On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:59:45 -0400, blake murphy
> wrote:
>On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:37:53 -0500, Lou Decruss wrote:
>
>> I find this disturbing. I can't believe there isn't another way to
>> deal with it. Government cheese for all?
>>
>> http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...IVvfwD9BJ9LA82
>>
>> Lou
>>
>> DES MOINES, Iowa — A milk glut has dairy farmers across the U.S.
>> killing hundreds of thousands of cows to try to reduce the milk supply
>> and boost prices.
>>
>> More than 225,000 cows have been killed this year through a program
>> run by the National Milk Producers Federation. It pays farmers going
>> out of business to slaughter their cows, rather than sell them to
>> someone else. Agriculture experts say another 55,000 cows are being
>> killed each week outside the program.
>
>yikes! i wonder where the meat is going.
5 pound plastic tubes of ground beef at walmart. Ya get what ya pay
for.
Lou