The federal government has decided that spilled milk creates enough of a danger that it needs to be regulated. The EPA has decided they are the agency to do it. Here we go.
The EPA has discovered that milk contains, a percentage of animal fat, which is a non-petroleum oil. Those geniuses, by-products of animals contain animal fat, who woulda thunk it?
Now, since oil spills can be hazardous, there must be a need for more regulation right? What dairy farmers, or producers of cheese, butter, yogurt, ice cream, etc. will need to do is as follows: they must prepare and install an emergency plan in the event of a milk catastrophe. A milk catastrophe? Really!? Farmers must also train first responders in cleanup procedure as well as build containment facilities such as dikes or berms. This no doubt has to be at the expense of their own dime. Once again we see a case of, “save the earth at the expense of the humans”. These plans must be in place by November. That’s NOVEMBER as in only 9 months away. So, busy dairy farmers have to somehow fit into their schedule the time to train milk sucking Haz-Mat guys to suck up “toxic” milk, they have to find the time to build containment facilities, all by November!
Does anybody else wonder why the milk is toxic and needs special handling, but meanwhile the cow shit gets to sit out in the field without any special handling at all? We use cow shit to help grow our crops, but milk on the ground is a disaster. Just like anything else the government touches, it is corrupt and makes no iota of sense whatsoever.
Given the overwhelming dangerous nature of these spilled milk incidents the EPA originally proposed additional regulations covering, the design specifications of milk containers and associated piping and conduits. Lets all start crying now as government steals yet more money. This time from these dairy producers in the form of regulations and non compliance fines and such. Yes that’s right, we are crying over spilled milk.
Fortunately for us who have to pay for commodities, and for the farmers, the EPA backed off here. Unfortunately for farmers and the rest of us, the EPA only backed off because they discovered those items were already regulated by the FDA, the USDA and the states.
So what about that promise the president made to do away with regulations that have an unreasonable burden on business? Oh don’t worry about that, you must have misunderstood.
