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Editor,
I have been silent long enough on the issue of cows and wolves. This story is so heartbreaking for me that I do not know where to begin.
Some three-plus years ago when the large pack, including pups, were slaughtered for eating cows, I vowed to never eat beef again. Living in ranch land and realizing a lost battle when I see one, that was all I could do. Most people know I care for all living things, and many times call to help ranchers with cows out of fences, etc.
This spring, I started witnessing something I have never seen before: cows with gaping, oozing holes on their sides, with flies attacking the open wounds. So my first call was to the rancher, who told me they have cancer and would be put down when they stopped nursing the young.
I was raised on farms; never, and I mean never, had I heard or seen this before. So I'm thinking, "This cow has cancer and is nursing a young and then it goes to the market; then the calf goes to market —really?" So later on I saw more of this and called it in for someone to check out.
Today I drove by and saw a bull with a hole the size a crater. He could barely walk, and I saw a mama cow with the same thing. I stayed till local law came to see what I was seeing. And a lady stopped and said she had been seeing the same thing in the Finley Point area.
My purpose of this letter is to say I do not know which is more evil: to allow cows to walk around with open cancer sores until market or to kill packs of wolves for eating them. It seems to me the whole system has gone wrong.
Isaiah 65:25 (New American Standard Bible) reads, “'The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust will be the serpent’s food They will do no evil or harm in all My holy mountain,' says the Lord."
Psalm 50:10 says, "For every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills."
What has happened to us? God gave us everything. Looking down right now, is he happy with what you are doing with what he gave you?
Pat Lundgren
Polson
