As part of its plan to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, the Obama administration is targeting the dairy industry to reduce methane emissions in their operations.
This comes despite falling methane emission levels across the economy since 1990.
The White House has proposed cutting methane emissions from the dairy industry by 25 percent by 2020. Although U.S. agriculture only accounts for about 9 percent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, it makes up a sizeable portion of methane emissions -- which is a very potent greenhouse gas. Of course with the price of milk, eggs and meat going through the roof already, now is great time to add more costs. They need something new to regulate. They're regulators, it's what they do...
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EPA: Hey, I'll tell you what. You can get a good look at a butcher's ass by sticking your head up there. But, wouldn't you rather to take his word for it?
Obama: [confused] What? I'm failing to make the connection here.
EPA: No, I mean is, you can get a good look at a T-bone by sticking your head up a butcher's ass... No, wait. It's gotta be your bull.
Obama: [embarrassed] Wow. I will talk to Moochele
EPA: I can get a good look at a T-bone by sticking my head up a bull's ass, but I'd rather take a butcher's word for it.
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What they mean is essentially close all but three or four major producers, depending upon how much gold they can shuffle over to the faceless mid level managers. Its anti-competition and anti-capitalist, and anti-diversity.
I don't get it. People bitch about the lack of diversity of the apple from times of lore, and here in our face is the elimination of the local producer of different breeds based upon local climate and grazing.
Although the future looks bright for the industry, cattle ranchers have reduced the size of their stocks in order to make up for recent losses and cover rising feed costs. The situation has left the nation with the smallest cattle population in 53 years, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
So even though the cattle population has been declining on its own - thus less cattle farts - the EPA jumps in to regulate it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
