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Callicrate said the EPA does not appear to be going after the corporate feedlots. “EPA is turning a blind eye toward the mega-feedlots that are a real risk for pollution and, instead, is antagonizing small to mid-sized family operations in an effort to help their packer-partners capture the entire live cattle supply chain away from family farm and ranch operations.”
We thought the Obama Administration was going to bring about a change to the ongoing corporate control and corporate dominance that has been decimating the U.S. cattle industry. I guess we’re seeing that change right now. Rather than reduce corporate control and dominance the EPA is overtly partnering with the corporate beef packers to accelerate the exodus of sustainable, independent family operations. This really smells,” Callicrate concluded.
But but but, Obama is doing this to keep us safe! Large corporations know what's best for us.
Wait......hold on I thought I voted for Obama because he's a Democrat that supports the middle class and not the rich, corporate class? I thought only Republicans hated small businesses and favored their rich country club friends! Darn....
Somehow I think liberals are going to avoid this thread like the plague or they'll find some reason to excuse the Obama Admin's behavior.
Defund the EPA, what a useless organization
/In before some liberal says the EPA prevents kids from drinking the anti-freeze in the garage or some other non-sense
I think that anyone who profits from pollution or marketing non grazing beef should totally obliterated. That being said, I have been under the impression that Corporate America is to be bowed down to. When stores such as Walmart drive the mom and pop stores out of business, they are given a free pass and praised for offering cheap goods. I find this puzzling.
“Has the Environmental Protection Agency declared hay a pollutant?” an audience member asked. Callicrate responded affirmatively and explained that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently initiated a formal enforcement action against his Kansas feedlot for, among other things, failure to store his hay in a pollution containment zone. “Now that EPA has declared hay a pollutant, every farmer and rancher that stores hay, or that leaves a broken hay bale in the field is potentially violating EPA rules and subject to an EPA enforcement action,” Callicrate said. “How far are we going to let this agency go before we stand up and do something about it?”
If the rule applies to all feedlots (small to mega), and the mega lots are following it, then I think he should follow it, too. Does the small size of his lot exempt him?
If the rule applies to all feedlots (small to mega), and the mega lots are following it, then I think he should follow it, too. Does the small size of his lot exempt him?
We need to be rid of the economy crushing EPA.
The country did just fine without it for many decades.
But but but, kids will want to drink automotive battery acid if the EPA isn't around to tell them no!
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