Wild horses "adopted" under Trump-era program sold for slaughter

[Tanuki]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/us/wild-horses-adoptions-slaughter.html#click=https://t.co/5DnySb8n3s

"Records show that some people who are paid $1,000 a head by the government to give legally protected mustangs “good homes” are sending the horses to auction once they get the money.
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In fact, by the time he spoke on the phone, the animals were long gone. Records show that Mr. Kidd had sold them almost as soon as he legally could. He and his family received at least $20,000, and the mustangs ended up at a dusty Texas livestock auction frequented by slaughterhouse brokers known as kill buyers.

When asked about the sale, Mr. Kidd abruptly hung up.

The Bureau of Land Management, which is in charge of caring for the nation’s wild horses, created the $1,000-a-head Adoption Incentive Program in 2019 because it wanted to move a huge surplus of mustangs and burros out of government corrals and find them “good homes.” Thousands of first-time adopters signed up, and the bureau hailed the program as a success."...(more)

[Butterflylady]

1. Hideous, just hideous.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. Handing out OUR money to disgustingly bad actors, esp. in those populations likely to lean GOP

Seems to have been a large part of the Job Description in the addled brain of Trump.

[pandr32]

3. F*ckers!

Nail their asses over this.

[MFM008]

4. cant the secretary of Interitor

stop this from happening and punish those who did it???
Cant someone?
Anyone?