Friday, November 20, 2015

Save The Bison

Bison roaming Yellowstone National Park that are controversially earmarked for slaughter could be spared, with the park looking at implementing a plan next year that will see members of the famed herd relocated to other areas rather than culled.

Yellowstone this week laid out plans to cull 1,000 of the bison this winter by delivering them to Native American tribes for slaughter. The annual cull is aimed at reducing the risk of bison passing brucellosis onto cattle in Montana. The bacterial disease can cause miscarriage in animals.

The cull is aimed at cutting Yellowstone’s bison numbers to 3,000, which is a figure set out by a plan agreed by Montana and the federal government in 2000. But the annual slaughter has provoked dismay given that Yellowstone’s bison are the last significant herd of wild, purebred buffalo in the US. They help draw millions of tourists each year to the vast park, which spans areas of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.

You can read the rest @
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/20/yellowstone-bison-marked-death-could-be-spared

Agents of the US government and various mercanaries slaughtered the bison herds in a genocidal action designed to domesticate the indigenous tribes of North America. Here is one of the mountains of bison skulls which resulted from that slaughter:


Since it appears to still be "necessary" to cull this remaining herd for the white man's needs, wouldn't it make more sense to turn them over to the descendants of those tribes, many of whom are still living (and starving) in US prisoner of war camps (a.k.a. "reservations")?

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