The Department of Agriculture, in conjunction with the US Forest Service, intends to remove most if not all of the Salt River Wild Horses from the Tonto National Forest.
Though the department claims no harm will come to them, history tells us otherwise. One example: In the Apache National Forest in northern Arizona, home of the Alpine wild horse for centuries, the Forest Service hired a contractor to round up some 650 horses and send them to auctions, where “kill buyers” purchase animals to turn into food for dogs in the US, for human consumption in Mexico.
Only the intervention of the nonprofit organization Salt River Wild Horse Management Group, which raised funds to participate in these auctions held across the West and outbid “kill buyers” to save hundreds of horses. Still, a couple hundred horses remain unaccounted for, leading to the inevitable conclusion that they were sent to slaughter…