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Wild Horses Sold to Slaughter | Portland News
Wild horses and burros are being sold off by the Bureau of Land Management under a program meant to find them good homes — but animal advocates say hundreds are ending up at slaughterhouses. Skydog Sanctuary, which has tracked over 300 horses being bought for as little as $25 and quickly flipped for meat, is demanding the program shut down, calling it a loophole that turns protected wild animals into commodities. The BLM defends the sales, saying they’ve saved over $121 million in care costs and most buyers provide proper care — though critics argue this system enables federal complicity in…
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