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(animal cruelty) NYTimes says Trump administration is using a legal loophole to send wild horses on public land to slaughterhouses (archive.is)
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The horses were packed into echoing metal trailers and trucked 1,800 miles east to the pens of a hard-luck livestock trader in Ohio named Brandon Jones, who bought them for $25 each.

A day later, two double-decker cattle trucks pulled up at midnight, loaded the mustangs and quickly drove off into the night.

From there the mustangs disappeared. They never appeared at a public auction. The trader won’t say where they went. Wild horse advocates suspect the horses were shipped to slaughter.

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[–] 39 points 2 weeks ago

Dealing with the US federal government is wild these days.

friend-visitor-1 "I'd like to renew my passport please."

friend-visitor-2 "I like turning horses into glue."

friend-visitor-3 "Okay... Can I just renew my passport?"

friend-visitor-4 "Not with those pronouns, you can't."

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    [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago

    Conspiracy take is that there’s secret Iceland style horse blood farms for making PMSG and that’s where the mares went. Pure settler mindset.

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    [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago

    I believe they have been doing this for a while, I remember awareness being raised / alarms being sounded about this at least more than a decade ago.

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    [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago

    don't ask why beef prices are about to get a lot cheaper.

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