Every year, tens of thousands of wild horses and donkeys are brutally removed from their territory by the US government -- to make space for industrial-level livestock grazing.

The government spends more than $80 million USD every year just to round up the animals and hold them in government holding facilities. Animals that aren’t adopted or auctioned off are “warehoused” in long-term holding facilities or sent off to slaughterhouses in Canada and Mexico.

We can end the torture and murder of these majestic animals!

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior, is in charge of managing these wild mustangs, a beloved symbol of freedom. And every year, they spend $80 million in taxpayer dollars to round up and remove them -- using low-flying helicopters to brutally stampede and capture the animals by the thousands.

Horses that end up in the slaughter pipeline suffer long journeys to plants in Mexico and Canada, as horse slaughter plants have been banned in the U.S. since 2007. During transportation, the animals are without adequate food, water, or space for rest before they meet their brutal and terrifying end.

It’s not only the horses and donkeys that fall victim to the profit greed of commercial livestock farming. Mountain lions, natural predators to the mustangs and regulators of the wild horse population, are also hunted and killed to protect livestock.

Together we can bring an end to this senseless animal cruelty for profit and commercial agriculture. 

Tell US Congress: protect wild horses!

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