Nevada Governor Backs Selling Wild Horses for Food

I wrote to Governor Sandoval who backs the brutal roundups of wild horses, including foals, to sell to slaughter houses: All over the world American consultants are working to persuade local peoples not to kill the wildlife. Practical reasons: Wildlife is an essential part of the tourist and travel industry. Wildlife is part of what makes any given area unique. Other reasons: Wildlife are part of the web of life. Only recently we humans realized we were WITHIN and not above the web of life. We are not its rulers. We trample in it at our peril. What does it matter if we round up wild horses and sell them to eat? Our routine of killing to resolve wildlife "issues" belongs to the past. Certainly we can honor the past of the Wild West. That doesn’t mean we keep on as if we lived in the past, as if we were still those people who wiped out the herds of bison. They also thought it didn’t matter. Those who would like the earth to continue for our children and our descendants are thinking now about how we can transform our thinking and our approaches. We now see that we can harm the web of life. Harm can be caused that we can’t fix, no matter how hard we try. We are just beginning to learn about the web of life in ways we never knew before. Maybe you’ll say we can’t tell, right now, what we need to do in order to be guardians and caretakers of the earth for the future. Maybe not, but we can try to learn every day. We can re-examine the old ideas instead of blindly following them. And right now, we can stop holding up to our children examples like killing wild horses. Right now we can do that for our souls. And for the soul of the world. Thank you for reading this.