Gillibrand maintains stance on cow flatulence tax.
Or the bad news?
A good friend of the family is interviewed in this article on potentially disastrous new farm labor laws in NY. By good friend I am talking the kind of guy who showed up to feed cows for weeks when the boss had an emergency appendectomy before the kids were old enough to work.
Or perhaps the really insanely horrible news? FDA may inspect right down to the farm level and call foods from farms that don't comply adulterated.
As if farms weren't already inspected half to death. And as if most food recalls didn't originate at the plant level, not at the farm. I hope people wake up quickly to this one, because it is going to cost everybody who eats a lot of money and add a layer of government that won't be cheap either.
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Just what our farmers need more government people snooping around that don't know their -----from a hole in the ground. As if everything in this economy isn't bad enough already!! You are right 99% of the problem is not our farmers but where our product is shipped to.
ReplyDeleteThanks for these links. Great video...."a tax that won't pass"....yeah, let's hope so.
ReplyDeleteAnd, good grief, that point-of-origin legislation is a worry. Good point you make that most problems happen beyond the farm-- at the processing plant. The general public is so out-of-touch about farm issues.
Some of these legislators seem to think of farms as factories. They do not understand the diverse tasks a farmer performs nor the need to be flexible in the face of uncontrollable variables like the weather.
ReplyDeleteHow the heck can you plan a work schedule for even a week in advance when the weatherman can't get tomorrow correct?
It probably has to do with the fact that most of them have never, ever worked outdoors in their life.
Accck!
ReplyDeleteWhat next?
It's amazing that farmers don't give up. It seems farmers get beat up and knocked down at every turn. I never realized just how precarious farming must be - or how stressful.
ReplyDeleteI'll be saying extra prayers for families like yours who feed the rest of us!
I have been so silent in comments lately, all over the intertube.
ReplyDeleteI'm totaly aghast at what is going on in this country.
Do seemingly intellegnt people NOT realize, that one of, if not the most, precious resourses of America, is our farmers who know how to manage it well?
Good gawd! Truely, I just don't know what to say any more. Tax Cow Farts??! What next? Horse farts? How 'bout dog farts? My late Boxer had the most obnoxious dog farts on the planet. How about taxing Boxer Barf? He would eat horse poop, let it sit and simmer for 24 hrs, then barf it up. Most fouling "chit" you ever smelled. How about cat farts, people farts? How about taxing the ever-loving breath we breath?
Truely, this society has gone mad.
I don't know what else to say, other than I continue to read you daily and enjoy your blog.
JW
I don't even understand what is going on anymore. How can we continue to survive as a country when this kind of thing goes on? Sheesh!
ReplyDeleteGood links, 3C. Thanks. And it figures that Sheldon Silver, a democrat from Manhattan who probably wouldn't know a cow from a bull, wants to tell you how to farm.
ReplyDeleteOn a more paranoid note, I think this is all part of a long-range plan to eliminate small independent farmers and replace them with government-run, government-owned mega-farms - kinda like the auto industry.
Welcome to the new America.
Lisa, I think the goal is to move agriculture out of the USA and to use the land for other purposes, be it housing, parks and playgrounds for the wealthy...who knows. Farmers are independent people under our system and that is not a popular quality in Washington.
ReplyDeleteJeanelle, I loved the video too. I also enjoy Feedstuffs and learn much from Trent Loos whenever he posts a column.
Joated, seems as if the world has gone crazy.
FC, sometimes I don't even wanna know.
SC Momma, thank you! A lot of farmers, sadly, are giving up. Dozens of auctions every week and I am sure there will be more.
JW, thanks for your kind words. It is certainly a time of upheaval and I don't think it is positive change either, just change for its own sake...
Laurie, I don't know the answer....I just don't
akagaga, there is no question in my mind that there is a plan here....maybe to do away with agriculture here altogether and move it overseas.