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The Trump administration is planning to evict 950 bison from their grazing pastures on federal lands in Montana. The Department of the Interior, which has a bison as its logo, has revoked the licence of a rewilding charity trying to restore the natural splendour of the “American Serengeti”, the eco-diverse range of grasslands home to wolves, pronghorns, grizzly bears and mountain lions.

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[–] 62 points 6 months ago (5 children)

The bisons. will be killed

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    Going straight back to the 1890s

    Mountain of bison skulls

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    [–] 32 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Because they need the lands for fracking, or more cows.

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  • [–] 31 points 6 months ago

    The bison are more American than him and his family. Of course he'd try to evict them.

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago

    Then the charity should arm themselves and threaten anyone who tries to remove them. Worked for the Bundy clan, and they weren't even legally contracted to graze.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    Does... does he think the word is immoogrants?

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    "They're eating the Buffalo! They're eating the Bisons!"

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    When they say deported, does that imply that a different state would take them?

    If not, what a dejecting step in conservation by a state that pretends to be a pristine place for wildlife tourism

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    "Not The Onion"

    ...By this point, you could tell me he was genetically engineering Americans into crab people and I wouldn't even bother to check the source.

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Stop
    Eating
    Beef!

    As much as I loved me some burgers, sirloin tips and churrasco, the cost just isn't worth it.

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Just going meat free once a week can be great for your health, wallet and the environment!

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

    "...and eat bison instead!"

    Calm down, Ted Turner. \s


    Edit: welp. That's a bit too calm, Ted!

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly, my understanding is that Ted Turner basically saved the bison from extinction by deciding to maintain a herd, just so he can serve them up at his restaurant.

    The motivations are what they are, but the outcome is definitely positive.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Some of the most common large animals in the world are only so because they're livestock. Otherwise, they might've been extinct by now (compare cows and aurochs, for example). Between that and funding wildlife conservation through hunting and fishing license revenue, having, let's say, "fraught" motivations like that is not unusual at all.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Of course he had to wait until Ted Turner died..... .

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    [+] -18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (21 children)

    Rather than sending them to God knows where, wouldn't they be better as jerkies?

    Edit: Oof... offended vegans detected! I'm only joking, folks!

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    You're a pretty shit comedian if you think that's a joke

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Pemmican is heavily slept on. But in reality, it's healthy and delicious.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemmican

    Ooo, that sounds tasty. Surprised I haven't seen a Tasting History episode on it yet.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    The other human beat me to the punch, but I would strongly suggest you check out the Townsends video series on it. Dude made 4 entire videos about the stuff. It's a very deep dive. Like, so deep you get the bends if you come to the surface too quickly. I love Tasting History, but when it comes to pemmican specifically, the Townsends did it better.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Thank you, the account has been banned from lemmy.ca so far.

    We also got the other account a few days ago, but I didn't get a chance to reply

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Thanks for keeping up with this.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    No problem, sorry that it's still happening

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  • [+] -2 points 6 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Hello, I have sent a reply by message. Sorry for the delay

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  • [+] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I have sent a longer response over messages.

    In case someone else can correct me, I'll include one section here

    While I’m not sure about the best way to do that, I think this page has the contact information for reaching admins: https://legal.lemmy.world/bylaws/#22-community-mod-removal . You can see the contact options in section 22. While the text in that section talks about mod removal, later on (section 25) they say to use the same contact info to reach admins for other purposes.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (4 children)

    Pardon me, but what's going on?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    Someone keeps making new accounts on different instances to mass downvote hikingvet, and then admins spend the time to go in and ban them

    Harassment, vote manipulation, ban evasion

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  • [–] -3 points 6 months ago (2 children)