Markets in everything: rentable goat edition

Yeah, but what’s their impact on global warming? Isn’t cutting back the weeds with something sharp and letting them decompose in the soil a lot better for the environment than turning foliage into atmospheric carbon dioxide to run the metabolism of the goat?

Pigou would have taxed goats heavily, I’m just sayin’

Brad DeLong

What sort of pathetic Yankee goats are they that can be contained by that flimsy, low fence?

In Curitiba (Brazil) the Municipality owns a herd of sheep, whose role is to mown the lawn of the numerous parks in town with the carful guidance of a shepard (on the unicipality payroll).