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POPSEPA Rejects Ethanol Waiver For Texas Cattle Ranchers Scott Faber with the Grocery Manufacturers Association says more than a third of the corn crop now goes to fuel and that increases the cost of food. Faber says food prices have already risen around 6 percent and critics say ethanol hasn't lived up to its promise. It was supposed to cut pollution and reduce demand for oil. Frank O'Donnell is with Clean Air Watch. It's not often he agrees with Texas, but he does today. He says the EPA got it wrong. Frank O'Donnell: We are actually seeing more air pollution this summer than last. Now, maybe it's a coincidence, maybe not, but we've got more ethanol and we've got more smog. Groups against today's decision plan to lobby Congress to ease the ethanol mandate.
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POPSBrucellosis Found in Wyoming Cattle Was researching 'brucellosis' and ironically this article showed up as a recent update in my Google search. What I have read up to the point of noticing this article is that brucellosis is rare in humans in the U.S. primarily because there are vaccines that are administered to the animals. The most likely human candidates to acquire this bacterial infection aside from animals are lab workers, veterinarians and ranchers; and THEN the people they have come into 'personal' contact with via fluid transmissions. Furthermore, brucellosis can be acquired via inhalation which is why it is considered a bio-terrorism agent.
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POPSAmazon Rainforest Dwindles In The Rush For Biofuels
'' 'It offends me to see fingers pointed against clean energy from biofuels, fingers soiled with oil and coal,' President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said." As the politicians were hurling accusations in Rome, a new Brazilian study indicates that Amazon rainforest depletion is intensifying. Read about it here. Brazil's new environment minister is blaming it on cattle ranchers. That nine-month total surpassed the entire acreage in the Amazon that was destroyed over the previous 12 months, according to DETER data. What's worse, the satellites couldn't see about half of the forest in April due to cloud cover, suggesting that actual deforestation likely was much greater. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/557332.html The minister, Carlos Minc, says Brazil's government will impound cattle caught grazing on illegally cleared pastures with an operation, dubbed "Rogue Bull," to attack deforestation in the rain forest. http://www.miamiherald.com/915/story/556812.html
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POPS Texas Timeout On Ethanol Fiasco: Gov Rick Perry's Petition Meanwhile, Congress merely throws more corn onto the ethanol bonfire. Under its 2005 mandates, Americans would be required to use 7.5 billion gallons of ethanol in 2012. But in December that was increased by 1.5 billion gallons and advanced to this year. Congress's target for 2022 is 36 billion gallons. They'll be growing corn on the Washington mall. A predictable backlash has set in against the Perry petition. Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley and South Dakota Democrat Tim Johnson have written the EPA to defend ethanol as representing a small fraction of the rise in food prices. It looks as if Governor Perry has teed up a good one in the ethanol mandate. He might want to let voters know that EPA has the power to call a timeout on biofuels.
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POPS CRP, “Times Have Definitely Changed.” The CRP hit a zenith last summer with more than 400,000 farmers getting $1.8 billion for idling 36.8 million acres. When five million acres came up for renewal last fall, only half went back into the program. Ardell Magnusson, a Roseau, Minnesota farmer, is typical of those wanting out. “Another nine months of wheat at today’s prices and there will be political pressure on this program like you wouldn’t believe,” he said. “The pipeline for wheat is empty,” said Michael Kalupa, bakery owner in Tampa, Florida. Kalupa said the price of flour has doubled since October. Jay Truit of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association barked; “Do you think its right for you to pay so there’s more quail in Kansas?” Right now USDA is leaning towards raising the rent for idling needed farm ground. Farmers are finally learning that allowing government to dictate how they can use their land can have disastrous consequences.
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POPSThe Loneliest man on Earth? Among the few to have clapped eyes on him is Brazilian film-maker Vincent Carelli. It's unclear what happened to the rest of the man's people, but FUNAI reckons "he is the sole survivor of at least two successive massacres", although these massacres have never been proved. The last time FUNAI tried to contact him in 2005, the man shot its field worker in the chest with an arrow, fortunately not fatally. Since then FUNAI has decided to leave him be. The Man of the Hole is not alone in his plight: he's one of an estimated 40,000 isolated people worldwide, about whom we know very little. Sadly, one thing we do know is that many of them are constantly threatened by loggers and oil companies, who want to commercialise the land they live on, or harassed by paramilitary groups, missionaries, drug traffickers and foreign tourists who want to make contact.
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POPSGoose Egg Award goes to PETA: Snowbound Cattle not worth saving My 1st 2007 Goose Egg Award goes to that animal rights activist group affectionatly known as PETA. Their stance on not helping to rescue snowbound herds shows them for what they really are just a bunch of wacko loonies advocating protection of animals only as far as it promotes their DON'T EAT MEAT agenda. Their main focus is shutting down industry and roadblocking our rights to eat meat in their misquided effort to "save the planet". Well here would have been an excellent opportunity to do jus that help save the animals.
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