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Paying for a few extra cows doesn't seem like it'd break the bank.

• everdrive 7y ago
  We can do our part buy buying less beef.
  • throwanem 7y ago
    There are a lot of good reasons to buy less beef, but I don't see how it's going to make ranchers less inclined to shoot wolves.
    • everdrive 7y ago
      If enough people bought less beef there'd be fewer ranchers.
• chasd00 7y ago
  If you lose an animal just before you take it to market you've lost your entire investment in that animal. I wish I knew the numbers exactly but any $0.00 ROI is going to have a big impact on a portfolio's average return. Also, consider losing an animal also means any animals it could have produced as offspring are also lost. Granted, most males are castrated at some point iirc.
  • throwanem 7y ago
    Paying the ranchers for animals lost to predation, is what I mean. A side of beef is half a cow. Usually a dressed side, all fees included, runs about a thousand dollars, a little more or less depending on who you get it from, when, how, etc. That's the consumer price, so a wholesaler probably gets less on a commercial sale, but if we're already (rightly imo) supporting the return of predator species to their ancestral habitats, paying ranchers a couple grand per wolf-killed animal doesn't strike me as unreasonable. Of course, they'll shoot wolves anyway, every chance they get.
• tengbretson 7y ago
  > a few extra cows If the solution here is just writing-off the lives of animals, then why bother defending the lives of the wolves?
  • elhudy 7y ago
    Hate to break it to you, but the cow's lives were written off when they were born.
  • throwanem 7y ago
    Because I value the lives of wolves, and not the lives of cows.
• astrea 7y ago
  Surely "a few extra cows" requires more than slapping down $5 at your local Walmart.