by: Debbie Coffey (c)copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved
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The Indian Lakes Road/Broken Arrow BLM holding facility where the BLM is holding our wild horses in Nevada has a sign hanging at the entrance:
Troy Adams Broken Arrow USA.
The link to the website for Broken Arrow USA is no longer active. The Broken Arrow Ranch of Lincoln, CA was featured on animal cloning company Bovance’s website .
The sale of Broken Arrow Ranch’s cattle clone was listed at the Denim and Diamonds Sale and the last address in the middle column is: Broken Arrow Angus Ranch, Troy Adams, 345 Karchner Rd,, Lincoln, CA. 95648, phone (916) 645-1924 Pharmaceutical company Geron (www.geron.com) (TX. ViaGen and Trans Ova Genetics (of Sioux Center, Iowa) own Bovance, the animal cloning company (which featured Broken Arrow).
Most, if not all, of Geron’s board of directors each sit on the boards of several other pharmaceutical companies. ViaGen is very actively cloning horses:
Some background:
The first equine clone, named Prometea, was foaled in 2003. ViaGen is working with The Continental Studbook to register cloned foal produced for North America. ViaGen also has a facility in Queretro, Mexico for Latin American producers.
ViaGen is cloning cutting horses:
Viagen is cloning quarter horses: and lots of horses…look at ViaGen foals:
In 2008, The National Cutting Horse Association said clones could be shown. In 2009, The American Quarter Horse Association featured a forum on equine cloning and my bet is that clones will be approved in 2010.
Former Senator Conrad Burns, who scrapped many protections for the wild horses, registered as a lobbyist for the American Quarter Horse Association in 2008 with Gage LLC.
Conrad Burns was also a co-founder of Slaughterhouse Sue’s (Wyoming Rep. Sue Wallis) United Organizations of the Horse, a trade organization that is working to reinstate horse slaughter in the U.S.
The American Quarter Horse Association donates money to (sponsors) Slaughterhouse Sue’s United Organization of the Horse. This means the American Quarter Horse Association is pushing for cloning, while atthe same time donating funding to Slaugherhouse Sue’s push for horse slaughter in the US. So, they want to kill real horses, but they support cloned horses!
In 2007, ViaGen hired Leah Wilkinson to manage it’s food policy activities and outreach to the food industry. Wilkinson was the Dir. of Food Policy for the National Cattleman’s Beef Association, which is also a sponsor of the United Organizations of the Horse.
JoLynn Worley, a spokeswoman for the BLM, told me that the BLM does random DNA testing on the wild horses “periodically” at the capture site and the holding facilities. On the BLM website, it states that:
“The BLM actively monitors the genetics of each herd by sending genetic samples to Dr. Gus Cothran at Texas A&M University.” Dr. Cothran furnishes the BLM a report on every sample with recommendations for specific herds.”
Beside the fact that this, the BLM’s own statement, negates the BLM’s stated method of how it determines appropriate herd management.
What has Gus Cothran recommended to the BLM? What do genetics have to do with appropriate herd management levels?
Why is the BLM collecting the DNA of our wild herds, especially if there are “too many” of them?
Texas A&M is a hotbed of animal cloning. Even if Dr. Cothran is no longer at that university and is a paradigm of ethics, why is only one person storing and controlling the DNA of our wild horses, and seemingly without any oversight by peers or anyone else?
There are HUGE amounts of money involved in cloning, much more than natural breeding methods. Semen from clones and clones sell for much, much more money. There could be temptation for someone to sell DNA from our wild horses to the cloning companies.
Sue Stokke of the BLM said the BLM hires rendering companies to haul away dead horses from the Indian Lakes Rd. facility.
Since scientists have cloned cattle from cells from the kidney of a cow that had been dead for 48 hourshttp://afgen.com/clon49.html (in place for the DNA of dead wild horses?
The BLM sterilizes stallions as soon as they arrive at the BLM facilities, which doesn’t make much sense since the BLM immediately separates the stallions from the mares in different pens, so it’s not likely that they could impregnate one. However, if wild horses were to become extinct, and cloning companies had added even one protein or spliced in a transgene to patent their DNA (like Monsanto does with GE plants), then the cloning companies would have a patent that would become even more valuable with horses being sold as food and for pharmaceutical uses. It’s like eliminating the competition (they can’t patent natural horses). Cloning companies would own this life form.
ViaGen states that it also “adds value to the marketplace” by “licensing and selling proprietary animal genetics and providing traits and technology for animal agriculture industries worldwide.” It would be interesting to find out if any branch of the U.S. government has any shared patents with any of the animal cloning companies (the USDA shared a patent for “terminator seeds” which was bought by Monsanto, and the U.S. government has received royalties off of the shared patent!). Is the fox guarding the henhouse?
Noted:
Indian Lakes/Broken Arrow USA BLM holding facility:
Sue Stokke said that Troy Adams and his wife live in the big house that is on this property, and that a wing of the house is used by the BLM.
Property records for 5676 Indian Lakes Rd. in Fallon, NV indicate that the property is owned by Michael A. Casey and Claudia C. Casey. This property was bought as a bargain and deed sale in 2005. The sale price was $545,000. The assessed value is only $32,780. The Casey’ mailing address was 53601 Austin Hwy., Fallon, NV 89406
Jul 27, 2013 @ 21:33:49
Remember all those horses descended from Impressive? Even after the genetic defect was known – breeders kept breeding the same horses. Yes, I’m sure that there are lots of people out there who see this as a way to make big money! And that’s all that matters. And they want to get rid of the “mutts!…..
This has to be stopped – its just downright wrong.
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Jul 09, 2013 @ 15:33:12
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Mar 31, 2012 @ 18:27:28
Apr 02, 2011 @ 02:04:45
I found this report to be very disturbing. It exposes hypocrisy, leaving a person wondering where the sanity has gone.
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Dec 15, 2010 @ 14:25:02
michelle ~ How in the world do you think cloned horses will suffer any less than other horses? They are NOTHING like soy fillers! They are living, breathing horses that will suffer when slaughtered just like any other horse.
What on earth do you think cloning is? It produces creatures that are genetically equal to identical twins. They are NOT “lab grown meat” from a petri dish or something! They are born to a surrogate mare, and they don’t feel any different than any other foal. Cloning is another form of reproduction. My god! The fact that there are so many failures and defective clones just makes it so much worse than “natural” reproduction.
PLEASE! Understand something before you support it!
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Dec 15, 2010 @ 14:07:47
Barbara ~ You didn’t even mention HERDA in the cutting horse lines of Quarter Horses. I’m wondering how cloning will affect the incidence of this horrible genetic defect. Cloning these lines certainly will do nothing to eliminate this defect, quite the contrary it seems to me.
Cloning will perhaps allow breeders to go ahead and take the chance – as many already do, “wasting” 11 months if the foal is affected. I wonder how early they can tell if a clone has the defect. All I see is more suffering for the affected horses since these people have NO ethics and – as far as I know – there isn’t a genetic test for HERDA.
For those unfamiliar with this defect, HERDA is a genetic defect that affects the most elite cutting horse lines. It is a defect in the material the holds the skin layers together. In short, if a horse is severely affected, his/her skin literally splits and falls off. Even less severely affected horses cannot be used under saddle because their skin can’t hold up and will split and will not heal.
NOT a pretty picture.
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Dec 12, 2010 @ 13:49:05
Lab grown meat does not end the suffering of factory farming. It simply adds another form of suffering since cloning involves the deformities & deaths of the many unsuccessful clones that are not mentioned for every successful one. Just because an animal was grown in a lab, does not mean that it lives a happy life before dying. It’s going to be treated with the same disrespect as any other livestock.
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Nov 17, 2010 @ 21:40:37
my heads reeling.
one good thing about growing meat (in a lab) is that eventually factory farming will crash. animals are suffering everyday, this might be the key to ending it. as a vegan i WANT meat grown in a lab. it will be just like soy fillers. fast food uses fillers and now they will be the front runers to use petri grown meat.
my comment has very little to do with this particular blm problem, i realize that. im just commenting on the idea that lab grown meat could end suffering or GREATLY diminish it!!
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Nov 15, 2010 @ 19:39:31
GAWDDDDDDDD!!!! My head is reeling from all the DISGUSTING SHIT people do to and with animals. This is just disgusting, its sickening, and this space we have to live in is truly the outer limits…the twilight zone, the dark side and getting darker everyday. Sheezeeeee!!
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Nov 15, 2010 @ 19:03:03
That’s the way to do it! Buy local and/or buy from producers you know. The closer to home you get the better your chances of obtaining real food that is safe to eat.
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Nov 15, 2010 @ 18:45:52
No cloned meat here–I eat only source verified–from a family rancher friend in Montana.
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Nov 15, 2010 @ 18:01:05
This is very alarming and suspect! A very unwholesome situation!
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Nov 15, 2010 @ 13:23:59
Nov 14, 2010 @ 12:24:25
Did you maybe mean Deb coffey?
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Nov 14, 2010 @ 00:20:21
THANK YOU BARBARA!! Nicely done!
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Sep 14, 2010 @ 19:56:29
You most likely are already eating cloned meat as it was approved as “safe” by the Food and Death Admin. back in 2007. No testing of course. Those who produce cloned livestock claim that the offspring of two cloned animals is NOT a clone itself. Don’t let this bother you too much, after all, they are now “growing” meat in petri dishes and hoep to have that mess on the market soon. YUMMMM! Marti
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Sep 14, 2010 @ 04:40:44
DIRTY BUISINESS!! Any research done on the safety of eating “cloned meat” ???
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Apr 28, 2010 @ 05:01:03
I have contacted the author and she is VERY interested. We’ll keep you updated. Marti
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Apr 27, 2010 @ 21:22:48
Can this author interiew Dr. Gus Cothran? That should prove to be rather interesting!
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Apr 17, 2010 @ 22:25:49
While doing a research for a project about dogs I found your blog. Thanks for the info
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Apr 03, 2010 @ 08:15:26
Our horses are eaten as food (a high priced delicacy) in Europe and Asia. Just as Monsanto wants to control seeds with its patents, animal cloning companies want to control “animal agriculture” with their patents on cloned animals.
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Apr 03, 2010 @ 01:28:09
I have a bit of background in horses. Most cutting horses are quarter horses, with certain bloodlines used extensively. Some of the old ones that are particularly prized are Lena, Leo, Joe Reed, Skipper W, and some others. They are valued for their confirmation, which is particularly inclined to do well in cutting, and their temperament.
The problem breeders have is that no matter how hard you try, you cannot guarantee that a foal will have the desirable traits necessary to win at competition. Since gestation is 11 months, and it takes approximately 30 days to breed and then determine if a breeding was successful, you have a one year time frame to find out if the foal has what it takes. This makes cloning especially tempting for high-dollar breeders who want consistency in their stock. The more consistent the stock, the more wins, and the more money earned.
Wild stock is not used because the bloodlines are so inconsistent. In effect, they are the same as mutts are to dog breeders. The only thing that wild horses are useful for to these people is for slaughter.
So, it is perfectly consistent to advocate cloning and slaughter at the same time. Clone the high-dollar coveted bloodlines and slaughter the mutts because they are viewed as inferior and not worth keeping alive.
Now, here’s the rub. The more inbred a horse is, the more likely for genetic defects. This becomes clear when you go to a horse show and take a look at the back barns. They are filled with horses with conformational defects, yet sold to unsuspecting buyers who don’t know much and are simply relying on the bloodlines. Arabians are a foundational breed. In fact, they were used to strengthen the Quarter horse lines, as well as many other breeds. Why? Because the bloodlines were weak and needed an influx of new blood to strengthen them.
So, here we have people getting rid of wild mutt horses because they aren’t bred well enough, and eliminating one source of strength that they have should the inbred lines eventually prove to be too weak to produce anything worthwhile. That is, unless you can count on cloning. That is, if it is reliable enough and doesn’t cause eventual genetic problems. But this is not the view that is taken.
The view that is rampant in the horse industry is rather short-sighted. This is proved by the fact that many quarter horses were intentionally bred with conformational defects such as very small hooves that break down easily simply because they looked good in the arena. It took years to stop this practice, and many ruined horses.
The conclusion? Cloning will be very beneficial to the high-dollar short-sighted breeders who care nothing about horses except for the amount of money they can make in the short term, and unfortunately, this includes most. Wild horse slaughter is also beneficial in the short term to them because they are considered a nuisance and useless eaters. So there you have it. The horse industry in a nutshell. Not a pretty sight.
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