The US beef industry wants America to slaughter wild horses for meat

Helicopters are commonly used to herd wild horses into temporary corrals before they are loaded into trailers and hauled away.  | Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images More than 90,000 wild horses and burros make their homes on public lands in the Western US, and each year, the federal government rounds up thousands of them. It typically holds them in large pens or pastures for months or years until they’re adopted or die — on the rationale that their wild population levels are just…