Neat, eh?

Cattle ranching became grandfather claused into the creation of Grand Teton National Park and cattle and “buffalo” grazed together in the SAME pastures for FORTY YEARS and there was NOT A SINGLE RECORDED TRANSMISSION.

On the other hand, cattle ranchers do their damnedest to keep elk away from cattle and still the transmissions occur with regularity, as recently as a few months ago when a herd of cattle near Bridger, Montana was destroyed so that the state might retain its precious brucellosis-free status.

The irony is that if Montana lost that status, the amount of money estimated that would be required to vaccinate and test cattle on a widespread basis, something that Texan ranchers accept as a fact of life, is a third to half of what is spent every year harassing and killing the last genetically pure, continuously free-roaming, wild herd of bison left in America of Yellowstone.

The disease is a red herring. If it weren’t, and the prejudice against bison were based solely on science, then Montana’s Department of Livestock would be interested in what their own science indicates is the known transmitter: elk.

Get the facts! Visit the Buffalo Field Campaign’s website:
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/

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http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=5957

Don’t let the facts interfere with your feelings.

There are many people, all over the country, that would gladly transport them somewhere else, if that were given as an option. Why not relocate them, instead of kill them?

Oh yeah, you’re “protecting” them from starving by killing them,…..I forgot.