Featured, Wildlife - Monday, December 8, 2008 3:41 - 108 Comments

Budget “Mishap”: Thousands of Wild Horses to be Slaughtered

UPDATE: The horses have been SAVED!  New Story coming soon.

Editor’s Note: This is a feature column by TL Daniel.

Recently the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) announced plans to kill tens of thousands of America’s wild horses.

The proposal “is killing pure and simple to balance the books for an agency whose reckless management has caused immeasurable harm to a national treasure at considerable cost to the American taxpayer,” said Chris Heyde, deputy director of government and legal affairs for the Animal Welfare Institute based in Washington, D.C. Continue…