by – April 28, 2015
The Boston Globe reports that after a herd of buffalo escaped from a farm in upstate New York, they were intentionally shot and killed:
Three men hired by the farm opened fire on the animals Friday afternoon in woods in the town of Coeymans, about 10 miles south of the capital. …… They escaped Thursday from a farm across the Hudson River in the Rensselaer County town of Schodack. The owner believes they swam across the river to the town of Bethlehem, where they wandered across a busy stretch of Interstate 87 and into neighboring Coeymans.
This heartbreaking incident reminds us that farmed animals, like all sentient beings, have a strong desire to live; in fact, Mercy For Animals has reported on countless animals who have escaped from slaughterhouses or jumped from transport trucks.
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Photos: Mike Groll / Associated Press
Exposing the Big Game 
So sad. The bison can’t win either. They set one hoof out of Yellowstone and they can be shot. Buffalo Field Campaign had photos of trucks taking others to slaughter houses. Just guess who wants the buffalo gone–the ranchers! Wolves aren’t their only victims. Never mind that there aren’t any documented cases of bison giving cattle brucellosis. The whole state of Montana just isn’t big enough for bison and wolves. I wonder how the poor souls in New York escaped before they were shot.