Mike Mease: The Bison Slaughter The Government Doesn't Want You To Know About

The Evan Brand Show

Evan Brand, BCHN, FNTP

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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http://notjustpaleo.com/free-health-consultation/ Mike Mease is the co-founder of Buffalo Field Campaign, an organization dedicated to supporting the proper treatment and life for the last genetically-pure, wild and free-roaming bison herd in the Yellowstone area to prosper. Each year, due to an agreement with the state of Montana and the National Park Service, hundreds of buffalo, or bison, are rounded up each year for slaughter to keep the population down. The livestock industry and ranchers are at the root of this issue because free roaming bison on the public lands where cattle graze would create competition for grass and supposedly create other issues such as a disease transmission which has never been proven. Listen in as we discuss this nearly 20 year long battle to stop the annual slaughter of bison and what we can do to help change the tide in federal funding and allow these animals to roam freely once again.

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0:00.0	All right, everybody.
0:00.9	Welcome back.
0:01.6	I have Mike on the line with me, the co-founder of the Buffalo Field Campaign.
0:07.2	And I know this is different than the usual health topic, but, you know, I like to try to
0:11.3	tune in to the world and figure out what's going on and how can we play our part to help.
0:16.2	So we're going to talk about what's going on in Yellowstone National Park this week,
0:22.4	currently in the middle of February. So Mike, welcome. Oh, thanks for having me. Hey, so tell us what's going on and what you
0:28.6	all are trying to do to stop and fix this whole crazy buffalo coaling issue out in Yellowstone.
0:35.5	Well, I mean, let's paint the picture.
0:38.3	First off, Yellowstone National Park is unfortunately home to America's last wild,
0:46.3	free-ranging, genetically pure buffalo we have in the world.
0:52.3	They, in the process of, you know, they were killed down to 23 animals. At that point,
0:59.7	we understood that we needed to protect the sacred species. And the U.S. sent out the U.S.
1:07.1	Calvary at that time to protect these 23 from the poachers that were trying to get them.
1:13.4	The year after, the first National Park was founded, Yellowstone National Park.
1:18.7	And originally it was made to be a safe haven for the last remaining wild buffalo we have.
1:26.9	Through the niativity of the day, they brought in more genetically pure buffalo,
1:33.2	but they fed them domestic cow milk.
1:36.3	And at that point, the cows gave not only the bison, but all the wildlife of Yellowstone,
1:41.8	this disease known as bruselosis.
1:46.1	Now, the bison have never transmitted this disease other than one laboratory test down
1:53.9	at Texas A&M, but the state of Montana's livestock department has put up this fear-mongering process that basically says,
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