Comment by __MatrixMan__

More important than their desire to continue doing business the way they're used to? I'd say so. You phrase it like we're feeding them to the wolves.

It's not just predators vs livestock, there are a bunch of things that we didn't used to understand about ecosystems that we do now. The societal cost of letting people displace or kill wild animals with abandon is quite high.

Zoonotic diseases are the first to come to mind. How many preventable cases of Plague or Lyme disease is that livestock worth to us?