Writers on the Range: Urban-rural divide is alive and well
Pushback against a “meatless day” proclaimed by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis last month was predictably vigorous. It was part of the “war on rural Colorado,” said a state senator who runs a cattle-feeding operation. Twenty-six of Colorado’s 64 counties adopted “meat-in” proclamations. Governors from the adjoining states of Wyoming and Nebraska even gleefully designated an “eat-meat” day. Afterward, Polis’s press aides pointed to the hundreds of do-good proclamations the governo...
Source: thespectrum.com