Horse meat has been showing up all over Europe, from Ikea’s Swedish meatballs to British lasagna. Meanwhile in Oklahoma, the state legislature is poised to legalize horse slaughter, and the Bureau of Land Management is meeting there today to discuss the management of wild horses under its care.
The BLM, which is part of the Interior Department, currently keeps 22,000 wild mustangs in Oklahoma. BLM keeps mustangs on government land, and when its herd gets too big for the range, it rounds them up and either keeps horses in “holding pens,” pays ranchers to graze them, or sells them for as little as $10 a head.
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