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Letter:
Bison wrong target for DOL slaughter
Billings Gazette
6/03/07 |
What
a bunch of hypocrites we have in this community!
The town of West Yellowstone is having its big unveiling of
the statue bison this weekend. Bought and painted by mostly
locals, and at the same time the Department of Livestock is
constructing the capture facility at the airport. The capture
facility is being rebuilt so that they can capture and haul
to slaughter all bison that are not inside the park. This includes
the new babies.
It is well known that the bison have not transmitted the brucellosis
to cattle but the elk have and they (DOL) are still brutally
molesting the bison. Why not put this effort into where it really
needs it? Areas where the elk are intermingling.
I have personally asked why is brucellosis such an horrendous
disease? If they abort a calf, they are then immune. More calves
are lost to distemper, diphtheria, scours and more. They tell
me that brucellosis-infected animals are safe to eat, milk needs
to be pasteurized, meat cooked so what is the big scare? This
is the 21st century, not the 1860s. No one can give me the answer.
The money (hundreds of thousands of dollars) that is wasted
on these idiotic procedures could be better spent in fencing
materials i.e. a 6-foot-tall chain link fence, that the Buffalo
Field Campaign would be more than happy to construct, free of
charge, around the cattle properties up here.
Ann Stovall
West Yellowstone |
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