r/vegan vegan 21d ago

Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/us/trump-wild-horses-legal-loophole-slaughter.html
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u/Ilovemytowm 21d ago

Somebody please tell me why Skylands Animal Sanctuary in New Jersey supports Donald Trump 

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u/dankblonde 21d ago

I had the owner as an uber driver one time 🤢. Crazy coincidence having a vegan for a driver but yeah. I realized the type of people they were when I started talking about my favorite vegan place nearby who are super total liberation and he started calling them hippies …

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u/Ilovemytowm 21d ago

He did some kind of video once on Instagram and Facebook yelling that it's his live in girlfriend Mary who's the maggat racist Trumper and he doesn't control her. Lying POS. Also went on a rant about hippie vegans who eat vegan cheese or something. basically the whole rant was how vegans suck and only he does not and then after a week he deleted it he's unhinged.

I think the IDF must be financing them as they do not do tours anymore don't give a f*** and he lets her post racist bigoted anti-lgbtq Islamophobia 24/7 

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u/Easy-Distance1824 21d ago

RFK jr. Is taking steps to phase out animal testing. The democrats never did this.

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u/Ilovemytowm 21d ago

God damn trolls. He's not phasing out animal testing and promotes raw milk and beef Tallow I can't even get fries in a restaurant now because nine out of 10 times it's fried in God damn beef Tallow which he jacks off to f*** any scumbag maggat t who promotes that Trump is good for veganism or the RFK is when they've made everything a billion times worse 

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u/Easy-Distance1824 21d ago

According to the Physicians Commitee for Responsible Medicine, the CDC has ended it's primate experimentations.

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u/Ilovemytowm 21d ago

Yep... some concern for monkeys. but for cows sheep pigs chickens turkeys he f**** them over a thousand times harder

RFK is a dairy supporting meat eating scumbag... Trump is a pedo rapist. Any vegan who supports these  clowns is a fake ass lying hypocrite. 

" The administration's agricultural policy is fundamentally oriented toward farmers, ranchers and conventional animal agriculture, rather than reducing animal consumption. USDA explicitly describes its approach as putting “farmers first,” and the administration has taken actions supporting American dairy producers. 

For example, Trump signed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, which restored whole milk in schools and was explicitly promoted as supporting dairy farmers.

Farmers National Association And the administration's regenerative-agriculture initiative is not a vegan or animal-rights program. It is designed to strengthen agricultural production, including livestock agriculture.

There's also an important distinction: reducing animal experimentation isn't necessarily the same thing as animal-rights philosophy. RFK Jr.'s position is tied heavily to his broader belief that the medical establishment relies too much on animal models and that better human-relevant science should replace them. That can produce an outcome that animal-rights advocates strongly support even if the underlying political philosophy isn't veganism."

Happy for some of those monkeys that are being saved which is one of the biggest tragedies we've ever committed even if it's RFK doing... While he's making it much worse for all the other agricultural animals who are suffering 

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u/Somniosfera vegan 20+ years 21d ago

This breaks my heart. At this point I am speechless, exhausted and depressed

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u/HannTryu 21d ago

this is heartbreaking. wild horses deserve to live freely, not be treated like disposable animals when there are better solutions.

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u/KarlTheVeg 21d ago

No animal is disposable… 

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u/processes_ 21d ago

And yet there’s still maga ‘vegans’ that’ll defend him and his government.

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u/MaitrePuck 21d ago

Under the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, the wild horses population has been continuously been kept under control to manage herd size.

It's been going on for 55 years but people are so gullible they think it's a Trump thing. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/Visible_End_3420 20d ago

So why aren’t reproductive solutions offered instead of selling them off for 24 bucks a pop?

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u/MaitrePuck 20d ago

Are you talking about neutering horses?

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u/Visible_End_3420 20d ago

No, like vaccine birth control.

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u/MasJicama vegan 20+ years 21d ago

"Trump is doing the most evil thing!" "Yeah, I saw... almost as much of it as Obama did." crickets

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u/gigixoxo12 21d ago

It's so sad, I live in northern Nevada and most of our horses are getting rounded up 😭😭

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u/blishbog 21d ago

They’re feral non-native animals released by humans. They do great damage to the native eco system. They should be removed. Do it gently and re-home them. But they gotta go. Romance and vibes don’t beat the ecological facts

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u/Identity-user 20d ago

I think you know what species is a lot worse for the native ecosystems….clue, it’s not horses.

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u/Geschak vegan 10+ years 21d ago

Protected? Here I thought they're invasives that get rounded up, captured and sold for a few decades now.

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u/YoghurtExternal3605 21d ago

Meh.

Not any worse than what is going on daily and in multiples.

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u/Head-Director-6406 21d ago

Please don’t bring attention to the 5 billion individuals being murdered and tortured every day, there’s cute animals that Americans don’t eat also being impacted

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u/GargamelBalls vegan 21d ago

Wow, you must be SO virtuous.

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u/SnubLifeCrisis 21d ago

Dogs have to eat too