Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Do We have to Choose Between Burgers and Birds??

I, like many other residents of Oregon, have been watching the so called "Oregon Standoff" with mixed emotions of bemusement and horror...
These crazed cowboys with poor articulation skills, tons of guns, brimmed hats and a penchant for vanilla coffee creamer, are quite the spectacle. Any good Portland hipster can begin each morning reading the headlines of what their very own "Y'allQueada" are up to in Eastern Oregon...

Are they driving around in Federally owned vehicles? Reading biology brochures and mocking them? (quote: " That's what's wrong with America", according to the occupiers.) Or are they chasing the sheriff on horseback???

Yesterday, the crazy cowboys cut open the fence between the wildlife refuge and cattle land..to free up the "gubernment" land to grazing. And as any good land conservationist knows--once tons of unregulated bovines come trampling in....the land will most likely be decimated once again.

These machine gun totting cowboys claim: "People have the right to use the land"---But first we must define the word people. Because obviously bird watchers, environmentalists, tourists, hikers, and all others who want a wildlife refuge are not people, nor are they Americans. To clarify: only ranchers with beef cattle are people.
Good, now I understand.

But worries me the most is---what if the hikers, hipsters, tourists etc...are the ones driving the market for more grass-fed beef in the first place???? These Wal-Mart loving militant cowboys, are probably perfectly content with crappy feed lot beef...So the people the 'occupier cowboys' consider to be not people--(i.e. those that support the wildlife refuge) May in all actuality be their main consumer base?? What a quagmire...





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