Posted on 11/19/2008 6:19:44 PM PST by bloodmeridian
The head of the milk industry today petitioned Congress to include the failing milk industry in the sweeping $700 billion financial industry bailout.
Testifying before the House Financial Services Committee, Rick Smith, president and chief executive officer of the Dairy Farmers of America, the largest dairy marketing cooperative, said: “America depends on good milk, and we just can’t give it to them in today’s marketplace. We need this bailout as a stopgap to tide us over until the economy strengthens next year or in 2010.”
Dairy farmers have long complained that high costs of pasteurization and shipping have stymied their market. In addition, Chinese milk producers have recently flooded the U.S. with cheap milk, and people are buying it despite recent reports of contamination by leftover tiger and toy parts.
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As someone in the milk business I would call BS. Except that it is DFA is spinning the tale of woe. That makes it believable. :)
Oh, g*#damn!!
There seems to be no end to this.
I just paid $3.89 for a gallon of 2%.
No bailout.
this is getting so ridiculous that I can’t tell anymore if a headline is some kind of onion deal or the real thing.
It's tagged humor, so I'm going to assume it's satire/a joke. However, I don't want anyone getting an idea....
When milk is more expensive than gas, we've got a problem. :)
It is satire. Albeit, it is satire by someone who knows something about agribusiness and the DFA... ;-)
This is where I started saying “uhhhh huh...”
“Dairy farmers have long complained that high costs of pasteurization and shipping have stymied their market. In addition, Chinese milk producers have recently flooded the U.S. with cheap milk, and people are buying it despite recent reports of contamination by leftover tiger and toy parts.”
Cows? More like swine bellying up.
bump
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