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Wild horse birth control or sterility? Tainted horse groups push for drugs amid warnings

From RealityChecksWithStaci-lee.com
January 2024

Anyone who has worked with the BLM or even just observes their actions know there is virtually nothing that will stop the roundups. Supporting the use of birth control accepts the narrative pushed by ranchers and energy companies via the mouths of the government. The use of birth control go hand in hand with the ‘Path forward’ agenda that leads to extinction. While victory has many owners failure is always an orphan. 

Wild horses don’t need birth control (but we humans sure do). A prime example of a species that is vastly over populated, decimates the land, rapidly depletes natural resources look no further than our own species. In truth we are the only species that falls into this category. We know deep down there are too many people for the natural resources to support. We ignore this truth choosing instead to find others to blame for the fast extinguishing of life on this planet.

Warning signs have been there for decades yet we persist in our over breeding and over using of what nature provides. We knew back in the 70s we were polluting our own drinking water knowing it could never be cleaned up, driving countless species to the brink and sometimes over the edge of extinction. As a culture this did not deter us and at times seemed to propel us as a country to go even further down the rabbit hole of hoarding.

For many, ego forbids them from admitting they have failed. This is particularly true when it comes to wildlife. Somehow we got it into our heads that our own species did not need managing but every other species does. The mindset that fosters this type of skewed vision of the world and perverts our relationship with nature is killing us and everything around us. We are nature it’s not something we go visit. This disconnect is how we find ourselves at a point where it’s accepted policy to kill wolf pups nursing in a den, contaminate our own food and water and remove native wild horses from their native range then shoot them up with experimental birth control drugs. How did we ever get to this point of insanity?

It’s a racket. Taxpayer funding for the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Wild Horse & Burro Program (WH&B) commands an annual budget of over $150,000,000. That is serious funding, some might say the kind that invites theft, fraud and corruption. A budget like this is impossible to keep track of and perhaps this is by design. The BLM has long been thought to be one of, if not the most, corrupt agencies in the entire Federal Government. That is quite an achievement considering the stiff competition in the corruption racket with such notables like Dept of Defense, Dept of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration thought to be a close second.

The use of birth control as a bargaining chip is a failed argument. Many horse advocacy groups fall back on the excuse of saying the fertility program is a bargaining tool. Back in 2017 many advocates and supporters thought these non profits; Humane Society (HSUS),Return to freedom (RTF), American Society for Prevention of Cruelty Animals (ASPCA) were going to champion the issues of wild horses and burros and elevate their plight to the level of urgent importance it always was.

They failed miserably yet cling to the tired myth this will end roundups. That lie was sold to the public and financial supporters of these non profits and other advocate groups that jumped on their bandwagon. Anyone who has worked with the BLM or even just observes their actions know there is virtually nothing that will stop the roundups. Supporting the use of birth control accepts the narrative pushed by ranchers and energy companies via the mouths of the government. The use of birth control go hand in hand with the ‘Path forward’ agenda that leads to extinction. While victory has many owners failure is always an orphan.

Never mind what was hoped for during negotiations between the chosen stakeholders back in 2017. The list of the participants reads like a who’s who in the ranching/energy sectors void of any genuine horse and burro advocates. HSUS has a long history of fraud people keep forgetting, ASPCA hasn’t done much for wildlife in decades. The only non profit just representing wild horses was RTF who has since back peddled with whiny claims they didn’t know that the government would just do their own thing. The American Mustang Foundation is a front for energy interests.

The ‘Path Forward’ set the tone for the unscientific basis of using AML’s to determine how many horses get to stay in a particular area. The aml stands for average monthly level which in laymen’s term means number of horses and burros. This number was concocted between ranchers and the BLM to see how few horses they can get away with leaving on the range so it doesn’t look completely wiped out all at once. The plan in 2017 was to take a few years slowly increasing the numbers of horses and burros removed in each roundup while increasing the use of toxic birth control drugs knowing eventually it would lead to birth defects and sterility. That is the true intent of the ‘Path forward’ and it’s working. ‘The Equid Specialist Group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Species Survival Commission recommends minimum populations of 2,500 individuals for the conservation of genetic diversity. Currently, no single herd management area on public lands has a minimal viable population for the long term.‘

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