Reply #51: Here is the reason the cattle ranchers want to exterminate the

[Cleita]

wild horses.

http://www.aldf.org/article.asp?cid=471

Legislation needed to save wild horses from slaughter

Published 1-27-04 (Washington, D.C.)

Last December, Montana Senator Conrad Burns slipped language into a spending motion that quietly stripped wild horses of their last remaining protections under the law. The new provision legalized the rounding-up and selling of wild horses and burros “without limitation.” In other words, Burns gave Western ranchers what they’ve been hoping to get for years: the go-ahead to destroy wild herds and grab publicly owned grazing land for their own cattle. In the meantime, more wild horses will be taken off the range and sent to slaughterhouses — and, from there, to the restaurants and butcher shops of Europe and Asia.