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Sometimes the solution you're looking for is right in front of your face. For example, if you'd like to save the ponies that roam the moors of southwestern England, perhaps you should ... eat one. This is the suggestion being bandied about by the Dartmoor Hill Pony Association to rescue the pony population there: Their numbers have fallen from 25,000 in the 1930s to fewer than 800 currently, the Telegraph reports.
In the USA and Europe there have been issues regarding the horses being treated with wormers, bute and a variety of other chemicals that deem the meat dangerous. Canada shut down exports of horses from the USA to Canada for meat last year over this issue. My greatest fear is that American wild horses are now going to be seen as the luxury horse meat, I can visualize the ads, wild and drug free horse meat. I'm sure with the right marketing, England will be able to move those ponies into the horsemeat industry.
In the US it appears we're rounding up wild horse herds from uninhabited land, relocating them for what purpose isn't clear. Supposedly because of Bureau of Land Management cuts, as if it costs them to let nature take it's course. BS. Some horses wind up in slaughter or kept on land separated by gender instead of in their family units. There doesn't seem to be a good or wise reason for it and it's often done brutally.
Google the phrase: why are wild horses being rounded up
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