Agriculture
Agriculture
Introduction Agriculture is a cornerstone of North Carolina’s economy. It is one of the state’s largest industries and generates billions of dollars in revenue each year. Key agricultural products, including…
Livestock
Agriculture
JLF’s Donald van der Vaart Comments to Southern Farm Network on Controversial NC Livestock Regulations
Thursday, June 20, JLF Senior Fellow and former Secretary for the N. C. Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Dr. Donald van der Vaart was featured on Southern Farm Network’s website…
Liberty
As If I Have No Need of Daily Retraction
Chuck McGrady’s bill, H553, that would prevent local governments from writing their own livestock regulation, will probably be signed into law. The bill is in response to the acclaimed success…
Liberty
Exempt Long-Nosed Hunchbacks from Vehicle Inspections
It is now Asheville City Council’s turn to oppose subjecting spent brewers’ grain used as animal feed to “the same handling, records keeping, packaging, and analysis regulations as manufactured livestock…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Turkey Anyone? Facts about NC’s Turkey Production
View in your browser. Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! This week I wanted to share something you can discuss around the table and will go along with the main course – North…
Liberty
My favorite quote of the day
Is from a News & Observer piece today about a UNC-CH professor who has written yet another environmentalist screed against beef and pork. Daren Williams, executive director of communications for…
Liberty
Headline: Cow farts collected in plastic tank for global warming study
I swear, I pledge, I affirm, I give my solemn vow, I make whatever other obeisance I can to Truth with a capital T: I am not making this story…
Liberty
Exquisite timing
On the very day we learn that pouring Dylan and Zoey’s bathwater in the backyard can cause all kinds of pestilence, another group is trying to get the City of…
Liberty
Dude Where’s My Sheep?
In Apex the town council had to act quick and put in a livestock ban because a fellow had sheep in his house. Well, I guess he was just counting…
Liberty
Re: Somebody please explain
Simple, Paul — they’re in trouble because they didn’t eat the cat. That’s why you can slaughter livestock and hunt rabbits, as you suggest. It’s also why nobody notices that…
Liberty
Taking the wind out of global warming
“In New Zealand – where a revolt by farmers last year halted plans for a livestock emissions levy dubbed the “fart tax” by protesters – the 40m cattle and sheep…