Reply #50: I live in cattle country, had to chase a bull and his cows off my property last night.

[Mountainman]

I think that much of what you say is not knowable by the large majority of people. They have their beliefs and you will not change them. The cattle in my neighborhood are range fed as we live in a free range area. Nothing else can be grown here as a crop since the ground is mostly granite rock. The cattle feed on the wild grass that is grown and like this year the ranchers have to buy and truck in feed, since the rain was sparse.

The ranchers raise cattle or don't based on the return they expect to get, also the tax write offs. There would have to be a whole sale end to red meat consumption for that to ever change and I doubt that it will happen.

So to my way of looking at it, this whole discussion serves only to further pit people against each other.