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Re:California Dispatches Goats to Eat Brush, Prevent Wildfires by floatingatoll on Saturday May 04, 2019 @02:15PM (#19828179)
Goats are low-tech, can’t be patented, require regular upkeep intervals, and have a tendency to consume resources and reproduce without profit paid to the seller.

American culture at one point decided that machines were the only way to control the wilderness. Happily, we seem to be unlearning both the machines and the control lessons.

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Re:California Dispatches Goats to Eat Brush, Prevent Wildfires by CuriouslyC on Saturday May 04, 2019 @07:16PM (#19829987)
Goats are tasty and their milk makes good cheese. Machines just depreciate. Goats are also (mostly) self healing and self replicating. Our obsession with machines is so silly.
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Re:California Dispatches Goats to Eat Brush, Prevent Wildfires by toasterlovin on Saturday May 04, 2019 @04:25PM (#19829135)
America has also been pretty labor poor for most of its history, which means hiring people is expensive.
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