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Then get used to eating ToFu Turkeys and Wheat Grass. Right now the Watermelons have the money from folks like Ted Turner and the like who'd buy up the land the meat you eat grazes on.

Fine then so be it. I'd like 'em to start putting their money where their mouths are. Now, noones happier than I am to see greenies pissed off, but this is decidedly not a good thing for the American taxpayer.

Ranchers shouldn't be subsidized any more than PBS should be subsidized. And just for the record, I seriously doubt ranchers having to pay market prices to feed their cattle would lead to any thing remotely resembling a shortage of beef in this country.

And also, just for the record, even Ted Turner and Bill Gates combined wouldn't have the money to buy up all the grazing land in the West.

I say get the Government out of the farming and ranching businesses. There's no Constitutional authorization for them to be there anyway. Ranching subsidies don't make any more sense than dairy subsidies.

Western ranchers are just another constituency with their hands out as far as I'm concerned.