Kirk, I can't tell from your comment on this article whether you feel issues with wolves are dealt with improperly or if you feel the meat industry is going to take a real beating from them. We have wolves here in Minnesota and the farmers truly hate them. However, seeing as how the northern states make up a smaller percentage of beef production, it seems the wolf impact would be negligible. Looking at the USDA site, it appears that the beef populations would have to take a significant hit (in the order of hundreds of thousands) to really be impacted. Also, reading the post by Richard, he seems more concerned about the game populations and our safety.
Anyway, here is the link to the USDA with the numbers of our cattle industry: http://www.ers.usda.gov/news/BSECoverage.htm Regards, -dave >Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 11:03:57 -0700 (PDT) >From: Kirk McLoren >To: biofuel <Biofuel@sustainablelists.org> >Subject: [Biofuel] Wolf attack near Grangeville > >If you think beef is expensive now wait till more of them start >hunting cows instead of deer and elk. A wolf in Stanfield killed 8 >steers in one night. So much for "they only kill for food". They >started on sheep last year. Some ranchers are going out of business >soon. One fellow lost over 60 ewes this spring. >I bet none of you read any of this in the newspaper though. Or on tv. >Kirk > > > > >"Lady and Blackey: Cry Wolf > >By Scott Richard > > Hi, my name is Scott Richards and _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
