Absolute madness!You can't make up such surreal and ludicrous bureaucratic policies.
From this essay by Thomas Sowell:
...We all understand why the EPA was given the power to issue regulations to guard against oil spills, such as that of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska or the more recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But not everyone understands that any power given to any bureaucracy for any purpose can be stretched far beyond that purpose.Read the rest at Always On Watch.
In a classic example of this process, the EPA has decided that, since milk contains oil, it has the authority to force farmers to comply with new regulations to file "emergency management" plans to show how they will cope with spilled milk, how farmers will train "first responders" and build "containment facilities" if there is a flood of spilled milk.
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Well I once burned soybean oil in my diesel car.
Does this mean state oil and gas taxes can apply as well?
Do we have to buy milk at the pump?
Controlling food supplies enable the control of people.
Where's the Beets?
excerpt: "Sugar beets provide about half of the sugar consumed in the United States — and Monsanto controls 95 percent of the sugar beet seed market with its Roundup Ready genes. The company’s stranglehold over the beet market demonstrates its insidious market power. When a federal judge demanded in August 2010 that farmers stop planting Monsanto’s GM beet seeds pending an impact study, farmers quickly found out that virtually no non-GM seed was available. Between 2005, when the USDA first greenlighted GM beets, and 2010, Monsanto had essentially driven all competition out of the market.
That August court order roiled the food industry, raising the specter of higher sweetener costs because farmers would be forced to plant fewer beets due to lack of seeds. Rather than seeing this effect as an opportunity to reduce U.S. sweetener consumption, the USDA evidently saw it as a crisis that needed to be addressed by defying the court order.
Needless to say, this is not going to help the situation. Monsanto’s GMO seeds already dominate the entire US corn, soy, and cotton crops; 93% of soy, 86% of corn, 93% of cotton, and 93% of canola seed planted in the U.S. in 2010 were genetically engineered.
Despite the implications of some reports that almost no non-GMO seeds are available – prior to the court ruling, Monsanto’s GMO seeds had snagged an incredible 95% of the market - the Wall Street Journal reports a shortfall of just 20 percent. But that’s enough to cause panic – sugar shortages are happening already, with weather-related problems in Brazil and Australia hurting crops and driving up the price 300 percent over the past two years."
Quoting freeper comments: "This should make you nervous on a number of levels. Monsanto will have to pay big bucks to the 2012 BO campaign committee in return for this waiver. It’s the “Chicago way”, doncha know."
We are being systematically set up in order to be starved.
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