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Australia Slaughters Brumby for Export Profit

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Wikipedia

Quoted verbatim is not

Honest argument
Posted by Shintaro, Friday, 7 January 2011 9:26:26 AM
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Thank you belly good comments.

Horses though are be exported for meat for human consumption which maybe not wise as they probly should be for animals.

Brumbies these are introduced by us, nurtured by us, maintained and made use of for work and colleagues in our every day life’s since settlement.

As an icon of Australia we have a responsibility to look after them as they have done for us. .

These are not natures food these are pets that have done their time and allowed to run as nature intended them to be free.
Posted by BrettH, Friday, 7 January 2011 11:04:45 AM
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So what's it like eating at the same level as your pets?...

At the beginning of the 20th century, pre-packaged pet foods were also available in the U.S. Initially they consisted primarily of dry cereals, but after World War I, dog food made of canned horse meat was available.
Posted by BrettH, Friday, 7 January 2011 11:35:58 AM
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Brumbies are not pets

They bred in the bush where they

Trample ecosystems
Posted by Shintaro, Friday, 7 January 2011 12:19:36 PM
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It is a very great pity that the federal and state governments underrate the economic value of a whole range of animals (eg., pigs, goats, deer, horses, camels) by declaring them as feral 'pests' to be eradicated, usually by paid government contractors.

Government eradication campaigns often use the terrible poison 1080 and result in the complete wastage of the animals, many of which can be harvested for their free range, pesticide free meat or for their skins (eg foxes and rabbits).

What short-sighted government regards as a 'pest' can be a very valuable resource where conservation management is applied, as it easily can be. To take a very obvious example, each year State governments fork out millions for contractors to dumps tons of poisoned carrots from helicopters to kill deer. The deer, along with non-target species die painfully and slowly in the bush, their bodies reduced by blowflies.

Yet the deer are worth millions as organic meat and the recreational hunting tourism could contribute many millions to small country towns that are struggling and will eventually disappear from the map. We will probably learn too late from European and North American experience of the economic and environmental benefits of conservation hunting. What shouldn't a properly trained and licensed hunter harvest venison for the deep freeze? They go through strict licensing and pay large taxes to government for their pastime.

Unfortunately the main opposition to change comes from the naive emotional appeals ('icons', 'pets') made in this thread, that originate from an irrational, romantic, Disney view of nature. What is even more regrettable, is that the blocking of change by such 'wildlife warriors' makes the 1080 chopper flights and the 'Nam like culling from the air inevitable as control measures.
Posted by Cornflower, Friday, 7 January 2011 2:58:13 PM
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Sorry Cornflower and for that matter Brett.
First Deer only became Ferrel in numbers recently.
Yes they have run in Sydney's national park, for a century but a failed Deer meat market saw trendys let them go.
Just 20 klms north of Newcastle on our national highway they run free, on the roadside and in farms making problems .
Not unlike those horses bad, horrible, smashes happen on that road caused by both.
Brumbys, well the Walers , Australia's best stock horse was freed in the bush long ago.
But so too are some of the worst inter breed types you ever could find.
Those who harvest the off spring go further than putting good mares out to run with them, or a very good stallion.
Worming blocks and feed in hard times too.
NO none native animals can be supported to run free.
A basic of conservation is clear.
This country is not natural horse country ,the herd near me runs in Forrest lands almost free of grasses.
And until fencing got better invaded farms every night.
You will find even draft horses in these scrubbers, some dreamers buy a horse and can not keep it they end up some times in great pain out in the herd ,a rough life for a city bred older horse.
Posted by Belly, Friday, 7 January 2011 4:40:44 PM
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