From 2008 to 2012, the Interior Department sold 1,794 wild horses for $10 apiece through a program intended to find homes for the animals and prevent overgrazing of federal rangeland. Colorado rancher Tom Davis was required by law to promise that he would not sell the horses for slaughter, says the Washington Post. “But he repeatedly refused to name his buyers, and for three years ending in 2012, he resold the animals to businesses that sent them across the border to Mexico, where slaughterhouses for horses are legal,” according to a report by the inspector general. The report said the Bureau of Land Management did little to see if Davis lived up to his promise. The government spent about $49 million in fiscal 2015, which ended on Sept 30, on feed and care of 47,000 wild horses and burros that were held in corrals and pastures off the range. About 58,000 horse and burros roam wild on the land.