"The current methods being used by your agencies, including helicopter roundups, are inhumane and unnecessary," Gov. Jared Polis and four congressional representatives wrote in a letter this month.
As feds remove hundreds of wild horses from Colorado, state leaders decry ‘inhumane’ helicopter roundups
https://www.denverpost.com/2026/09/13/colorado-wild-horse-helicopter-roundups-criticism/
19 Comments
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 21 pts · 10d
Wtf are they doing?
Kirp123@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 10d
The cheap meat Donnie promised has to come from somewhere.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 10d
Or cheap glue
frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 10d
If I see any purple meat anywhere I’m not eating it and I’m never going back to that business.
What are we even doing? The horse is a key icon tied to southern and cowboy culture - and they want to just chop them up? Most people here don’t want to eat an animal that’s as close a friend as dogs.
Kirp123@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 10d
It was more of a joke. The official reason they state is population control I think. But it was announced awfully close to the beef import thing and people just immediately associated them.
frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 10d
It’s very shady timing imo. Especially if they sell the meat outside of the US for processing, then it makes its way back in via being mixed in with other meat sources.
abcdqfr@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 10d
Feeding the peasants
TheMadCodger@piefed.social · 19 pts · 10d
This was in Project 2025.
boobookittyfrick@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 9d
You will eat wild horses and be happy!
forkDestroyer@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 10d
Removing the horses from Colorado was in project 2025?!
TheMadCodger@piefed.social · 15 pts · 10d
https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
PDF page 560, or written at the bottom page 528
forkDestroyer@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 9d
Wowwwwww
hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 9d
Animal cruelty is not justified, even if we’ve created the problem.
sportsjorts@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 9d
Put trump in prison already. Fuck.
SillyDude@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 10d
Horses aren't native to north america. They aren't wild, they're feral. Its not even old Spanish genetics, they're just feral horses. Horses are stupid expensive for just a hobby so they get released all the time. They overgraze extremely hard because their digestive system is not designed for the western US.
MAGAts want this because they want to graze their cattle on what the horses are eating. I want this to restore some order to the entire ecosystem we destroyed. I want millions of wild bison.
stoly@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 10d
There were native equines before the last ice age. They are appropriate for that ecology.
igmelonh@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 9d
All equines originated from North America, at that, though yes they went extinct and were later reintroduced by Europeans.
Similarly, camelids like dromedaries, bactrians, llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, and guanacos also all originate from North America, their genetic ancestors crossing the Bering strait and moving west or moving south into South America. Those still in NA died in the mid-Pleistocene.
moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com · 2 pts · 9d
The price of gasoline is too low, and their budget is too high
Etterra@discuss.online · 0 pts · 9d
Are there too many or something? Just turn them into food I'm sure they taste fine enough and at least they're grass fed and free range.