From A Libertarian Walks into a Bear, which was published in September by PublicAffairs.
When Chris Weathersbee, then in his sixties, moved onto the property in Corinth, Vermont, in 1999, it had just three goats.
He began to think of the twenty-nine-acre farm as a goat sanctuary, one that would operate in accordance with his Buddhist beliefs. He started taking in stray Nubians and cashmeres; because he thought it inhumane to isolate, castrate, or slaughter his bleating wards, they were free to breed with one another, a freedom of which the goats took full advantage
Within four years, the…