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Dairy gets squeezed by the feds
The Seattle Times ^ | 1 June, 2005 | Danny Westneat

Posted on 06/01/2005 6:50:25 AM PDT by Radigan

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Another example of the decline of freedom and being mugged by the government. Shouldn't be surprised anymore at stories like this. However, everytime I read one it angers me just as much. Would like to write our Washington State senators but that would be a futile effort as they are both confirmed socialists (democrats).

http://www.smithbrothersfarms.com/

1 posted on 06/01/2005 6:50:25 AM PDT by Radigan
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To: Radigan
A politician's primary job is to get reelected. His secondary job, which is necessary to perform job one, is to reward his friends and punish the enemies of his friends.
In this case : friend = major financial contributors.
2 posted on 06/01/2005 6:57:00 AM PDT by FreePaul
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To: Radigan
A politician's primary job is to get reelected. His secondary job, which is necessary to perform job one, is to reward his friends and punish the enemies of his friends.
In this case : friend = major financial contributors.
3 posted on 06/01/2005 6:58:40 AM PDT by FreePaul
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To: Radigan

I've always wondered, why a gallon of milk costs more than a gallon of gasoline. The oil comes form the other side of the planet, whereas the cow is standing in a pasture down the road. The oil is refined in a highly dangerous and technical operation whereas milk is just pasturized and homogenized, but its still milk.............


4 posted on 06/01/2005 6:59:18 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Goooooooogle your own name.............)
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The following was told to me by an old timer named Travis:

"The dairy "industry" has been up to this kind of dirty trick for decades. When margarine first came out, it was the dairy industry that forced the makers of margarine to separate the fat from the food coloring. They forced customers (there were no "consumers" yet) to hand-mix the food coloring into the white fat portion. Just to humiliate and denigrate margarine makers and create a "better" image for butter.

5 posted on 06/01/2005 7:01:02 AM PDT by steenkeenbadges
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To: Red Badger

Do you have any idea whatsoever what it takes to feed and maintain a dairy cow? No, I didn't think so.


6 posted on 06/01/2005 7:05:46 AM PDT by eastforker (Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
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To: Radigan; Calpernia; farmfriend; Cindy; onyx; Brad's Gramma; Petronski; cyborg

"Yet the feds, backed by the biggest dairy processors in the West, want to force Smith Brothers and other do-it-yourself dairies to sell through the government-regulated system."

First, keep in mind all the loafers that want to suckle at the government sow's teat--the USDA Food Stamp program REALLY has helped them over the years (yes, there are people who NEED staples but the Food Stamp program for decades let them purchase non-BBQ convenience foods like TV dinners--and LUXURY items like lobster tails, I'VE SEEN IT HAPPEN.)

Meanwhile, these smart, hard-working entrepreneurs create a racehorse of a business and the gummit wants to turn it into an ox to plow in the USDA harness. Health and safety are important, but with 40,000 customers (apparently happy and healthy!) there is no AMERICAN reason for the Orwellian Ministry of Farm Bureaucracy to cr@p in their water trough.

I'm a man but if this was my business this would put my tit in a wringer too! USDA has long been WAY too big for its britches and it's time to rein them in.


BTW don't let any slight humor in this post detract from the RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION and call for action.


7 posted on 06/01/2005 7:07:20 AM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
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Simple solution - Shut down all the North American dairy farms and only allow the sale of dairy products imported from China or India. Do it for the sake of the children.


8 posted on 06/01/2005 7:10:39 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Buy 'Allah' brand urinal cakes - If you can't kill the enemy at least you can piss on their god)
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Would like to write our Washington State senators but that would be a futile effort as they are both confirmed socialists

They're ALL socialists. They just call themselves by different names, but it's still the same God-forsaken religion of Socialism.

Cows & Politics Explained

A CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT: You have two cows. You keep one and give one to your neighbor.
A SOCIALIST: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
AN AMERICAN REPUBLICAN: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. So what?
AN AMERICAN DEMOCRAT: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for being successful. You vote people into office who tax your cows, forcing you to sell one to raise money to pay the tax. The people you voted for then take the tax money and buy a cow and give it to your neighbor. You feel righteous.
A COMMUNIST: You have two cows. The government seizes both and provides you with milk.
A FASCIST: You have two cows. The government seizes both and sells you the milk. You join the underground and start a campaign of sabotage.
DEMOCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. The government taxes you to the point you have to sell both to support a man in a foreign country who has only one cow, which was a gift from your government.
CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.
BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. The government takes them both, shoots one, milks the other, pays you for the milk, then pours the milk down the drain.
AN AMERICAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when the cow drops dead.
A FRENCH CORPORATION: You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.
A JAPANESE CORPORATION: You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create clever cow cartoon images called Cowkimon and market them World-Wide.
A GERMAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You reengineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.
A BRITISH CORPORATION: You have two cows. They are mad. They die. Pass the shepherd's pie, please.
AN ITALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch.
A RUSSIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 12 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.
A SWISS CORPORATION: You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you. You charge others for storing them.
A BRAZILIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You enter into a partnership with an American corporation. Soon you have 1000 cows and the American corporation declares bankruptcy.
AN INDIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You worship both of them.
A CHINESE CORPORATION: You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported on them.
AN ISRAELI CORPORATION: There are these two Jewish cows, right? They open a milk factory, an ice cream store, and then sell the movie rights. They send their calves to Harvard to become doctors. So, who needs people?
AN ARKANSAS CORPORATION: You have two cows. That one on the left is kinda cute.
A MEXICAN RANCH: You have a herd of 500 cows. 495 have foot "in" mouth disease, just like the President of Mexico.

9 posted on 06/01/2005 7:11:59 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Radigan
http://www.smithbrothersfarms.com/
10 posted on 06/01/2005 7:13:14 AM PDT by old-ager
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To: eastforker

As a matter of fact, I do. I was raised on a farm. My mother and aunts and uncles all had dairy cows or worked for dairys. I used to hitch rides to town on the milk truck that picked up the cans from the local farms and delivered them to the dairy. I find the smell of dairys to bring back memories rather than make me roll up the window as I drice by. The whole purpose of my post was to get the ball rolling and apparently you picked it up and ran with it...........


11 posted on 06/01/2005 7:13:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Goooooooogle your own name.............)
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To: Radigan
Since the socialist writer of this article falled to admit the exact reason this milk company is going to go bankrupt, I take it probably going to go bankrupt because it will no longer get any more taxpayer subsidies.

If that is the case, I how no problem with this so-called business being plowed under.

12 posted on 06/01/2005 7:18:49 AM PDT by Paul C. Jesup
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Most do not have a clue. There are so many facets they would be way to many to mention. The profit margin just isn't that high that is why it takes a such high volume to make it profitable.


13 posted on 06/01/2005 7:19:22 AM PDT by eastforker (Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
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To: Radigan

bookmark for later printing


14 posted on 06/01/2005 7:19:33 AM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local communist or socialist party chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing.)
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To: eastforker

How many miles of solid cow do you have to drill through to find milk?


15 posted on 06/01/2005 7:19:38 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: MrBambaLaMamba

Here in california we have a milk board the decides on mile prices. We cannot import milk as e have laws that require we put non-fat milk into milk that no other state has. Like our gas, we can export but cannot input either gas or milk.

If you look in the dictionary and define fascism, socialism, capitalism and look at all the government control over private industry - what would you you choose that the USA has become?

My guess is you would agree with Ben Franklin when he warned us this would happen.


16 posted on 06/01/2005 7:21:16 AM PDT by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Thank you... I needed this this morning.


17 posted on 06/01/2005 7:23:57 AM PDT by Radigan
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To: Paul C. Jesup

without taxpayer subsidies one of two things will happen, one the free market will cause the escalation of food prices to soar uncontrolably or two, we would jepordise the nations food supply and would have to depend on imports that we have no control over.Go to the grocery store and compare organic grown vegetables, mostly grown here to the others that are mostly imported. The American farmer is subsidised to protect and insure our food supply is never interupted.


18 posted on 06/01/2005 7:25:55 AM PDT by eastforker (Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
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To: eastforker
without taxpayer subsidies one of two things will happen, one the free market will cause the escalation of food prices to soar uncontrolably or two, we would jepordise the nations food supply and would have to depend on imports that we have no control over.

LOL!! You remind me of the chicken little socialists who say without Social Security, most seniors will be eating dogfood.

I didn't buy their arguement, and I don't buy your arguement.

19 posted on 06/01/2005 7:29:51 AM PDT by Paul C. Jesup
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To: Dog Gone

How long do you have to feed a calf after being weened from the cow before it is old enough to breed to start the milk making process, not to mention having to feed the cow before she weens the calf, oh and lets not forget about feeding the bull to get the calves. Lets see 2 -3 gallons of milk per milking twice a day then seperate the fat, the cost of refrigeration. The list goes on and on. The cost of oil today is because it is not subsidised and the free open market dictates the price. I don't think we need to do that with our food.


20 posted on 06/01/2005 7:32:38 AM PDT by eastforker (Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
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