I just KNEW that rabbit/mustang cross breeding was a bad idea.....

Future source of cheap steak. Little chewy, but good.

See what happens when you let horses horse around. You get horseplay! Now get back to the barn, and hoof it!!

Gullible, naive people have created a mystique around the wild horses that is not only misguided, but in error. Almost all of them are descended from domestic horses. There is very little exotic bloodline. And those starry eyed believers have no idea of the damage those rampaging herds do to grasses and erosion control. The BLM has enjoyed a protective bureaucracy that allowed BLM employees and favored friends to shuttle the horses through phony adoption procedures and, eventually, to the slaughter houses. There is real money in the slaughter of a 1200 pound horse.

There´s nothing romantic about these animals on the plains. And there has been real criminal activity inside the BLM Wild Horse Program for at least twenty years. I know what I´m talking about.

Sounds like a certain segment of our society.

There´s always going to be a bleeding heart brigade out there protecting horses because they´re sympathetic animals.Wild boars,not so much.

This new gun ban could hurt western ranchers from what I understand.They use large clip guns going after coyotes and such to protect their herds.

I don´t eat meat anyway but if I did ,it wouldn´t be a horseburger.

Raw material for ALPO.

My sister bought a Mustang 45 years ago at an auction. They used to round them up once a year and sell them. It was a great little horse but of course she had to train it first.

I think horses are God´s greatest animal creation. But I would rather see these animals killed humanely than starve to death because the land can´t provide enough substance.

This might be a manifestation of that LIBERAL phenomenon called "Unintended Consequences". Prior to the early ´70´s thse animals were slaughtered for meat...
Lots went to Europe; the Urban Legend back then was,the street wiener vendors in New York City sold it in their wieners. Also, it went to make pet food. Now we burn our corn in gasoline,allow wild horses to breed and take up food for domestic cattle.
Maybe they should fence Central Park, and put a cute herd of Mustangs up there; allow the East Coast Libtards to hand feed them, up close and personal...

Horse meat is recommended for those with anemia, as it is higher in iron
and animal source iron (heme iron) is best absorbed.

Yerps love horse meat, especially in Belgium, I´m told.
Ironically, Hanoi Jane Fonda was in a flick entitled, "They Shoot Horses, Don´t They?"
Gig Young won an Oscar for it.

Speaking of Hollywood idiots...
maybe you recall "Dances With Wolves."
Remember that Kevin Costner bemoaned the loss of the Lakota´s "four hundred years´ horse culture."

Hmmm...
horses are not indigenous to the Americas and were imported here by those nasty white Yerp bad guys.
Indians, who had been Stone Age pedestrians, rode Yerp import horses, drank white man´s alcohol, and fired white man´s guns.
What a traditional Lakota culture we lost.
Bury my heart at BS Central.

And these mustangs are like feral cats.
Do what ya gotta do with ´em.

I´ve read where wild burros have been a problem, too. Another non-native species.

Liberals are not an indigenous species to America and are known to have an adverse affect on natural law and order--particularly in America and American culture.

There, fixed that one line....

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I also wanted to point out the problem with pythons in Florida´s Everglades. On the Tampa news tonight a 17 foot Burmese python was shown that was caught there. Try laying out that distance on your living room floor. Makes a mighty impressive snake. They have been raising havoc with small (and large) native species here. But snakes don´t get the publicity horses do.

Ingredients:

2 pounds (1 k) horsemeat, cut from the rump, or beef if you must
2 sticks celery
2-3 carrots
1 large onion
4 cloves
A dozen coriander seeds
1 bay leaf
1 clove garlic
2 ounces (50 g) lard or porkback fat
1/4 cup olive oil
1 bottle full bodied, dry red wine - Purists call for Reiciotto Amarone or Valpolicella Superiore, but a less expensive red will work just as well
Salt & Pepper to taste
1 tablespoon butter kneaded in flour
Flour
Paprika to taste (2-3 tablesoons, not too strong)
Preparation:

Lardoon the meat with the lard and slivers of carrots. Dice the other vegetables and put them with the meat and the spices except the paprika in a bowl; pour the wine over everything, cover and marinate in the refrigerator for three days, turning the meat occasionally.

Pat the meat dry (reserve the vegetables and the marinade), flour it, and brown it in the oil, in a pot over a brisk flame. Add the vegetables, and when they´ve cooked for a few minutes, pour the marinade over the meat. Reduce the heat to a simmer and cook for about three hours. Once the meat is done, remove it to a platter and blend the sauce.

Return the sauce to the fire, thicken it with the butter-flour ball, and season it to taste with paprika. Pour the sauce over the meat and serve, with polenta and the side dishes you prefer.

The wine? Amarone or Valpolicella Superiore, or a Cabernet-Merlot blend along the lines of Valcalepio.

copied from About.com
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Ship them to Afghanistan, they can use horses.

The main problem is, the ranching & farming industry have a better lobbying business operating in Washington than the Mustang/Burros do. Years ago I read that less than 5% of our beef industry operates in the dry arid regions where the horses & burros are. But the land is leased to ranchers & has been for decades, long enough that they think of it as theirs, instead of the American people. They pay next to nothing to run cattle on the land & use it as theirs. Most of the ranchers have put in wells for their cattle & resent every weed & every gulp of water the equine take.

Excuse me but the Obama admin deemed mustangs a species to eliminate. 2 years ago, the locals fought the feds but lost... and the mustangs were herded up & moved to a place too small for them.

Why kill off mustangs? I don´t know.. ask someone who hates America... like the Obozo WH.

I´d bet that 0 doesn´t have a courage to ride a horse, any horse.

Allen Edmonds makes a wonderful shoe out of horse leather: cordovan. Made in the USA.

This story is BS. The rabid Interior Dept has been slaughering horses by the thousands and selling the carcasses to Canada for transport overseas. There are only about 5,000 left in the vast western U.S.

Sell it to the French. They really know how to make it taste good.

Horses evolved on this continent, so to say it´s an invasive species is incorrect.

It´s the ranchers and farmers, who are often corporations, who don´t want the growing herds. It´s invasive only so far as it pertains to the ranchers and farmers. There´s just not enough room for the big herds anymore.

Lt. Grant was an expert horseman, and wrote great praise in his memoirs of his mustang down in Texas on route to the Mexican theater of war.

In 1846, Lt. Grant, while on reconoitering, just outside Corpus Christi, came across a herd of wild horses, "As far as the eye could rach to our right, the herd extended. To the left it extended equally. There was no estimating the number of animals in it. I have no idea that they could all have been corralled in the State of Rholde island, or Delaware, at one time"