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[igotthisguitar]

Shooting them from airplanes too, eh? Whew!

Thank God its only the horses they'll be culling to "protect the environment"

D'ya think John Howard was maybe planning on sending the nice fresh meat to business associates in China?

Likely quite lucrative


Mass Killing Provokes Outrage



SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian state government's campaign to shoot more than 10,000 wild horses to "protect the environment" were Sunday attacked by some animal rights activists as inhumane.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071111/wl_asia_afp/australiawildlifeanimalshorses
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[djsmnc]

"Who's gonna ride your wild horses?"

[Kuros]

I don't see any difference between this and culling deer here in the US.

[Junior]

You seem to have chosen sentimentality and emotionalism over a proper understanding of the environment.

The Brumby is not natural to Australia and it harms the natural ecosystem. They should not have been introduced there. Same as cats, rats and dogs, or the american mink in europe.

A huge amount of unique native australian mammals are already wiped out from the mainland and survive only on isoalated offshore islands now. In places they have to create fenced off secure reserves, free of cats and rats just to keep these species in existence.

Culling the non native stuff is a great idea. The crime was to transplant them there in the first place.

[deadman]

[igotthisguitar]

If they really are that bad for the environment, are no Aussies interested in adopting a horse?

Do the Howardians have similar point, aim & shoot plans for non-indigenous people
who are seen as posing similar threats to the environment?

[caniff]

[Vicissitude]

That's really sad. There are so many ways to cull such herds if they are really harming the environment as they say. People harm the environment more than anything. Should the government start such a similar practice with people? Wait, they already did that with the indigenous Aborigines.







I bet more than anything this was to help make way for more cattle. They harm the eco-system too. Who's complaining about that?

[The Perfect Cup of Coffee]

Wouldn't it be more cost-effective to round 'em up and auction them off? Seems a huge waste of resources to kill horses which can be bred for a purpose like work-animals, racing, leisure, etc.

[Harpeau]

It's actually been described as a horse disease outbreak. Funny how the media likes to spin stuff.

[sojourner1]

I understand that horses are not native to Australia and there are too many of them for the habitat to support along side with the native wildlife such as roos. This might be the reason why the horses were shot.

Back home in the states in the Midwest, deer populations often get out of hand so they issue more permits to shoot them and the conservation department often shoots them too. It's not because deer are not wanted, it's because the populations run the risk of being too high to allow the deer to have enough habitat to live in.

They are having a big kill this year and all my people are enjoying the bounty of free wild game meat.

[Leslie Cheswyck]

This should bring down the price of glue.

[Tony_Balony]

The animals weren't really butchered, they were shot. Butchered means they were cut up. Use the word "cull".

[Vicissitude]

[igotthisguitar]

Speaking of abuse to animals, this kinda stuff just breaks my heart.



Cats (top) are caged along with chickens at Qingping market in Guangzhou November 16, 2007. Scorpions scamper in bowls, water snakes coil in tanks and cats whine in cramped cages, waiting to be slaughtered, skinned and served for dinner. Welcome to the Qingping market, where everything from turtles to insects are sold alongside fowl and freshly caught fish.

(Joseph Chaney/Reuters)