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December 16, 2021GUEST: Marc Cooke President Wolves of the Rockies
It is a fact. We all live in a world of eat or be eaten.
Those of us who live in the city can hide from that elemental fact by watching a lot of TV or by obsessing on social media. But, we can’t escape from it. Those of us who live in the Rocky Mountains can’t really hide from that fact, because theirs is a world of animals eating animals.
The animals that eat other animals tend to belong to the wild, which is to say, they do not answer to the rules and regulations established by people who live in the area. The animals being eaten by other animals include those that have been domesticated by farmers and ranchers, and they do have to follow the rules.
Herein lies the conflict that makes life in the Rockies very interesting: Whereas the animals that eat other animals have been well-equipped with the means to kill and eat, those that have been domesticated have no means of protection other than the personal efforts put forth by the farmers and ranchers who own them– and they are often watching TV or obsessing on social media!
And so, quite naturally, the wild eat the domesticated. This fact, and it is a fact, leads us to ask…
Leave a comment below: Who should pay for the animals that have been eaten by animals?
Michael Olson’s Three Laws of the Food Chain
#1 Agriculture is the foundation upon which we build all our sand castles.
#2 The farther we go from the source of our food, the less control we have over what’s in that food.
#3 Cheap food isn’t! READ MORE
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How would the wolf advocates react when they find a wolf 20 feet off their back door?
If the government has rule that prevent the domesticated animal raiser from controlling predators on their own land. The government ie the tax payers should reimburse for the predation. If the rules allow the land owner to control the populations of predators to balance the eco system to minimize over predation then land owner should bare those costs and any costs from lost stock.