Lefty lawmakers’ war on cows is another senseless – Latest News
Progressive legislators wish to dictate Upstate cow populations, as a result of of course they know higher than anybody who really lives wherever close to a dairy farm.
Is it any marvel why Upstaters hate New York City, a minimum of the jerks we elect?
Animal-rights obsessive Manhattan Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal has teamed-up with Brooklyn Democratic Socialist state Sen. Jabari Brisport to push a restrict of 700 cows per farm — a transfer that may slam an important industry and never help the surroundings one whit.
The barns for youthful cows and calves on Stein Farm in Le Roy, New York, outdoors of Rochester pictured on November 2, 2022. Annie Wermiel/NY Post
The two Democrats declare that their invoice protects the surroundings and preserves small, family-owned farms from turning into company “factory farms.”
Except upstate farmers face no such risk and wish nothing to do with these lawmakers and the big-city condescension.
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“Placing a cap on the number of cows on a dairy farm means placing a cap on growth and success,” argues the New York Farm Bureau.
Nor did Rosenthal or Brisport go to any precise farming communities earlier than shifting to “fix” them: Their measure depends on a 2024 report from Food & Water Watch, an offshoot of Ralph Nader’s lefty Public Citizen funded by a slew of progressive charities.
The lefty legislators plainly additionally know nothing of the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s work in making certain dairy farms adhere to the nation’s most stringent requirements and land-management practices.
Sign at North Harbor Dairy farm studying “Make Milk Great Again,” that includes a cow designed within the type of the American flag. Spectrum News 1
But they certainly do know that numerous city “environmentalists” are satisfied that cow flatulence is a prime trigger of international warming.
Gov. Kathy Hochul reportedly calls the measure “insane” and no doubt irritated that the Rosenthal-Brisport fantasy comes as Great Lakes Cheese, Fairlife and Chobani are investing billions in upstate dairy communities.
So the invoice received’t grow to be law this yr — but when progressives keep growing their majorities within the Legislature, something goes: Knowing nothing by no means stops the progs from imposing their concepts at any time when they’ve the ability.
The end result, of course, would merely be forcing shoppers to get more milk from producers in Midwest states with out such nutty legal guidelines — persevering with the long hollowing-out of Upstate.
Hmm: That population loss would additional enhance progressives’ energy within the Legislature; they’ll be working all the things by the time they utterly destroy the complete state.
