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Subject: EPA declares hay a pollutant
YelliChink    9/20/2011 10:20:11 AM
Title says it all..... http://www.naturalnews.com/033537_hay_pollutant.html
 
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YelliChink       9/20/2011 10:21:09 AM


EPA
declares hay a pollutant in effort to drive small, mid-sized family cattle
ranchers out of business

 

NaturalNews)
The assault against American industry and individual livelihood continues -- and
no, it is not coming from Al-Qaeda or other foreign terrorists. A recent report
from R-CALF USA, an advocacy group for American cattle producers, says the US
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has declared harmless cattle hay a
"pollutant," which is part of the agency's agenda to squelch family-scale cattle
ranches in favor of corporately-owned, mega-sized feedlot operations.

At
the recent 12th Annual R-CALF USA Convention in Rapid City, SD, an audience
member asked Mike Callicrate, a Kansas cattle feeder, if the EPA had, indeed,
declared hay a pollutant. His affirmative answer was startling to many, but not
necessarily surprising in light of the US government's apparent agenda to
destroy every single producing sector in the nation and to reduce the country to
a poverty-stricken, corporately-dominated wasteland.

"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," responded Callicrate. "How far are we
going to let this agency go before we stand up and do something about
it?"

Callicrate currently operates what is considered a mid-sized cattle
ranch, and was ostracized by some of the nation's largest beef packers back in
1998 for exposing their illegitimate buying practices. Callicrate ended up
having to cease operations for two years, but later reopened as a direct
marketer of meat to consumers.

"I believe the EPA's enforcement action is
a premeditated effort by EPA to partner with the beef packers to finish the job
the beef packers couldn't do alone," added Callicrate, referring to EPA's
failure to enforce the same rules for large meat packers like JBS-Brazil and
Cargill (the two largest beef packing operations in the country).

Between
2008 and 2010, 45 small to mid-sized family cattle operations were forced out of
business, according to R-CALF USA. During the same time, the nation's largest
feedlots expanded their operations, and now own and feed roughly 25 percent of
the nation's cattle.

"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."


Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/033...

 

 
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RedParadize       9/24/2011 3:13:04 AM
naturalnews hum?
You should check other article they published, funny.
 
Article about holistic medicine & homeopathy is the one i prefer. Is it your new source of reliable news ?
 
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