So would a zebra, which is what horse meat is supposedly trying to replace.

Yup, they absolutely destroy all the natural ponds and streams across neveda. No natural preditors, without human intervention, they'll ruin the landscape.

Cool! I also dig the fact that botulotoxin, one of the deadliest substances to exist naturally, is successfully used in medicine. Botox treatment doesn't only remove wrinkles from skin, it can deal with spasms, tics, chronic pain, excessive sweating... basically everything that can be stopped by suppressing nerve signals. Who knew that swollen tins of biohazardously spoiled food contain the key to curing so many conditions.

There is a big difference between Asian carp and wild horses. The destruction they actually do far outweighs overgrazing. That argument isnt very good anyway.

"Excess"? Aren't they all excess?

That's not the argument. Are wild hogs livestock? Not were they.

Livestock” means livestock as defined in sec. 602 of the Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance Act of 1988 [7 U.S.C. 1471], as amended, insects, and all other living animals cultivated, grown, or raised for commercial purposes, including aquatic animals.

They were not grown or raised and US Law specifically bans them from being sold for commercial meat. Not Livestock

Not exactly the same plant. Socrates is believed to be poisoned with true hemlock Conium maculatum, not hemlock water-dropwort Oenanthe crocata, which is presumably named after the real deal. They are both in the same family that contains a lot of extremely poisonous species, and also edible ones like carrots and parsley.

I'd much rather the federal government end the backdoor-moratorium on horse slaughter in this country.

I also think that most uproar over sending "wild" horses to slaughter is because they're seen as cute and have been miscoded as pets. When someone tries to do their part and eat Asian Carp out of the Mississippi watershed, for example, no one whines on the internet about how those fish are treated.

It’s best known use though is as a medical grade paralytic. Rocuronium, vecuronium, and other derivatives (notice the root of the word “cur” as in curare) are used every day to keep people relaxed during surgery

it's illegal in the states.. but Mexico will pay 3-400 a horse and truck them down across the boarder, or just outright steal them and take them down if they can get away with it

Yes, Hogs are not native to north america, they are an invasive species brought from eurasia as livestock

An adult warthog would fuck a cheetah up.

>They were free roaming wild animals. Rounded up. Penned and potentilnally abused. Then bought en masse and sold for meat.

That's the definition of livestock.

Wild hogs are exterminated en masse because they are an invasive pet brought over from Eurasia. Probably the worst thing you could have compared a horse to.

I'm not the one who made the numbers nor the only one posting it..

As for the rest of your paragraph. Thank you for your contribution.

The biggest cost to me was losing my dog, GDV is a son a a bitch that more owners should be aware of. Nowadays when a dog gets fixed they can do something to prevent it.

I’ve adopted 3. They’re wonderful horses.

I hope to adopt again some day.

>Wild horses used to range in the millions.

You just made that up. Before the Wild Horses and Burros Act was passed in 1971, wild horse numbers were kept in check by ranchers and state wildlife officials.

As for BLM's roundups, they're required to do that by federal law. They're required to define herd management areas and set appropriate numbers for each area, and then round them up when those numbers are exceeded. This is not discretionary. You don't like the law? Complain to Congress, not BLM.

The cost for her last months of life was she was on a ton of meds and I was taking her in like every week for assessments and check ups. She was my girl so I didn’t mind. I’m in SoCal with ties to Seattle. I was giving my dog like 15 pills a day before her GDV happened. I’m glad I got my 14 years, she was likely closer to 17-18 when she passed

Not always, the wild ponies at Assateague are treated like celebrities and folks pay a lot of money to name them. Excess ponies are auctioned off and top pony can go for close to half a million. Average is around $17k.

I've ridden tamed mustangs before. They can be excellent horses, sturdy, healthy, easy to keep, and if they spend a few winters in the wild, they don't easily spook.

Full 360 whoosh

Pretty sure either Star Wars character is named after this. He even brags about creating a poison that he's immune to.

It was I think the fact that I brought her there that morning and a couple things where done during the assessment. You are correct when I look back it wasn’t just the putting down part that cost me that much.