9-4 IAN Horse Rescue
Activists keep Nevada horses from going to slaughter Associated Press 150 mustangs that had been set to be auctioned off for possible slaughter after their removal from the range in Nevada have been granted a reprieve. With financial backing from Florida horse lover Victoria McCullough, activists acquired the animals Friday for $29,800, or $200 a head, from the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Tribe in northern Nevada. McCullough, who seeks a ban on the slaughter of horses for consumption and export to other countries, rescues the animals through her Wellington, Fla.-based Triumph Project. At the auction, 150 horses were sold to residents and rescue groups.The question that confronts me of course, is what about the residents who bought these 150 horses? Will they take them in and care for them or will they end up setting them loose somewhere after finding out that they are difficult to train and expensive to feed. I am reminded of a recent conversation on this very subject with Wyatt Prescott, executive director of the Idaho Cattlemen’s Association and he said this: “the general feeling amongst the cow producers is that we need to utilize all the resources we have as efficiently and as best as possible. Everything lives, everything dies and death with a purpose brings full meaning to life.”
