Action Alert: Protect Mustangs from Illegal Slaughter in Mexico
The following action alert is from the American Wild Horse Preservation. 
They always say it doesn’t happen, but we know it does, and now the Interior Department Office of Inspector General (OIG) has confirmedit — nearly 2,000 federally protected wild horses were illegally sold by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and then brutally slaughtered in Mexico.
Here are the faces of some of our cherished mustangs, heartlessly rounded up from their homes on our western public lands, thrown into holding pens, and then sold by the truckload to a known kill buyer, Tom Davis. Even Davis admits BLM employees who sold him more than 50 truckloads of wild horses “had to know the horses would end up at the slaughterhouse.”
Yet no one — not the BLM employee who sold the horses despite receiving reports that they were being sold to slaughter, not her boss or her boss’s boss — is being held accountable. In fact, Sally Spencer, the employee who sold the horses to Davis, is being allowed to keep the monetary bonuses she received for moving so many horses out of the BLM holding system during the years she was selling them to Davis!
The OIG report gives these employees a pass. Worse it politicizes the issue by suggesting that the BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Program is a shambles because it is illegal to sell captured wild horses and burros for slaughter!
This is unconscionable. We must demand that the President and Congress hold the BLM accountable for this travesty. And, we must stop this from ever happening again by permanently outlawing the sale of America’s mustangs for slaughter!