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  Cadillac ATS Vs. The Wind

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  By metaops

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Wild mustangs are not a part of our day to day lives. The probable extinction of wild mustangs does not resonate in the hearts of many of us. To most of us, these unique animals are merely wild horses, beyond our control.
Actually, these wild mustangs belong to all of us. We might well say, but they are far away, I can't even see them. Therein may lie the key. We cannot see them unless we are willing to drive into the wilderness where they are supposed to be “Free To Roam”. There is something of which we all must be aware. If we cannot see our wild mustangs, what else can't we see? We can’t see what our government, in concert with corporate money and self-interest is doing with our public lands. One of the reasons we are aware of what is happening, is that people travel, sometimes great distances, to see the wild mustangs and thus, we also see what else is being done to our public lands. This may be a contributing factor in the continuing disappearance of our wild mustangs. As I write this, they are being rounded up using helicopters. Family units are split up, and the traumatized mustangs languish in long-term holding pens at tax-payer expense. This is blatant and senseless animal cruelty. I believe some are being sold to slaughter houses in Canada and Mexico where horses can still be slaughtered for human consumption. Perhaps part of the reason for these roundups has not so much to do with the mustangs themselves, but rather, to take away our incentive to travel to these remote areas to witness, these true icons of our once “Wild West” and thereby become aware of how our heritage is being stolen by corruption and short-sighted greed.