One wonders about the relation between these two news items …

Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter (archived) – NY Times, Aug 20 2026

They once had run free through the desert mountains of the West, a multicolored band of 68 wild mustangs that had never been saddled or corralled.

Then the federal government rounded them up with helicopters, as it has with tens of thousands of other mustangs, in an attempt to control wild populations on public lands.
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The horses were packed into echoing metal trailers and trucked 1,800 miles east to the pens of a hard-luck livestock trader in Ohio named Brandon Jones, who bought them for $25 each.

A day later, two double-decker cattle trucks pulled up at midnight, loaded the mustangs and quickly drove off into the night.

From there the mustangs disappeared. They never appeared at a public auction. The trader won’t say where they went. Wild horse advocates suspect the horses were shipped to slaughter.
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It wasn’t the first time, or the last. In the past year, the government has shipped the trader one truckload of mustangs after another. And not just him.

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Donald Trump bizarrely refuses to confirm which countries have signed new beef deal – The Mirror US via MSN, Aug 22 2026

Writing on his own Truth Social platform on Friday, Trump announced the US would allow an additional 300,000 metric tons of ground beef to be imported without additional tariffs being imposed on suppliers. The President claimed the deal would “substantially lower the price of ground beef for working American families”.
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“We have a commitment that this beef will be sold at 25 per cent below current market prices. This deal will reduce prices for Americans while giving space for our Great American Beef Herd to grow again.”
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A reporter can be heard asking: “On that beef deal, which countries did you make that deal with?” Trump cuts her off, asking: “Which deal?”, to which she responds: “The beef deal.”

Responding, Trump says: “I don’t want to say which countries, but there are a few countries, but they’re going to be sending in the highest quality beef, and it’s something that we need.”

Does it matter?

Isn’t it a wonder of nature that beasts fed on grass taste so well?

From Moon of Alabama …