Another Lawsuit for the Trump Administration

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The Trump administration is facing yet another lawsuit after the US Fish and Wildlife Services authorized the killing of 72 grizzly bears to accommodate livestock grazing. The Center for Biological Diversity along with advocacy group Sierra Club filed their intent to sue leaving the Trump administration with 60 days to respond to the notice. 

The lawsuit argues that the Fish and Wildlife Services isn't giving the livestock industry any steps to take to prevent grizzly bear interactions with livestock and instead is placing the blame on grizzly bears. Once again, the feds are resorting to slaughter of innocent, wild animals as opposed to looking at solutions that benefit both the livestock industry and the wild grizzlies. 

There are roughly 55, 000 grizzly bears left in the wild with all but 1, 500 residing in Alaska. This means that there are 1, 500 residing in the remainder of the United States essentially making them an endangered species in the wild. Grizzly bears are an important part of these ecosystems as a natural predator that helps to maintain a healthy balance between carnivores and herbivores in the area. Without grizzly bears, herbivores will undoubtedly overpopulate which will have an incredibly negative effect on local plant life. This will in turn prompt the government to begin an herbivore slaughter to maintain balance falling into a cycle of killing that could be avoided if we stopped pandering to the livestock industry.

The livestock industry is being given far too many luxuries considering the negative impact they are having on the planet. The industry continues to grow which means more land will continue to be taken from wild animals. This will lead to increased wild animal conflict which as made evident by this post, will mean more slaughter to wild animals. The industry pumps out astronomical amounts of environmental killing greenhouse gases and pollution contributing heavily to climate changes on our planet and eyt the government continues to protect them at all costs. 

Killing off grizzly bears is simply another example of the government's lack of real solutions when it comes to protecting our endangered wildlife. Instead, they make it abundantly clear that the money generated from the livestock industry is more valuable than the existence of wild animals. If it's not grizzly bears, it's endangered wolves, or endangered elephants etc., the livestock industry is continuing to be responsible for the demise of our ecosystems and the wildlife that inhabit our planet along with us.

It's time to stop protecting the livestock industry and focusing on preventing further endangerment to wild animals already facing an uncertain future. It's sickening how easy it is to decide to slaughter these bears versus looking to the livestock industry to do more to prevent future conflicts. 

I look forward to updating this story, hopefully with good news that the bears' lives will be spared.

HAPPY VEG