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Articles

Where’s the Beef? Ranchers Take Stand Over Synthetic ‘Meat’ Label

Calling BS on fake meat and its hucksters.

American cattlemen are readying for a fight to protect the definition of the word meat from producers of synthetic cellular-based beef alternatives.

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California Aims to Tap Beavers, Once Viewed as a Nuisance, to Help With Water Issues and Wildfires

Quoting the article below, “There’s been this major paradigm shift throughout the West where people have really transitioned from viewing beavers strictly as a nuisance species, and recognizing them for the ecological benefits that they have.”

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Videos

Dropping the Fences Episode 2: RAIN

Episode 2: After reading the signs, Johnny’s predictions of good rain come true after seven years of drought.

In this five-part documentary series, Emmy-nominated and Television Academy Award winning filmmaker, Clifford Bestall follows the story of the two families as they face an uncertain future after seven years of drought and how they chart a new course with Holistic Management and herding, against many odds.

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Wildlife Killing Contests – The Movie

The polite and restrained movie appearing below is not anti-hunting. In fact, it should be mandatory viewing for all hunters and wildlife lovers.

While most of the contests target predators, each shot fired damages the legacy—and future—of ethical hunting. Why? These contests have nothing to do with wildlife management nor do they focus on nuisance animals. Instead these contests promote indiscriminate killing for cash and prizes. They prompt a few to wantonly destroy a shared wildlife resource owned by the public.

Those who promote, practice or avert their eyes from unethical hunting will be equally responsible when our proud tradition of hunting is merely a memory.

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