Saving the Wild Horses

Paragraphs by Paul Miller

When Marin activists are in action and when Willie Nelson stops singing and starts swearing, it’s time to take notice.

Last week the Bureau of Land Management helicopters drove thousands of wild horses off their God-given pastures into trapping pens on private Nevada land.  Before the drive, 20 protesters from In Defense of Animals, a foundation based in San Rafael, led more than 50 other protesters who raised some angry dust at Senator Dianne Feinstein’s office in San Francisco demanding that she help stop the government roundup. The American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign coordinated similar protests in other states and in London, reported the Marin Independent Journal.

Veterinarian Elliot Katz of In Defense of Animals called the roundup a land grab in straight ahead language: “The herd isn’t being cut back for the health of the horses [as the government claims].  It’s to give more and more leases to the cattle industry.”

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