Is the U.S. serving wild horsemeat? Because the bureau has been unable to stop horses from coming into the storage system, it is now focused on getting them out. While the bureau can’t kill wild horses, it can use a series of bureaucratic maneuvers and financial transactions to transform them on paper into domestic livestock, stripping their legal protections. Here’s how it works. First the bureau has to show a wild horse can’t be adopted. It does this by posting hundreds of horses at a time on its online adoption site. After a horse has three one-week listings with no takers, the law permits the government to designate it as unadoptable. Then it can be put up for sale. That’s an important legal distinction because a wild horse that is adopted retains its federal protections. One that is sold loses those protections immediately. A sold horse still can’t be legally killed — at least not yet — because the buyer is required to sign a contract promising not to slaughter the horse or “knowingly” sell it to anyone who intends to resell it for slaughter. But if the buyer resells to a middleman without asking questions, the buyer is safe from prosecution. The middleman has not signed a contract with the bureau and is free to legally sell the mustang to slaughter. Caption from article by Dave Philipps, The New York Times.
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