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HSUS, Other Animal "Rights" Groups Fight Feedlots

They're petitioning the EPA to regulate feedlots under the Clean Air Act.  You can see where all this "man-made global warming" thing is really going.  Cows emit gases, therefore they must be regulated.  Why is nobody going after politicians, animal "rights" zealots, and man-made global warming preachers? 

We will fight for Bovine Freedom

And hold our large heads high

We will run free with the buffalo

Or die.  Cows with guns.

Mooing In Terror In Philly

The folks who run Philadelphia Media Holdings, LLC. - parent company of the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News - are apparently scared to death of people with concealed-carry weapons permits.  The thrust of an editorial published today at their site indicates that we're on the brink of a new civil war.

Say wha?  It's entirely possible that a new revolution may be overdue, but a civil war?  In any event, it's highly unlikely that permit-holders would be involved in either sort of occurrence.

They go on to claim that the U.S. Congress is "controlled" by the NRA.  It'd be amusing, if the tirade didn't emanate from folks who control media interests in the city.

AS EARLY as this week, Sen. Arlen Specter could set the wheels in motion for a new civil war in this country.

That's because a subcommittee on crime and drugs that he chairs could move an amendment that will allow pretty much anyone to carry concealed weapons pretty much anywhere they want - even to states that might have prohibited them in the past.

If you thought, like we did, that allowing people to carry their loaded weapons into national parks was bad - Congress gave us this gift a few months ago - this amendment (S. 845) will really curl your hair.

There's only a short leap from the idea of flooding states with people carrying concealed guns to civil war. Especially when you compare U.S. casualties in Iraq since the war began - about 3,000 - with U.S. casualties from guns in a single year: 30,000.

No mention, of course, as to the legality of the guns in their statistic.  On the other hand, it's kind of refreshing to see the media actually downplaying Iraq, as opposed to their usual rantings.

Dangerous Beasts

"I really want to put out the message that cows can't be trusted," he said following the accident in October 2007.

"I'm not one to believe in unnecessary over-regulation, but I think a lot of people don't realise how dangerous cows can be."

We will fight for bovine freedom, and hold our large heads high

We will run free, with the buffalo.  Or die.

Cows with guns.

Everybody's Downsizing

The hot new trend: miniature cows.

With feed costs through the roof - thanks, in no small part, to governmental mandates on ethanol-based fuel blends - a growing number of farmers are thinking small.  Their miniature Herefords consume about half that of a full-sized cow yet produce 50% to 75% of the rib-eyes and fillets, according to researchers and budget-conscious farmers.

In other words, a half-sized cow produces about half to as much as three-quarters the yield as a full-sized cow.  But it consumes half the feed, and it also helps Save The Planet by emitting proportionally less methane.

Also coming into vogue, at least in the U.K., are braskets.  It's all part of downsizing and Saving The Planet.  Promoted this year by The Royal Horticultural Society, you can grow your own food almost anywhere.

Georgie Webb of the RHS, said old undies could be used like hanging baskets where people have little space.

"Due to their conical shape, bras are ideal containers for turning into hanging baskets, and if you sew two together, you have what is best described as a 'hanging bra-sket'. Once filled with compost you can grow salad leaves, herbs, alpine strawberries and even tumbling cherry tomatoes in them; the bigger the bra the more you can grow."

Sounds like a fabulous idea.  Ladies, we're auditioning for donors!  No word yet from the HomeOwners' Associations.

Who Ya Gonna Sue?

The Weasel's at it again.  House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman, California Democrat, (pictured) and Rep. Edward J. Markey, Massachusetts Democrat, have authored the House climate bill.  Slipped into this little gem is a provision that's virtually guaranteed to destroy the lives of most Americans:  self-proclaimed victims of global warming or those who "expect to suffer" from it - from beachfront property owners to asthmatics - for the first time would be able to sue the federal government or private businesses over greenhouse gas emissions.  Note: they can only sue the U.S. federal government or U.S. private businesses.  Because they're evil, after all.  And you can't really expect to get much from these folks:  

By burping, belching and excreting copious amounts of methane — a greenhouse gas that traps 20 times more heat than carbon dioxide — India's livestock of roughly 485 million (including sheep and goats) contribute more to global warming than the vehicles they obstruct.

Land-Grabs, Cows, And Science

Harry Reid's calling for an unusal Sunday vote tomorrow on a 1200-page, pork-laden, $10 billion proposal locks up millions of acres of energy-rich property by designating it as environmentalist-friendly “federal wilderness” area where not even as much as a bicycle would be permitted to travel across the land. 

The bill, S.22 "Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009," would cordon off more than 3 million acres from energy leasing by restricting various areas as “federal wilderness” or “wild and scenic” river ways.

Apparently, Hairy believes that the USA is suffering from a shortage of wilderness areas.  Has he never been to Oregon, Washington, Alaska?

It's sure to make the liberal environmeddlists happy, though.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

Dayville cattle ranchers Loren and Piper Stout have had about enough of environmeddlist's bullroar.  Environmeddlists have long opposed cattle grazing on federal lands, and their claim is that cattle trample stream banks; rendering vast areas unsuitable for fish. 

Last year, after a lawsuit from environmental groups, a court ordered the central Oregon couple and others to yank their bank-trampling cattle from U.S. Forest Service land along Murderers Creek and its tributaries until the suit is resolved.

The creeks are home to middle Columbia River steelhead on the Endangered Species Act.

The Stouts staked out grazing lands last year when there were no cattle allowed and found the wild horses and elk trampled banks more than cattle, said Loren Stout, 52, a John Day native. Forty creekside sites violated the government's bank alternation standards, Stout said.

Meanwhile, the area has the healthiest populations of wild steelhead along the listed fish's run, the notice says. And normal restrictions on grazing keep cattle out of the creeks at crucial times for fish, Stout said.

I've seen it myself.  The most productive areas for salmon in stretches of the John Day River are actually found in those places that have not been fenced to keep cattle away from the water.  This shouldn't be surprising, as salmon depend on gravel beds, and gravel beds are most often generated by land-based mammals heading to the streams for a drink and a bath.

The problem with environmeddlists is that they view anything involving human activity as inherently bad and certain to damage the planet in some way.  They completely overlook the fact that the planet is a dynamic system, and that humans are a part of that system.

It Was Only A Matter Of Time

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed assessing fees for keeping belching or farting animals on your property.  Farmers so far are turning their noses up at the notion, but the EPA argues that emissions from cattle and swine fall under their jurisdiction.  The federal agency's proposed rule would require farms or ranches with more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs to pay an annual fee of about $175 for each dairy cow, $87.50 per head of beef cattle and $20 for each hog.

Of course, the the EPA's allowed to stick its nose in there, you can bet it won't be long before they go after chickens, turkeys, and any number of other animals.  Naturally, the animal "rights" group, PETA, is fully behind the concept: 

"It makes perfect sense if you are looking for ways to cut down on meat consumption and recoup environmental losses," said Bruce Friedrich, a spokesman in Washington for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

"We certainly support making factory farms pay their fair share," he said.

Their hope is that implementing such rules would force farmers to switch to "healthier crops".  Obviously, these people don't know much about farming or ranching.  It reminds me of that proposal by a Portland City Councilor some years ago which would have mandated that diapers be place on all deer living withing the Bull Run watershed boundary.

Death By Wire

Some 52 cows suspected of ties to the Republican Party were summarily executed after the Messiah directed a lightning bolt to strike a wire fence alongside the cows.  Such is the power of the Democrats today.  You should reconsider your political affiliation immediately.

Just a test

Just seeing if it works.  Steady....

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The E Ewe Wants To Require ID Cards - For Sheep

Herders in Scotland, which maintains the largest flocks in all of Europe, are understandably incensed.  For one thing, sheep all look the same from behind.

There's also the issue of getting to the animals, which are mostly mountain-terrain grazers and browsers, and therefore rarely handled.  Tagging them all with RFID chips isn't going to be easy - nor inexpensive.  With each chip costing around $3.00, tagging each of the 7,131,000 animals amounts to serious cash at a time when fuel and feed costs are rising.

Politicians insisting upon such rules really need to get out from under their desks and spend some time walking in the herders' dairy-boots.