Roundup: The taxpayer-funded government act of utilizing low-flying helicopters to stampede and brutally tear America's wild horses away from their native homes and chase them into lifelong confinement, resulting in thousands of wild horses and burros losing their freedom, and increasingly, their lives.
Have you ever seen a round up? Well let us tell you, it is absolutely excruciating to watch. Horses are chased by helicopters for miles, over very rough terrain, then run into a trap, removed and placed into holding facilities set up by the Bureau Of land Management. Families are separated, horses are injured, sometimes with broken legs or broken necks; the injuries become fatal. Foals drop in the sagebrush from exhaustion, never to be found again. What happens beyond here is the possibility of more hell to come. The horses fall into the wrong hands, abusive hands, greedy hands and all too often find themselves in the slaughter pipeline.
We as tax payers are funding this brutality. Along with that, we also pay for the state land which is being utilized by big cattle and sheep ranchers; grazing for minimal cost at our expense.
Its not the horses ruining the environmental aspect of these land management areas, grazing the land to bare ground; however, it is from the impact of the sheep and cattle, placed in a concentrated area the destruction is huge in a short amount of time.
The wild horses are a scapegoat. We must find a better way, we must do better for these beautiful symbols, they deserve better.
We as tax payers are funding this brutality. Along with that, we also pay for the state land which is being utilized by big cattle and sheep ranchers; grazing for minimal cost at our expense.
Its not the horses ruining the environmental aspect of these land management areas, grazing the land to bare ground; however, it is from the impact of the sheep and cattle, placed in a concentrated area the destruction is huge in a short amount of time.
The wild horses are a scapegoat. We must find a better way, we must do better for these beautiful symbols, they deserve better.