Molly Conger

They sell bison at my Whole Foods.

That's livestock.

but they could if they wanted to.

Because I don't think the government is ever going to go to a cattle rancher and say, you have to kill X number of these or they're no longer livestock.

And they would remain legally livestock even if you had no intention of eating them.

Wait, what if the Bureau of Land Management was concerned with the land being properly managed?

It's like, what are they going to do with it if they kick the buffalo off of it?

So they're just going to lease it to someone else.

So the government just is saying you can't use this public land anymore in such a way that might negate your ability to use your privately owned land because we don't think bison are livestock.

Because I just don't understand how this is justifiable at all.

But I guess that's not really the point.

But I think even aside from an ecological argument, which I think is very important, right, the restoration of these grasslands, this is the government saying, no, we're going to take this public resource away from someone who is rightfully using it and paying to use it, and we're going to sell that right instead to a capitalist concern over a bullshit fake reason.

And who specifically is getting those seven specific plots?

But I guess as far as the government is concerned, it's the same.

The answer is just no.

Wow, true.

They're doing cow DEI.

This is all news to me.

We have to find something we can record that gets me down to the Southwest.

So we're just speed running the devastation of every cool big animal we have.