Now, there are extremists on both sides of this issue. The extremists from the left are using the World Health Organization and this radical group of Bobby Kennedy's to make their point. I tell you their intent is to destroy the livestock industry.
There are hundreds of Iowa farmers who have been able to make their farms profitable by contracting with so-called large corporate producers. They were at the Capitol begging the legislature not to regulate the industry out of Iowa.
What a lot of people don't stop to think about is that once the livestock industry is gone, grain prices will be even lower than they are now and land prices will plummet. What industry do they have to replace agriculture? Technology must find an answer to this problem.
I also drive by poultry confinements almost daily. There is no smell from these facilities. Even the newest hog confinements are odor free driving by them.
People have the romantic notion that we can go back to the 160 acre farm with farmers making a living with some grain farming, some cows, pigs and chickens. It isn't going to happen. It's gone. Too bad, but that's the reality.
My husband was once a Volkswagen mechanic, too. Guess what happened to his profession?
Yahoo | 4/24
Wed Apr 24, 5:06 PM ET By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI (news - web sites) quietly warned its agents nationwide of unconfirmed information from a captured senior al-Qaida official that terrorists may be planning attacks against supermarkets or shopping centers, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
The warning, sent Tuesday to all FBI field offices and relayed to some state and local police, cautioned that the information was unsubstantiated and did not include specific information about possible targets, timing, numbers of people involved or any particular method of attack.
The warning said that al-Qaida operatives inside the United States may be planning attacks against civilian targets, possibly including banks, shopping centers, supermarkets and shops, law enforcement official said.