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Few topics have so polarized Americans, of late, as grazing cattle. While there is an argument that can be made that these animals are exotic creature that have caused a considerable amount of historic damage to the public lands of the American West, to other eyes they have, in Wallace Stegner's words, "the look of rightness." The dispute, always impassioned, is often one of devout environmentalists poised to pillory unsympathetic cattle owners. Most likely both are substantially guilty of hyperbolae, and are equally wrong. A cow and calf remains a weighty symbol of domesticity and success in husbandry.
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