{"id":744,"date":"2008-07-20T11:59:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T18:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/07\/killing-horses-because-turtles-and-shrubs-are-more-important\/"},"modified":"2008-07-28T22:34:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T05:34:16","slug":"killing-horses-because-turtles-and-shrubs-are-more-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/20\/killing-horses-because-turtles-and-shrubs-are-more-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Slaughtering Horses Because Turtles and Shrubs Are More Important"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the New York Times<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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On Mustang Range, a Battle on Thinning the Herd<\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n

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Marilyn Newton for The New York Times<\/p>\n

A federal bureau has a captive herd of 30,000 mustangs and is proposing a euthanasia program.<\/span><\/p>\n

GERLACH, Nev. \u2014 Five mustangs pounded across the high desert recently, their dark manes and tails giving shape to the wind. Pursued by a helicopter, they ran into a corral \u2014 and into the center of the emotional debate over whether euthanasia should be used to thin a captive herd that already numbers 30,000.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The champions of wild mustangs have long portrayed them as the victims of ranchers who preferred cattle on the range, middlemen who wanted to make a buck selling them for horsemeat and misfits who shot them for sport. But the wild horse today is no longer automatically considered deserving of extensive protections.<\/p>\n

Some environmentalists and scientists have come to see the mustangs, which run wild from Montana to California, as top-of-the-food-chain bullies, invaders whose hooves and teeth disturb the habitats of endangered tortoises and desert birds.<\/p>\n

Even the language has shifted. In a 2006 article in Audubon magazine, wild horses lost their poetry and were reduced to \u201cferal equids.\u201d<\/p>\n

[ click to read more about these inhuman horse killers at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from the New York Times On Mustang Range, a Battle on Thinning the Herd Marilyn Newton for The New York Times A federal bureau has a captive herd of 30,000 mustangs and is proposing a euthanasia program. GERLACH, Nev. \u2014 Five mustangs pounded across the high desert recently, their dark manes and tails giving shape […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}