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India's Cow Police Are Bad for Cows
By banning the sale of cattle for slaughter, India's policy is harming meat and leather traders, poor people, indebted farmers. But all of this misses one crucial point. The regulations that are intended to protect cows will reduce the number of cows in India, and might eliminate certain breeds altogether.
Free-Market Environmentalism Is Literally for the Birds
Droughts along the western United States are causing crucial wetlands to dry up, to the detriment of thousands of birds. So in 2014, the Nature Conservancy came up with a solution: pay farmers to flood their fields, creating pop-up wetlands. Thanks to markets, the farmers win and the birds win.
My Short Life On a Real Ranch
Mostly I remember wandering around in the dark, sweating, for hours. At breakfast, the father of the house said, “oh, there’s that varmint again.” He walked over to the gun rack on the wall and grabbed a rifle. He went to the back window and slid it open. Then he started blasting. Two massive explosions from the shotgun and the “varmint” was vaporized.
Two massive explosions from the shotgun and the “varmint” was vaporized.
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