…from the Native Sun News came out and spent the day with the SHA crew while we were harvesting. Attached is the link to the story that I would like to share with you. Hope you enjoy it. RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA — Maynard Zane Brown’s job with Sustainable Harvest Alliance and Wild Idea Buffalo Company is more than just punching the clock for eight hours, it’s doing what his ancestors did for millennia, harvesting buffalo in sync with nature. To his friends he’s known as Shane Brown. Working as a meat cutter for most of his life and spending time at the Rushmore Packing Plant in Rapid City he knows how stressful it is for buffalo to be treated like cattle. “If they are raised like a cow, then they’re corned up and grained up for 180 days. Plus when they are grain fed they are run through a fixed packing plant. I worked there for a number of years and I see the stress on those animals, it’s in their eyes,” Brown said. They get crushed and they’re not handled humanely he said, “They put the hot shots to them. They run them up the chutes and into the kill box and those animals go plum crazy before they shoot them. You know that they’ve got adrenaline running through them, by the time they do kill them.”