The US government is about to kill 45,000 wild horses. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is under fire after deciding to euthanize the unadopted wild horses it has been keeping in holding facilities across the US. The wild horses were removed from their natural habitat by the BLM so that privately-owned cattle could graze on the land for profit.
The decision hasn’t been particularly well received. The Humane Society referred to it as “a complete abdication of responsibility for their care,” and panned the bureau for not using birth control to curtail the growth of the population.