Please Help Save the Buffaloes!
I find it completely ridiculous the way our government allows such cruel and inhumane practices to go on in regards to our animals in this country. I can get into a whole litany of outrage over this but right now, I’m just going to speak about the wild Buffaloes of Yellowstone National Park.
If these animals venture outside of the park boundaries (following thousands of years old migration routes looking for food in winter), they are rounded up and shot or sent to slaughterhouses. More than a thousand of these last remaining free bison have been killed this way already.
Not only that, but in May when the newborns arrive, they will be killed, too. Newborns.
Why you ask? Well, it’s to protect the 12 to 16 cows that live just outside the park boundaries from a theoretical risk of disease – brucellosis – that has never been transmitted from bison to cattle in a natural setting.
So let’s see, 1,000 plus bison killed to protect a little more than a dozen freaking cows. Hmmm. Such logic and wisdom used in that decision. Besides, if the ranchers are fearful of the disease, there is always a vaccination they can give the cows – who most likely have already received it.
These buffalo are the last free roaming herd in all of America. “The National Park Service should be their guardian, not their executioner.” (quote from NRDC).
Does this mean one day in the future when we go to Yellowstone to see the last vestiges of the wild west of America there will be no more buffalo nor wolves since they are being hunted down the same way even though they are on the endangered species list??!! Really, what the hell is wrong with people? We need to stop this now!
Please take a minute to sign your name to the protest the NRDC is doing to try and put a stop to this cruel, barbaric, pointless and just plain stupid act of slaughtering thousands of the last free roaming bison we have.
By the way, the plains Native American nations consider the bison to represent Abundance since they gave their lives to help sustain the people with food and warmth from their hides. It’s ironic that these killings of the last free roaming bison are happening now when our economy is in the sh!tter and the feeling of abundance is lacking more and more in our country.
*photo from the NRDC
March 17 2008 01:48 pm | activism and nature and news and society and travel/vacations
