Cow burps unregulated by federal government, ranchers hope to stay that way

Cow burps are not regulated by the federal government. And ranchers want to keep it that way. Those burps include methane, a greenhouse gas that ranchers fear could become closely regulated under pending Environmental Protection Agency proposals. Farm and ranch groups are spreading the word that, in theory, the federal government could hit even small ranches with fees and fines for producing methane if the EPA defines the gas as endangering public health. "It's just an unnecessary burden to the rancher," Jason Scaggs, executive director of government and public affairs for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, said by telephone from Austin Wednesday. Fiercely independent, ranchers such as Mark Mitchell, who runs about 250 head of cattle between Cheek and Hamshire in western Jefferson County, want the government to stay away from their livestock. On Wednesday, Mitchell fed range cubes to a herd of Brahman, Angus and Hereford cattle, who came mooing and loping across the field for the pellets. By press time, those cubes likely had become methane. Ruminants - including cattle, pigs and sheep, which digest food by softening it and rechewing it - create a quarter of the methane released in the United States each year, according to the EPA. That's just behind landfills and natural gas production and transportation...BeaumontEnterprise

When I started this blog/news roll up in 2003 I never dreamed I would be posting about "cow burps."

Just imagine, though, how this must upset the enviros and the Politically Superior Ones. Just think, these "cow burps" are causing the seas to rise, humans to migrate and the polar bear to go extinct and they are completely unregulated! They must be going crazy.

Hell, we even now have cowbelch chocolate.

The next time I see a cow belch, I'm gonna say "All right, take that you left-wing sonsabitches."

And you just watch, their next target will be...Mexican food.