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[–] TrollAccount69@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah whenever blm does a roundup they shuffle the animals off to privately run kill pens that warehouse them in substandard conditions and market them to horse girls on social media.

It’s illegal to kill horses for meat in America so you gotta put em on a train to Canada where they mostly become dogfood.

But Americans don’t want them to be killed directly and instead ship the carcasses, so they hold the horses so someone can “adopt” them.

I don’t know why I used quotes there, it’s animal adoption just like a dog or cat except for the wild differences.

While the animals are held in government subsidized private kill pens they are subject to conditions that pretty much every horse owner hates.

Of course the solution is much bigger roundups with direct kills but the horse people hate that idea.

[–] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

They gotta cull these things. Horses breed like crazy, it would be easier if the US didn't treat them like wild pets and require the weird plausible deniability.

Almost nobody wants a wild horse, they're just gonna cull 99.9% anyway. And if you don't cull them they become diseased pests like deer.