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Cattlemen and cowboysexpect competition frompork producers, poultrypluckers, lamb-lords and

tasteless tofu tillers, but I’mquite sure no one ever saw BillGates, Google or Silicon Valleyas beef’s major adversary. Butthanks to the man who cleanedup on Windows, and other geeksand nerds just like him, somedaywe will view the technocrats ofSilicon Valley as a bigger threatto our well-being than all thewolves, bureaucrats, Sierra Club-bers, Obamanites and the BLMcombined.Driving through San Jose,

Stanford, Cupertino and SanFrancisco one gets the distinctimpression that this is computercountry, not cow country. If itwasn’t for the Cow Palace inSouth San Francisco there’dhardly be any sign of livestock atall. But if the techies have it theirway, this just might be the originof the meat you eat 20 yearsfrom now. It won’t be producedby ranchers in boots and spursbut by eggheads in lab coats.

A Better Way?Sand Hill Foods sounds more

like a Nebraska outfit than itdoes a Silicon Valley startup. Itwas created by Stanford profes-sor Patrick Brown to producebeef and dairy products in Cali-

mals. Does that mean we aremurdering plants when we har-vest them? Are we causing thempain and do they scream in thenight when no one is listening?Doesn't this now mean that theanimal rightists should direct alittle bit of their anger previouslyreserved for meat, towardsbeans, broccoli and barley too?But we’re getting ahead of

ourselves here. Another of Professor Brown’s

startups is a company called

Impossible Foods. According toa story in the Wall Street Journalwritten by Evelyn Rusli, Impossi-ble Foods is developing a newgeneration of meats and cheesesmade entirely from plants. SaysBrown, “Our mission is to givepeople the great taste and nutri-tional benefits of foods thatcome from animals without thenegative health and environmen-tal impact.”Continued Brown, “We

looked at animal products at themolecular level then selectedspecific proteins and nutrientsfrom greens, seeds, and grains torecreate the wonderfully com-plex experience of meats anddairy products. For thousands ofyears we’ve relied on animals asour technology to transformplants into meat, milk, and eggs.Impossible Foods has found abetter way.”According to the company’s

fornia labs that will be substan-tially cheaper and every bit asgood as the meat and dairyproducts produced by ranchersand dairymen. And the onlychips involved will be made fromsilicon, not grass. Of course, oth-ers have tried this before butBrown thinks he has discoveredthe secret ingredient this time:plant blood.Wow, who knew plants had

blood? And if so, that meansthey must bleed just like ani-

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Billionaires have redis-covered land as asecure investment andmy neighbor ReRide

and I were wondering whatkind of neighbors these newranchers will be. “They’ll make awful

neighbors,” opined ReRide.“Them and their huge ranch-es that cover two time zonesand their pressed jeans, hun-dred dollar monogrammedshirts, with their cows all thesame color. Who wants aneighbor like that? They’llinvite you over to preg checkcows and they’ll have colorcoordinated facilitiesdesigned by TempleGrandin. They’ll use a differ-ent needle for every cow,have electronic ear tags andtheir hydraulic squeezechute will be inside a build-ing. The next thing youknow you’re wife will be ask-ing, ‘Why don’t we have oneof those?’”“I see your point ReRide.”“They’ll have a veterinari-

an, a manager of sustainabil-ity and a PhD in wildlifemanagement all on staff.They’ll have weekly meetingsand the number one agendaitem at every meeting will behow to keep your cattle ontheir own side. They’ll havefences with razor and con-certina wire with guard tow-ers at every corner just tokeep their $15,000 bullsfrom breeding your $800cows. And their Director ofBiosecurity will call you allthe time about trich-relatedissues. Whatever thatmeans.”“That would sure cut

down on my carrying capaci-ty. And I’d have to buy morerange bulls,” I admitted.“Talk about feelin’ inferi-

or. They’ll drive brand newpickups and pull trailers witha small condo inside withmore living space than yourhouse. They’ll have silver ontheir saddles and spurs, andhave reins made by Mr.Ortega himself. And they’llride $50,00 horses onceowned by Trevor Brazile.They won’t work the groundat your branding because oftheir bad knee they injuredplaying polo. Make you wantto puke I tell ya. They’ll bename dropping all the time

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BY RON ARNOLD,

@RON_ARNOLD

For the first time, a federalcourt has struck down a reg-ulation under the Endan-gered Species Act of 1973

for exceeding the government’sconstitutional power.The Endangered Species Act

has long been known as a proper-ty owners’ curse and the mostinvincible law on the books. It isprimarily a land-use control lawthat gives agencies absolute regu-latory power over “critical habi-tat” regardless of who owns thehabitat.The landmark case centered

on the Utah prairie dog, a rodentfound only in southwestern Utahand protected as “threatened”under the ESA despite its popula-tion of more than 40,000. Prairiedogs had completely overrun thearea surrounding Cedar City,Utah, tearing up farmlands, eat-ing crops, gouging burrows andtunnels in parks, gardens and

building sites—and even bucklinga local airport runway.Last fall, the U.S. Fish &

Wildlife Service sparked a rebel-lion with a special rule against“takes” of the prairie dogs. Itdemanded property owners not“harass, harm, pursue, hunt,shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture,or collect” the rodents, which cur-tailed pest-control measures inthe region.Outraged citizens formed a

group called People for the Ethi-cal Treatment of Property Own-ers, or PETPO, to fight the Fishand Wildlife Service for the rightto control the rodents.Derek Morton, PETPO’s

point man, told The Daily Signal,“We would find them in sacredspaces such as our cemeteries,burrowing underneath head-stones and barking during funer-als. We found them in built-outneighborhoods, which put ourchildren at risk.” Utah prairie dogcolonies suffer outbreaks of syl-vatic plague, which can cause

plague in humans.“These animals undermined

the whole community’s psyche,”Morton said. “When we wouldrecruit new businesses for newjobs, the cost of prairie dogremoval was always a deal killer.We couldn’t build a home on ourown land. We couldn’t protectourselves at all. A rodent was run-ning our lives.”Nathan Brown, a U.S. Fish

and Wildlife Services biologistwho has worked on the prairiedog issue for more than a decade,told CBS reporters that PETPOhad “real concerns” and “thereisn’t a legal framework to remove[prairie dogs] from private prop-erty.”That missing framework is a

seldom-noted flaw in the Consti-tution. Unlike state constitutions,the nation’s fundamental lawcontains no enumerated right toproperty.From the beginning, state

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For Once, a Court Sided With People Rather Than ‘Threatened’ Rodents

website, 50 scientists, chefs,farmers, and engineers are “dri-ven to make the best meats andcheeses you’ll ever eat — fromplants.”If you want to get in on the

ground floor, Impossible Foodscurrently has openings for aController, a scientist for sys-tematic chemical analysis ofcomplex samples, a softwareengineer, a coordinator for theirsensory team, and a marketingmanager. And boy oh boy arethey ever going to need a mar-keting manager! At a time whenthe consumer wants to knowmore than ever what’s in thefood they’re eating, selling coun-terfeit beef would seem to be atougher sale than a used Gate-way 2000.It’s Impossible Foods goal to

create a hamburger that looks,tastes, and cooks like the realthing. Pardon me for asking butwouldn’t it be a lot easier just toeat the real thing?Mr. Brown seems to have a

pet peeve with animals. He says,“livestock is an antiquated tech-nology” and that the cow busi-ness is not sustainable. Let’s see,we’ve been eating meat for 2million years on this planet andthat seems pretty sustainable tome, while the half life of youraverage electronic gadget iswhat, six months?Making inferior hamburgers

from plants is nothing new. Gointo any grocery store and you’llsee a few measly offerings in therefrigerated section, probablypast their due date. Those whohave tried Mr. Brown’s beef sayit tastes more like a turkey pattybut again, if you want to eatsomething that tastes liketurkey, why not just eat turkey?Especially when you considerthat one Impossible Foods beefpatty costs $20 while a turkeyburger costs considerably less.Impossible Foods says they

want to start selling their beefnext year and hope to sell 1,000tons in their first year. But whatif it doesn’t catch on? That’s alot of stuff that could end up fill-ing landfills and that’s a bigenvironmental concern.

The Tech ConnectionBut where, and how, does

Bill Gates, America’s richestman and co-founder ofMicrosoft, fit in? It turns out that he and other

tech gurus like him are the mon-ey behind all these fake foodstartups. And Mr. Gates may beprejudiced towards plant foodbecause, according to syndicat-ed columnist Alan Guebert,Gates owns 100,000 acres offarmland and 8.4 percent ofJohn Deere. He also owns astake, (or is that steak?) inanother outfit called BeyondMeat. Their goal is also toreplace animal protein withplant material. Causing us towonder, what’s Bill’s beef withbeef?The techies have it in for all

meat bearing livestock. Thereare countless startups trying tomake chicken from chickpeas

and sci-fi pork from seaweed.This is all part of a revolutioncalled the clean-food move-ment.Livestock producers can only

hope that the geeky rich guysare as successful with theircounterfeit food investments asthey were with their bad bet ona plethora of solar, wind, andfuel-cell companies that wentbroke.According to an article writ-

ten by Brandon Griggs of CNN,two of the most esteemed ven-ture capital firms, KleinerPerkins Caufield & Byers andKhosla Ventures, have backednearly a dozen startups trying toengineer healthier and cheaperalternatives to beef, eggs, chick-en, cheese, salt, and even candy.In promoting their product

over traditional meat the techiesdrag out all the same tired argu-ments about livestock, that theyrequire lots of water, producemanure and, according to theUN, cattle produce 14.5 per-cent of climate-altering green-house gases. What they don’tsay is that manure is fertilizer,the water is recycled and thecows must not be doing theirjob because there hasn’t beenany global warming on this plan-et for the past 18 years! More likely the geeks and

nerds see the projections thatwe’ll have a couple billion moremouths to feed in the nearfuture and the global demandfor meat is hotter than thenewest I-phone. And they wantin on some of that action. “It’sthe future,” says Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter and Jelly.Not having any stockman tools,they look to technology instead.The problem for them is tech-nology doesn't have taste budsand they are in way over theirheads.So far the lab meat has not

proven taste-worthy. The world’sfirst lab-grown burger which wasfunded by Google co-founderSergey Brin, cost $325,000.That's per burger! For that kindof money you expect somethingpretty special. It was not, to put it mildly.This all seems like a good

example of what happens whensome folks get too much money.They write some computer codemaking it easier for people tomatch up, share their boringlives with everyone, or buy stuff,and next thing you know theythink they have the answer to allthe world’s ills. Here are a few other tech

supported outfits trying to putstockmen out of business:

Beyond Meat – This LosAngeles company makes chick-en from soybeans and applesbased on the recipes from a cou-ple University of Missouri pro-fessors. They received seedmoney from Kleiner Perkins,Bill Gates, Twitter co-founders,and Seth Goldman, the founderof the Humane Society of theUnited States. The companysays that in blind taste tests

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constitutions specifically guaran-teed that right. Typical examplesinclude the Massachusetts consti-tution, which provides citizens “theright of enjoying and defendingtheir lives and liberties; that ofacquiring, possessing and protect-ing property; in fine, that of seek-ing and obtaining their safety andhappiness,” and Virginia’s, whichasserts the “inherent right” to “theenjoyment of life and liberty, withthe means of acquiring and pos-sessing property, and pursuing andobtaining happiness and safety.”The Fourth and Fifth Amend-

ments to the U.S. Constitutionassert only the police power to takeanything from anyone at any timeso long as the government followsdue process and pays for it. Proper-ty owners can’t challenge the gov-ernment’s taking and must payattorney’s fees to pry “just” com-pensation from the U.S. Treasuryfor something that wasn’t for sale.That’s not a protection of propertyrights; it’s an assertion of govern-ment power.Property owners always have

had to fight our government forwhat’s theirs, and that’s what Peo-ple for the Ethical Treatment ofProperty Owners had to do. PET-PO retained the nonprofit PacificLegal Foundation to sue the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service for violat-ing its members’ property rights.Jonathan Wood, the Pacific

Legal Foundation attorney whohandled the case in federal court atno cost to the plaintiffs, told TheDaily Signal, “A balancedapproach to environmental protec-tion considers both the animalsand the people. No one was pro-tecting the rights of the peoplewho were being affected by the

prairie dogs, and that’s why PLFcame to their aid. Our big win wasnot just for them but for all Ameri-cans who believe in limited govern-ment.”PLF had found a constitutional

approach that worked. Woodargued before Judge Dee Bensonof the U.S. District Court for Utahthat the Constitution’s commerceclause (Article 1, Section 8, Clause3) does not authorize Congress toregulate a purely one-state speciesthat has no substantial effect oninterstate commerce in the nation’s$15 trillion economy.The Fish and Wildlife Service

justified its intrusion into this localmatter by asserting that the “neces-sary and proper” clause (Article 1,Section 8, Clause 17) gives Con-gress unlimited power to enforcethe commerce clause.On Nov. 5, Benson gave his

milestone ruling against the gov-ernment, putting an end to thedecades-long court practice ofdeferring to agency decisions andperhaps beginning an era ofrespect for constitutional rights.He capped his meticulously rea-soned decision with this summaryand conclusion:

Although the Commerce Clauseauthorizes Congress to do manythings, it does not authorize Congressto regulate takes of a purely intrastatespecies that has no substantial effecton interstate commerce. Congress sim-ilarly lacks authority through the Nec-essary and Proper Clause because theregulation of takes of Utah prairiedogs is not essential or necessary to theESA’s economic scheme.Benson’s decision returns

prairie dog management authorityback to the state under the UtahDivision of Wildlife Resources,

which has a strong track record ofconservation and cooperation withlocal officials and property owners.The Utah prairie dog remains fullyprotected, said DWR DirectorGreg Sheehan, and a certificate ofregistration is required to kill orremove the rodents.Sheehan said the Division of

Wildlife Resources’ strategyincludes “safeguarding the health,safety, welfare and property ofcommunities in areas where Utahprairie dogs live,” as well as “ensur-ing the viability and continued per-sistence of Utah prairie dogs intothe future.” The state will “comple-ment the conservation work thatthe U.S. Forest Service, theBureau of Land Management andthe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

are doing on federal lands.”A sidelight to the case is the ani-

mal rights group that Judge Ben-son accepted as intervenor. Friendsof Animals, a Connecticut-basedgroup with a $4.9 million budget,insists “humans do not have theright to displace or restrict animalpopulations” and opposes eatingmeat, milk, eggs, honey or any ani-mal food.Although of no legal signifi-

cance, Friends of Animals receivedpayments of more than $115,000from the U.S. Fish and WildlifeService in 2001 and 2003, accord-ing to USASpending.gov. Suchlong-term “buddy links” betweengreen groups and federal agenciesare widespread, something onlyrecently recognized as federal

grants went online.Friends of Animals has

announced it will appeal Benson’s rul-ing to the 10th Circuit Court ofAppeals in Denver, but the Fish andWildlife Service is still deliberating.The case is expected to go to

the Supreme Court.

Ron Arnold is a free-enterprise activist, author andcommentator. He pioneered investigative meth-ods to expose money and power links of theAmerican left in nine books and hundreds of mag-azine and newspaper articles. He is a veteran con-sultant for non-profit organizations and business-es faced with crisis situations and governmentalabuses.

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their fake chicken fooled peo-ple into thinking it was the realthing and its products are nowcarried in 4,000 stores.Beyond Meat’s CEO Ethan

Brown says, “You can see thechange coming when you sitdown and talk to a child. Nochild wants to hurt an animal.Would we continue to raise andeat animals in such staggeringnumbers if we could make thesame thing from plants?”Beyond Meat’s mission

statement reads in part, “AtBeyond Meat, we want tomake the world a better placeand we’re starting one deliciousmeal at a time.”Pardon me for saying so but

it doesn’t really look all thatappetizing. On the firm’s website are recipes for Flaky Bis-cuits with Beyond Meat herbedgravy made with herbs andtamari (whatever that is), feistypumpkin charred corn and sagechili, and Beyond Beef pump-kin pasta casserole. If you wantto see what the future looks likeaccording to the geeks andnerds take a look at the photos.Be forewarned . . . it’s not apretty picture

Modern Meadow – It’s notjust meat these mad scientistsare trying to replace but thehide too. This company wasstarted in 2011 by Andras For-gacs and his biophysicist father,Gabor. They plan to replacethe entire cow, right down toher hide which they call “cul-tured leather.” Says AndrasForgacs, “You don’t waste asmuch material with culturedleather because animals don'tcome in the shape of a couchor a handbag.” They are making the fake

leather from stem cells and I’msure that’s not exactly whatfolks had in mind when theywere promoting stem cellresearch a few years back.To make cultured beef,

Modern Meadow takes musclecells from a steer and placesthem in a soup of amino acids,vitamins, minerals and sugars.It takes about a week to grow abeef chip for less than $100! Wow, and you thought beef

was high in the grocery store!“We’re in for a real revolu-

tion in the next decade or two,”says Forgacs.

Hamton Creek – This firm

received $30 million in fundingfrom Khosla Ventures and oth-er techies to rid the world ofroosters with their plant-basedsubstitute for eggs calledBeyond Eggs. (Khosla gets alarge chunk of money from BillGates.) Unlike many other Sili-con Valley food firms this com-pany does have products onstore shelves including a veganmayonnaise called Just Mayo.Hamton Creek eggs, the firmsays are 19 percent cheaperand have a longer shelf life.Supposedly Bill Gates could-

n’t tell the difference in muffinsmade with real eggs and thosemade with this company’s fakeeggs. The ingredients in aBeyond Egg egg include peas,sunflower lecithin, canola, andnatural gums extracted fromtree sap.According to Hamton

Creek, “More sustainable solu-tions like Beyond Eggs reducethe need for chicken feed,including corn and soy, whichmeans less carbon emissions.We could go on and on like

this citing one firm after anoth-er that wants to rid the world oflivestock. Rich liberal ex-hip-

pies are going to extremelengths to get rid of the cow.But why are stock growers theirhated enemy? One reason isthat you own land . . . lots of it.Why should you get to ownland? Who do you think youare? You have no exclusive rightto the outdoors. You are alsothe direct opposite from thempersonally. They work inside, you work

outside. They collect cars, youcollect horses. They are Tomor-rowland while you are Frontier-land. They are intimidated byyou, and you are bewildered bythem. They are pale, pasty andsoft from watching computerscreens all the time while youare sunburned, strong andswarthy. They are urban, youare rural and this is a civil war.Or as one writer said, this is noless than vegan jihad. A reli-gious-like war over food.

So, will Silicon Valleybe the new Omaha or Amaril-lo? Will geeks and nerds inGoogle Glasses and wearingApple watches replace theiconic cowboy?I don’t think so. For one

thing, a Pew survey found 80

percent of Americans wouldnot eat meat grown in a lab.Although younger peoplewould be more willing to try it,even they won’t eat it if its notas good as, or better, than thereal thing. And that’s a tallorder.The lab cowboys have a

tough task ahead of them toconvince consumers that eatingmeat from a laboratory is agood thing. After all, we aretalking about consumers whodon’t trust GMO’s and callsquare tomatoes “Franken-foods.” Will folks who wanttheir food natural and organiceat meat grown in a petri dishor a burger of bioengineeredbeef?These same millennials who

are supposed to eat all this fakemeat are the same folkslifestyle magazines call “food-ies” because of their extremeinterests in food, how it is pre-pared, where it originated andhow it was grown or raised. Ifthis is true then I don’t thinkthey are going to want to eatsomething manufactured insome chemistry experimentgone horribly wrong.

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BY DEAN KUIPERS, LA TIMES

Everything you thought youknew about red meat might bewrong, according to ‘The Case forSustainable Meat’.

Niman Ranch co-proprietorand vegetarian Nicolette HahnNiman calls for a revolutionizedfood system.

Nicolette Hahn Niman skew-ers the sacred cows of the anti-meat orthodoxy in ‘The Case forSustainable Meat.’

Defending Beef, The Casefor Sustainable Meat Productionby Nicolette Hahn NimanChelsea Green: 288 pp., $19.95paper

When food guru MichaelPollan recently tweetedin support of NicoletteHahn Niman’s new

book, Defending Beef: The Casefor Sustainable Meat Produc-tion, the protest that followedmade it perfectly obvious whysuch a book is necessary. “ACattle Rancher wrote a bookabout how free range, grass fedbeef is better than factoryfarmed. Slow clap,” [email protected] Hahn Niman’s mission is

much bigger than that. If you arelooking for a book to inspirefisticuffs at the Thanksgivingtable, you’ve found it. Her “man-ifesto” calls for a revolutionizedfood system — one that requirescows. The co-proprietor of thefamed Niman Ranch has not justextended the thesis of her pigbook, Righteous Porkchop, toargue for a few pamperedBessies in today’s artisanal foodsmovement; rather, she’s sayinghere that nearly everything weaccept as gospel about the nega-tive environmental effects of cat-tle ranching, and the ill healtheffects of eating red meat, iswrong.And further, that cattle are

necessary to the restoration andfuture health of this planet andits people.Hahn Niman has bit off a lot

here. But as a trained biologist,former environmental attorneyfor Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’sWaterkeeper organization, thewife of rancher Bill Niman and,interestingly, also a vegetarian,she relishes the slugfest. “I comearmed with data, and plenty of it. . .” she writes in the introduc-tion, adding that “the basic agri-cultural and demographic facts

are not in dispute.”It’s a book of numbers, and in

it she sets out to debunk justabout everything you think youknow. She starts, for instance,with the now commonly citedcriticism that cattle cause globalwarming. That comes from a2006 report by the U.N. Foodand Agriculture Organization,which stated that 18 percent ofall greenhouse gas emissionsworldwide came from livestockand most of that from cattle.This number is still used, thoughit was dismissed even beforeHahn Niman got to it. Thatsame year, the Intergovernmen-tal Panel on Climate Change,the gold standard of globalwarming monitors, said theemissions from all of farming,including tractors, agrochemicalproduction, tillage, etc. was 10percent to 12 percent of globalemissions. The U.N. Environ-mental Program now states thatthe number for all of agricultureis 11 percent, and cattle wouldbe a tiny percentage of that.One after another, Hahn

Niman skewers the, ahem,sacred cows of the anti-meatorthodoxy. Eating meat causesworld hunger? No, livestock arecritical food (and cash) for 1 bil-lion global poor, many livingwhere plant crops cannot begrown. Deforestation? Forestsare cleared primarily for soy,almost none of which goes tofeed cows. Red meat and animalfat are the cause of the currentepidemic of cardiovascular dis-ease? The 1953 Keys study thatspawned this belief actuallyshowed no causation betweenthe two and pushed us into thedeadly grip of trans-fats and thetrue killer: sugar. Overgrazingruined the American West? No,it was improper grazing and, insome cases, not enough cattle.I am glossing here, but Hahn

Niman does not. She has you sodeep in the minutia of studies

that you’ll begasping for air.Remember, she’sa lawyer, usingplenty of “as Iwill show” and“as I havedemonstrated”to make hercase.That case, the

true subject ofHahn Niman’sbook, is forgrass. In a chap-

ter titled “All Food Is Grass,” shewrites, “Making grass, ratherthan chemicals and mechaniza-tion, the foundation of our foodsystem is a massive but neces-sary shift.” Even as she excori-ates the beef industry (her liveli-hood) for poor grazing and usinggrowth hormones, among manyother bad practices, she keepscoming back to her point that weneed grass and that grass needscattle.Here Hahn Niman joins a

swelling cadre of new books(The Soil Will Save Us, CowsSave the Planet, et al) extollingZimbabwean grass advocateAllan Savory. His Holistic Graz-ing theory proposes that rumi-nants like antelope and bison —and now cows — create healthygrasslands when they’re kept bypredators in tight “mobs” andconstantly moved place toplace, digging up the grass andleaving a steady stream ofmanure. Those grasslandsthrive, preventing erosion oftopsoil, which is one of ourworst global environmentalcrises, sequestering massiveamounts of carbon, and produc-ing dense, nutrient-rich foodfrom marginal lands. Movingthose herds requires cowgirlsand -boys, which also bringsmore jobs to farm country.Of course, even the prospect

of mitigating global warming orimproving global health won’tpersuade many vegetarians orvegans to start eating beef.Obviously Hahn Niman is finewith this. “But if your rationaleis based on the environment orhealth, I think the reasons arepoorly grounded,” she adds.She’s not trying to change

your mind; she’s trying to saveyour world. And if you’re aneater trying to pick your waythrough this divisive debate,you’re cheering the informationon every page.Kuipers is writer living in Los Angeles.

I come armed with data,and plenty of it . . . thebasic agricultural anddemographic facts are notin dispute.– Nicolette Hahn Niman

‘Case for Sustainable

Meat’ takes on many sacred cows


BY RAMONA YOUNG-GRINDLE,

COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE

The U.S. Fish and WildlifeService announced a finalEnvironmental ImpactStatement (EIS) for the

endangered Mexican wolf experi-mental population in Arizonaand New Mexico. The final EIS“sets the stage for a final decisionon the changes in the program inJanuary 2015,” according to theagency’s statement regarding theaction.The Mexican wolf is the rarest

of all North American graywolves. It was listed as endan-gered under the EndangeredSpecies Act in 1978. A “non-essential” experimental popula-tion was introduced in the twostates in 1998. The population is

termed “non-essential” becauseits failure would not result in theoverall extinction of the species.Captive-bred wolves were

released into the Blue RangeWolf Recovery Area, a small areawithin the larger Mexican WolfExperimental Population Area.The wolves currently occupy justthe Blue Range area.The EIS recommends an

increase in the range throughoutthe larger Experimental Popula-tion Area, and the release ofmore wolves to improve thegenetic variation in the popula-tion, the agency said.The recommendations also

include provisions for removal ofproblem wolves either through“translocation” or the approval ofwolf kill permits allowed underspecial provisions that regulate

experimental populations.The USFWS maintains that

the EIS adequately balances theneeds of the wolf populationand the economic and safetyneeds of surrounding humanpopulations.“Over the last 16 years, we

have learned much about man-aging a wild population of Mexi-can wolves, and it is clear thatthe current rule does not pro-vide the clarity or the flexibilityneeded to effectively managethe experimental population in aworking landscape,” Sherry Bar-rett, the agency’s Mexican WolfRecovery Coordinator, wasquoted as saying in the USFWSpress release. “We need toincrease our management flexi-bility in a manner that is respon-sive to the diverse needs of local

communities and the existingprey base.”Because the EIS was devel-

oped without a recovery plan,the Center for Biological Diver-sity (CBD) and other environ-mental partners filed suit thismonth to “compel finalization ofa recovery plan,” the CBD saidin its response to the EIS.The USFWS’s own draft

recovery plan from 2012 wouldrequire a population increasemore than twice the EIS recom-mendation, and would allow thewolves to move into areasbanned in the new recommen-dation, the CBD said.This range restriction in the

EIS directly contradicts thedraft recovery plan, “whichdetermined that establishingadditional populations in Grand

Canyon National Park andnorthern New Mexico is criticalto the ultimate recovery of Mex-ican wolves,” the CBD said.According to the USFWS,

there are only 83 wolves in theexperimental population, andonly five breeding pairs. Smallpopulations result in problemswith inbreeding, such as low pupsurvival rates.“We’re disappointed that

despite the fact that killings ofMexican wolves, both legal andillegal, have hampered recovery,Fish and Wildlife is still handingout permits to kill more,”Michael Robinson said in theCBD’s statement. “This appearsto be more about appeasingthose who fear and abhor wolvesthan it is about rational, science-based management.”

Wolves May Get More Range, But Face More Bullets

APHIS Rule Proposal Could Devas-tate American Cattle Herd

BY PETE BONDS, PRESIDENT TEXAS &SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE RAISERS ASSOC.

On August 29, 2014, the United StatesDepartment of Agriculture (USDA),Animal and Plant Health InspectionService (APHIS), published a rule

proposal in the federal register that wouldallow the importation of live cattle and freshor frozen beef from Northern Argentina.APHIS would accomplish this by adding

the Patagonia areas of Argentina to the listof regions considered free of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD).The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Rais-

ers Association (TSCRA) is deeply con-cerned with this proposal. FMD is a severeand highly contagious viral disease of cows,pigs, sheep, goats, deer and other animals

with divided hooves. It is considered to beone of the most economically devastatinglivestock diseases in the world and poses asignificant risk to not only our country’s cat-tle herd, but also our national food security.FMD could also cost our industry hundredsof millions of dollars.I am extremely worried if FMD comes

into the cattle herds, especially in Texas withthe high population of feral hogs, we couldsee an unstoppable outbreak of the disease.Pigs are more susceptible to the disease thancattle, and with feral hogs being a problemin most of the state, the disease could spreadthroughout the country.Also, if an FMD outbreak were to occur

in the U.S., I am afraid we wouldn’t have theability or amount of vaccine needed to con-trol the disease.APHIS conducted their risk analysis

based on a series of site visits to Argentina todetermine the FMD risk status. TSCRA and

other cattle industry groups requested writ-ten reports for these visits; however, APHISinformed us that written documentationwasn’t required for their site reviews. Thelack of documentation makes me questiontheir transparency and ability to conduct anaccurate and thorough review.A third party scientific review team from

the University of Minnesota (UMN), Col-lege of Veterinary Medicine, objectivelyreviewed the APHIS risk analysis. Thereview team acknowledged limited or lackingmethodological approaches in performingthe risk assessment and poorly defined scoperegarding the specific animal types andproducts for the risk assessment. There wasalso a lack of sufficient detail for geographi-cal landmarks outlining the Patagonia regionin the risk analysis and maps lacking the nec-essary level of detail to be useful.APHIS believes the export region in

northern Argentina is FMD free because

the World Organization for Animal Health(OIE) recognizes the region as “FMD freewith vaccination being practiced.” However,I disagree. In fact, the U.S. doesn’t recognizenorthern Argentina as being FMD free,because vaccination against FMD is cur-rently taking place in the export region.Additionally, northern Argentina’s exten-

sive border exposure to multiple countries,such as Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay andBrazil, which are not recognized in the U.S.Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) asFMD free, poses a major risk for the reintro-duction of FMD into the export region. Thelarge border area is difficult to control, andArgentina has acknowledged that smugglingdoes occur at the borders.TSCRA is also very concerned about

Argentina’s trend of compliance problemsand deficiencies with routine USDA and

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At first blush, one wouldthink that defining sustain-abilityand efficiencyshouldn’t take more than

few moments. Sustainability,according to the Merriam-WebsterDictionary, is defined as “harvest-ing or using a resource so that theresource is not depleted or per-manently damaged.” USDA hasalready produced a legal defini-tion of sustainable agriculture.According to U.S. Code Title 7,Section 3103, sustainable agricul-ture means “an integrated systemof plant and animal productionpractices having a site-specificapplication that will over thelong-term:

n Satisfy human food and fiberneeds.

n Enhance environmentalquality and the natural resourcebase upon which the agricultureeconomy depends.

n Make the most efficient useof nonrenewable resources andon-farm resources and integrate,where appropriate, natural biolog-ical cycles and controls.

n Sustain the economic viabili-ty of farm operations.

n Enhance the quality of lifefor farmers and society as awhole.”Efficiency is even easier to

define; simply divide outputs byinputs. Certainly there are differ-ent types of efficiency; for exam-ple, we can measure economicefficiency or biological efficiency.The relationships for both are

pretty simple to calculate, andwhile economic efficiencieschange according to costs ofinputs and outputs and the like,the concepts seem pretty straight-forward and well-defined.Yet, these concepts are not

nearly so simple in application.That’s because politics and mar-keting have become the drivers inthese discussions, and both tendto care far less about facts and farmore about creating perceptions.Sadly, politics and marketing arealso seen as a zero sum game,where there are not two winnersbut decided victors and losers.Thus, we have a lot of confu-

sion about what the words “sus-tainable” and “efficiency” meanand how they can be achieved.The fact that they’re interrelatedisn’t the important concept. The

key is that as marketing and polit-ical tools, they are being manipu-lated to achieve predeterminedgoals by those involved. Some of it’s laughable and

should be ignored. After all, agri-culture has made great strides insustainability since the GreatDepression, and even greaterstrides in efficiency. In fact, therate of progress in efficiency hasbeen staggering.In 1970, the U.S. needed an

inventory of 140 million head ofcattle to produce the sameamount of beef product as we dotoday with 90 million head! Wewere able to do that by improvingreproductive efficiency andgrowth and carcass traits.We’re just now beginning to

measure and identify feed effi-ciency, which promises to spur

even more dramatic improve-ments in cattle efficiency. Yet,there are some who claim efficien-cy is strictly outputs or inputs, andsome reduce the debate toabsurdity via simplification.For instance, some marketers

claim smaller cows are more prof-itable in every environment. For-get the fact that such a premisewould result in the never-endingchase for smaller and smaller cat-tle. Meanwhile, the disciples ofoutput would have us soon pro-ducing cattle that resemble ele-phants.Such extremes in view are

admittedly in the minority, andthe mainstream rejects suchclaims with little thought. In abroad sense, efficiency is fairlyeasy to define, but it is unique toeach individual operation.

Agriculture can’t allow outsiders to define sustainability

BY AMANDA RADKE IN BEEF DAILY, BEEF MAGAZINE

The beef industry’s largestcustomer, McDonald’s, hasannounced it will spend thenext 18 months defining sus-

tainable beef. Bob Langert,McDonald’s vice president of sus-tainability, spoke at the recent2014 Cattle Industry SummerConference in Denver, CO,where he told the crowd, “Justthinking you’re sustainable isn’tenough anymore; you’ve got toprove it.”Gene Johnston for agricul-

ture.com reports on Langert’sspeech in an article entitled,“Fast-Food VP Challenges CattleIndustry.”Here is an excerpt: “McDon-

ald’s buys a lot of beef – 2 percentof the entire world’s supply.Through its 34,000 worldwidefranchise locations, it sells abouthalf of all fast-food burgers, anaverage of 75/second. That’s morethan Wendy’s, Burger King, Son-ic, Arby’s, and Jack-in-the-Boxcombined. By 2016, McDonald’sintends to source and sell ham-burger beef that fits the new crite-ria (whatever that is) and beapplied worldwide.”McDonald’s doesn’t currently

have a definition for “sustainablebeef,” but Langert saysMcDon-ald’s wants the beef industry tohelp define it.“It’s a comprehensive

approach. Beyond that, we don’tknow the definition. You will helpus create it. Let’s do it beforesomeone else does it for us. Startby measuring things. How muchdo you contribute to your com-

munity? How much energy haveyou saved in the last few years?People want to know how muchyou care. It’s part of the sustain-able answer.”With 69 million customers

going to McDonald’s on a dailybasis, the chain sells a lot of beefand has the power to be extremelyinfluential in public perceptionsabout our product. Take, forexample, the company’s bad repu-tation for making America fat; thecompany rebranded andrevamped its menu — offeringapple slices, oatmeal, yogurt andbetter salad options to meet theneeds of the health-conscious cus-tomer.The beef industry certainly has

a great opportunity to sit downwith McDonald’s and shape thediscussion about sustainability inbeef production. We better makethe most of this opportunity orrisk others doing the defining forus.Businessweek.com sees

McDonald’s promise to serve sus-tainable beef in 2016 as a directresult of Chipotle’s successfulcampaigning for its all-naturalburritos.In an article entitled, “McDon-

ald’s Gives Itself A Year And HalfTo Get Into Chipotle-FightingShape,” Businessweek.comreports that McDonald’s rebrand-ing will focus on adding more fruitand vegetable options and offer-ing sustainable beef, a la Chipotle.According to the article,

“The goal of McDonald’s is tobecome a more trusted andrespected brand. The McDon-ald’s brand — eroded over the

McDonald’s Wants Industry Help In Defining Sustainable Beef

BY NANCY E. HALPERN, DVM, ESQ. POSTED IN

ANIMAL RIGHTS, PERSONHOOD

In a stunning decision, the Appellate Divisionof the Third Judicial Department in the Stateof New York denied personhood status forTommy, the chimpanzee, expressly rejecting

The Nonhuman Rights Project fundamentalassertion that chimpanzees are “legal persons.”In the Order, which upheld the lower court’sdenial of a petition for a writ of habeas, theCourt addressed the issue presented directly:“This appeal presents the novel question of

whether a chimpanzee is a ‘person’ entitled tothe rights and protections afforded by the writ ofhabeas corpus. . . the petitioner requests that this Courtenlarge the common-law definition of ‘person’ inorder to afford legal rights to an animal.” TheNonhuman Rights Project, Inc., on Behalf ofTommy v. Lavery, Case No. 518339, Slip. Op.,(N.Y. App. Div. Dec. 4, 2014).The Court declined to do so.“Petitioner does not cite any precedent – and

there appears to be none – in state law, or underEnglish common law, that an animal could beconsidered a ‘person’ for the purposes of com-mon-law habeas corpus relief. In fact, habeascorpus relief has never been provided to any non-human entity.” Slip. Op. (citations omitted).But the Court did not stop there. It went on

to discuss when, why, and how society providesrights consistent with legal personhood and whatresponsibilities are associated with those rights,

citing to the legal scholarship of Richard L.Cupp Jr., a law professor who has written exten-sively on this topic.Consistent with Cupp’s position, “[c]ase law

has always recognized the correlative rights andduties that attach to legal personhood,” that non-human animals do not have.The Court also addressed petitioner’s asser-

tion that since non-human entities like corpora-tions have been afforded personhood-type rights,there is no bar to do the same for non-humananimals.“Associations of human beings, such as corpo-

rations and municipal entities, may be consid-ered legal persons, because they too bear legalduties in exchange for their legal rights.”While ultimately rejecting that a chimpanzee

should be afforded “the fundamental right to lib-erty protected by the writ of habeas corpus[because] unlike human beings, chimpanzeescannot bear any legal duties, submit to societalresponsibilities or be held legally accountable fortheir actions,” the Court listed the specific legalprotections that have been afforded to animals,including chimpanzees in New York. These “rights,” like the protection against cru-

el treatment, are routinely ignored by activistsclaiming that animals have no rights. Expect to see many citations to this decision

in response to other lawsuits to “free” animalsfrom captivity and “slavery.”The Nonhuman Rights Project announced

that it is pursuing an appeal in response to thisdecision.

Personhood Denied

years by service problems,dietary concerns, lack of block-buster product launches, andrecent employee-pay issues —isn’t one many consumers feeltoo good about anymore. Infact, one study shows that 38percent of online conversationsabout McDonald’s over thepast year have been negative.“To create a dining experience

customers will feel good about,McDonald’s has turned a WestCoast restaurant into a learninglab to gather feedback about thefood, environment, and otheraspects of dining at the GoldenArches. Core products, such asthe Big Mac, Egg McMuffin,and fries — three items that

account for about 40 percent ofsales — will be at the center ofthe food efforts, and expectmenu additions to be focusedaround premium beef and chick-en items, breakfast food, andcoffee and blended ice drinks.” I hope that McDonald’s does-

n’t go down the path of Chipo-tle. It’s important our consumersknow that conventionally raisedbeef really is sustainable. It’s alsonutritious and safe.However, if McDonald’s has

certain specifications it wouldlike beef producers to meet, I’mpositive the industry will rise tothe occasion to produce the beefour number-one customerdemands. Hopefully, McDon-

ald’s can then sell said beef with-out bashing conventionallyraised beef in the process.And that’s going to be the dif-

ference between Chipotle andMcDonald’s — one makes itsmoney by bashing conventionalagriculture while the other worksto improve the industry by actu-ally working with ranchers andnot against them.What do you think about

McDonald’s promise to serve“sustainable beef?” How wouldyou define sustainable beef?Share your thoughts in the com-ments section below.

The opinions of Amanda Radke are not necessar-ily those of Beefmagazine.com or the PentonFarm Progress Group.

Some Inside Work Needs toBe Done - Set Goals and StudyBefore the Sale.

Focused breeding goals, withclear outcomes relevant to theproduction of beef, should be atthe heart of all cattle opera-tions.

BY KRIS RINGWALL, BEEF SPECIALISTNDSU EXTENSION SERVICE

Warning: Critical state-ments exist in this arti-cle, so you may not wantto read it. However, you

should at least take home thepoint that acquiring good bullsthrough knowledgeable andinformed bull selection is criticalto the survival of the beef busi-ness.Implementing focused produc-

tion goals, with clear outcomesrelevant to the production of beef,is critical. If in doubt, simplyglance over the fence and view thecompetition. The poultry, swineand dairy industries routinely pro-duce very uniform, marketableproducts that meet predefinedproduction goals utilizing thesame tools that are available tothe beef industry.But first let’s talk about work-

ing cattle because it always is chal-lenging. With the cold snap andseveral sets of cows needing ultra-sounding for pregnancy evalua-tion, I got ready.Chuteside attire certainly

varies with the weather. Havingprepared for the cold with layeredclothing under the traditional bluecoveralls, I suddenly realized myability to put my plastic boots overthe cowboy boots was in question.Reaching my feet was a challenge,but the job got done.I was reminded that we all

change. If nothing else, we getolder. Our individual flexibilityseems to come up short somedays, but with an appropriatetweak, we get the job done. How-ever, those tweaks only can do somuch.As an industry, our tweaking is

evident. However, some days, Iwonder because we can do better.Maybe one should not say that.However, the other day, whilewatching several sets of cattle sellat a public market, the variationthat was present was notable.The cows, bulls, yearlings and

calves of all sizes and types wereselling to the sound of the auc-tion. With each swing of the door,one set went out and one came in.The announcement of what wasbehind the incoming door waswaited for with anticipation. If theset of cattle was large, the mooingof the cattle could be heard. If theset was small, the door wouldswing open and close quickly, andthe bidding would begin.I do not want to be critical

because the type of cattle thatproducers choose to raise is up tothem, and the market does anexcellent job at connecting theseller and buyer. However, some-times thoughtful presale ponder-ing by the producer on how those

cattle will look at the market isn’talways evident.For the most part, there always

is a buyer, but sometimes deter-mining how to best present thecattle needs to be thoughtthrough. The concept that theauction market will sort away allthe problems is not true. Thatbeing said, cattle that are unthriftyneed to stay at home, eat somegroceries and “beef up” a little bit.That may not be easy but certainlyis a worthy goal for a beef opera-tion.But we can do better. Howev-

er, there are too many “buts” inthis story. Fundamentally, there isa larger issue than the simplemanagement, presentation andsale of cattle, which is the genetics

of the business. Those cattle thatarrive for sale lacking good struc-ture, condition and muscling areproducts of breeding programs.As was noted at the begin-

ning, focused breeding goals,with clear outcomes relevant tothe production of beef, shouldbe at the heart of all cattle oper-ations. Simply breeding cows toproduce calves with no thought-ful purpose challenges the indus-try. The competition appreciatesthose cattle, but the cattle indus-try should not.As producers, the tools are

readily available to assure theavailability of bulls that will carrywith them the genetics that willmeet focused breeding goals andoutcomes relevant to the produc-

tion of excellent beef for con-sumption by the consumer.The ultrasound evaluations of

the cows are finished. The preg-nancy rate is good, but my coldhands started my mind thinkingsome inside work would be good,which means bull buying. The bullcatalogs are starting to arrive, andthe opportunity for proper selec-tion of genetics means a betterproduct.Focused production goals for

the Dickinson Research Exten-sion Center that involve clear out-comes relevant to the productionof beef are open for discussion.However, the center has selectedfor birth, weaning and yearlingweight, and rib eye area for sever-al years. Attention for milk pro-

duction and marbling also havebeen part of the selection process.The real question is setting the

percentile thresholds within thevarious breeds. The selection pres-sure is rising while keeping thebulls affordable. Not all bulls arecreated equally, so find the rightbull, pay the right price and sellthe right calves.The hands are warm, so start

figuring.May you find all your ear tags.For more information,

contact Ringwall at 1041 StateAve., Dickinson, ND 58601, orgo to www.ag.ndsu.edu/news/columns/beeftalk/.

Ringwall is a North Dakota State UniversityExtension Service livestock specialist and theDickinson Research Extension Center director.


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ies, says Carroll, are located along theKeystone XL route, and U.S. refineriesalready get more oil from Canada thanthey do from other countries. Refiner-ies in the upper Midwest as well asTexas are in need of crude oil and cur-rently have to import it from nationssuch as Venezuela. Were they able topurchase Canada’s crude, it would becheaper, says Carroll.She also notes that the State

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Although RW Hampton liveson a secluded ranch in theNorthern New Mexico backroads village of Miami, it’s

exactly those authentic down homeexperiences of family, faith, andplace that power his worldwide tour-ing and performing.Hampton’s resonant baritone

aligns his sound with Randy Travisat his acoustic best. Having justreleased his 14th studio album, ThisCowboy, Hampton fits his music-making in and around ranch chores,feeding and training the horses, find-ing his tunes and doing much of hiscomposing horseback, driving toand from the school bus in Rayado

and keeping up with family’s dailyneeds. He and wife Lisa have a fam-ily of six children, from age 34 to 8.Inspiration comes directly out of

daily life. “It could be in front seat ofthe pickup, on the back of a horse,jotting a few things on the sleeve ofmy Carhartt coat – usually what Iget is a couple of lines and a tune,”he says.Says Hampton, “What I’m writ-

ing is a love letter to this country welive in – this Cimarron country andthis nation. It’s for my wife, my fam-ily, my Lord and Savior.” His songsvery much focus on matters of faith,patriotism, and traditional values.He and his wife Lisa work verymuch as a team, with Lisa handlingpublicity, bookings, and producing

on the CDs. She works out of theirhome office with band members,studios and agencies from Nashvilleto Fort Worth.“Sacrifice – we’ve completely for-

gotten about some of that stuff.Most of the songs that I write andthe songs that Lisa and I writetogether come out of a sense of pas-sion and inspiration”One of Hampton’s most popular

tunes is titled “My Country’s Notfor Sale.” “It’s time to tell Washing-ton this country’s not for sale,” heexplains. “Lisa and I wrote this songabout the mosque that was pro-posed to be built on Ground Zero.Big money talks. Big money will buyyou what you want (even in politics).That particular song – we played it

all across the U.S. Everybody wasstanding up. We all feel the sameway,” he says.While he has lived in Miami

since 1999, Hampton’s associationswith the place he calls home gomuch further back. Originally fromDallas, he has lived in and visitedColfax and Union Counties sincehe was a kid. As an Eagle Scout, heventured to Philmont in 1972 andbecame a horse wrangler there in1974. He brought his guitar as partof his gear, and he has fond memo-ries of playing it around bonfires inCimarron Canyon. After he learned the basics at

Philmont, he chose to be a working

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Oversight of geneticallymodified crops in Hawaiiremains the state’skuleana, a federal judge

ruled recently when invalidatingHawaii County’s law restrictingthe use of transgenic plants.The ruling by U.S. Magistrate

Judge Barry Kurren was in linewith another decision he made inAugust overturning Kauai Coun-ty’s law on pesticides and modi-fied crops. In both, he found law-makers intended the state to havebroad oversight of agriculturalissues in Hawaii.“In light of the comprehensive

statutes and the networkdesigned to address statewideagricultural problems, the courtconcludes that legislative intentfor an exclusive, uniform andcomprehensive state statutoryscheme on the precise subjectmatter addressed by Ordinance13-121 preempts the county’sban on genetically modified

organisms,” the ruling said.The law — adopted by Hawaii

County Council a year ago —bannned open-air use and testingof GMOs with a few exceptions.Kurren ruled the law was onlypartially preempted by federallaw.Supporters of the law, which

went into effect Dec. 5, 2013,said they weren’t surprised giventhe ruling in the Kauai case.“We were playing chess with

the big boys,” said County Coun-cilwoman Margaret Wille, whospearheaded the anti-GMO legis-lation. “There’s a lot of powerthere and you can’t expect thatthey (biotech companies) don’thave a lot of influence.”Wille, an attorney, said she

was hoping for an appeal.Molly Stebbins, county corpo-

ration counsel, said the countydisagrees with the preemptionargument but added no decisionhas been made yet on whether toappeal the ruling to the 9th Cir-cuit Court of Appeals. The coun-ty has 30 days to make that deci-sion.

The plaintiffs, who filed thelawsuit in June, included agricul-tural groups representing florists,banana and papaya growers, andranchers. The BiotechnologyIndustry Organization, and islefarmers and ranchers Richard Ha,Jason Moniz, Gordon Inouye andEric Tanouye also were listed asplaintiffs.In addition to preemption,

they argued the ban was not sup-ported by the science of biotech-nology and would harm farmerswho could benefit from modifiedcrops.“I think it’s a step in the right

direction and certainly was afavorable ruling for the farmers,”said Lorie Farrell, a coordinatorfor Hawaii Farmers and RanchersUnited, which opposed the law.“And our reaction is maybe wecan begin the conversation aboutfood and farming and move for-ward in a positive direction.”While supported by a large

majority of testifiers, the law cre-ated sharp divides between pro-GMO farmers and scientists andthose who oppose the use of

biotechnology in agriculture.Supporters of genetically engi-

neered crops pointed to the suc-cess of the transgenic Rainbowpapaya, developed by scientists tobe resistant to the ringspot virus,while opponents cited fears aboutthe widespread use of herbicide-resistant crops.“Hawaii Island is a unique and

important place,” said organicfarmer Nancy Redfeather in astatement released by the Centerfor Food Safety. “I am deeply dis-appointed that the court wouldagree with the chemical compa-nies’ arguments, stripping us ofour right to make local agricultur-al decisions.”Michael Shintaku, a plant

pathologist at the University ofHawaii at Hilo, said the law couldhave prevented him from devel-oping new types of virus-resistantplants. Unlike Roundup readycorn and other herbicide-resistantcrops that make up the bulk oftransgenic plants, these don’t relyon the use of chemicals.“I was hoping that this would

be overturned and it was,” Shin-

taku said. “Now next year, whenI’m ready, we can proceed withour plants.”But he said he also was left

frustrated by the way Councilhandled the debate about modi-fied agriculture.Shinktaku said council mem-

bers relied too heavily on testimo-ny from anti-GMO activists wholacked scientific backgrounds. BigIsle and other Hawaii scientists,he said, felt left on the sidelinesduring the process and particular-ly on a day reserved for expert tes-timony.“More than 90 percent of the

time was spent talking to andhearing from people who werevery much anti-GMO and theyreally had no qualifications,”Shintaku said.“… I was appalled.”Wille defended the process,

saying Council offered 13 daysfor public testimony.“Did you not have an opportu-

nity to testify?” she said inresponse to the complaint.“I felt there was a lot of discus-

sion,” Wille said.

Judge invalidates county GMO law

European Commission food safetyaudits for Argentina.While TSCRA supports open

trade markets, we must alwaysmake certain the foreign countrieswe are importing beef from haveproper animal health and foodsafety protocols in place. Theymust also have a proven history ofbeing able to control foreign ani-mal diseases, such as FMD.TSCRA believes these protocolsshould be substantiated by sound,scientific evidence.Simply put, I don’t believe

Argentina can meet these criticalstandards to keep FMD out of thecountry.TSCRA will be submitting com-

ments expressing concern with therule, and you can do the same by vis-iting www.regulations.gov and typ-ing into the search screen, APHIS-2014-0032-0131. The deadline for

submitting comments is Decem-ber 29, 2014.It is important for you as cattle

ranchers to voice your oppositionto the APHIS rule proposal. Ifimplemented, this rule could posea major threat to your cattle herdsand detrimentally affect your busi-ness.Protecting the U.S. cattle

industry from a catastrophic ani-mal disease, such FMD, is a majorpriority for TSCRA. We will closelywatch this rule proposal and doeverything possible to block imple-mentation so we can continue pro-ducing a safe and healthy beef sup-ply worldwide.

Pete Bonds, President, Texas and SouthwesternCattle Raisers Association has ranched his entirelife. He operates the Bonds Ranch in Saginaw,Texas, where he also lives. Bonds currently servesas the President of the Texas and SouthwesternCattle Raisers Association. He and his wife Jo havethree daughters, Missy, Bonnie and April.

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cowboy, and says his “desk was mysaddle.” He knows of what he sings,having worked on ranches all overNew Mexico, including Capitan,along the Canadian River, west ofCarlsbad by the Guadalupe Moun-tains, and for the Red River Ranch.He also lived and ranched aroundClayton and Amistad.“I’ve always enjoyed music,” he

says, although he “can’t read a lick ofmusic” and is basically self-taught. Hestarted playing the guitar as a teenag-er, “because girls liked it,” countingJim Croce and John Denver as hisinfluences. In 1971, when he lost asister to a car wreck, he dealt with hisgrief by closing his bedroom door andlosing himself in singing.His new album is already charting

at #5 on Roots Music Chart for TrueCountry and he has a following of45,000 on his Facebook page, as wellas audiences in such far-flung placesas Brazil, Italy, and Germany, someof his fondest memories are ofappearing on the Grand Old OpryStage and “standing where Hank(Williams) stood.” He is the onlyartist who has appeared twice on the

cover of Western Horseman Magazine,where and he was recently ranked asone of the Top 50 country artists byAmerican Cowboy Magazine, and hasbeen featured in many other westernpublications such as the True Westand Working Ranch Magazines.In addition to son Cooper in the

Marine Corps, the Hampton off-spring partner on a ranch at Sedan,

another works at the T4 Ranch inTucumcari, and the oldest is at Baylorstudying finance and accounting.Two of the youngest attend school inCimarron.“We’ve never pretended our kids

would be cowboys, but anything theylearn out here at the ranch will suitthem in whatever they choose to doin life.”

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the benefits of climate change-related regulation.According to their calculations, the EPA's pro-posed regulation of greenhouse gases couldreduce employment and lower GDP by morethan $2.5 trillion over the next two decades.Dayaratna, Loris and Kreutzer report that

White House has misrepresented climate scienceand the need for expensive carbon regulations.When the U.S. Global Change Research Programissued its National Climate Assessment in May2014, it claimed that human-caused (anthro-pogenic) global warming was already having neg-ative effects in the United States, and it warned ofincreases in sea levels, extreme weather eventsand temperature. But Dayaratna, Loris andKreutzer say the report was faulty:

n The report claimed that there was a 97 per-cent consensus on anthropogenic global warming.However, that figure says nothing about theamount of warming that scientists believe shouldbe attributed to humans, nor the degree of tem-

perature acceleration or whether temperatureincreases would be catastrophic.

n The report’s concerns about sea level riseignore that sea level rise has been slowing. In fact,sea levels have been rising since the end of the iceage but are rising at a much slower rate today.

n The report's claims of more extreme weatherevents is at odds even with the U.N.’s Intergov-ernmental Panel on Climate Change, which con-cluded that the globe was unlikely to see anincrease in extreme weather events.

n Much has been said about melting ice caps,but the amount of global sea ice is actually aboveaverage, and Antarctica has record amounts ofsea ice.

n The report ignores more recent studies onhow sensitive the climate is to carbon dioxideincreases, thereby overstating climate predictions.The authors cite research from Paul Knappen-

berger and Pat Michaels demonstrating that EPAclimate regulations will only lower warming by0.02 degrees Celsius by 2100.

Source: Kevin D. Dayaratna, Nicolas D. Loris and David W. Kreutzer,“The Obama Administration’s Climate Agenda: Underestimated Costsand Exaggerated Benefits,” Heritage Foundation, November 13, 2014.

Flawed Model Hides Costs and ExaggeratesBenefits of Climate Legislation

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While there has been agreat deal of focus onthe federal Estate Tax inthe past several years,

including the tax’s negativeimpacts on wildlife and especiallyendangered species (as I discussedin a previous post, here), there hasbeen relatively little attention paidto the likely detrimental environ-mental impacts of state estate tax-es. Now, however, as detailed inan article by Tamara Cushing,Assistant Professor of Forest Eco-nomics, Management and Policyat Oregon State University, it isclear this needs to change.After recent federal Estate Tax

reform, which raised significantlythe amount exempt from the tax,many landowners and othersthought their problems weresolved. Not so, according to Prof.Cushing:“Lurking in the background,

however, and receiving little atten-tion from the forestry community,media, and even some tax advi-sors, was the lingering bogeymanof state estate tax laws (or statedeath taxes). Even after the feder-al estate tax burden was lifted for2011 and beyond, a number ofstates retained – and still retain –more oppressive estate tax bur-dens.”In 2012, Congress reformed

the federal Estate Tax by makingpermanent the 2011 temporaryexemption of $5 million per per-son of an estate’s value (or $10million per couple), fixed the toptax rate at 40 percent (which pre-vented a possible return to the 55percent rate that prevailed formuch of the 1980s and 90s),included an adjustment for infla-tion, and added a portability pro-vision (which allows the unusedportion of a deceased spouse’sestate tax exemption to be trans-ferred to the surviving spouse).

Even so, a top rate of 40 percentis still very steep, to say nothingabout the larger issue of whetherthere should even be a tax oninherited assets.Due to the 2012 reforms, own-

ers of large or valuable pieces ofland, such as forest owners, felt asense of relief. But there remains abig but relatively unnoticed prob-lem, as Prof. Cushing points out:“Many forest landowners have

been under the belief that veryfew of them will have to worryabout the estate tax with the fed-eral exemption now set at over $5million and adjusting for inflationeach year. Programming efforts(mine included) have shifted tofocus on succession planningrather than the traditional pro-grams to explain how to minimizetaxes on transfer at the time ofdeath. Don’t fail to account forstate death taxes just because youare below today’s federal estatetax exemption, especially if youlive in a state with a death tax – orown land in one that does.”The environmental tie-in for all

of this is that estate taxes, whetherfederal or state, can force heirs oflarge or valuable pieces of land tosubdivide the land and sell offpieces in order to pay federal andstate estate taxes. When federaland state estate taxes are com-bined they can run in the range of52-59% for the top rates and mustbe paid within one year of theowner’s death. Land tends to havehigher environmental values,including for wildlife and endan-gered species, if it is in larger,more contiguous chunks. Habitatdestruction and degradation,which occurs when land is frag-mented, is the leading threat to allwildlife species, common andimperiled. For states like Wash-ington, Oregon and Minnesotathat have large amounts of valu-able privately owned timber land,the combination of the federaland state estate taxes is especially

problematic and very likely to leadto land fragmentation. The stateestate tax rates and maximumexemptions for these states are:Washington, 10-19 percent estatetax rate and $2,012,000 exemp-tion; Oregon, 10-16 percent and$1,000,000; Minnesota, 9-16 per-cent and $1,200,000.Leading wildlife experts

acknowledge the detrimentaleffects of the federal Estate Taxon the environment, and similareffects apply to state estate taxes,especially because the combina-tion of the federal and state taxescan create a greater chance ofland being fragmented. Accordingto Michael Bean, when he waswith the Environmental DefenseFund (and currently at the Interi-or Department), and the personwidely acknowledged as the fore-most expert on the EndangeredSpecies Act and U.S. Wildlife law,the federal Estate Tax is: “highlyregressive in the sense that it encour-ages the destruction of ecologicallyimportant land in private ownership.In order to pay estate taxes, cash-poor inheritors of ranches, farms, andforests must often liquidate timberassets, subdivide the property, or oth-erwise destroy ecologically valuableland that had been cared for by own-ers who had truly loved it.”The best solution to this prob-

lem is to eliminate the Estate Taxat the federal level and in the four-teen states where they still exist.Unless these taxes are eliminated,there will always be the threat thatperpetually revenue hungry legis-latures will seek to increase the taxrates and decrease the maximumexemptions, or seek to fiddle withestate taxes in other ways.Landowners need clear signalsfrom government so they can planbetter for the future. One clearsignal they could receive, whichwould be an enormous benefit toAmerican wildlife, would be theelimination of the federal andstate estate taxes.

The Anti-Environment Tax Rolls On: the State-Based Version

BY BARRY DENTON

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men folk getting some superb vittles from thenice ranch ladies.

I have always wondered how women couldhelp you work during the day and come upwith such a fine meal at night. I am sure thatis why we think they are so special. The endof roundup is one of my favorite times of the

January 8, ThursdayWool Show Judging, Stadium Hall 1, 8:00 amKick-Off Parade, Downtown Denver, 12:00 pmJanuary 10, SaturdayQuarter Horse Performance Classes, Events Center, 7:00 amNational Junior Gelbvieh Heifer Show, Stadium Arena, 7:30 am4H/ FFA Livestock Judging Contest, CSU - Fort Collins, CO, 8:00 am4H/FFA Meats Judging Contest, CSU - Fort Collins, CO, 8:00 amRed Angus Junior Show, Stadium Arena, 8:00 amRodeo 101, Denver Coliseum, 9:15 am – 9:45 amThank A Farmer Magic Show, Ames Activity Pavilion, 9:30 amGelbvieh/Gelbvieh Balancer Futurity, Stadium Arena, 10:00 amColorado vs The World Rodeo, Coliseum, 11:00 amTop Hogs, Ames Activity Pavilion, 12:30 pmColorado vs. The World Rodeo, Coliseum, 3:30 pmMile High Select Quarter Horse and Paint Horse Sale, Events Center, 5:00 pmColorado vs The World FINALS, Coliseum, 8:00 pmJanuary 11, Sunday4H/ FFA Livestock & Meats Contest Awards Breakfast, Denver, 7:00 amGelbvieh & Blancer Pen Show, Livestock Center Auction Arena, 8:00 amThank A Farmer Magic Show, Ames Activity Pavilion, 9:30 amCatch-A-Calf Show, Stadium Arena, 10:00 amChurch Service – Fellowship of Christian Cowboys, Centennial Room, 10:00 amThank A Farmer Magic Show, Ames Activity Pavilion, 10:30 amRed Angus Pen Show, Stockyards Arena, 11:00 amTop Hogs, Ames Activity Pavilion, 12:30 pmNational Gelbvieh Sale, Livestock Center Auction Arena, 1:00 pmMexican Rodeo, Coliseum, 2:00 pmRed Angus Mile High Classic Sale, Livestock Center Auction Arena, 3:00 pmRAM Invitational Freestyle Reining, Events Center, 4:00 pmMexican Rodeo, Coliseum, 6:30 pmJanuary 12, MondayNational Gelbvieh & Balancer Show, Stadium Arena, 8:00 amOpen Red Angus Show, Stadium Arena, 8:00 amThank A Farmer Magic Show, Ames Activity Pavilion, 10:00 amPedal Tractor Races, Ames Activity Pavilion, 1:00 pmDenver Chute Out PBR Touring Pro Finale (Semi-Finals), Coliseum, 7:00 pmJanuary 13, TuesdayPaint Horse Halter & Performance Classes, Events Center, 7:00 amJunior South Devon Show followed by National South Devon Show, Stadium Arena, 9:00 amNational Limousin Junior Heifer/ Lim-Flex Show, Stadium Arena, 9:00 amFabulous Farm Animals, Beef Palace Auction Arena, 10:00 amThank A Farmer Magic Show, Ames Activity Pavilion, 10:00 amLimousin Sale Cattle Parade, Stadium, Arena, 3:00 pmNational Limousin Sale, Beef Palace Auction Arena, 6:15 pmDenver Chute Out PBR Touring Pro Finale (Semi-Finals), Coliseum, 7:00 pmJanuary 14, WednesdayPaint Horse Performance Classes, Events Center, 7:00 amAngus Bull Super Point Show, Stadium Arena, 8:00 amNational Limousin MOE Show, Stadium Arena, 8:00 amBraunvieh Show, Stockyards Arena, 10:00 amFabulous Farm Animals, Beef Palace Auction Arena, 10:00 amThank A Farmer Magic Show, Ames Activity Pavilion, 10:00 amAngus Bull Sale Show, Stadium Arena, 12:00 pm

Junior Market Goat Championship Drive, Stadium Hall 1, 1:00 pmPedal Tractor Races, Ames Activity Pavilion, 1:00 pmBoer Goat Show, Stadium Hall 1, 2:00 pmStick Horse Grand Prix, Ames Activity Pavilion, 3:00 pmAngus Bull Sale, Beef Palace Auction Arena, 3:30 pmMutton Bustin’, Stadium Arena, 6:00 pmDenver Chute Out PBR Touring Pro Finale (FINALS), Coliseum, 7:00 pmJanuary 15, ThursdayCollegiate Livestock Judging Contest, Coliseum, 8:00 amJunior Angus Heifer Show, Stadium Arena, 8:00 amNational Hereford Bull Show, Stadium Arena, 8:00 amCollegiate Wool Judging Contest, Adams County Fairgrounds, 9:00 amLimousin & Lim-FLex Carload & Pen Show, Livestock Center Auction Arena, 9:00 amFabulous Farm Animals, Beef Palace Auction Arena, 10:00 amThank A Farmer Magic Show, Ames Activity Pavilion, 10:00 amNational Hereford Junior Heifer Show, Stadium Arena, 12:00 pmDenver National Maine-Anjou/ MaineTainer Sale Bull Evaluation, Stockyards Arena, 1:00 pmCINCH Equicross, Coliseum, 2:30 pmAngus “Denim & Diamonds” Sale, Beef Palace Auction Arena, 5:00 pmCINCH Super Shootout Rodeo, Coliseum, 7:00 pmCollegiate Wool Judging Awards Banquet, Double Tree - Denver, 7:00 pmTrowbridge Family & Friends Sale, Livestock Center Auction Arena, 7:00 pmJanuary 16, FridayAngus Female Super Point Show, Stadium Arena, 8:00 amHereford Pen of Heifers Show, Livestock Center Auction Arena, 8:00 amCollegiate Carload Judging Contest, Stockyards Arena, 8:30 amHereford Pen / Carload Bull Show, Livestock Center Auction Arena, 9:30 amFabulous Farm Animals, Beef Palace Auction Arena, 10:00 amThank A Farmer Magic Show, Ames Activity Pavilion, 10:00 amDenver National Maine-Anjou / Maine Tainer Pen Show, Stockyards Arena, 12:00 pmPro Rodeo, Coliseum, 1:30 pmRanch House Design Workshop, Beef Palace Auction Arena, 2:00 pmColorado Angus Association Foundation Female Sale, Livestock Center Auction Arena, 2:30 pmHerd Sire Display Opens, Yards, 4:00 pmStick Horse Rodeo, Ames Activity Pavilion, 5:00 pmCollegiate Livestock Judging Awards Banquet, Double Tree - Denver, 6:00 pmNational Hereford Sale, Stadium Arena, 6:00 pmPro Rodeo, Coliseum, 7:30 pmJanuary 17, SaturdayAngus Pen/Carload Show, Livestock Center Auction Arena, 8:00 amNational Hereford Female Show, Stadium Arena, 8:00 amHerd Sire Display Opens, Yards, 9:00 amNational Charolais Pen Show, Stockyards Arena, 9:00 amThank A Farmer Magic Show, Ames Activity Pavilion, 9:30 amThank A Farmer Magic Show, Ames Activity Pavilion, 10:30 amPro Rodeo, Coliseum, 11:00 amShorthorn Pen Show, Stockyards Arena, 11:00 am“Bright Lights” Maine-Anjou Bull / Female Sale, Livestock Center Auction Arena, 3:00 pmPro Rodeo, Coliseum, 3:30 pmJunior Market Lamb Showmanship, Stadium Hall 1, 4:00 pmWestern Elite Female Sale, Livestock Center Auction Arena, 6:00 pmPro Rodeo, Coliseum, 8:00 pmJanuary 18, SundayCharolais Junior Heifer Show / Open percentage Charolais Show, Stadium Arena, 8:00 amChianina / Chiangus Pen of Bulls / Females Show, Livestock Center Auction Arena, 8:00 am


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Riding Herd continued from page one

about who their bulls are related toand you can bet your bottom dollartheir horses won’t have names likeHorse Face, Old Puke or Stinky.They’ll pay $10,000 for cow dogs thatcan do the work of five men prompt-ing your wife to say, ‘If we had one ofthose I wouldn’t have to plug holes infences when I have the flu.’" “But won’t they increase the value

of all the ranches in the area?” Iasked. “You’re kidding right? Whose

gonna want your shack when theyhave compounds with hunting lodges,metal shops for woodworking andhangars for airplanes, brand new D-8’s, road graders and hay balers. Andyour wife will wonder why their hiredhelp all live in better homes than youdo. She’ll ask, ‘Why do they havemedical insurance pensions andretirement plans?’ Tell me Lee,” saidReRide, “do you have a 401K?” “What’s that,” I asked. “Some

model number for a tractor?”ReRide was on a roll. “They’ll host

field days where other ranchers willput their legs up on their vinyl fences,look at your place and say, ‘What a

dump!’ No thank you very much. Idon’t want a neighbor like that. That’sa neighbor from Hell.”ReRide continued, “No sirree, give

me a neighbor whose fences arefalling down, whose lead-up alley ismade of bed springs, whose cattle areevery color of the rainbow, whoseGooseneck doesn’t have a changingroom and whose horses don’t makeany sudden moves. Give me a neigh-bor whose brandings are an adven-ture without 37 townies on inbredhorses gathering the cattle accordingto a plan. I want a neighbor who willtrust me with a branding iron, a nee-dle and a knife. A neighbor who willcome to my aid at the drop of a hatand loan me anything I need withoutsigning a rental agreement, even if it’ssomething I loaned him to beginwith. I don’t want a neighbor whomakes me feel jealous but one whomakes me feel superior in every way.A neighbor who is a worse roper thanI am and whose cattle make minelook like purebreds. In other words, aneighbor just like I have now.”“Thanks a lot ReRide. I like you

too.”

2015 National Western Stock Show Denver, ColoradoJanuary 8 - 22

New Hope for America?


Junior Market Lamb Show, Stadium Hall 1, 8:00 amNational Simmental Pen of Bulls Show, Stockyards Arena, 8:00 amOpen Maine-Anjou & MaineTainer Bull Show / Junior MaineTainer Breeding Heifers /Open MaineTainer Show / Junior Maine-Anjou Breeding Heifers / Open Maine-AnjouHeifer Show, Stadium Arena, 8:00 amHerd Sire Display Opens, Yards, 9:00 amThank A Farmer Magic Show, Ames Activity Pavilion, 9:30 amChurch Service – Founders Memorial, Denver Coliseum, 10:00 amJunior Shorthorn Heifer & Jr. ShorthornPlus Heifer Show /National Shorthorn Bull Show,Stadium Arena, 11:00 amACA “Hybrid Advantage” Bull & Female Sale, Livestock Center Auction Arena, 1:00 pmPens of 3 & 5 Prospect Calves Show, Stockyards Arena, 2:00 pmPro Rodeo, Coliseum, 2:00 pmCharolais in the Rockies Sale, Beef Palace Auction Arena, 2:30 pmSalers Bull Futurity Show, Livestock Center Auction Arena, 2:30 pmNational Salers Heifer & Bull Pen Show, Livestock Center Auction Arena, 3:00 pm“The Summit” National Shorthorn Sale, Beef Palace Auction Arena, 6:00 pmJunior Market Lamb Champion Selection, Stadium Arena, 6:00 pmPro Rodeo, Coliseum, 6:30 pmJanuary 19, MondayNational ROE Charolais Show, Stadium Arena, 8:00 amNational Simmental Pen of Heifers Show, Stockyards Arena, 8:00 amChianina Junior Show, Stadium Arena, 9:00 amPens of 3 & 5 Prospect Calves Sale, Livestock Center Auction Arena, 10:00 amThank A Farmer Magic Show, Ames Activity Pavilion, 10:00 am40th National Salers Sale, Beef Palace Auction Arena, 1:00 pmAmerican Galloway Show, Stockyards Arena, 1:00 pmNational Shorthorn Female Show / Open ShorthornPlus Show, Stadium Arena, 1:00 pmPro Rodeo, Coliseum, 1:00 pmSimmental Sale, Livestock Center Auction Arena, 3:00 pmMLK Jr. African American Heritage Rodeo, Coliseum, 6:00 pmJanuary 20, TuesdayClassic Open Horse Show Performance Classes, Events Center, 7:00 amNational Simmental Jr. Breeding Heifer Show / Simmental Bull Show, Stadium Arena, 8:00 amSalers Jr. Breeding Heifer/ 40th National Salers Open Show, Stadium Arena, 9:00 amFabulous Farm Animals, Beef Palace Auction Arena, 10:00 amThank A Farmer Magic Show, Ames Activity Pavilion, 10:00 amPiedmontese Show, Stockyards Arena, 11:00 amSheep Shearing, Ames Activity Pavilion, 12:30 pmJunior Market Swine Showmanship, Stadium Hall 1, 4:00 pmMutton Bustin’, Stadium Arena, 5:00 pmPro Rodeo – Military Appreciation Night, Coliseum, 7:00 pmJanuary 21, WednesdayClassic Open Horse Show Performance Classes, Events Center, 7:00 amNational Simmental Female Show, Stadium Arena, 8:00 amJunior Market Swine Show, Stadium Hall 1, 9:00 amNWSS Commercial Heifer Show, Livestock Center Auction Arena, 9:30 amFabulous Farm Animals, Beef Palace Auction Arena, 10:00 amNational Wagyu Female & Bull Show, Stockyards Arena, 10:00 amThank A Farmer Magic Show, Ames Activity Pavilion, 10:00 amSheep Shearing, Ames Activity Pavilion, 12:30 pmAndis Cattle Grooming Demonstration, Beef Palace Auction Arena, 1:00 pmPro Rodeo, Coliseum, 1:30 pmNWSS Commercial Female Sale, Livestock Center Auction Arena, 2:30 pmJunior Market Steer Showmanship, Stadium Arena, 3:00 pmColorado Cattleman’s Association Night at the Rodeo, Coliseum, 7:00 pmJunior Market Swine Champion Selection, Stadium Arena, 7:00 pmPro Rodeo, Coliseum, 7:00 pmJanuary 22, ThursdayJunior Market Steer Show, Stadium Arena, 8:00 am

Fabulous Farm Animals, Beef Palace Auction Arena, 10:00 amNational Lowline People’s Choice Show, Stockyards Arena, 10:00 amPro Rodeo, Coliseum, 10:30 amThank A Farmer Magic Show, Ames Activity Pavilion, 11:00 amSheep Shearing, Ames Activity Pavilion, 12:30 pmNational Lowline Sale, Livestock Center Auction Arena, 1:00 pmAJHA Junior Challenge, Beef Palace Auction Arena, 2:00 pmJunior Market Steer Champion Selection, Stadium Arena, 6:00 pmHighland Jr. Breeding Heifer Show / Steers & Prospect Show, Stadium Arena, 7:00 pmPro Rodeo, Coliseum, 7:00 pmJanuary 23, FridayJunior Premier Exhibitor Interviews, TBA, 8:00 amMiniature Hereford World Show, Stadium Arena, 8:00 amMule & Donkey Halter Classes, Events Center, 8:00 amNational Bison Judging, Stockyards, 8:00 amNational Highland Show, Stadium Arena, 8:00 amNational Lowline Junior Show / Showmanship, Stockyards Arena, 8:00 amStock Dog Trials (Preliminary Cattle Competition), Stockyards, 8:00 amNational Lowline Female Show (Fullblood & %), Stockyards Arena, 9:00 amThank A Farmer Magic Show, Ames Activity Pavilion, 10:00 amDraft Horse & Mule Perfornace Classes, Events Center, 11:00 amSheep Shearing, Ames Activity Pavilion, 12:30 pmPro Rodeo, Coliseum, 1:30 pmBison Handling Q&A in the Yards at NWSS, Stockyards Arena, 2:00 pmOpen Prospect Heifer Show, Stadium Arena, 2:00 pmTexas Longhorn World Show (Haltered), Stockyards Arena, 3:00 pmJunior Livestock Champions Auction, Beef Palace Auction Arena, 6:30 pmDraft Horse & Mule Show, Events Center, 7:00 pmPro Rodeo, Coliseum, 7:30 pmJanuary 24, SaturdayDraft Horse & Mule Performance Classes, Events Center, 7:00 amJunior Ewe Lamb Showmanship (All Breeds), Stadium Hall 1, 8:00 amNational Lowline Pen Show, Stockyards Arena, 8:00 amJunior Breeding Sheep Show followed by the Open Show (Wool Breeds – Jr., Breeding,Natural Color), Stadium Hall 1, 8:30 amNational Lowline Bull Show (Fullblood & %), Stockyards Arena, 9:00 amOpen Prospect Steer Show, Stadium Arena, 9:00 amRodeo 101, Denver Coliseum, 9:15 am – 9:45 amThank A Farmer Magic Show, Ames Activity Pavilion, 9:30 amNational Gold Trophy Bison Carcass Sale, Livestock Center Auction Arena, 10:00 amNational Highland Sale, Beef Palace Auction Arena, 10:00 amThank A Farmer Magic Show, Ames Activity Pavilion, 10:30 amNational Gold Trophy Bison Live Sale, Livestock Center Auction Arena, 11:00 amPink Pro Rodeo, Coliseum, 11:00 amMiniature Hereford World Sale, Beef Palace Auction Arena, 2:00 pmTexas Longhorn World Show (Non-Haltered), Stockyards Arena, 3:00 pmPro Rodeo, Coliseum, 3:30 pmSheep Lead Contest, Stadium Hall 1, 6:30 pmDraft Horse & Mule Show, Events Center, 7:00 pmPro Rodeo, Coliseum, 8:00 pmJanuary 25, SundayDraft Horse & Mule Perfornace Classes, Events Center, 8:00 amJunior Breeding Sheep Show followed by the Open Show (Meat Breeds), Stadium Hall 1, 8:30 amStock Dog Trials (Intermediate Sheep Competition), Stadium Arena, 9:00 amThank A Farmer Magic Show, Ames Activity Pavilion, 9:30 amChurch Service – Fellowship of Christian Cowboys, Denver Coliseum, 10:00 amDraft Horse & Mule Show, Events Center, 1:00 pmPro Rodeo FINALS, Coliseum, 2:00 pm

year.The cattle prices are still up,

the neighbors are all in, and havetime to visit. One thing that wefind out is that each ranch dealswith primarily the same set ofproblems.Many times our conversations

lead to solutions that we couldnot achieve on our own. The oth-er item that is so important tofolks that live in remote areas isnews. We all like to hear goodnews, but bad news is importantas well.Since I’m the local guy that is

involved politically I seem to getall the flack when all the politi-cians I know do something stu-pid. Believe me, there is an end-less supply of flack. I try to justreport what I know about issuesand let each individual make uptheir own mind about the sub-ject. However, since as ranchersI think we should keep our handin politics I’m often the messen-ger that is shot. The enlighteningpart is that we may argue andfight over specific topics among

ourselves, but we all tend to votethe same way. The other thingthat we all have in common isthat we actually make time to goto the polls as we don’t trust theabsentee ballot.In our minor group of voting

cowboys there are a couple ofIndependents, no Democrats,and mostly Republicans. We mayunite to be influential, but I trulydoubt that we have had anyimpact on any election.Perhaps we need to start a

“voting cowboy movement”.Let’s face it — we are becomingextinct. It is quite evident whenyou go into the hardware storeand a transplanted city guywants to buy your cowboy hat toput on his game room wall.I was getting fuel the other

day in Camp Verde, Arizona andsomeone in a Mercedes rolleddown his window and asked tobuy my hat. Foolishly I said no,but I did offer him an authenticcowboy pocket knife with theend of the blade broke off so itcould double as a screwdriver.

Our roundup supper was pri-or to election day so everyonewanted to know about the issuesand the candidates. Most hadheard that the Republicans had agood chance of winning so theywere eager to cast their ballots.The ranchers have been bludg-eoned for six years by the currentadministration so there was final-ly some hope in the air.I think after six years the

ranchers would have voted for athird grader with a broken armover a Democrat. I’m sure thatgoes for the rest of the countryas well per the outcome of therecent election. Isn’t it remark-able that the majority of thecountry voted with a small groupof cowboys and cowgirls. That ishow you tell there has been acreeping crud permeating thecountry for too long.My next duty was to meet

with our congressman who is achampion of the “working per-son”. Yes, that’s what I said, andhe has the record to prove it.One of the few members of con-

gress that is not a lawyer andactually cares what his con-stituents think. Funny thing, butone time I used the term “work-ing person” in describing a prob-lem to one of our state legislatorsand he had no idea what I meantby that term. Talk about discon-nected.Back to the congressman, he

was delighted with the sweep ofthe election that the republicansmade. I expressed to the con-gressman that now my fellowcattle folks were concerned thatthe Republicans would squandertheir victory like they had doneso many times before. They havea history of not knowing how tohandle victory. I know there areat least a handful of good Repub-licans that possess some courage,but most seem to quake in theirboots when their opponent lookscross eyed at them.Why would you ever make

concessions when you are theone with the power? Do youremember the story of Jesus inthe temple in Jerusalem? As I

remember it at that time youwere required to go to the tem-ple twice a year and sacrifice alamb for God. You had to buyyour sacrificial lamb from thePharisees that owned all thesheep and made the rule in thefirst place. Jesus was aware ofthis and walked up to the tablesfull of money in the temple andturned them over with the helpof his disciples.Can you imagine the look on

their faces? He intimidated thePharisees so much that theywanted him put to death. Andyou know the rest of the story.It’s time for the Republicans

to intimidate instead of negoti-ate. While I agree that the coun-try is more polarized than it was30 years ago, I think it is actuallya healthy evolution. We are inpart of a cycle and bipartisan-ship will come back around inthe future. Now is not the righttime for it. Someone has to leadand it may as well be the newlyelected Republicans. Are theycapable?

Back Side continued from page twelve


BY GARY TRUITT,

WWW.HOOSIERAGTODAY.COM

Ihave often said that, if youwant to sell a food product,just put the word “organic”or “Amish” on it. Food mar-

keters have been doing this fordecades with great success. Butresearch now indicates that dif-ferent words on food productsare having a more significantimpact on consumer buyingdecisions. Unlike the positiveconnotations that Amish andOrganic have, the new wordsplay to the fears and the misin-formation that consumershave. In addition, efforts areunderway to mandate the useof these negative messages onall food products.At this point, let me state I

am not against organic agricul-

ture or people who farm organ-ically. My issue is with the waysome organic products aremarketed and promoted. The“Organic Marketing Report”found no scientific consensusto prove the organic marketingindustry’s claims that organicfood is more nutritious andsafer than traditional food. Thereport reviewed more than 200published studies from 1990 –2014 as well as sales trends.What I found to be more

disturbing are the findings thatindicate what messages areimpacting and motivating foodbuyers today. The study foundthree reasons why consumerspurchased organic foods: per-sonal health, food safety con-cerns, and absence claims (i.e.pesticide free, no GMOs, hor-mone and antibiotic-free). It

was also found that organiclabels do not compel con-sumers to purchase organicproducts unless the label con-tains absence claims or relatedpacking callouts that implyhealth or safety related con-cerns. “In other words, fearsells,” says Joanna Schroeder,who presented the researchfindings to the Western PlantHealth Association annualmeeting in Palm Desert, Cali-fornia.Schroeder explained, in

terms of organic marketing,success has come from capital-izing on food health scares.The industry has also targetedexpectant mothers with themessage that the food they areeating could harm their child,but that eating organic wouldhelp ensure a healthy baby.

“Once the mother moved toorganics and her child grows,the fear-based marketingmoves along with the growthof the child,” stated Schroed-er. Schroeder was critical of

the way the food industry hasresponded, “The ‘traditional’or ‘conventional’ ag industryhas spent countless hours onthe defensive refuting thesemessages rather than being onthe offensive and engagingconsumers in its own, positivemessage communicationscampaign.”She advocated a more

inclusive approach for foodmarketing, “Ultimately, if thetraditional ag industry is goingto see some positive tractionamong consumers, they needto change their view from ‘us

against them’ to ‘it will take alltypes of agriculture workingtogether to provide a safe andhealthy food supply for ninebillion people.’ There must bea holistic discussion aroundsustainable agriculture, not afragmented conversation.”While this sounds nice, it is

unrealistic when the organicand anti-GMO groups are try-ing to legislate mandatory neg-ative food labels. The cultureof fear that surrounds our foodtoday is making millions forsome, while confusing andmisleading consumers. I find ita bit ironic that the groupswho denigrate big food com-panies as being greedy andself-serving, are themselvesmaking millions by fear mon-gering and misrepresentingtheir products’ benefits.

Fear Drives Organic Marketing Success

FRIDAY DECEMBER 26, 2014

10:00 am Tie Outs Available1:00 pm OCB Poultry Arrival until 9:30 pmFeed Store Open3:00 pmEarliest Livestock Arrivals in BarnsNo Barn Access from 8:30 pm Fridaythru 6:00 am SaturdayScales Available until 9:30 pm for Sheep, Goats & SwineBarns Open for receiving until 8:30 pmTie Outs available all night7:00 pm OCB Broiler & Turkey Weigh-in (ends at 8pm)9:00 pmBarns Locked

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2014

6:00 am Barns OpenBarns available for Swine, and Cattle6:00 am SB Jr. Sheep/Goats New Arrivals until 11 amBarns available for Cattle until 2 pm & SB Open Sheep may arrive until 6:00 pmAC Scales available for Swine until 11:00 amScales available for Cattle until 9:00 am8:00 am SB Scales available for Jr. Sheep & Goats until 10:00 amAF Chuck Wagons Begin to arrive9:00 am OSR Prospect Steer Weigh-inOCB Poultry Show Judging(Broilers, Turkeys, Specialty Breed and ANLS Show)10:00 am OCB Poultry ShowmanshipOSR Market Beef Weight Cards Due and ProcessingAC Junior Swine Check-in Deadline10:30 amAC Junior Swine Orientation11:00 am AC Swine Wash Racks Closed until 12:30 pmSB Jr. Market Lamb & Market Goat Check-in Deadline11:15 am SB Junior Sheep / Goat Orientation

11:30 amAC Junior Barrow Weigh Cards & Registration Papers DueAC Breeding Gilt Registration Paper Check and XB Gilt Weigh Cards Deadline12:30 pm AC Feeder Steer Weigh-in1:00 pm SB Jr. Breeding Sheep Check-in Deadline1:30 pm OSR Prospect Steer Showfollowed by OSR Champion Prospect Steer SelectionSB Junior Sheep & Goats Weigh Cards Due2:00 pmAC ShowRite Feeds ClinicOpen & Junior Cattle Check-in Deadline2:30 pm TBD Chuck Wagon Judging3:15 pmAC Swine Showmanship3:30 pm OSR Prospect Steer Showmanship4:00 pm OCB Stock Show University Clinic5:00 pm PG Chuck Wagon Camp Meeting6:00 pm SB Open Sheep 1st day Arrival Deadline6:15 pm YB Arizona National Western Gala9:00 pmAll Barns Locked

SUNDAY , DECEMBER 28, 2014

6:00 am Barns OpenYB Exhibitors BreakfastOCB Specialty Poultry Release8:00 am AF Chuck Wagon Breakfast8:30 am AF Dutch Oven Cook Off8:45 am OSR Junior Breeding Heifer Show9:00 am SB Junior Sheep ShowmanshipAC Pedigree and XB Gilt ShowGA AZ Working Ranch Horse Competition10:00 am OCB Cattlemen’s College by UofA10:30 am AF Dutch Oven Cooking Demonstration #111:00 am OSR Open Cattle Show - Red Angus

11:30 am OSR Open Cattle Show – HerefordAF Dutch Oven Tasting #1AF Dutch Oven Cooking Demonstration #2AF Youth Dutch Oven ContestSB Open Sheep Final Check-in DeadlineOCB Cattlemen’s Day LunchNoon YB Az Pioneer Stockmen’s Association LuncheonSB Junior Market Lamb Show12:30 pm OSR Open Cattle Show – BrangusAF Dutch Oven Tasting #2AF Dutch Oven Cooking Demonstration #31:00 pm OSR Junior Market Beef ShowFE Li’l Buckaroo Rodeo #1OCB Poultry Sale1:30 pm OCB Commercial Replacement Heifer SaleAC Pedigree and XB Barrow ShowAF Dutch Oven Tasting #3AF Dutch Oven Cooking Demonstration #42:00 pm OSR Open Cattle Show - AOBfollowed by OSR Open Cattle Show – BrahmanPG Cowbelle State Meeting2:30 pmAF Dutch Oven & Youth Cook-Off Awards3:30 pm OSR Fitting Contest5:00 pm SB Jr. Market Goat ShowmanshipYB UofA Livestock Judging Reunion9:00 pmAll Barns Locked

MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2014

6:00 am Barns Open8:00 am SB Show Rite Goat Clinic9:15 am SB Junior Market Goat Show8:15 am AC Feeder Steer & Sun Classic Heifer Show8:30 am OSR Open Cattle Show – Shorthorns9:00 am YB Public Speaking ContestOCB Linder Feeds Clinic10:00 am OSR Open Cattle Show – Percentage Cattle11:30 am OSR Open Cattle Show – % SimmentalNoon AF Chuck Wagon LunchOCB Supreme Champion Market Selection1:00 pm SB Junior Breeding Sheep ShowTBD Judging Classic WorkoutsFE Li’l Buckaroo Rodeo Finals

OSR Junior Beef Showmanship2:00 pm OCB Grand Canyon Classic Breeding Swine Sale2:15 pm YB Youth Exhibitor Skill-A-Thon2:30 pm OSR Open Cattle Show – Angus3:00 pm AF Chuck Wagon AwardsAC Sun Classic Heifer SaleAC Feeder Steer Sale (after Heifers)3:30 pmSB Open Sheep Show –Wool Breeds5:00 pm OCB Master Showmanship6:30 pm YB Outside the Ring – Junior Family Experience7:00 pm OCB Release all Poultry (Market Poultry Champions Stay)

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2014

6:00 am Begin Release of Open Cattle7:30 am CNH Junior Judging Contest RegistrationCNH Collegiate Judging Contest Check-In8:30 am LP Collegiate Livestock Judging ContestLP Junior Livestock Judging Contest9:00 am SB Open Sheep Show –Meat Breeds10:45 am SB Open Sheep Supreme Ram & EweSelection11:45 am OSR Open Cattle Supreme Bull & Female& Cow Calf Selection1:30 pm AC Junior Auction Buyer Reception2:00 pmAC Junior Market AuctionAC Food Drive Announcement4:00 pmCNH Junior Judging Contest Awards6:00 pm All Livestock ReleasedWestern Legacy Jackpot Show Move-inuntil 7:30 pm7:00 pm YB Collegiate Awards BanquetWednesday, December 31, 20145:45 am OSR Western Legacy Jackpot Cattle Check-in until 7:30 am9:30 amOSR Western Legacy Jackpot Cattle Show7:00 pm All Livestock Off Grounds

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2014

5:45 am OSR Western Legacy Jackpot Cattle Check-in until 7:30 am9:30 am OSR Western Legacy Jackpot Cattle Show7:00 pm All Livestock Off Grounds

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE OF LIVESTOCK SHOW EVENTS

67th ARIZONA NATIONAL LIVESTOCK SHOW

Schedule Subject to Change


By Frank DuBois

My column covers prairiedogs, wolves, wilderness, VIPvacations and horrible schoollunches

Prairie Dogs & Interstate Commerce

Contrary to some othercourt opinions, a federalcourt in Utah has held theauthority of the USFWS to

regulate the “take” of threatenedspecies under the ESA does notextend to an intrastate species. Thecase is People For The EthicalTreatment of Property Owners vs.U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In2012, the Feds issued a special rulefor the Utah prairie dog that onlyexists in Utah. The rule allowed a“take“ of the species on privateproperty where prairie dogs “createserious human safety hazards ordisturb the sanctity of significanthuman cultural or human burialsites.” The People For The EthicalTreatment of Property Ownerssued saying the USFWS lacked theauthority to regulate a purelyintrastate species on non-federalland. The court agreed, ruling the“take” of the species does not sub-stantially affect interstate com-merce. Courthouse News reportsthat several appeals courts haveruled the feds do have that author-ity, but for now land owners inUtah don’t have to get a federalpermit to work or develop theirproperty.

WolvesIn early November four environ-

mental groups and Dave Parsons,retired Mexican wolf recoverycoordinator, filed a lawsuit in U.S.District Court against the Fedsalleging they have not provided acomplete recovery plan for theMexican gray wolf.In late November (and on the

same day I’m writing this) theUSFWS released their Final Envi-ronmental Impact Statement totheir proposed rule revisions gov-erning the Mexican wolf. Near as Ican tell their preferred alternativewould a) triple the number ofwolves, b) allow the initial releaseof wolves into the Gila NationalForest and the Magdalena Districtof the Cibola National Forest, andc) expand the recovery area inNew Mexico and Arizona toinclude all land south of I-10 to ourborder with Mexico.Further, the USFWS lab has

confirmed through DNA analysisthat a female wolf inhabiting thenorth rim of the Grand Canyon isone of the Rocky Mountain wolfvariety. In a released statement,the USFWS said the DNA results“indicate this wolf traveled at least450 miles from an area in thenorthern Rocky Mountains tonorthern Arizona.” This species isfully protected by the Endangered

Species Act.And finally, the Ruidoso News

reports a possible wolf sighting justnorth Ruidoso. A man and his wifewere walking in a subdivision andwitnessed two wolves attack anddrag a mature doe into the BonitoRiver. The man, one Alan Thomas,president of the local home ownersassociation says it was a “viciousattack” and in a sign of things tocome said, “I’m not naive enoughto think there aren’t predators inthis part of New Mexico, but see-ing two wolves appear out ofnowhere and grab a huge deer rightoff the pavement in broad daylightwas a sobering reminder to be evervigilant when walking, jogging orbicycle riding.”New Mexico is about to become

a very “wolfy” state, with the fullyprotected Rocky Mountain graywolf north of I-40 and the experi-mental population of the Mexicangray wolf south of I-40. This willstart to impact more and more resi-dents, even higher education. TheUNM Lobos fit right in, but theNMSU Aggies really doesn’t fitwith our new “wolfy” status andthey are due a name change. Iwould suggest the NMSU Trap-pers.

Columbine-HondoWilderness

Senator Martin Heinrich hasannounced the Columbine-HondoWilderness Act has cleared theEnergy and Natural ResourcesCommittee and awaits action bythe full Senate. The legislationwould designate as Wilderness45,000 acres in the Carson Nation-al Forest in Taos County. Heinrichsays the acreage has been managedas a Wilderness Study Area since1980.

Forest Service litigation

The Society of AmericanForesters has published a newstudy providing litigation statisticsfor 1989 to 2008. During that timeperiod, 1,125 lawsuits were filed infederal court over federal land man-agement. The Forest Service won53.8 percent, lost 23.3 percent andsettled in 22.9 percent (that meansthe Forest Service “lost” 47 percentof the time and money was award-ed to the enviro attorneys). TheForest Service was more likely tolose or settle cases in the last sixyears of the study. Of the lawsuits,78.9 percent sought less resourceuse within the National Forest Sys-tem. Eighty two laws governed theForest Service’s land managementdecisions, according to the study.Plaintiffs alleged that the ForestService violated the National Envi-ronmental Policy Act in 71.5 per-cent of cases, the National ForestManagement Act in 48.8 percentof cases, and the EndangeredSpecies Act in 17.6 percent of cas-

es.NEPA is a money bank for the

enviros and is preventing scientificmanagement of our forests andendangering nearby communities.The new majority in Congressneeds to fix this.

Protesting PETAIn October two PETA workers,

driving a PETA van, entered theyard of one Wilbur Zarate andfrom his porch absconded with thefamily’s pet Chihuahua. There hadbeen other animal disappearancesin the neighborhood and thatwould have been the end of thestory except for one thing: a securi-ty camera on the property cap-tured it all. PETA euthanized thedog which had been a gift toZarate’s nine year-old daughter.However, the Accomack CountyCommonwealth’s Attorney Officehas refused to prosecute. A rallyhas been held and over 2,000 folkssigned a petition requesting hechange his position, all to no avail.The prosecutor says there was nocriminal intent since there hadbeen reports of stray dogs in thearea.According to official Virginia state

records, PETA has killed almost32,000 pets. Anyone who has fol-lowed PETA over the years knowsexactly wha t their intent was.

Interior IG probesVIP trips

The Inspector General for theDepartment of the Interior hasbegun a review of senior Obama

administration officials using avacation lodge in Wyoming’sGrand Teton National Park. In aNov. 6 memo to Park ServiceDirector Jon Jarvis, DeputyInspector General Mary Kendallsaid her office would be conduct-ing a review of his agency’s “man-agement and operation” of thepark’s Brinkerhoff Lodge. Thatreview “will include an examina-tion of management policies andpractices associated with the oper-ation of the Lodge, to includeidentifying what guests have usedthe Lodge without payment andfor what purpose.”Need a vacation that includes

lodging with liberals? Just call Oba-ma and then hope Michelle is notin charge of the menu. Otherwiseits roots and shoots for breakfast.

Michelle’s military –too fat to fight?I’ve written before on how the

Pentagon is teaming up withMichelle Obama to push her anti-meat school lunch program. Nowa group of retired generals andadmirals are saying childhood obe-sity is a threat to national securityand have issued a report titled TooFat To Fight which claims that aquarter of 17- to 24-year-oldAmericans are too heavy to jointhe military. The other 75 percentis not a big enough pool for you?Instead you are calling for “forschool districts to limit the sale ofjunk food and for national legisla-tion to enforce those limits and tofund better school lunch options.”

In other words, more funding forMichelle Obama’s Healthy,Hunger-Free Kids Act.These generals should remem-

ber we have an all volunteer mili-tary and our kids are not exactlybuying in to Michelle’s diet. Herquest for healthy school luncheshas sparked a backlash from thevery people who are served thegrub in cafeterias across America.A campaign has gone viral wherestudents take photos of theirlunches and share them on Twitterusing the hashtag#ThanksMichelleObama.I would suggest to our friends in

the military that you leave parent-ing on nutrition up to the parents.And since your own report admitsthere is a weight problem withfolks already in the military, solveyour internal problem before youstart barking orders at others andfinally, Super Size your tanks, notthe government.I’ll close with some good news.

Rep. Rob Bishop of Utah will bethe next Chairman of the HouseNatural Resources Committee.He’s a friend to federal landsranchers. I’ve also just learned thatJason Knox will be his Chief ofStaff. Jason is also a friend who hasattended NM Cattle Growersmeetings.Here’s wishing everyone a Mer-

ry Christmas and a Very Prosper-ous New Year!

Frank DuBois was the NM Secretary of Agricul-ture from 1988 to 2003, is the author of a blog:The Westerner (www.thewesterner.blogspot.com) and is the founder of The DuBoisRodeo Scholarship.

Cowboy Christmas CarolThis is the story of Tiny Slim Crachett, a genuine reprobate

Who squandered his money and wasted his love until it was almost too late.He was just your typical cowboy, honest, brave and sincere

And he lay on his bunk one Christmas Eve night belching up nachos and beerWhen a vision appeared at the foot of his bed. He stared at the apparition,“Must be that microwave pizza I ate,” he blinked and shifted position.“I ain’t no pizza you commonbred fool! Your brain’s as dull as your knife.I am the ghost of Christmas past, and cowboy . . . This is your life!”

The scruffy old ghost looked down at the cowboy, “I’m here for a couple of things;To find some reason to salvage your soul and, in doin’ so, earn me my wings.“I’ve jotted some notes from the big tally book regarding your skipping on bail.It says that your mother posted the bond. Is it true that she went to jail?”

“Well,” said the cowboy, “it was just for a year. I had to move in with my aunt!But I got her a job when she made parole pullin’ hides at the rendering plant.”

“Yer worse than I thought! It’s a hopeless case and me, with my wings on the line.I’ve checked through yer records for somethin worthwhile. There’s really not much I can find.

“You rattle around in your sister’s ol’ truck with no visible means of supportIf sorry and worthless came bottled in pints you’d be good for a quart!“You gypo some cows and ride a few colts, do day work if all else fails.

Shoot pool and drink beer, rope three days a week, trade chronics at all of the sales“Your past is a trip through the cat box of life, a sorid collection of wrecks.

You’ve broke enough hearts to frighten DeBakey and written so many bad checks“Were they laid on the ground in a line end to end they’d reach further than you could point!

Though time is a teacher, you’ve failed the grade. I can’t see a thing that you’ve loint“But what the heck, it’s Christmas, A time of goodwill so I’m willin’ to skip the above

If we can find a single good deed you’ve done that shows kindness and love.”“Humm . . . kindness and love . . .?” thought Tiny Slim Crachett, his mind beginning to race,

“Once a rumor got started that Mother’s old farm was covered with toxic waste.“For the sake of my mom, I rallied the press. To a man they took up her cause!

Greenpeace rowed up and camped on the lawn, the feminists all burned their bras!“I handcuffed myself to the Frigidaire! And went on a hunger strike!

But alas we failed. She was forced to sell at less than I would have liked.“Thank goodness I’d just got my real estate license ‘cause the place brought near ‘43’

Though it cost the ol’ lady twenty’two thou for commission and realtor’s fee.“So there’s my good deed. As simple as that you can count on me in a pinch.

Our problem is solved, I’m home free and clear and your wings are a lead pipe cinch!“So, let’s drink a toast to Mom and the angels, and you, though you’re a late bloomer,

And hope they never find out it was me who started that ugly rumor!”


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