Vanishing Sunspot Mystery Has Scientists Worried! The Beginning Of The Ice Age?, page 2

reply to post by Blaine91555

This is a very serious issue. A mini ice age means the world can not grow as much food. We had a 35 day supply of food the last time I checked and our fearless leaders have a law against stocking more than 3 months supply or it can be confiscated. Meanwhile Al Gore's buddies in the EPA have this in mind.

"This is no laughing matter," Krause said. "The cow tax and the pig tax are parts of a larger scheme by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act."

"Under the proposal, if a state charged the "presumptive minimum rate" from the EPA, the cow tax would be $175 per dairy cow, $87.50 per head for beef cattle and a little more than $20 per pig,"... the U.S. Department of Agriculture says that a producer with more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs would emit more than 100 tons of carbon and be subject to the permitting requirements. "These thresholds would impact 99 percent of dairy producers, over 90 percent of beef producers and 95 percent of hog producers in the United States," ..The EPA has issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.... "One of those provisions requires permits from anyone who emits more than 100 tons of a regulated pollutant per year and there are millions of sources that emit more than 100 tons of carbon." The Title V permits, are essentially a cow and pig tax... "The economic costs to producers from the cow and pig tax would be great and would impose severe penalties on livestock producers in the United States without effectively reducing greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere." The comment deadline for the cow and pig tax is Nov. 28. Visit www.wyfb.org to find the link for information.

Farmers are already extremely fed-up with the USDA and NAIS. Since the three US meat-packers set the price, expect most of the couple million livestock farmers to retire (average age is 55) followed by a collapse of the feed grain farmers. Digging big pits and slaughtering newborns calves was done in the eighties so we can expect the same again.

The mass exit of farmers from agriculture followed by a temp drop is going to be real interesting. Also once the animals are dead so is the industry. We need to look at the lesson learned from the same laws imposed on the UK a decade ago BEFORE we wipe out US agriculture (we grow over 25% of the world food supply).

“ It is no longer a secret that the present UK government would like to be shot of farming altogether. On the January 3rd Today programme we heard that meetings convened by Defra had discussed whether UK farming was needed at all. Defra has dropped the word 'farming' from its title and, as global recession is at last being openly talked about, the UK government still talks glibly of being in a "post agricultural era"....”

...” big investors are "hurriedly moving their wealth out of stocks and shares and into farmland...." The Times article suggests that, "Across the world, hedge fund managers, property developers and other investors" are all ready to buy up British farmland.”

“Barton Briggs, one of Wall Street's most legendary investment strategists, is advising the rich and powerful to buy up farms and stock them with "seed, fertiliser, canned food. wine, medicine. clothes etc."
warmwell.blogspot.com...

As a farmer I am going to sit on my land with my veggie garden, a few cows, sheep, goats and chickens and my high fences, video cameras, alarms and shot guns and watch the rest of you @@holes starve! I and the rest of the farmers have tried to warn US citizens about the disaster Washington DC is brewing. I and other farmers have handed out lit and cards for three years and been told we are crazy so "STARVE BABY STARVE"