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Hello Jason and welcome to Mansin Ingls. Jason, where are you from?
I’m from Salt Lake originally.
And where do you live now?
I live in Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Mich…Michegan.
Why did you decide to stop eating beef?
Um..it..it’s..um..it’s got to do with the cattle and the grazing policy in the West. Um..and..and how the ranchers get to use the land in the West. It’s very cheap to lease land so they run lots of cattle in the desert, which is not a viable place to run cattle….at all..
Why not?
It’s a very dry, arid environment, it’s a very fragile environment. It’s..it’s delicate. Not a lot of rainfall. It takes a long time for things to grow. It’s a very…it’s a very settled environment. And, you introduce cattle and they tend to destroy things. They just..they..they ruin the water. They ruin the land, they eat the grass. What little grass there is that grows, they eat. And they trample things.
And how long has this been going on?
Hundreds of years. It’s…how the West was won. And th..that’s basically it.
And can you see a change in the future?
Not likely. They have a..they have a large…th..th…they have a lot of pull, especially if you look at the istr…the current istration in the…in the White House. This is..this is..a Westerner, a..a.Southerner..erm..and somebody who is…and a Republican. and somebody who is not likely to change policy..um..favourably for the environment.
Okay, thank you very much.
Your certainly welcome.
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