictions on how many times they can do it. So buyers load them up by the truck, and ship them to Mexico or Canada for slaughter.

Check out this website, with many more links. Donate if you can.
https://americanwildhorsecampaign.org/media/blm-scraps-obama-era-rule-protect-wild-horses-slaughter

[Duppers]

2. OhMyGod!! Donating now!

Thanks, Bayard.

[Duppers]

3. And I signed up for their email.

And signed hubs up too - he'll be as appauled as I am.

[StarryNite]

4. The US Forest Service and the BLM

are managing OUR wild horses to extinction all for the welfare ranchers and other special interest groups.

[panader0]

5. Once in the Oregon countryside, over 40 years ago,

I had to stop the VW camper to let a herd of cayuse cross the road.
I was awestruck.