Equal in the eyes of the EPA
Many of the folks who grow giant pumpkins fertilize them with milk. I often bring milk that can't be sold, such as milk from a cow that just had a calf, over to the garden to feed to my assorted squashes. There are those who poo-poo the idea, but it works for me and some pumpkin producers swear by it.
And there have been numerous milk spills in this dairy-rich region, when milk tankers were involved in traffic mishaps.
You wanna know something amazing? No harm was done. Milk is pretty innocuous stuff.
And staggeringly enough, you can actually drink milk (gasp).
However, the EPA in its infinite wisdom figures that milk fits right in with motor oil and diesel fuel in the pollution department.
Yeah, really.
I can gulp down a fresh, foaming, ice-cold glass of milk with some homemade applesauce cookies, and, after much enjoying the experience, live and thrive.
Yet it appears that the EPA thinks milk is the equivalent of some nice, tasty, 10W-30.
Read about in this excellent column by Thomas Sowell.
I have to thank Cathy for the heads up about this issue. Not long ago we were led to believe that the whole milk-as-toxic-waste issue had died a natural death. Alas it appears that legislation by regulation by activist appointee is alive and well and totally devoid of commonsense as usual.
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