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| particularly people from the states where we are dealing with this issue. Preservation of the cattle industry,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the livestock industry, is prominent.The wild horses are an anomaly in all that. And then they were classified as a threat to habitat and a threat to other species -- livestock being one of those "other species." Then the removal began. And then the loss of horses began. And the BLM has struggled ever since to come up with something humane. At this point, the issue continues to be the issue that it was when I got involved with it about six or seven years ago. There have been published reports lately suggesting that the BLM is either selling wild horses to people associated with horse slaughter or was lax in its duty to avoid doing so. In response the BLM has promulgated new rules designed to reduce the risk of that. What's your impression of those new rules? I think the new rules are a step toward reducing the risk. I think absent oversight, absent enforcement as part of the mechanism for |
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