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EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust
« on: August 02, 2010, 02:37:55 PM »
Now they apparently want to starve us.  Having lived and worked on a farm when I was young, I do not see how the EPA can regulate the dust except by shutting the farm down if they plow, harrow, plant, or numerous other jobs.  Strictly a proposal by somebody who has no experience outside of a city, except, maybe driving by a farm when the farmer is working.

EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust
By Jacqueline Sit, NEWS 9
http://www.news9.com/Global/story.asp?S=12899662

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Re: EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2010, 02:43:02 PM »
Where do these bureaucrats come from? Are they all from NYC?

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Re: EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2010, 02:45:32 PM »
More stupidity from the EPA.  It is to be expected.
I also expect the APS copyright enforcement team will stop by just any time now.
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Re: EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust
« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2010, 02:51:04 PM »
Please tell me this is an Onion piece.
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Re: EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust
« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2010, 03:37:04 PM »

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Re: EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust
« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2010, 04:04:19 PM »
Well. I have heard, with this article, 2 stupid things today. The other was an article about researchers in CA are close to a vaccine, for stress.
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Re: EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust
« Reply #6 on: August 02, 2010, 04:06:53 PM »
Do they have a vaccine for stupid?

Anybody know the difference between an environmentalist and a terrorist?


On occasion, you can reason with a terrorist.
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Re: EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust
« Reply #7 on: August 02, 2010, 04:18:59 PM »
You know, just about every time I read the paper or listen to the news, I'm thinking "No . . . they CAN"T be serious . . . is this someone's bad idea of a joke?"

And then I learn otherwise.

That the nincompoops who came up with this asinine proposal aren't fired out of hand confirms that this administration is motivated by active malice towards this country.

Quote from: Battle Monkey of Zardoz on August 02, 2010, 04:04:19 PM
. . .  researchers in CA are close to a vaccine, for stress. 
There's been one around for a long, long time . . . it's based on the science of zymurgy, which dates back to prehistoric times.
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Re: EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust
« Reply #8 on: August 02, 2010, 04:32:27 PM »
Quote from: Azrael256 on August 02, 2010, 04:06:53 PM
Do they have a vaccine for stupid?

Anybody know the difference between an environmentalist and a terrorist?


On occasion, you can reason with a terrorist.

I have heard the vaccine for stupid is your choice of bullet to the head.

Only steps away from regulating thought.....
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Re: EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust
« Reply #9 on: August 02, 2010, 05:42:11 PM »
Hey, don't worry, we can import all we want, haven't you heard?  We don't need to actually make or produce anything any more.  This is just a welfare island in a vast global sea.
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Re: EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust
« Reply #10 on: August 02, 2010, 06:30:32 PM »
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2 stupid things today. The other was an article about researchers in CA are close to a vaccine, for stress.

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Re: EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust
« Reply #11 on: August 02, 2010, 07:19:00 PM »
Short of wetting crops as you harvest, wasting precious water, how could you possibly stop dust on farms? I'm pretty sure a lot of the stuff we grow in the US thrives in those sorts of soils. No switching to sand and clay.
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Re: EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust
« Reply #12 on: August 02, 2010, 07:39:56 PM »
Now tell me again why it is we are not talking about legislative repeal?  We seem to talk up "zero funding" but no discussion so far of outright repeal of dangerous legislation.

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Re: EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust
« Reply #13 on: August 02, 2010, 07:52:42 PM »
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2 stupid things today. The other was an article about researchers in CA are close to a vaccine, for stress.
I thought Prozac was already doing that job.
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Re: EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust
« Reply #14 on: August 02, 2010, 09:25:06 PM »
Dust never sleeps.  But I think their plan is to just cut off the water.
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Re: EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust
« Reply #15 on: August 02, 2010, 09:45:49 PM »
Sometimes I wonder what kind of crack these people smoke...

The idea is stupid, not just for the fact that it will increase the cost and regulatory burdens on farmers, but because it isn't environmentally sound.  AT ALL.

The only method I can think of to keep dust down when a field is bare is to water it every day or so.  This will place further strain on many already stressed aquifers and water systems, causing an even larger environmental problem.  This idea isn't very bright even by their own dismal standards.  :facepalm:
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Re: EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust
« Reply #16 on: August 02, 2010, 09:56:37 PM »
Another one on the list of reasons why this country might eventually fall.  The stupid people are multiplying. 
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Re: EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust
« Reply #17 on: August 02, 2010, 10:20:04 PM »
Quote from: Battle Monkey of Zardoz on August 02, 2010, 04:04:19 PM
Well. I have heard, with this article, 2 stupid things today. The other was an article about researchers in CA are close to a vaccine, for stress.

I always thought there was already an oral vaccine for stress, it just has to be used in moderation.
I call it beer.

As to the EPA, Regulate dust? are you freaking high? It can't be done, they could just as easily regulate sunshine or clouds.
 I'm of the opinion that this is just another front on the war against food.
The government has increasingly put more and more burdensome regulations on agriculture. The majority of the regulations tend to have the most negative impact on small producers and family farms in favor of corporate agriculture. If my tinfoil hat wasn't secure I could almost believe some of the regulations are intended to drive the family farm into extinction.
Don't get me wrong I don't hate corporate agriculture and the megalithic monoculture it employs I don't particularly like it but we are not going to feed this country with out it.

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Re: EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust
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Re: EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust
« Reply #19 on: August 02, 2010, 10:58:18 PM »
Quote from: HankB on August 02, 2010, 04:18:59 PM
There's been one around for a long, long time . . . it's based on the science of zymurgy, which dates back to prehistoric times.

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Re: EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust
« Reply #20 on: August 03, 2010, 03:19:42 AM »
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Re: EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust
« Reply #22 on: August 03, 2010, 09:01:44 AM »
That's a great Photochop job. I didn't think Dorothea Lange ever did an "Aw, geez, not this *expletive deleted* again" photo. ;)
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« Reply #23 on: August 03, 2010, 09:24:24 AM »
Too many years of farm dust and chemicals scarred my lungs. 
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« Reply #24 on: August 03, 2010, 09:40:45 AM »
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Too many years of farm dust and chemicals scarred my lungs. 

Working on a farm, or just nearby?   If working on a farm, did you wear the appropriate protective gear if working with chemicals or in a highly dusty environment?
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