Trump Administration Approves Massive Wild Horse Slaughter - Protected since 1971
 

Despite 80% of Americans disapproving of horse slaughter and horse meat sales in America, it doesn't mean shit to the Trump administration.

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Congressional committee votes to allow destruction of wild horses – The Denver Post

Local horse meat? Congress says sure, for now | New Food Economy

The House Appropriations Committee voted to reverse a ban on destroying healthy wild horses and burros that was contained in a spending bill signed into law by President Trump in early May.

?Let?s be clear: House Appropriations Committee members just signed a death warrant for America?s mustangs and it will lead to the wholesale destruction of these irreplaceable national treasures,? said Suzanne Roy, director of the American Wild Horse Campaign in a news release.

Wild horses share only a small amount of their grazing land with cattle, Roy said, but ranchers ?want the whole pie.?

Last week, the appropriations committee voted to overturn a ban that blocked the Agriculture Department from providing inspectors at meat plants that slaughter horses.

In 2007 the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled it is illegal for horse slaughterhouses to pay the U.S. Department of Agriculture to perform health inspections,which ended the plants in the U.S. The lack of funding for federal horse meat inspections has kept horse slaughter operations from reopening.

?The two changes would reopen American slaughterhouses and could eventually lead to wild horses being sent to them. Right now, they could be killed en masse by the BLM or a contractor, so long as it?s for non-commercial purposes,? Roy said..

Senators Tom Udall, D-N.M., and Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., are expected to introduce an amendment to restore the ban on funding for USDA inspections of horse slaughter plants, Roy said.

I will suspect there will be people out there will guns ready to shoot anyone who tries to kill these horses. I'd have zero issues shooting someone to protect those horses. I know I wouldn't be the only one.

MAGA any day now...

Just another example of Trump supporting the extreme minority.

Cattle herders take up 70% of that government land and want it all for themselves. The most fucked up thing is the cattle herders see the wild horses as encroaching on their turf. Fucked up

If anyone starts shooting those horses there will be a bunch of dead cattle and ranchers.

They have been shooting wild Mustangs long before Trump came into power.

Look at the dates.

US Government could kill 45,000 wild horses

Thousands of U.S. Wild Horses Saved by Public Uproar | Time.com

I doubt if it would make any difference if Clinton were in power. The farming lobby would push it through.

sad ..........

its a really shitty economy if wild horses are the problem :2 cents::2 cents:

Horse is delicious