In a victory for the kind of painstaking, comprehensive work done every day by Return to Freedom’s advocacy team, the Bureau of Land Management recently made changes to its wild ... Read More
By Celeste Carlisle
By law, wild horses in holding that have been offered unsuccessfully for adoption 3 times, or that are over the age of 10, had been eligible for $25/head ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management has made changes to its wild horse and burro sales policy that disincentivize making money from selling a wild horse for slaughter and appear ... Read More
On America’s 250th birthday, we want to recognize the vital role that horses have played in U.S. history and American culture. We have ... Read More
Seventeen members of Congress sent a letter to the Trump administration on Wednesday urging the president to sign an executive order permanently banning horse slaughter.
Live horse exports to Mexico have ... Read More
More than 80% of Americans oppose horse slaughter in opinion polls.
It’s up to Congress to end this inhumane business.
A ban on shipping horses for slaughter has been inserted into the ... Read More
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has restricted the export of live animals to Mexico — including the shipping of horses and other equines to slaughter — due to the detection ... Read More
WASHINGTON, DC (May 22, 2026) – By a vote of 34-30, the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee passed its five-year surface transportation reauthorization bill, which includes a bipartisan amendment ... Read More
Good news! — The U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today passed a surface transportation reauthorization bill that includes a bipartisan ban on transporting horses for slaughter.
The amendment mirrors the ... Read More
Newly available statistics continue to show an increase in the number of American horses being trucked to Mexican and Canadian slaughterhouses.
For this to ... Read More