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minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up29arrow-down1·2 days agoThe official reason was the Bison herds were capable of destroying the fields of entire farms. We never stopped to ask if we should have been farming there in the first place.
minus-squarecRazi_man@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 days agoI think they did stop to ask, and the answer they gave themselves was “yes”.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days agoCertainly at every step of the way since we keep answering yes, despite all evidence to the contrary.
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·2 days agowere bison known for like, destroying fences or something? Or did we just not think of building fences lmao.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down3·2 days agoFarmers don’t usually fence in their fields. You’re thinking of live stock farming.
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·15 hours agowell i mean that would make sense but like… In terms of the chain of logic here. bison are trampling your field: make them extinct build a fence i feel like building a fence would probably make sense here.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-27 hours agoYes but that would - Involve effort Not get them some actually pretty tasty meat. (sorry vegans it’s true, they’re tasty.) Not give them an excuse to cause suffering among the natives, whose land they were farming on anyways.
minus-squarewebadict@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·14 hours agoI can’t believe you would trample on my freedom to extinct an animal like that.
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·12 hours agohey man, don’t look at me like that, they already almost went through extinction ok.
The official reason was the Bison herds were capable of destroying the fields of entire farms. We never stopped to ask if we should have been farming there in the first place.
I think they did stop to ask, and the answer they gave themselves was “yes”.
Certainly at every step of the way since we keep answering yes, despite all evidence to the contrary.
were bison known for like, destroying fences or something? Or did we just not think of building fences lmao.
Farmers don’t usually fence in their fields. You’re thinking of live stock farming.
well i mean that would make sense but like…
In terms of the chain of logic here.
bison are trampling your field:
i feel like building a fence would probably make sense here.
Yes but that would -
Involve effort
Not get them some actually pretty tasty meat. (sorry vegans it’s true, they’re tasty.)
Not give them an excuse to cause suffering among the natives, whose land they were farming on anyways.
I can’t believe you would trample on my freedom to extinct an animal like that.
hey man, don’t look at me like that, they already almost went through extinction ok.