Maggie's Farm

"The closer you look at this, it's an issue about the grass and who gets to eat it and it's the livestock industry calling the shots," she said.

"There is no such thing as surplus wildlife and surplus bison," she said. "The buffalo are a keystone species that evolved on this landscape. They are the grass and the grass is them."
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Why is it ok for the bison to eat the grass, but not the cattle?
Does this woman think beef comes from the grocery store?
And those bleeding heart whiners who never raised livestock in their lives who bleet about the cruelty of raising 'feedlot' cattle are generally the same ones who want cattle to roam and eat grass as they were meant (which takes significantly longer to get to butcher weight- think in terms of years, not months) yet don't want ranchers to have use the land, even public lands they put significant money, hard work and time in the way of improvements, irrigation, water supply, drainage and removing invasive species. And they use rotational leaving grass undisturbed so it can grow back. Are those ladies going to go out and move those "wild" bison around ? Or let them overpopulate and eat ALL the grass ?

Ranchers and farmers already have to bear the burden of higher property taxes for the large amount of land use they require as the numbers of actually working farms has dwindled, while the majority of people contribute zero toil to their food requirements, yet think they should have the sole voice in how land is used.

I could see the overpopulation of bison in the same light as overpopulation of deer and bear in the anti-hunting state of NJ. Car accidents (where the human also ends dead as bison weigh significantly more than deer) and disease to herds as well as related species. Bear fighting in people's backyards while they search through garbage bins and family pets being snacks. The protected elk in W. PA also make it impossible for residents to even have gardens unless they have 12' fences. Even those are culled yearly to keep numbers in a certain range.

Actions have consequences.