Under Trump, Hundreds of America’s Wild Horses Are Being Sold for as Little as $25 and Being Sent to Slaughter, Report Says

Under Trump, hundreds of America’s wild horses are being sold for as little as $25 and being sent to slaughter, report says

Animal advocates are voicing concern over wild horse treatment after the New York Times reported that several hundred were being sold to slaughter since Donald Trump took office.

Trump Admin Under Fire as Protected US Wild Mustangs Are Allegedly Secretly Exported for Slaughter

A herd of 68 federally protected US wild mustangs rounded up from western public lands was quietly sold to an Ohio livestock dealer for just $25 (£18.50) each before disappearing from public view, fuelling fears among animal welfare advocates that they may have entered the foreign horse-slaughter pipeline, according to government records and a recent investigation. The transaction followed years of federal confinement in an Idaho holding facilit…

Is Trump Offering Mustang ‘Beef’? - LewRockwell

—– Writes Moon of Alabama:  One wonders about the relation between these two news items … Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter (archived) – NY Times, Aug 20 2026 They once had run free through the desert mountains of the West, a multicolored band of 68 wild mustangs that had never been saddled or corralled. Then the federal government rounded them up with helicopters, as it has with tens of thousands of other mustangs, in an…