HSUS Applauds BLM
Wow I never thought I’d see the day an animal activist group credits the Bureau of Land Management for doing something right. Welcome to Open Range, I’m Susan Allen, stay tuned for the story. The Humane Society of the United States and a bevy of other horse welfare and animal rights groups have taken the BLM, Bureau of Land Management to court many times over the last few years over what they believe to be inhumane and or lax methods used to maintain wild horse herds. So I was literally amazed to read the August 16th Humane Society press release that applauded, and yes that word was used, the BLM and the FBI for a sting that saved nearly 50 wild horses. If wild horses are over eleven years old or have been passed over three times they can be sold rather than adopted by the BLM but the buyer must agree not to sell the horses to slaughter. Saldy there are unscrupulous buyers and in this case the truck hauling the BLM horses was seized near Helper Utah and the animals sent back to a BLM facility. A spokesperson for the HSUS attributes the swift action of both groups for sparing 47 horses a horrific death in an unregulated Mexican slaughter facility. For over 20 years the Humane Society of the U.S., (not to be confused with local animal shelter groups) has been against the export and slaughter of American Horses for human consumption and are advocates for the use of a fertility control agent to help control the wild horse populations
