Posted on 10/09/2014 9:39:42 AM PDT by llevrok
The Bavarian Farmers Association (BBV) is calling foul on new rules proposed by the European Union Commission to ban cow dung from hillsides with a gradient more than 15 percent. The goal is to avoid water pollution by stopping nitrates from leeching into ground waters.
"We demand that Germany stops this ban," said Upper Bavaria BBV president Anton Kreitmair at Wednesday's protest. "Slurry and dung are not pollutants, but valuable fertilizers."
The protest had no placards or slogans - just Doris the cow, wearing a plastic sheet tied around her rear end by farmer Johann Huber.
"We have no regular Pampers, the stores don't sell any big enough," Huber joked as he set about his task.
The BBV carefully put a nappy on Doris the cow. Photo: DPA
Doris and her colleagues graze almost exclusively on areas that would be forbidden under the EU rules in the town of Gmund, on hills above the Tegernsee.
The new regulations would essentially restrict cows to grazing in the valleys of Bavaria's alpine farms.
"In Bavaria alone, more than half of vineyards would no longer be able to fertilize with cow dung and 10 percent of the fields and meadows would no longer farmed," said Kreitmair, explaining it wouldn't just be farms like Huber's affected.
Huber says his family farm, which has been in busines since 1590, is already being subsidized by tourism - they have nine beds to boost income on the farm.
"Mountain farmers have a major role in ensuring that the alps are one of the most sought-after travel destinations. Federal and state politicians need to ensure that the conditions continue to allow farmers to meet their many social duties," Kreitmair added.
Doris's show, however, had little impact locally.
Steffen Schulz, spokesman for the EU Commission in Munich, said that many German waterways are already over the acceptable limit of nitrate contamination through over fertilization.
Huber said that if the EU Comission's rules were to pass, he wouldn't be diapering his cows before they go out to graze.
Green criminals coming up with all this sh*t.
” . . ..stopping nitrates from leeching into ground waters.”
That would, of course, be “leaching.”
Moses smell the roses...
The people of Europe are sadly are becoming as depraved and immoral as we are becoming. A bible verse came to mind regarding this, that when the people become sinful and corrupt, the Lord will raise up fools to rule over them. But I could find exactly what I wanted, my concordance is packed away in some box due to a fairly recent move, but these verses from Isaiah Chapter 3 will do:
4 And I will make mere lads their princes, and capricious children will rule over them,
5 and the people will be oppressed, each one by another, and each one by his neighbor; the youth will storm against the elder and the inferior against the honorable.
Just a bunch of envious Euro bureaucrats trying to demoralize those Bavarian farmers. Next thing they will go after Oktoberfest too. After all, those lederhosen are made of leather, and the dirndl attire on the young maidens is too stimulating for those Bavarian men.
They will come after the BEER BREWERS NEXT!.........................
Sounds like the Obola Administration to a T!.........................
The FDA here already has. The spent malt and grains used to be sold as cattle feed (some revenue) vs land fill (all cost).
The FDA recently said this is a food component and needs to be controlled. A 100 years of safe sales to the cattle industry do not stand for as much as a civil servant's pen.
So now smaller brewers are bearing a cost where they used to have some by-product revenue.
So what do they do with the waste now? Just haul it away and dump it in a landfill?....................
I dare him to put a nappy on a bull. LOL
I feel sorry for that cow considering the area the flies will be attracted to. Next they’ll say milk is contaminated by fly poop.
Green people’s brains have not matured. I wonder if they were born on a farm would they be *itching about cow pies now.
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