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Cattlemen
snivel for $12.2 billion to clean up manure pits This document was provided by: The VivaVine (Fall 2001, Vol. 10, No. 4)Note: The
information on this website is not a substitute It was enough to make your vegetarian eyes pop out. In testimony before the Senate Agriculture committee in July, an official of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association explained that Congress needed to allocate $12.2 billion to aid farmers and ranchers over the next 10 years to control animal waste. Eric Davis, vice president of the NCBA, said that the government owed livestock producers this perk to cover costly antipollution regulations that have been passed in numerous states. Funny, these producers of meat and poultry products reckon taxpayers instead of their own consumers are the ones to pick up their costs of doing business--kind of like welfare. |