How the Trump Administration's Wild Horse Sales Quietly Feed a Lucrative Slaughter Trade

Under Trump, protected wild horses are going to slaughter

While the BLM can’t kill wild horses, it can use a series of bureaucratic maneuvers and financial transactions to transform them on paper into domestic livestock, stripping their legal protections.

Loophole Allows Feds To Flush Wild Horses Down The ‘Slaughter Pipeline’: REPORT

The BLM reportedly increased sales of federally protected wild horses, some of which end up in a pipeline that leads to foreign slaughterhouses.

How the Trump Administration's Wild Horse Sales Quietly Feed a Lucrative Slaughter Trade

The American mustang once symbolized untamed freedom on Western rangelands. Helicopters now chase many of them into government pens. From there, thousands head to private buyers at rock-bottom prices. Some never stop until they reach slaughter plants across the border. This isn’t a rogue operation. It’s federal policy in action. The Bureau of Land Management rounds up the horses to manage populations. It then sells them after failed adoption att…

Federal wild horse program faces scrutiny amid slaughter concern

If Thoroughbreds born into the sport of kings face slaughter concerns, then what hope do wild horses have? Federal lands are becoming a stage for what critics call a troubling expansion of roundup operations and a slaughter pipeline that contradicts decades-old animal protections. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management's wild horse roundups are underway across the western U.S. as advocates warn that thousands risk long-term captivity and slaughter. …

UFC's Bryce Mitchell Is Convinced Trump Admin Is Eradicating Wild Horses So The 'Rebel Army' Has No Transportation

Bryce Mitchell has never been shy about sharing his theories with the world, and his latest one connects two things you wouldn’t expect to see in the same sentence: the Trump administration and the fate of America’s wild horses. The UFC bantamweight took to social media with a strange claim. According to Mitchell, the removal of wild mustangs from Western rangeland isn’t about ecological balance or herd management at all. It’s about mobility, an…