Hundreds of America’s wild horses reportedly sent to slaughter under Trump
https://www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/americas-wild-horses-sent-slaughter-under-trump-administration
https://www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/americas-wild-horses-sent-slaughter-under-trump-administration
36 Comments
terranoid@lemmy.cafe · 43 pts · 19d
"beef"
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 19d
All the ivermectin the MAGA crew was taking may have prepared them for the mystery meat coming soon to a grocery store near you.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 23 pts · 19d
Hot take: in areas we haven't reintroduced wolves or other predators, feral horse populations should be controlled so they don't compete with native buffalo.
Edit: even hotter take: mountain lion hunting should be banned so they can help take care of deer and horses.
arin@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 19d
Mystery Whitehouse meat that skips inspections 🇺🇸
Leather@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 18d
The only thing MAGAts seem to be interested inspecting are people's genitals.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 19d
feral horses
arin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 19d
Sounds like they have some madcow adjacent disease, and that's going to be in the new Whitehouse mystery meat 💀
plateee@piefed.social · 4 pts · 19d
It's okay, prion disease totally isn't passed on by consumption.
Also, it's completely possible to cook out the bad prions.
Trust me, I'm RFK.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 19d
Oh god, I thought parasites and bacteria were all we had to worry about, but now we're gonna be hearing about prion outbreaks?
I hope they at least label it with "TRUMP MEAT" in giant gold letters...
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 18d
probably parasites from pork too. you probably die from bacterial, viral or parasites before a prion disease, because they take so long to manifest.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 18d
But parasites and viruses are curable if they're caught early enough and you have a strong enough constitution. A prion is a death sentence involving a slow and painful descent into madness.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 18d
it will be feral pig meat. RFK does want all those brainworms, and taniea solium eggs do lodge in the BRAIN.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 19d
Yes Congrats, all the horses in America are descendents of domestic horses. We call those who haven't been domestic in more than two generations 'wild', though. Ya know, to differentiate them from actually feral horses. 'Wild' horses in the US are actually semi-feral though.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 18d
wild horses are only used in context of species level. since there are no true wild horses in the wild.(prewazalki is actually descended from an ancient lingeage of demestic horse.) Horses, camels did evolve in North america though.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 19d
So tons of Trump mystery meat appears and they refuse to say where it's from.
Meanwhile, this is happening.
Is the media scared of being sued for making this connection? Nobody seems to be relating the two, but it seems so obvious.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 19d
ZDL@lazysoci.al · 5 pts · 19d
WTF is with all those "Thank you for your attention to this matter!" blurbs at the bottom of each of his messages? Does he think it makes him sound all statesmanlike or something?
Donnie. Baby. (And I mean that literally as you being the world's oldest toddler.) That shit makes you sound like an HOA Karen, not like a statesman.
Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 19d
The horses should be in sanctuaries.
Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 19d
Why do you say they should they be in sanctuaries rather than the wild?
Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 19d
If they're an invasive species it could be a threat to the ecosystem.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 19d
So are Taco Bell franchises.
Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 19d
Wait, I thought wild horses were native to the Americas?? Are they invasive? Thats wild
Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 19d
I think a lot of the current day wild horses come from Europe.
Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 18d
Oh interesting. But horses themselves are native right? are there different species of horses that occupy different ecological niches that might cause ecological problems by them being here? (No worries if you dont know I'm just curious)
Thanks for the explanation!
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 19d
Wait until you see what humans - a rapidly -spreading invasive species originally from africa mixed with a group from france about 200,000 years ago - are doing to the ecosystem !
Sanctuary? Sign me up!
save_the_humans@leminal.space · 1 pts · 19d
Maybe it'd help to release some polar bears into the suburban ecosystem to help curb the population.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 19d
That's the way it's gonna be, lil' darling
We'll be munching on the horses, yeah yeah
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 19d
Broken clock moment, they're not native and they make it harder for native species to survive, there shouldn't be any wild horses in the Americas, they're literally just feral domesticated animals that we do nothing about because people think they're beautiful or whatever other stupid justification. This is a good thing.
piccolo@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 19d
Horses quite literally evolved in the americas migrated to asia and went extinct in americas ~10,000 years ago.
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 19d
Idk how you managed to type the words "and went extinct in americas ~10,000 years ago" without having a single fucking thought about them, genuinely impressive
piccolo@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 19d
What?
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 19d
Horses went extinct naturally in the Americas thousands of years before the arrival of European colonists, after which their previous ecosystems continued adapting to life without them, then we introduced distantly related domesticated animals to those ecosystems, causing harm to the native species that now have to compete with them. They don't belong here in the wild, it's our fault that they are, fixing that would be a good thing.
piccolo@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 19d
There are pretty strong theories that over hunting caused the extinction of many mega fauana at the end of the last ice age. Though obviously, the climate change caused disruptions that would allowed our ancestors to push many species over the edge.
And sure, modern domestic horses would be different than their wild ancestors, as they would have been less adapted to their new environment, and that can pose problems for the horses themselves. But 10,000 years is hardly time for ecosystems to adapted without them, in fact, eco systems are dying because we have killed off all the large herbivores. Have a video to explain things far better than i can
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 19d
There are native north american large herbivores we can work on repopulating, horses aren't one of them. 10,000 is plenty of time for an ecosystem to change in response to the absence of a large species.
piccolo@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 19d
Other than Bisons, there isnt any other large native species that thrive in the environment horses do.