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Lots of things hurt cattle, but they do not threaten our domestic beef supply. They are just things for farmers and ranchers to deal with.

Think of it this way: Leaving lug nuts loose in new cars does not threaten our nation's auto supply.

Sure it does if you loosen enough of them to create hysteria.

Spoken like a true saboteur.

But how many lug nuts must you loosen to create hysteria?

And why do I have the peculiar feeling that you've never held a lug wrench in your hands?

15. Assuming 5 per wheel and applying the proverb of "three men make a tiger"*, they just have to be the new cars of three famous people who are likely to get in the news for a wheel falling off.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_men_make_a_tiger

You can set out free (medicated) food for the wildlife. That will treat the vast majority of them.

That might work for once-off vaccinations of precisely targeted animals in densely populated areas but not delivering periodic high doses of medication to treat parasites to animals across 100s of millions of acres.

Loughla says: "How will you treat the wild animal population?"

Hunt 'em and eat 'em, yummm! If you're tough enough, as I do not doubt, you can eat the screwworms too, once cooked!8-))