Under Trump, Hundreds of America’s Wild Horses Are Being Sold for as Little as $25 and Being Sent to Slaughter, Report Says
Animal welfare groups say low-price bulk sales and weak tracking can send federally protected horses into private trading networks.
- A herd of 68 federally protected wild mustangs was sold to Ohio livestock dealer Brandon Jones for $25 each, only to disappear from his facility within 24 hours of arrival in March.
- The Bureau of Land Management authorizes bulk sales for animals that failed adoption at least three times, yet investigators found the agency struggles to track horses once private ownership transfers.
- While the federal government spends more than $3,000 to capture and prepare each mustang, livestock traders can sell them to Canadian slaughterhouses for up to $750, creating significant profit incentives.
- Surveillance footage showed unmarked trailers leaving Jones's property at midnight, though he denied sending the horses to slaughter and questioned the footage's authenticity.
- Clare Staples, operator of Skydog Ranch and Sanctuary in Oregon, accused the Bureau of Land Management of allowing wild horses to pass rapidly into commercial trading networks.
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Under Trump, hundreds of America’s wild horses are being sold for as little as $25 and being sent to slaughter, report says
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