Posted on 03/05/2009 3:54:58 PM PST by NormsRevenge
DES MOINES, Iowa – On Capitol Hill, a $1.7 million earmark for pig odor research in Iowa has become a big, fat joke among Republicans, a Grade A example of pork. But the people who live cheek by jowl with hog farms in the No. 1 pig-producing state aren't laughing.
They're gagging.
"You hold your breath and when it's really bad you get the taste in your mouth," said Carroll Harless, a 70-year-old retired corn-and-soybean farmer from Iowa Falls.
In Iowa, where the 20 million hogs easily outnumber the 3 million people, the rotten-egg-and-ammonia smell of hog waste often wafts into homes, landing like a punch to the chest.
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sooo. does hussain and the missus searve and eat pork?
“Your lust for my money is showing, Leech.”
I don’t want your money and don’t live in Iowa. I just object to your ignorant attacks on the state. Sure this thing is stupid, but it came from Washington and was approved by Dems from many states. I bet one of them represents your state.
I bet your state got money for some other stupid cause.
Iowa was very tolerable back then... it may have been a source of humor for coastal elites, but it was one damn fine place to call home. Small towns were more than bedroom communities, school board members were generally conservatives with a sense of propriety (and not made up of the NEA's personal picks), railroad branch lines were reasonably viable, the suits in Des Moines did not control the rest of the state, etc. etc.
Now that we have fewer (but larger) nominally "family" corporate agribusinesses who increasingly resemble pre-WWI Silesian junkers, the stenches emanating from the state are not just literal.
Mr. niteowl77
Pork for pork.
Just traveled through Iowa. The smell is really bad...makes you sick.
Solution: Enclose the pig farms in a large dome, capture the gas rising at the top and use it to power a whole lot of stuff. Need someone to build the dome.
Oh give me a dome/Where the porcine can roam....
“Iowa was very tolerable back then... it may have been a source of humor for coastal elites, but it was one damn fine place to call home.”
The social policies for the last 30+ years have been driving companies and jobs out of small town America into big cities. Makes people easier to control.
It is also ethnic and economic cleansing, but implemented slowly and with less overt violence than the usual authoritarian methods. The flavor may be different, but it is still pleasant to the palates of the global socialists, therefore it will proceed apace.
Mr. niteowl77
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