{"id":403419,"date":"2026-07-18T11:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/403419\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T11:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:32:07","slug":"opinion-california-wage-law-could-lead-goats-to-slaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/403419\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | California wage law could lead goats to slaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"DWIGNZUY5BFTBD7VBNZI2I7IHM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Californians have been mitigating the danger of worsening wildfires by hiring goats to munch on flammable brush, but the state\u2019s revised labor law risks sending these goats to slaughter.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"7PCCLRP2QVE5ZK42HWXK6EACY4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Goats will eat almost anything, and they can reach awkward spots people and mowers can\u2019t. So municipal governments and homeowners associations have started paying ranchers to let their herds feed on local fields. \u201cTargeted grazing,\u201d as it\u2019s called, is less expensive than paying people, and neighbors like having them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Californians have been mitigating the danger of worsening wildfires by hiring goats to munch on flammable brush, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-403419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}