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Date published: 11/13/2009
Hopefully it will never happen, but if the demise of America is written about, there may well be this conclusion: They refused I remember when a ride from Fredericksburg to Washington would involve seeing From Stafford County to the Chesapeake Bay, cows lined the Rappahannock and Potomac rivers. At that time, oysters filled the bay and crabs were in abundance. Then taxpayer money brought people from all over the nation and world, in quest of that money. Taxes rose. Politicians said we must have money for roads to accommodate development. There were higher and higher taxes to pay for development. The land was destroyed, asphalt and cement spread. There was oil, gasoline, all manner of runoff to the streams, rivers, and thus to the bay. Before development, the bay was well. Now it is nearly destroyed. Who, or what, is at fault? According to so-called environmental groups, politicians, and developers, it's the cow and, oh yes, that heinous creature, the farmer, who are at fault. I doubt if there are, now, even 10 percent of the cows and farmers that used to be on the land in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, when the bay was thriving. We have taxed manufacturing overseas. We denigrate the producers. We falsely accuse, yes, even a cow, of killing the bay. What about the asphalt, cement, more vehicles and people on the land--that could not possibly be the problem, could it? We paint ourselves a fantasy land, paving roads to destruction, as we deliberately, knowingly, refuse to face reality. John M. Chinn Warsaw
No realistic person is blaming the Bay's woes solely or even
predominately on cows and farmers.
to include the federal requirement that human females be required to obtain a breeding permit before fertilization may happen. Breeding without a permit wil result in a forced abortion as well as forced sterilization.
paid for by the taxpayers. The Federal Usurper Bureau of All Rules (FUBAR) will be responsible for enforcement.
The other population control method is already under consideration in the Senate. End of life counseling for people over 50 will start with the offering of a cyanide pill.
The population explosion. Cows are a problem, but only in the way that they're raised now. I grew up in this area and I remember when route 3 consisted of dairy farms and woods and there were ALOT less people. We really do need to manage growth more effectively to preserve the environment. Bringing back smaller farms over large factory farms would do a great deal towards that and is where the cow debate originated. It's an issue, but it along with all the others can all be tied to population growth.
Think back to the crabmen and oyster harvesters who complained about gov't intruding on their rights to harvest any amt they wanted..now, most of them are in the LaBrea tarpit of history. Asphalt, cement, huge WalMarts, Giants, Wegmans, Whole Foods, they are the "new wave of progress," sadly, that we couldn't escape if we tried. The jobs and $ and housing and road demands determine the amt of asphalt and cement we use, and all is inevitable. But the bay could have been saved, but for stupid greed.
A friend of mine lives in Haymarket in a subdivision of over 2K homes. I can leave his house on a summer evening and its hot and smells nasty. Driving home I go through the farms(what are left) in Fauquier and the temperature drops at least 10 degrees and there isn't that nasty smell, for now anyway. But I have noticed a difference where I live. The air isn't as fresh will all the traffic and with everyone running small engines every other day. I never did buy into the cow theory either.
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