USDA's Wildlife Services Loses Yet Another Lawsuit

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Advocacy Group WildEarth Guardians has won their lawsuit against the USDA Wildlife Services after they agreed to stop their needless slaughter of native wildlife in New Mexico. This will spare black bears, cougars, foxes, and even endangered gray wolves from being unnecessarily slaughtered on all Federal public land. The lawsuit will also prohibit the USDA Wildlife Services from using cruel and agonizing traps, poisons, and snares on specific public lands as well. This is a major victory for the native predatory animals of New Mexico.

According to its 2020 annual program report, the USDA Wildlife Services slaughtered in upwards of 433, 000 native wildlife in 2020 alone. Among them, the use of agonizing snares and traps along with poisons that can sometimes take days to end the life of their target were utilized in the slaughter of these animals. These indiscriminate poisons and traps are rooted in animal cruelty and are often implemented without consideration for the suffering these animals endure after encountering any one of these potential traps. 

Can you guess why a large percentage of these native, predatory animals were slaughtered and continue to be slaughtered? If you guessed to protect the animal agriculture industry, you'd be correct. You see, these predatory animals hunt and there's really nothing better for them than livestock who are often easy targets for animals like bears or wolves. Unfortunately, because of their NATURAL INSTINCTS to hunt, they are being penalized with death to protect the money-making industry that is animal agriculture. The Wildlife Services is willing to continue slaughtering gray wolves, putting them closer and closer to being extinct with every slaughter, in order to protect the animal ag industry.

As you all know, animal ag is one of the most protected industries on this planet. Evidently, even being on the verge of extinction doesn't shield you from the animal ag industry as gray wolves have fought their way out of near extinction for many, many years. I can't say this enough, but if the livestock industry is so valuable to the government, they should be implementing some serious upgrades to their security and perimeter fencing to prevent these predatory animals from easy access. You can't serve up a delicious meal on a silver platter and then shoot and kill the damned animals for doing what comes naturally to them. We must also consider that this land long belonged to them and when we continue to take their land away to produce animals, we must expect that there will be conflict and be ready to utilize non-lethal methods in dealing with wildlife. Unfortunately, the Wildlife Services rarely makes a decision for the best of native wildlife, instead pandering to the heavily protected livestock industry

Let's look at exactly what this lawsuit against the Wildlife Services included;

• Banning the use of poisons, snares, and traps 
• Ending the slaughter of wildlife on specific protected federal lands
• Public-reporting of the Service's activities and non-lethal methods being used in dealing with native wildlife
• District Supervisors must review all wolf depredation investigation reports before a livestock depredation determination is made

To be frank, our continued slaughter of our planet's wildlife in order to produce livestock is shameful, disgusting, and nothing more than exploitative. To think that an organization tasked with making the right decisions for animals would so quickly resort to slaughtering them in order to protect the livestock industry, indicates that their priorities lie more with the money generated from livestock than the survival of an entire species.

I've said this many times before but every single species on the ESA was once abundant until we decimated them. We need to address our hideous track record on extinction and stop protecting an industry that exploits and tortures animals on a daily basis.

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