Via Alex Tabarrok comes remarkable news:
New Environmental Protection Agency regulations treat spilled milk like oil, requiring farmers to build extra storage tanks and form emergency spill plans.
Local farming advocates says it’s ridiculous to regulate a liquid with a small percentage of butter fat the same way as the now-infamous BP oil spill.
“It’s just another, unnecessary over-regulation by the government just lacking any common sense,” said Bill Robb, dairy educator for Michigan State University Extension….
The EPA regulations state that “milk typically contains a percentage of animal fat, which is a non-petroleum oil. Thus, containers storing milk are subject to the Oil Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure Program rule when they meet the applicability criteria …”
When a container of milk or yogurt spills in a supermarket, is the HazMat team to be called in?
It was bad enough when the government subsidized and promoted toxic omega-6-rich soybean, corn, and canola oils, to the point that we can hardly find a supermarket food without them. Now they want to treat healthy animal and dairy fats as toxins.
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (Isaiah 5:20)
One should not discount the possibility that a special place in hell has been prepared for the US government.
via this link:
… that last line made me laugh out loud. indeed. well said.
going back to the beginning of the blog to read through in chronological order. my favorite line so far!
haha!
Absurd! What happens if a wee one getting his momma’s milk spills some? Sheesh!!