California

Starvation and thirst. Hideous. The cattle industry strikes again:

"There are more than 5,000 cows at Point Reyes – 10 times the number of tule elk. The cows weigh more than twice what elk weigh. They eat more, they drink more precious water, they trample land more and they poop more — much more. The 5,000 cows dump more than 10 million gallons of untreated feces and urine, per year, onto Point Reyes land and into its waterways, which drain into the Pacific Ocean.

Why are private, for-profit, methane-belching, climate-heating cows inside a national park which, by law, is supposed to protect and preserve land, not exploit it for profit? I have heard enough about tradition and history. The cows graze and degrade as many as 28,000 acres — one third the entire Seashore — effectively closing its access to the public."