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The feds have decided it's a meat. Why, you ask? So they can add more layers of regulation and protect their buddies.
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Cronyism is the ugly marriage between special interest groups and politicians, which results in an abuse of the government's power to grant special privileges to a few winners—for example, unfairly preventing competition or doling out subsidies and bailouts at the expense of taxpayers. Though cronyism is always outrageous, the way cronies go about achieving their goals is sometimes oddly funny. Case in point: the government's changing the definition of catfish to classify the fish as—wait for it—meat, not seafood.
The feds have decided it's a meat. Why, you ask? So they can add more layers of regulation and protect their buddies.
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Cronyism is the ugly marriage between special interest groups and politicians, which results in an abuse of the government's power to grant special privileges to a few winners—for example, unfairly preventing competition or doling out subsidies and bailouts at the expense of taxpayers. Though cronyism is always outrageous, the way cronies go about achieving their goals is sometimes oddly funny. Case in point: the government's changing the definition of catfish to classify the fish as—wait for it—meat, not seafood.
And tomatoes, which are actually fruit, are classified as vegetables.
Clearly, civilization has fallen, government is totally out of control, and we have to grab our guns and start shooting stuff or switch to anarchy to get our nation back before some other equal horror befalls us.
Or, to sum it up in more clear terms: "First world problems."
Doesn't matter how they define it, it still tastes awful.
Must be that farm raised mush, they serve up north.
The Blanco & Guadalupe Rivers, have some good blues and yellows, in with some stout channel cats. Fun to catch,running lines and bank sticks.
I can eat some catfish, fries and beans!
So, what's the problem ?
Thad Cochran was looking out for American suppliers, and the public.
This is a much needed change.
Look at the website. "Reason" is for unrestricted free markets.
I don't want sleazy, unregulated, untrustworthy animal products
from Southeast Asia. I don't care about "free trade".
I care about safe, high-quality food, and would rather
protect the American suppliers and farmers.
I want to buy local.
You need to consider the source, and understand that we live in
a country that needs to be protected and safeguarded.
For years, domestic catfish producers were getting hammered by competition coming from China and Vietnam. Those same catfish farmers understood that unlike the FDA inspection program, the USDA inspection program has a separate "equivalency" test for imports, which adds a layer of regulations only on imports and could take countries years to implement. In the meantime, they'd be completely barred from the U.S. market. Domestic catfish farmers love that. Also, 94 percent of U.S. farm-raised catfish is raised in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, hence the interest of Sen. Cochran to push this misguided regulation on catfish.
Protecting domestic catfish producers (most all of whom are located in Red States, mind you) from competition with Asia, via government over-regulation.
Doesn't matter how they define it, it still tastes awful.
Blasphemy,
Channel Cat is a gift from the Gods!
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