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by Brian Hines
As I’ve said before, ranchers shouldn’t be afraid of the Big Bad Wolf — now that a small number have established residence in Oregon. Disease and severe weather kill vastly more livestock, so cattlemen’s freak-out over wolves returning to our state is uninformed and irrational.
Today the Salem Statesman Journal ran a guest opinion by Bill Hoyt, current president of the Oregon Cattlemen’s Association. It was titled “Oregon cattle industry needs help to stay strong.”
Well, Bill, your members already are getting lots of help from us taxpayers, who are subsidizing cattle grazing on public land in what has been correctly called welfare ranching.
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