Interesting comments, especially regarding "tree-huggers" and "stewards of the land". When I think of the term "tree-hugger" I think of someone who has a knee-jerk reaction to ANY disturbance of the land (or water or air) for beneficial purposes, especially if it's more PC than logical. What comes to mind are those who climb trees or put nails in them to prevent logging yet live in wood houses. Or those who protest against a new power plant yet scream if their power is out for an hour or two. Many of my kid's friends are like that (avowed vegans or vegetarians with a complete disdain for what their parents' generation has done to "mother earth")
I also believe that farmers are, generally speaking, good stewards of THEIR land. Why would they want to destroy their means of livelihood? That being said, one could argue that the use of pesticides and such is allowing them to profit "unnaturally" from their land to the detriment of surrounding resources, which they don't own (air, water).
As for the butterfly, I have mixed feelings when I drive onto my property to brush-hog some fields just to keep them "clean" until I can build on it. I note the large number of flying/jumping insects, butterflies and such that bound over the knee-high grass/flowers. Then when I'm done, I have more mixed feelings because I proudly look over my clean field devoid of brush and small branches and such but I know that there are a lot of bugs wondering "what the heck was that?" and have to move off in search of new homes/food.
In any case, I don't think the answer is a complete ban on cutting milkweed, which I think the logical argument would be for a true "tree-hugger"
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