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POPSU.S. Counting on Cows to Reduce Carbon Emissions Over 20 years ago, ALL Naysayers laughed and ridiculed the President, Ronald Reagan when he said cows were a major player in greenhouse gases...The Republicans didn't really back him up, because it did sound ridiculous....Good ole Reagan...
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POPS“Happy Cows” in California? Not with Schwarzenegger Around… Despite having no arguments, Schwarzenegger has openly mocked this bill on his twitter page, along with making a video to prove his point, with the stance that no one should be bothering with cow tails when the economy is suffering. If signed into law, California would be the first state to ban tail docking in dairy cattle. You can contact the Governor’s office to urge him to sign the bill by emailing governor@governor.ca.gov or by calling 916-445-2841.
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POPSNon-GMO Shopping Guide - free download The guide is a joint project brought to you by the Institute for Responsible Technology and the Center for Food Safety. Watch for additional products and new product categories!
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POPSPolitics of the Plate Prices paid to farmers per hundredweight (about 12 gallons) have fallen from nearly $20 a year ago to less than $11 in June. It costs a farmer about $18 to produce a hundredweight of milk. In Vermont that translates to a loss of $100 per cow per month. So far this year, 33 farms have ceased operation in this one tiny state. Meanwhile, the price you and I pay for milk in the grocery store has stayed about the same. Someone is clearly pocketing the difference. Perhaps that explains why profits at Dean Foods—the nation’s largest processor and shipper of dairy products, with more than 50 regional brands—have skyrocketed to more than double the same time last year. We are losing our heritage farms and in the process we are losing a large part of the character of what it means to be a self-sufficient and independent American. Corporate farming and govt subsidies are the biggest causes in this loss and NAFTA and the spread of GMO food products are the driving forces.
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POPSCourt rules for Fox News: It's perfectly OK to lie and distort the news More: The court did not dispute the heart of Akre's claim, that Fox pressured her to broadcast a false story to protect the broadcaster from having to defend the truth in court, as well as suffer the ire of irate advertisers. Fox argued from the first, and failed on three separate occasions, in front of three different judges, to have the case tossed out on the grounds there is no hard, fast, and written rule against deliberate distortion of the news.… In its six-page written decision, the Court of Appeals held that the Federal Communications Commission position against news distortion is only a "policy," not a promulgated law, rule, or regulation. Fox aired a report after the ruling saying it was "totally vindicated" by the verdict.
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POPSNon-Organic Organic Food
Likewise, the program was supposed to set uniform standards for how organic foods are produced. Yet 65 of the standards recommended by the board since 2002 simply have been ignored by the administrator. For example, the board proposed specific rules to ensure that organic dairy farmers provide "access to pasture" for their cows, but Robinson's team has refused to implement the proposal. Thus, a giant milk purveyor such as Dean Foods (Horizon dairy products) is allowed to sell "organic" milk from cows that are confined in factory conditions rather than allowed to graze in open pastures. By failing to set rules that apply to everyone, the USDA is permitting private, for-profit organic certification firms to create their own standards, which means corporate interests can shop around for the most lenient certifiers. You might think that the USDA would see the organic labeling program as a way to earn consumer trust in the integrity of these products. But, no. Robinson told The Washingto
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POPSOur tax dollars at work...lol Measuring Cow Burps in Fight Against Climate Change...... this almost as bad as those $500 a piece fountain pens we pay for. Whats next a study on how many times a sparrow farts
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POPSThe family dairy The Modern dairy is once again within reach of the farming family. By taking the best of of many different systems that cut the cost and time required to do the job, and do it very efficiently with out stress on both the cows and the worker doing the milking. Manpower and hours to do the job are greatly reduced. Think green here. This is truly a stand alone system. The cow produces everything thats needed. How? Ask and we will tell you.
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POPSEPA 'Cow Tax' Could Charge $175 per Dairy Cow to Curb Greenhouse Gases 
By Jeff Poor Business & Media Institute 1/5/2009 3:55:30 PM Farm Bureau warns just this one rule may increase milk production costs up to 8 cents a gallon. “The tax for dairy cows could be $175 per cow, and $87.50 per head of beef cattle. The tax on hogs would upwards of $20 per hog,” the release said. “Any operation with more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs would have to obtain permits.” Rick Krause said it is difficult to quantify the cost that might be passed directly to the consumer by farmers from the legislation, but predicted it would mean higher costs for dairy production. “It’s hard to figure what it would do to consumer prices since farmers, unlike other industries, really can’t pass their cost along directly like utilities and things do,” “About the only thing we could realistically come up, in terms of any of this stuff – it would add between 7 and 8 cents per gallon of milk costs to farmers. So it would cost them 7 or 8 cents more to produce a gall
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POPSEPA says “Curb your farting cow!” I had to laugh at the spin of this article, but it is a serious matter. The EPA is trying to downplay it and farmers are not buying it. The EPA would allow new coal-powered electricity-generating power plants to release unrestricted pollution into the atmosphere but want to charge farmers fees for farting and belching pigs and cows. Go figure.
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POPS EPA Greenhouse Tax On Livestock I don’t know where you’re planning on getting that non-sustainable hardwood to build your buggy out of. Walking might be more affordable than biking, though, because of the heavy bicycle tax to address the greenhouse gases produced in manufacturing processes. Barefoot, unless someone figures out how to make shoes that don’t involve petrochemicals or livestock byproducts. Without an iPod, because those get hit double with a personal electricity use tax on top of the manufacturing thing.
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