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    7 hours ago

    I feel like the fact that you used the term “feral” and put quotes around “wild” shows that you already understand that that’s a bullshit argument.

    They’re also not everywhere in the Americas by a longshot, they’re certainly not in my neck of the woods.

    Feral ≠ wild. Feral horses shouldn’t be considered the same as the wild horses that once existed in the Americas any more than domesticated dogs should be considered the same as a grey wolf, or feral swine as actual wild boars.

    And at any rate it has been around 12,000 years since the last truly wild American horse existed, they’re no more a part of the modern environment than wooly mammoths are.