The U.S. Constitution, the Endangered Species Act, and Animal Agriculture
The US Agriculture Dept. is spending one billion dollars a year killing wild animals so that ranchers don’t have to hire range riders to protect their herds themselves. This is crony capitalism and government welfare on steroids.
RON MAXWELL & BRUCE FEIN: ‘It appears that the Trump administration is saluting Obama’s ill-conceived precedent when it comes to weakening the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Congress has not been indifferent about modifying the ESA… If you want to see classic examples of Orwellian double speak and crony capitalism, read the “expert” justifications given by the Department of the Interior for removing the Endangered Species Act’s torso and leaving only its stunted limbs…
Even without this weakening of the ESA, Wildlife Services under the Agriculture Department is spending one billion dollars a year killing wild animals – killing them outright – so that ranchers don’t have to hire range riders to protect their herds themselves. This is crony capitalism and government welfare on steroids. Hundreds of dogs and other pets also routinely get killed in this indiscriminate dragnet.
The American people through their elected representatives passed the ESA in the 1973. It has been remarkably successful in saving many species that were then facing extinction, including our iconic bald eagle, and the “God squad” has been summoned when the need for an exception has been demonstrated. This bureaucratic power grab by the Department of the Interior is not being done in the interest of endangered or threatened animals. Honestly, who believes that?
This is being done exclusively to facilitate access for big corporate interests to more easily and more quickly log, mine, and graze on vast public lands owned by all the American people. It’s being done by bureaucratic diktat that is undemocratic and unconstitutional. This is not liberty. This is tyranny.’ SOURCE…
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