Diamondeye wrote:
The assertion is that the cattle are wandering loose on Federal land and damaging property, so that would indeed make it someone else's business. Bundy is not being charged with animal neglect or cruelty to my knowledge.
If you recall my issue was with the cattle being described as "mean and ornery", like that's some sort of legitimate complaint. Destruction of property is; I just don't see what the cow's temperament has to do with anything.
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Virginia Tech - which both of us attended - had an extensive agricultural program, which included a program on cattle raising. I remember it well because of the frequency of running past the cows at 0600 for PT on that road that led out to the barns past the duck pond. You may or may not have been there when they put in the obstacle course next to it. You go down that road, turn right and down a short hill, then turn left again, and the cows were in a field on the right. If you went to the end of that road and turned left, it would take you up to the barns IIRC.
I find it difficult to imagine that if agriculture has accredited academic degrees in raising livestock that there are no generally accepted or standard practices. What are they teaching if that is the case?
Well, I talked about that in my poofed response. As I mentioned, there's all kinds of ranchers. There are ranches that hold or work with people holding some sort of animal husbandry / agricultural science degree, because they are serious about their operation and want to maximize efficiency, or whatever else they are concerned about. There is a lot of money in ranching, and a lot of science can go into it. As a result, there's lots of groups pushing their sets of standards, and there's organizations that coordinate all that. But, none of this is required (or even appropriate for smaller operations). It's basically the same as farming - there's huge investments in research on how best to grow corn, but any jackass can plant corn on his property. It's not even close to a uniform industry.