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U.S. will resume selling wild horses
By Tom Kenworthy, USA TODAY Thu May 19, 6:16 AM ET
The federal Bureau of Land Management will announce Thursday it is
resuming sales of wild horses with protections to prevent the animals
from being sent to slaughter, the agency's director said Wednesday.
The agency suspended the sales last month after discovering that 41
animals rounded up from Western rangeland had been sold to an Illinois
slaughterhouse and processed for meat.
In addition, Ford Motor Co. will pay to transport up to 2,000 horses to
Indian reservations and locations run by non-profit organizations. The
company will also oversee a "Save the Mustangs" fundraising drive to
help groups that adopt the horses pay for their care
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