Posted on 03/16/2009 11:45:47 AM PDT by John Semmens
The U.S. District Court of Appeals in Washington ruled that the Clean Air Act authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate agriculture in the United States. The case stemmed from the American Farm Bureau Federation’s appeal of a 2006 EPA effort to hold farms to the same standards as cities with regard to particulate air pollution.
EPA spokeswoman Virginia Landers lauded the court for rejecting the argument that farming naturally entails stirring up dust. “When you get right down to it, the whole agricultural process of turning over the soil to plant crops is unnatural,” Landers observed. “No plant sows its own seeds in such a destructive and unhealthy manner.”
Landers said the contention that EPA rules banning the emission of dust would be economically devastating to the industry is irrelevant. “Our mandate is to safeguard the environment,” Landers pointed out. “’Raping the land’ is not a protected activity under the Clean Air Act. Those who cannot conduct their business in an environmentally approved manner should look for other work. If this means that farmland reverts to its natural state, so much the better for the planet.”
(Excerpt) Read more at azconservative.org ...
OK, we need to cut off the food supply to these morons!
So who will hold the wind accountable? I assume it will be the same agency that holds volcanoes accountable.
Is this getting stupid or what.
““When you get right down to it, the whole agricultural process of turning over the soil to plant crops is unnatural,””
....stated by one who just might end up dying of starvation.
Lunatics!!....
What do we need farmers for? We have Safeway to go to. /sarc off
It’s satire now, but with the enviro-nazi, Carol Browner, back in power, it may be closer than we think.
This has to be a joke... I know any minute I am going to wake up at my desk in middle school with druel on my chin from this bad nightmare, and I will then be able to stop this insanity from ever occuring....
NO ONE PINCH ME— I NEED TO BELIEVE THIS TO KEEP MY SANITY!!
What the farmers should do is stop farming and let the bastards starve to death.
They are not crazy, simply EVIL.
The Precedent is Stalin’s Ukraine Genocide by Starvation-
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/ukra.html
UKRAINIAN FAMINE
The dreadful famine that engulfed Ukraine, the northern Caucasus, and the lower Volga River area in 1932-1933 was the result of Joseph Stalin’s policy of forced collectivization. The heaviest losses occurred in Ukraine, which had been the most productive agricultural area of the Soviet Union. Stalin was determined to crush all vestiges of Ukrainian nationalism. Thus, the famine was accompanied by a devastating purge of the Ukrainian intelligentsia and the Ukrainian Communist party itself. The famine broke the peasants’ will to resist collectivization and left Ukraine politically, socially, and psychologically traumatized.
The policy of all-out collectivization instituted by Stalin in 1929 to finance industrialization had a disastrous effect on agricultural productivity. Nevertheless, in 1932 Stalin raised Ukraine’s grain procurement quotas by forty-four percent. This meant that there would not be enough grain to feed the peasants, since Soviet law required that no grain from a collective farm could be given to the members of the farm until the government’s quota was met. Stalin’s decision and the methods used to implement it condemned millions of peasants to death by starvation. Party officials, with the aid of regular troops and secret police units, waged a merciless war of attrition against peasants who refused to give up their grain. Even indispensable seed grain was forcibly confiscated from peasant households. Any man, woman, or child caught taking even a handful of grain from a collective farm could be, and often was, executed or deported. Those who did not appear to be starving were often suspected of hoarding grain. Peasants were prevented from leaving their villages by the NKVD and a system of internal passports.
The death toll from the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine has been estimated between six million and seven million. According to a Soviet author, “Before they died, people often lost their senses and ceased to be human beings.” Yet one of Stalin’s lieutenants in Ukraine stated in 1933 that the famine was a great success. It showed the peasants “who is the master here. It cost millions of lives, but the collective farm system is here to stay.”..
BROTHER DAVE GARDNER, on the depression.
Read the link: A semi-news, semi-SATIRE. The problem is his posts are so danged believable it can raise your blood pressure.
Madness.
Farmer Joe Shrugged?
Simple, just have bureacrats like these only buy “EPA approved growing techniques”.
Lets see how long they last.
She has servants bring her food.
Probably. It deems to me like no one they ever went after gives a damn. Until it is too late.
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