Posted on 09/05/2009 3:47:23 PM PDT by Still Thinking
The number of animals and plants protected by the federal Endangered Species Act is about to increase dramatically. For Cass Sunstein, radical animal-rights activist and nominee for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Administrator job, that means he will be better positioned than ever to make livestock farming a thing of the past.
How are the two things connected? Our director of research appeared on the Fox News Channel yesterday to explain to Glenn Beck’s audience how much influence Sunstein may soon have over what we eat:
Cattlemen in this country own and manage most of the lands that are covered by the Endangered Species Act, that are subject to control. So you ask: Why is Cass Sunstein’s hatred and animus toward meat eating such a big deal? It’s because he’ll be in a position to be able to use the Endangered Species Act to put cattlemen out of business. And then the price of your steak goes up. And then the price of your cheeseburger goes up.
It’s not only cattlemen who could be at the business end of Sunstein’s ridiculous anti-meat philosophy. Environmental activists groups sued over the Endangered Species Act in 2006 to divert water to a habitat for a three-inch bait fish in California – taking the water away from drought-stricken farmers and costing the California economy more than 60,000 farming jobs. Imagine what would happen if activists didn’t have to sue to get what they wanted, but could just pick up the phone instead.
The future “regulatory czar” has made no secret of his coercive tactics to get Americans to eat less meat. His grand plan is to make meat more expensive to produce, which will in turn make it harder for American families to afford. Similarly unpopular tactics have been attempted in the drive to get people to drink less soda. While Sunstein couches his plans as a “nudge,” we’d say it’s more like a shove.
Hug your cheeseburgers tonight, because they too are about to become an endangered species.
Another one of Obama’s “czars”...
“If God didn’t want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?” — Homer Simpson
I’d imagine that Lloyd will be the next on Glenn’s list but Sunstein will be right after. Followed quickly by Holdren.
Good cuts of beef and pork have been really cheap this year.
We’ve cooked more steaks on the gill this year than any time over the last 12 years we have lived here. The wife just picked up some gorgeous NY Strips for $4.79 a pound. Last month we bought 2 whole 22 pound top rounds for $1.63 a pound, broke them down, vacume bagged it and filled the freezer. Ealier this year we picked up a pack of 6 flank steaks for $1.49 a pound.
I have a 9 pound Boston Butt on the smoker that’s ready to pull right now, that I picked up for $1.19 a pound.
These prices won’t be around for a lot longer, and if you have a good set of knives and a freezer, now’s a great time to stock up for winter.
Oh yeah...I took about 15 pound of that top round and made 3 batches of jerky too...
The problem is that a long time ago “you people” empowered government to use it’s immense cohersive powers to do good. The only problem with empowering a government to do good, is that the same government that is big enough to right a wrong is big enough to perpetrate an injustice. So shame on us.
If the staff of the Anti-Homophobia Czar ever show up at my place intending to apply a little reeducation, I’ll just tell them this guy (the Anti-Meat Czar) forbade me from allowing them to place a piece of meat between two buns.
That’s California. They get what they deserve. I’d love to see them try that crap in Texas.
Yes, it’s right in line with the radical left’s intentions in destroying our social fabric: we have been blessed with vast, productive lands, but they are hell-bent on making us as poor and ill-fed as the global average, all in the name of “social justice.”
You sir, OWE ME A KEYBOARD!
Post of the day!
Have the veal, it’s great! I’ll be here all week!
5.56mm
LLS
Honestly this would be too good to be true.
Screw with the price of American’s cheeseburgers and there will be hell to pay at the ballot box.
Google or wiki Whitman v. American Trucking Association.
Scotus has morphed into a nine person continuous constitutional convention. It rewrote Art 1 Sec 1 to: "All legislative powers herein granted shall be shared between the Congress of the United States and several hundred unelected, untouchable agencies filled with utopian true believers."
The Constitution is neither living nor breathing. It is dead.
Yeah, Obama took the “Bread and Circuses” too literally. He was thinking people would be happy with just the bun.
“We’ve cooked more steaks on the gill”
Is that a new version of surf’n’turf?
;^)
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