What a gas!
For those in production agriculture, life-and-death issues affecting your business are constantly on the horizon. They are commented on on this blog and many others, with very little response and reaction.
Dare breath a word about sacred wild horses, however, and all hell breaks loose. The "horses as pets" syndrome has so taken over the emotions and hearts of city folks that they are unable to see the traditional role horses played in the first few centuries of this country.
Critical issues and concerns that very much affect the continued viability of producing food in this country--ah, so what. Milk comes from cartons and food comes from the grocery store. It's always been there when I needed it, and always will be.
The wild horse problem, on a list of the top 100 challenges facing production agriculture today, would probably be in the bottom 50 somewhere. Yet, unlike things that really matter and can really make a difference, wild horse control generates white hot controversy--tremendous passion and deeply held feelings.
Here we are with $4 gas, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, rising unemployment, a housing and mortgage foreclosure crisis--and what catches the public fancy is wild horses.
Go figure.
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