Posted on 10/03/2009 3:12:36 PM PDT by jazusamo
TWIN FALLS, Idaho -- The Humane Society of the United States and other groups are petitioning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to start regulating confined-animal feeding operations under the Clean Air Act.
The groups submitted the 69-page petition late last month asking that emissions of hydrogen sulfide, ammonia and other gases be curbed.
EPA spokesman Dave Ryan said the agency will review the petition and respond within 120 days.
The EPA is wrapping up a study of emissions at 24 U.S. feedlots, but doesn't have enough information yet to decide whether confined-animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, need more regulation.
"We really do not have a good handle on CAFO emissions," Ryan told the Twin Falls newspaper, The Times-News, in a story published Friday.
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
Ping!
To keep down termite methane emissions we probably need to prohibit rice farming as well.
Termite methane - LOL!
It’s time to defund these breader oganizations.
Pollution is only too much of one thing in one place.
Spread the same animals over a 300,000 acre feed lot and the emissions remain the same, only dispersed.
Illogical? Sure, but just as illogical as the complaint.
Yep, when it comes to gas emissions each animal is going to emit the same no matter where they’re at.
Fart police!
Animal agriculture is about to be outlawed altogether. The rationale is, that converting feeds into butcher animals is a poor allocation of resources. But I do not see human beings out there grazing alfalfa fields, nor filling their bowls with a gruel made of ground-up ears of corn or soybean-oil meal. What animal agriculture does, is convert low-grade, or what is for human beings, indigestable protein, into a high-grade complete balanced source of nutrients, tough to do on a vegan diet alone. Plus all the other resurces that go into converting pasture grass into beef or milk, takes up huge amounts of acreage and “pollutes” surface water resources. Well, lesson for you, buddy. The carp and perch EXIST to gobble up those bits of cow excrement that drop into the water.
Pork, beef, mutton, chicken, turkey, all were once living creatures, some of more than rudimentary personality development. But their ordained purpose is to provide victuals for humanity, in a concentrated form. Now there is a movement afoot to GIVE these creatures standing in human courts of law, to extend to them rights that are not even given to unborn human children.
‘Tis a strange, strange world we live in.
Well said...This is undoubtedly the brainchild of PETA and the HSUS. It’s a tool they discovered to further their crusade against eating meat and any animal products but they’re going to lose the war eventually.
Do we have the manpower to counter-protest these actions?
If the HSUS is backing it, it is in some way against humans owning animals. HSUS is basically the same as PETA. They just have better PR. They are a HUGE lobbying group and their goal, along with PETA is for humans to not eat/keep/breed/etc animals. Period.
The watermelon environmentalists want us all to starve and be beholden to the govt for our porridge.
Don’t be too sure they will lose. 20 years ago I would not have imagined they would be as successful as they have in getting laws passed all around the US which regulates people breeding dogs and cats. And I’m not talking about commercial enterprises, I’m talking about someone with a pet, a hobby breeder, et al. They are very good at this.
I agree, they’ve been pretty successful with that but it hasn’t reached the point of taking meat and animal products away from people’s dinner tables. That’s what they’re after but that’s where I believe they’ll fail.
I hope so.
You’re right, HSUS is the same as PETA but more sophisticated. I’ve posted this several times but in case you haven’t seen it it dispels HSUS myths.
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7 Things You Didn’t Know About HSUS
1) The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is a “humane society” in name only, since it doesn’t operate a single pet shelter or pet adoption facility anywhere in the United States. During 2006, HSUS contributed only 4.2 percent of its budget to organizations that operate hands-on dog and cat shelters. In reality, HSUS is a wealthy animal-rights lobbying organization (the largest and richest on earth) that agitates for the same goals as PETA and other radical groups.
2) Beginning on the day of NFL quarterback Michael Vick’s 2007 dogfighting indictment, HSUS raised money online with the false promise that it would “care for the dogs seized in the Michael Vick case.” The New York Times later reported that HSUS wasn’t caring for Vick’s dogs at all. And HSUS president Wayne Pacelle told the Times that his group recommended that government officials “put down” (that is, kill) the dogs rather than adopt them out to suitable homes. HSUS later quietly altered its Internet fundraising pitch.
3) HSUS’s senior management includes a former spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), a criminal group designated as “terrorists” by the FBI. HSUS president Wayne Pacelle hired John “J.P.” Goodwin in 1997, the same year Goodwin described himself as “spokesperson for the ALF” while he fielded media calls in the wake of an ALF arson attack at a California veal processing plant. In 1997, when asked by reporters for a reaction to an ALF arson fire at a farmer’s feed co-op in Utah (which nearly killed a family sleeping on the premises), Goodwin replied, “We’re ecstatic.” That same year, Goodwin was arrested at a UC Davis protest celebrating the 10-year anniversary of an ALF arson at the university that caused $5 million in damage. And in 1998, Goodwin described himself publicly as a “former member of ALF.”
4) According to a 2008 Los Angeles Times investigation, less than 12 percent of money raised for HSUS by California telemarketers actually ends up in HSUS’s bank account. The rest is kept by professional fundraisers. And if you exclude two campaigns run for HSUS by the “Build-a-Bear Workshop” retail chain, which consisted of the sale of surplus stuffed animals (not really “fundraising”), HSUS’s yield number shrinks to just 3 percent. Sadly, this appears typical. In 2004, HSUS ran a telemarketing campaign in Connecticut with fundraisers who promised to return a minimum of zero percent of the proceeds. The campaign raised over $1.4 million. Not only did absolutely none of that money go to HSUS, but the group paid $175,000 for the telemarketing work.
5) Research shows that HSUS’s heavily promoted U.S. “boycott” of Canadian seafood—announced in 2005 as a protest against Canada’s annual seal hunt—is a phony exercise in media manipulation. A 2006 investigation found that 78 percent of the restaurants and seafood distributors described by HSUS as “boycotters” weren’t participating at all. Nearly two-thirds of them told surveyors they were completely unaware HSUS was using their names in connection with an international boycott campaign. Canada’s federal government is on record about this deception, saying: “Some animal rights groups have been misleading the public for years … it’s no surprise at all that the richest of them would mislead the public with a phony seafood boycott.”
6) HSUS raised a reported $34 million in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, supposedly to help reunite lost pets with their owners. But comparatively little of that money was spent for its intended purpose. Louisiana’s Attorney General shuttered his 18-month-long investigation into where most of these millions went, shortly after HSUS announced its plan to contribute $600,000 toward the construction of an animal shelter on the grounds of a state prison. Public disclosures of the disposition of the $34 million in Katrina-related donations add up to less than $7 million.
7) After gathering undercover video footage of improper animal handling at a Chino, CA slaughterhouse during November of 2007, HSUS sat on its video evidence for three months, even refusing to share it with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. HSUS’s Dr. Michael Greger testified before Congress that the San Bernardino County (CA) District Attorney’s office asked the group “to hold on to the information while they completed their investigation.” But the District Attorney’s office quickly denied that account, even declaring that HSUS refused to make its undercover spy available to investigators if the USDA were present at those meetings. Ultimately, HSUS chose to release its video footage at a more politically opportune time, as it prepared to launch a livestock-related ballot campaign in California. Meanwhile, meat from the slaughterhouse continued to flow into the U.S. food supply for months.
http://www.consumerfreedom.com/article_detail.cfm/article/184
I knew most of that, but thank you for posting it, I’m going to steal it to help educate people who think they are giving to a shelter when they donated to HSUS.
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Good, I’m glad to see it used and that’s why I like to post it.
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