The New York Times has an incredible piece out discussing how the government is paying for people to adopt wild horses who then turn around and send them to auction for slaughter. Here is an excerpt from it,
The Bureau of Land Management, which is in charge of caring for the nation’s wild horses, created the $1,000-a-head Adoption Incentive Program in 2019 because it wanted to move a huge surplus of mustangs and burros out of government corrals and find them “good homes.” Thousands of first-time adopters signed up, and the bureau hailed the program as a success. But records show that instead of going to good homes, truckloads of horses were dumped at slaughter auctions as soon as their adopters got the federal money. A program intended to protect wild horses was instead subsidizing their path to destruction.
Because of situations like this, Free Rein Equine Rescue exists. We protect the defenseless and work each and every day to give shelter and compassion to our Equine Family.
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