The tussle is over how much the state should regulate runoff from farms that pollutes the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries
David Hill, who raises beef cattle on the Eastern Shore, says regulations cost farmers money, and makes it harder for them to make a living. “The option is development which is quick, fast big money,” he says. “The next thing you know the farmers have disappeared.”
What it comes down to is manure—lots of it--and what to do with it.
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Dump it out in the desert somewhere it don't rain much.
ReplyDeleteWe can't put it on the fields, as it's natural fertilizer and large corporations don't make money... so let's make up some crap and get the hippies on our side. It's so much better to use an artificial, chemical based fertilizer!! Forget the fact that it's carried into the bay faster than manure... we've got lobby money to get.
ReplyDeleteI believe there's a lot more manure coming from the EPA and all it's little epa's compared to chickens.
ReplyDeletetake down the EPA NOW.