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It’s a fact! 100% of men, women and children eat food, and 97.5% of must buy their food from others who bring it from an average of 2,000 miles away. And so the hungry ask: ”What’s in this tomato? Who planted that broccoli? Is it safe to eat genetically engineered corn? Why are they irradiating meat? Are we running short of water? Why is China growing our apples? What will happen to us if we can no longer farm? How safe is our food chain?” The Food Chain is an audience-interactive syndicated newstalk radio program and podcast broadcasting weekly on radio stations and streaming on demand on the internet. The Food Chain, which has been named the Ag/News Show of the Year by California’s legislature, is hosted by Michael Olson, author of the Ben Franklin Book of the Year award-winning MetroFarm, a 576-page guide to metropolitan agriculture. The Food Chain is available live via GCN Starguide GE 8 and delayed via MP3/FTP. For clearance and/or technical information, please call Michael Olson at 831-566-4209 or email michaelo@metrofarm.com
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Sunday Aug 04, 2024
Sunday Aug 04, 2024
Lacy J Dalton, President, Let Em Run Foundation & Internationally acclaimed Country and Western Music Recording Star
(Wild Horse Management, Policies and Procedures)
83,000 horses and burros roam wild and free throughout the empty spaces of the great American West. Though some very serious voices say they should not be allowed to run free, other serious voices say, “Let em run!” And so we ask:
Should we let wild horses run free?
Out here in the great American West, there is still a lot of wide open spaces. But as Aristotle once said, “Nature abhors a vacuum,” and so did the horses and burros that moved right in to those wide open spaces.
Horses and burros were brought to the West by Spanish Conquistadors, from which they made their escape into the void, where they became wild and free.
Over the course of time, the animals that preyed on wild horses and domestic livestock were, for the most, wiped out, leaving the horses to roam freer than ever before.
Today an estimated 83,000 wild horses and burros roam free in what’s left of wide open spaces of the American West. But they are not really free. In 1971 Congress passed the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, and now the wild and free are wards of the state.
The Bureau of Land Management is required by this law to manage wild horse and burro populations so as to maintain a healthy balance with the environment. It is in the management of these populations of wild horses and burros that we find our story.
And who better to tell that story, then Country Western Music recording star, Lacy J Dalton
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