Today 4:17 pm
///////Really, y’all? This is America now? Rounding up our wild horses, selling them over the border to be slaughtered for profit? A New York Times journalist recently reported that the numbers of wild horses at the auction house has increased dramatically. In 2025, the government sold 3,700 wild horses, many of whom ended up in Canadian slaughterhouses.
We have a really big problem in our society. Everyone is seen as a unit of profit, everyone can be commodified. There is no inherent respect for the land or its inhabitants beyond what profit and power it can give. We see this in our factory farming systems every day, we see this in the decimation of the land and “culling” of wild animals — and now we see it in the sale and slaughter of our wild horses, a poignant and tragic symbol of where we are headed.
I used to participate in this system unwittingly. I was indoctrinated into the cult of American killing as a young girl growing up in Texas. I saw violence in my home and I tasted violence in my food. I went to the rodeo, I ate barbecued animal flesh and I married a hunter and later cattle rancher.
We have a really big problem in our society. Everyone is seen as a unit of profit, everyone can be commodified. There is no inherent respect for the land or its inhabitants beyond what profit and power it can give. We see this in our factory farming systems every day, we see this in the decimation of the land and “culling” of wild animals — and now we see it in the sale and slaughter of our wild horses, a poignant and tragic symbol of where we are headed.
I used to participate in this system unwittingly. I was indoctrinated into the cult of American killing as a young girl growing up in Texas. I saw violence in my home and I tasted violence in my food. I went to the rodeo, I ate barbecued animal flesh and I married a hunter and later cattle rancher.