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Well that was pretty good Fabs.........you managed to skirt around just about everything I talked about, except for the fact that we all know there is a lawyer out there to take on just about any case.

You assume all game ranchers are about trophies.....and while that probably is the truth with whitetail, most of it started due to the oriental market for antlers in velvet....hence the large elk farms, reindeer, etc.

Many tried to establish meat markets for the game animals and that of course all fell through. Then the asian market for the antlers dropped as well. Many of the game farms turned to trophy hunting to try and raise funds. State and provincial agencies closed the doors to interstate and internatinal sales of breeding stock once CWD began to appear. Kind of like closing the doors on the barn after the horse is out.

I know jurisdictions where the government won't let them sell their animals, won't let them offer the animals to hunters, can't give them away for meat unless they are killed at an inspected slaughter plant....none of whom will take deer or elk any more. They are restricted to killing a handful for personal use.....but production exceeds use. They won't even let them just shoot the animals and bury them.

And by the way my uncle is a lawyer......I have friends that are lawyers...... and I was a cop for a long time so I got to spend several thousand hours in court over the years with them in both criminal and civil trials. I know all about them.

Sadly this topic seems to be painting all game farmers with the same brush. It is possible that the operator in this case is claiming they are worth what ever the trophy value was for the deer.....I don't now, but that is certainly not the case when you look at the overall picture of this industry. The producers are caught between a rock and hard place in many provinces and states.

Since you freely admit that you don't know the specifics of the case in question you are making a rather broad assumption when suggested that producers fight was "fostered by greed and profit."

It is probably a good idea to do a bit of research and learn something about an issue before making those kinds of statements......ones that lead people, who know nothing about producers who have elk and deer or bison, to believe that they are all motivated by the trophy industry and greed and profit. That simply is not the case.