Reply #86: Oh, little sweetcakes,

[petersjo02]

those animals have all lived together peachefully for thousands of years. Are you seriously trying to imply that stopping horse slaughter will endanger elk? I doubt there is any scientific evidence yyou can cite to make that case. And as for bison, it was the human race that brought the bison to the edge of extinction, not horses. Grazing animals tend to eat different types of vegetation, so different species can co-exist on the same land. Cattle ranchers don't like wild horses competing with their cattle for grazing, but that is a money/greed thing, definitely NOT a case of horses causing cattle to starve. What on earth makes you think that the horses that would otherwise be headed for slaughter would be turned out to fend for themselves anyway? Not real sound thinking on your part. Just flame material, I suspect.