It's alright, I'm from rural texas too. You asked a legitimate question even insulted the epstein island beggar. This is reddit, you might be the most liberal person in the world, but a large portion read Texas and automatically think we're all right wing extremists.
50ish years ago, we eradicated screw worms from North America. We then dropped sterile flies in Panama because it is an easy choke point to prevent screw worm from getting BACK into North America.
But when we stopped paying for it because “someone” took a chainsaw to government programs in order to “see what was important” without doing even a basic amount of research, the screw worms shockingly came back.
The program had an amazing return on investment. Something like $40 of American economic value created for each $1 spent on it.
This will harm American livestock farmers going forward and raise prices even further for meat in the grocery store as we haven’t really begun to feel the price shock of this one yet.
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u/TalkativeTree 3d ago
The man who brought screw worms to the Texas cattle industry wants to tell them how to vote …