Dear HCN,
As any
HCN reader knows, there’s a whole lot to
environmentally responsible red-meat ranching: including, but not
limited to, conscientious stocking and grazing rotation, scrupulous
protection of riparian areas, big-hearted attitudes about the
presence of large canid predators as vital, rightful, native
members of the ecosystems into which exotic, domestic, grazing
animals are introduced, and generous views about how much to pay me
(us) for the privilege of feeding for-profit livestock on my (our)
public lands.
So, I’m nearly certain that Paul
Larmer wouldn’t have printed such an unabashedly enthusiastic
commercial message for HCN’s new neighbors, Homestead Ranches in
“Dear Friends,” (HCN, 4/15/02: Dear Friends), unless member
ranchers were, besides swearing off artificial feed additives,
adhering to the modest standards mentioned above. I am right,
aren’t I?
Susan
Cockrell
Holden, Maine
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