Rest Assured My Friends: Obama Regime Will Now Regulate Spilled Milk…
Yes, really.
(Washington Examiner)- Despite the old saying, “Don’t cry over spilled milk,” the Environmental Protection Agency is doing just that.
We all understand why the Environmental Protection Agency 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.
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.
Since there is no free lunch, all of this is going to cost the farmers both money and time that could be going into farming– and is likely to end up costing consumers higher prices for farm products.
It is going to cost the taxpayers money as well, since the EPA is going to have to hire people to inspect farms, inspect farmers’ reports and prosecute farmers who don’t jump through all the right hoops in the right order. All of this will be “creating jobs,” even if the tax money removed from the private sector correspondingly reduces the jobs that can be created there.
Does anyone seriously believe that any farmer is going to spill enough milk to compare with the Exxon Valdez oil spill or the BP oil spill?
Do you envision people fleeing their homes, as a flood of milk comes pouring down the mountainside, threatening to wipe out the village below?
It doesn’t matter. Once the words are in the law, it makes no difference what the realities are. The bureaucracy has every incentive to stretch the meaning of those words, in order to expand its empire.
Posted by ZIP on Tuesday, February 1, 2011, at 10:40 pm | 
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Ummm…last I checked the Legislative branch makes laws, not the EPA. They would be fixed real easily by defunding them while maintaining oversight over them.
‘first responders’ for spilled milk ?
GOVERNMENT CATS !!!!!!
Of course, they’ll need a house to stay in.
Think about it
Got Guns?
Dude! That’s a job for these cowboys!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07EQ_7lDASs&feature=player_embedded
What the hell is next.
Someone died while drinking milk in San Francisco. The cow sat on him.
Will someone PLEASE defund the shit out of the EPA. They have their place, but damn, this shit is stupid.
Figures since they already want to regulate dust.
http://www.bluecollarphilosophy.com/2010/10/obama-to-slaughter-the-beef-industry-over-dust.html
Lets hope the GOP can reign in these power hungry bureaucrats.
I am becoming very uncomfortable with the amount of focus this Administration is putting on our food supply.
I thought this was the same story, but it’s even more milk-related craziness, this time from the FDA. It looks like they’re going to cause the spill:
http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/2011/02/01/crying-over-spilled-milk-fdas-new-milk-testing-plan-could-force-millions-of-gallons-of-milk-to-be-dumped/
yeah my toe nails contain gold will i be taxed for undeclared nail clipping too?
Its all about making it as diffucult as possible. To do as much damage as possible. most family dairy`s have around 100 cows, least in these parts. They are hanging on by their finger nails. This will push them over the edge and thats what they want, Damage, Damage, Damage Plus a bouns of Higher milk prices, its a beautiful thing if your a smug self rightous POS Progressive green wackjob Jackwagon. Who sits around all day smokin weed, drinkin Kool aid.
The House has to take on and defund the EPA now. When Conservatives take over Congress and the Presidency the EPA must be abolished. It is a matter of national security.
The EPA clearly wants to destroy this country.
T2M says:
February 1, 2011 at 11:41 pm
I am becoming very uncomfortable with the amount of focus this Administration is putting on our food supply.
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You noticed that too, huh?
Right down to growing our own in our yards.
First, I think this is a joke being put out by the Onion.
Second, what oil in the milk would the EPA or anyone else be talking about?
As a dairy farmer I can tell you that if the USDA requires me to comply with these regulations I’ll tell them where to go. If they want to push, then we make sure it hits every paper and radio program in America. I’m losing money every day while working 16 hour days/ 7 days a week. 10 farmers in the area are talking about selling out in the spring. So some mentally retarded, moonbat pin head at the EPA dreams this up. Thanks for nothing America. All we are doing is giving America a safe domestic source of food.
By the way, how many of you know that the US government through the USDA sets the price that I receive for my milk? They know that they are paying us below our cost of production, but who cares!
To Iron Maiden it’s the butterfat that they are worried about. That is the dangerous stuff that you make such evil foods like butter, cheese, and ice cream.
The left detests cows.
@Ken
Yea their price control are fucking everyone over because some “evil farmers” might hold the food supply for ransom..WTF!!!!!!
What’s next? ………cookies?
Nerkbuckeye says:
What’s next? ………cookies?
No worries, Mechelle is working on that too
@Ken – thank you for hanging in there.
my husband and I were dairy farmers for 15 years. Had to quit because we couldn’t afford to buy our own food. Had to deal with asswipes on a daily basis/ EPA constantly hounding us as we were in a highly populated area and basically strongarming us for $ with bogus fines.
I have to contend with working for a nearby farmer so that I can still work with cows.
Milk/product prices(for farmers ) have remained the same since the 70′s yet, costs have gone up -i don’t know how many percent- DON”T CUSS A FARMER WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL.
besides price control, regulations out the yin yang and “inspections” for humane treatment, the family farm will be a way of the past. Blame the govt for the quality of milk in the future. if they even allow livestock handling anymore.
Maggie says
You noticed that too, huh?
Right down to growing our own in our yards.
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Yes, this Admin is damn near obsessed with what we eat and I know it may sound crazy but I’m begining to think they are trying to make quailty food nearly impossible to obtain. A weakend populous is much easier to control.
I read somewhere that GMO food is not as nutritious, I would think eating that over the long term would cause our children to be smaller and weaker. Milk will become too expensive for the average family to afford with new regs.
Still trying to fugure out what the new regs on the home garden are. I’m growing mine until someone stops me.
Hitler and the Nazis were obssessed with food and nutrition also.
I can’t copy/paste it, but it’s here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=71QP2lkN3LcC&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=nazi+obsession+with+food+and+nutrition&source=bl&ots=EJctudu_EH&sig=PcUn1QT8hXlzXC-DoI5fS3OODls&hl=en&ei=-1pJTZHACYLHgAeR9uQz&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=nazi%20obsession%20with%20food%20and%20nutrition&f=false
@fubar, that’s just scary.
There must be something that can be done to take the teeth out of the FDA and EPA.
I detect a hoax.
“Since there is no free lunch, all of this is going to cost the farmers both money and time that could be going into farming– and is likely to end up costing consumers higher prices for farm products.”
farmers don’t set their own prices. the govt does.
Silly regulation this. I have some experience in the pesticide business. If thi is under the same regs that govern transport of pesticides then the whole idea is nuts.
The law says that for each product a “reportable quantity” is established. Lets say its 60 gallons. So if you spill less than that, you clean it up and move on. Over that, the wheels come off. You have to call State regulators, have your MSDS in hand…and on and on. I believe if i remember you have to call local HazMat team as well.
So, if Joe Bulk Truck driver goes to Ken’s Dairy farm and in the process of pumping the milk to said truck, a hose breaks and 70 gallons spills. Ken and Joe have to report it….(Its the law for chemicals that way)
When Joe gets to Rodgers Processing plant ( I make great Ice Creame from Kens Milk) And Joe hooks up a coupling wrong and we spill 65 gallons, we have to report that as well. Joe wont get free Ice Creme this week either the butthead.
I do wonder what the “reportable quantity” is and now will Milk in transports be required to carry a hazard placard and will we have to have MSDS Sheets available for bulk milk?
In the pesticide business each chemical has to have a designation for its hazard, MSDS with quantity over 56 gallons, and each one has its own reportable quantity that if a spill happens, a report has to be filed, State and Feds notified and clean up done.
This does not explain the milk reg but if it falls in the same overall regs then this is really foolish
Oh…does organic milk fall in same category?
Well you know, cow flatulance is a leading contributor to global warming…
Let’s see, so if it contains “oil” it is now subject to regulation. So how many things are there around us that we use that contain “oil”. Do we now need regulation to protect us from a major cosmetics spill? Cooking oil (palm, peanut, olive, grapeseed, rapeseed, sunflower, safflower, etc)? Oil of Olay? How about regulating “snake oil?”
How in all the convoluted hells of government regulation bureaucracy did they ever twist a law pertaining to petroleum oil spills to apply to the kind of “oil” contained in cow milk anyway? I know I for one have no desire to drink cow milk that contains petroleum type “oil”, and I doubt there is much of a market for it – even if you could get a cow to produce it (and survive the experience).
Where is the “Day of Rage” against these communists?
30 years ago,when helmet and seat belt laws were poppin up,people thought we were “paranoid” for ranting about excessive regulation,TOLD YA SO!
umm.. this is vague at best? are we talking a cup? or several million tons? no offense to the people that think we should kill obama, but maybe over reacting to something that you know nothing about? have you ever had a milk spill over several thousand gallons? do you know the effect? molasses shut down boston for several months.. apparently it still smells like molasses on hot days in the summer.