A U.S. government program intended to protect wild horses is instead subsidizing their path to destruction. nyti.ms/3wbUIEW
The Bureau of Land Management, which cares for the nation’s wild horses, created an Adoption Incentive Program to move a huge surplus of mustangs and burros out of government corrals and into “good homes.”
But that’s not always what happened. nyti.ms/3wbUIEW
Records show that instead of going to “good homes,” truckloads of horses were dumped at slaughter auctions as soon as their adopters received federal money. nyti.ms/3wbUIEW
The bureau has denied the allegations, noting that they require all adopters to promise to not to resell the horses to slaughterhouses. But a spokesman said the bureau had no authority to enforce those agreements or track the horses. nyti.ms/3wbUIEW
Read more about the fate of wild horses in the U.S.: nyti.ms/3wbUIEW
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