Posted on 10/07/2010 4:56:30 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Beef Industry: U.S. May Need ‘Strategic Hamburger Reserve’ after Obama EPA Implements New Regulations Thursday, October 07, 2010 By Chris Neefus
Washington (CNSNews.com) – According to a representative of the cattle and beef industry, America may need a “strategic hamburger reserve” if the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) implements proposed new reguilations for cattle producers.
“From where I sit, (the Obama administration) appears to be aimed at destroying the cattle industry in America as we know it,” Tamara Thies, the chief environmental counsel at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, said on Capitol Hill last week.
“It is ironic that as we work to become less dependent on foreign oil, Obama policies are likely to make us more dependent on foreign beef. Maybe we’ll need to start a strategic hamburger reserve after the Obama administration is finished with us.”
Thies' comments came at a hearing conducted by the House Republicans’ Rural America Solutions Group about the EPA’s proposed regulations on the industry, which include the toughest dust regulations in history – one which would significantly impact the rural economy by imposing steep fines on cattle producers who, Thies said, most likely cannot afford them.
“It is unlikely these realities are lost on the EPA, making one wonder if the real goal of the agency is to do away altogether with economic activity throughout the bread basket of this country and turn it into a vast national park,” she added.
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It seems there will never be enough people in this country who will actually care enough to stop the marxists running the EPA from implementing their agenda.
If RATS come between the public and their burgers, there will be maybe 3 of them standing after the next election.
Nothing a tariff or two won’t fix.
All this is going to do is make it more expensive for people to eat. Dozens of their policies already have that effect, for instance the ethanol mandate. One way or another Obama and Mrs. are going to DICTATE what we eat. This is not a free country.
The EPA is absolutely out of control. The “Green” religion that is now sweeping the nation has given these apparatchiks missionary zeal, in addition to their bureaucratic power. A very dangerous combination.
Why so many? / s
Control the food and money and you control the sheep.Also,if you control the net you can really control the herd and when you control the military,what happens?When are people going to wake up to the facts???
/sarc
Add to that who really owns your house, to what health care you get, and THEY ALREADY HAVE MUCH OF THE CONTROL THEY NEED.
It’s done.
And America did not wake up when she had a chance.
Republics have never lasted long, historically. I blame the love affair with public schools. But that’s me.
Not just you, TC.
I’m right there with ya!
5.56mm
Is there anything Obama doesn’t want to control? I hate him so very much.
FUBO
People are awake but we are powerless to stop Obama. Maybe November will change things, but maybe not. He always has executive orders. Are they even constitutional?
They want to create a food shortage.
They have to be stopped.
Bingo. She's exactly right.
In a difficult economy? Why are they proposing this to begin with!!!!!
Well, I figure Nadler will be in line trying to get the burgers himself, and nobody will be able to knock him over.
Obambi doesn't need American beef, he gets his Kobe beef from Japan.
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