Needless to say, 100% of the cows who survive all of the above are slaughtered and eaten by humans.
Exposing the Big Game
Forget Hunters' Feeble Rationalizations and Trust Your Gut Feelings: Making Sport of Killing Is Not Healthy Human Behavior
Needless to say, 100% of the cows who survive all of the above are slaughtered and eaten by humans.
Exposing the Big Game 
addicted to oil and “meat” the human species deserves the disasters it is causing-unfortunately the other animals do not
That’s exactly right.
Right on!
The methane emissions from the livestock industry is killing us and the Entire planet and we are killing the wild lives who have NO CARBON FOOTPRINT and are actually sequestering carbon by their own lifestyle!
President Obama has caused an inordinate amount of pain for our wildlife from the Wild Horses and Burros to Wolves and now our Eagles thru his decision to allow wind energy companies to continue for 30 years to not come up with any solutions to their deadly blades. He has effectively dismantled the 1974 Wild Horse and Burro act and as well, has basically handed over the 1973 ESA regulations to the states for endangered species management. Montana et al are having their way and killing all the wolves they can, a more disgusting and heartbreaking travesty of the public trust on an American issue I cannot imagine. In Africa they call this poaching, in America we call it trophy hunting! He is systematically scraping the earth and turning it into a big feedlot and barren energy field.
What the heck, am I the only one that has noticed this blanket dismissal of our hard fought environmental laws?
Rebecca, you are not the only individual who has noticed the Obama Administration’s overturn of environmental laws and regulations. Unfortunately, none of the professional environmental lobbies seem to have noticed; they are too busy supporting Democrats regardless of their record.
Perfectly said!
And that makes the percentage killed by wolves far far lower.
Nice graphic!
That’s from some USDA survey.
The livestock industry loves to have animal people discussing “how many losses” of livestock can be attributed to this so-called “predator” or that. This tactic is to keep us busy from the real problem: The Livestock Industry, and it’s cohorts in government (USDA, Wildlife Services, etc.) make up the statistics. At the FWS meeting in Albuquerque a big, dirty guy with a black hat (something like a hillbilly hat), gave his “testimony” on how many poor sheep,goats & cattle were just “chewed up” and “suffering” because of wolves and coyotes. This person described himself as a “wildlife investigator,” which immediately alerted us to what he really was: a “Wildlife Services” killer.
Dick Randall, a former wildlife killer for this federal agency (known then as Animal Damage Control), took many photos of the wildlife slaughter perpetrated by this agency, many of which are often seen today: mountain lion heads, coyotes in traps, burned baby coyotes, etc. When I met him, before he died, he said,”I am so ashamed of what I did to those animals out on the range. I burned them, poisoned them, shot them–and some things I did, I can’t even mention. These government agents, who kill for the livestock industry are criminals.” Randall’s work to expose this killer agency was monumental, and if he were alive now, he would still be fighting for the animals, to make up for what he did earlier in his life. It’s a war out there. http://www.foranimals.org
Around 65 cattle are killed by wolves in a state that has 5.5 million (65 divided by 5.5 million = 0.001 %. So, way less than .2 percent. Stock board losses, wolf kills, in MT are verified by FWP. USDA stats are invalid because it is rancher self-report which could be 4000% inflated. They could report kills by the Abominable Snowman and it would count. In WI ranchers can count a kill as a wolf kill if they saw a wolf in the vicinity, like a picture of one on their National Geographic Magazine or TV.
USDA stats are greatly inflated, not remotely close to valid. I report on my critters because I have horses. It is purely self-report, not validated, not valid stats there at USDA, may be as much as 4000% inflated. But nevertheless does show, if with all the lying, that wolf impact is extremely low, for which the rancher is reimbursed. And do not forget that in MT and most western states that there is huge encroachment into wolf territory with 772 permits to graze on national forest lands and 3776 permits to graze on BLM land with 23,000 such permits in 16 western states.
I’m so sick and tired of hearing ranchers whine about predators, they hardly account for any losses, and its not like the ranchers give a shit about the cattle, only the profits.