American Horses Are Still Being Slaughtered for Meat

The US beef industry wants America to slaughter wild horses for meat

More than 90,000 wild horses and burros make their homes on public lands in the Western US, and each year, the federal government rounds up thousands of them. It typically holds them in large pens or pastures for months or years until they’re adopted or die — on the rationale that their wild population levels […]

American Horses Are Still Being Slaughtered for Meat

3,700 federally protected wild horses were sold in 2025, and a new investigation reveals some end up at the slaughterhouse.