Via Craig Downer Here is my comment on Robert Bauers article on the wild horse situation including PZP that appeared yesterday on RT Fitchs blog. I recommend we all read this carefully including the intelligent comments: Good to see this lively discussion regarding how the wild horse and burro populations are being targeted and the law to protect them subverted. I was dismayed when the NAS study and its recommendations concerning the wild horse and burro program came out, because I saw immediately that they were not addressing the primary issue. This is the Fairness Issue, or the Unfairness Issue, however you want to term it. The problem is clearly not wild horse overpopulation, but it is human overpopulation and overrunning of the ecosystem in a very egotistical and insensitive, disattuned manner. This is producing chaos at various levels. The horses, who are a most ancient and long-standing presence in North America, when they return to living in the natural world, have their age-old instincts and knowledge revived, and this is expressed in their physical bodies and behaviors. These are true restorers of the North American ecosystem in so many ways, one of the chief of which concerns their digestive systems, which are not ruminant, but post-gastric, and so represent a much needed balance in an ecosystem that is heavily lopsided because of humans promotion of ruminant grazers. This is so elemental to an enlightened ecologist. But too many today lack objectivity because they are not after the greater truth and justice concerning all species, but rather look which way the winds blowing politically speaking for their own selfish worldly advantage in an out-of-balance human society. Concerning PZP and PZP-22, I do not claim to be an expert on this subject, but from what I have gathered there are some serious concerns about how it effects the long-term survivability of the wild horses, especially since it puts humans in the place of nature as concerns the natural selection that is occurring over the generations and that adapts each population harmoniously to its particular home ecosystem. We do not want to thwart the wild horses in their adaptation to the life community. People should have learned this lesson by now. There have been too many disastrous consequences of mans tampering with nature. What is so beautiful about the Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act as originally conceived is that it honored the place of this magnificent presence known as the horse in the natural world and mandated that people learn how to share the land and freedom with such beautiful and highly evolved beings in horse form, and much the same can be said of the burro.
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 00:17:43 +0000
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