Just say No to “conservation”…
January 13th, 2008
At least when it is this sort:
IT may not surprise you to learn that much of the pork and chicken and beef and milk that you buy at the grocery store comes from huge, industrial-size operations that bear little resemblance to the quaint family farms that adorn many food packages.
But you may be surprised to learn that your tax dollars have helped pave the way for the growth of these livestock megafarms by paying farmers to deal with the mountains of excrement that their farms generate. All of this is carried out under the rubric of “conservation.” Congress is about to renew the program — and possibly even expand it — as part of a new farm bill wending its way through the Capitol.
Incidentally, what is with the New York Times lately? I can no longer tell which of their stories is a “blog entry” and which is, say, a legitimate news article. Much of their journalism now includes self-referencing and sarcastic sentences like the following:
They don’t smell very nice, either. So I’m sure families living downwind of the lagoons would be pleased to learn their tax dollars helped to finance them.
That’s not a quote, that’s the journalist writing that. Strange.
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