Galicia’s Wild Horse Roundup Runs Headlong Into Modernity<br />" she said, "because it causes terrible stress to animals<br />that live in the wild and aren’t used to human contact." "To brand a horse with hot iron can only cause huge suffering," she said. that We don’t criticize what’s being done, but how it’s been done,<br />But the ranchers believe that the problem is mostly irresponsible drivers, who speed along country roads<br />and "just don’t respect the horses," said José Fernández Martínez, the president of an association of ranchers.<br />Xabier Fernández said that It’s probably the healthiest meat you could eat, coming from a horse that’s really part of a natural forest ecosystem,<br />Gerra did that is a way of continuing what our fathers and grandfathers<br />Even if a roundup cannot be compared to bullfighting in terms of cruelty, Ms. Duarte added, "the argument in its defense is the same, which is to evoke tradition." "Any tradition<br />that harms animals must be reviewed," she said, "and doing something for a very long time doesn’t mean it shouldn’t now be adapted to our times."<br />Rather than finding any evidence of animal mistreatment, he said, "I see here people who love animals and nature." Still, Oia’s event circumvents Spanish legislation<br />that forbids the transport and slaughter of animals without full certification.
