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Why should we even pay? There's no constitutional right to be able to leave your livestock basically unprotected on vast tracts of land where they're vulnerable
by protomyth 6y ago
Why should we even pay? There's no constitutional right to be able to leave your livestock basically unprotected on vast tracts of land where they're vulnerable to predators.
The argument would go: the government does not want the rancher to actually protect his cattle because that would involve shooting the wolves. That's why the wolves on the list in the first place.
If don't want cattle put in a barn all day, then you get cattle out in the fields.
- gbrown 6y agoThat argument presupposes the right of the farmer to do whatever they want to protect their cattle, which was what I was objecting too.
- Filligree 6y agoThis ends with "Let's not have ranchers", which is an outcome I'd agree with.
- spiderfarmer 6y agoI absolutely don't agree with you. But you're one the few who's honest about his endgame. I see all jabs against farmers in this light though. And they do too.
- gbrown 6y agoI don’t think that’s true, but ranching would need to get more labor intensive or technology intensive. This is just another externality the industry isn’t currently paying for.