Could somebody please explain?

What the hell is this? While I am not a card carrying member of PETA or Greenpeace or the like, and I am definitely not a subscriber to the 'scorched earth policy' either. What was the motivation? What were the vines doing that could possibly justify 1500 of them being lopped off? Maybe it wasn't the vines at all but what the owners were doing. Wait, they are organic growers. It must have been an activist group fighting for the vines' rights to chemicals. Or the Anti-Gewürztraminer League. Or just a bunch of jerk-offs.

There is an arrogance to this that I find amazing. More often than I would care for, I see a similar arrogance here in my fair city. Many years ago, the people around here planted live oaks. In my opinion, the live oak is the most beautiful tree in the world, and it's presence in Savannah lends to this town's character. Unfortunately, they grow very slowly. The lifespan (when left alone) can be from 150 - 300 years. So I just love it when some idiot from Oregon has to drive his convertible Saab down Victory Drive (on his way to the islands where they don't have so many old trees) with the Atlas Van Lines moving truck right behind them, absolutely destroying the very thing that dude in the convertible move here to enjoy in the first place.