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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

were bison known for like, destroying fences or something? Or did we just not think of building fences lmao.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Farmers don't usually fence in their fields. You're thinking of live stock farming.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

well i mean that would make sense but like...

In terms of the chain of logic here.

bison are trampling your field:

  • make them extinct
  • build a fence

i feel like building a fence would probably make sense here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can't believe you would trample on my freedom to extinct an animal like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

hey man, don't look at me like that, they already almost went through extinction ok.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yes but that would -

Involve effort

Not get them some actually pretty tasty meat. (sorry vegans it's true, they're tasty.)

Not give them an excuse to cause suffering among the natives, whose land they were farming on anyways.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

i mean, have you ever tried killing an animal? They sort of tend to uh. Move around.

Like you would need to essentially pay thousands of people over the period of years to cull the population of bison, and they did.

And to be clear, they didn't even really kill them for meat, im sure some did, but a lot of it was just to kill them.