Horse Meat in U.S. Beef? Debunked | Durham News

Durham News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 28, 2026 · 1m

Rumors are swirling online that wild U.S. horses are being rounded up, shipped abroad for slaughter, and their meat secretly reimported as beef—especially amid Trump’s beef import push. But the USDA is shutting this down: horse meat is not imported for human consumption, and it’s illegal to mislabel it as beef. The Bureau of Land Management confirms wild horses aren’t sent to slaughter; any exports are live animals. The USDA’s strict inspection system verifies every imported cut, tests for species and contaminants, and only approved meats hit shelves—horse meat isn’t on that list. Bottom…