I still believe that putting the national animal disease laboratory in Kansas among millions of hoofed animals is nuts. Keep it out in the ocean at Plum Island, where disease has been successfully contained for decades. As far as I am concerned this is all about a boost for state economy with no concern for animal safety.
Here is what happened in Great Britain when a disease lab was placed among farm animals.
And here is Farm Side Friday
And here is an interesting story about Anthrax immunities in dairy products potentially offering a vehicle for vaccine delivery.
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enjoyed the Farm Side Friday, today.
ReplyDeleteCan you spell Graft? This might surpass Democrat Robert Byrd demanding the CIA build a facility they DID NOT WANT in West Virginia.
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Robert Byrd.
Kathleen Sebelius lobbied hard for the lab, and now crows about what an accomplishment her administration achieved. Of course, she ran off an oil refinery and is still trying to run off coal fired generating plants, due to their emitting CO2, which isn't considered a pollutant (until President Unicorn changes that). Lessee, dangerous bovine diseases in the heart of beef country is A-OK, and CO2 = bad, bad, bad.
ReplyDeletePlus, she's wanting to break state budget law and get us further into debt because she already overspent revenue - deliberately. HHS Secretary for BHO? Can't happen soon enough.
Let's just hope the experts know what they are doing (in all quadrants) ... but you're right, sometimes I wonder. Street smarts sometimes trumps think-tank smarts.
ReplyDeleteJust read your Farm Side, 3C, and I have a question: Didn't anyone suggest getting the government out of the mix entirely and just letting the market work?
ReplyDeleteI know these farmers could handle it better than the DC crowd that just mortgaged our grand-children's future.
No kidding, that is just nuts!
ReplyDeleteWW, thanks so much
ReplyDeleteChef Trolll, it has to be that because common sense was certainly left completely out of the equation
Jeffro, isn't it crazy to contemplate labeling one of the main components of air a pollutant. And the money the state got for the facility will pale against what it will cost if FMD escapes. It scares me and I live a long way from Kansas!
Robert, sadly I suspect that sometimes the so-called experts are as interested in lining their pockets now as in providing wisely for the future.
akagaga, sadly milk prices are set by a government formula, which is so ridiculously complicated that most farmers don't even understand it. As long as the government is setting up the hoops the farmers have to jump through them
Laurie, it is indeed!
That article about an oral anthrax vaccine is fascinating! Of course, I can't help but wonder if there is a connection there between using milk bacteria as a vaccine carrier and the general superior health of farm folks. Just imagine all the diseases against which we may have inadvertently ingested inoculation!
ReplyDeleteOf course, if this vaccine carrier works out, we can expect milk to be "fortified" by the Government with all sorts of vaccines against things like common sense and responsibility, and then the national health care workers (a la Britain) will come into our homes to be sure we're consuming the prescribed adulterated dairy products....
Yup - sign me "a frightened Libertarian".
Numberwise, the things that are going on now are simply mind boggling! If by chance we still have an elected Congress in two years I am thinking we will see something that more closely resembles change than what we are seeing now...or at least I hope.
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