My mother wrote a book called Cindy Lou about a cow that gave chocolate milk. It’s now out of print but it’s a wonderful book for children. I will admit my bias.
The book is set on a family farm. That’s something that may be in danger from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA is really contemplating a cow tax. The family farm with a few cows may become a thing of the past.
The Business & Mediate Institute is reporting that the EPA is considering regulating emissions of greenhouse gases, including businesses that emit 100 tons. That could easily include a family farm with 25 cows.
It’s all in the formative stages at this point, and it’s likely that farmers would raise bloody hell on Capitol Hill should the EPA propose such a measure. But dismissing the idea of such regulations is, bluntly, wrong. Already, California’s Air Resources Board announced that they will implement CO2 regulations (though not for a couple of years).
I personally believe the only thing that money should be spent on in this area is further research into whether anthropogenic global warming is real. It’s still a theory. Killing the economy by regulation while the country is an economic downturn is foolish. We’ll have to see if that’s the direction the Obama Administration will take. If it is, that might spell the end of Cindy Lou.