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...lived in wasn’t built on a solid foundation, but rather on unrestrained optimism, mass hysteria and, above all, pure greed. We knew in the back of our minds that this insane growth and prodigal lifestyle couldn’t last forever, yet the belief that the cow could be milked one day longer despite warning signs to the contrary made the fall that much more difficult. Of course, this truth doesn’t do anything to dispel the bitterness and depression that has taken hold of the Bay. There is a silent anger in the eyes...
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, there's something that should perk up his interest in environmental issues. Welcome home, Mr. President, there's cow doo-doo, as your daddy used to say, in the water. Bush's weekend ranch is on Rainey Creek, which runs into the Middle Bosque River. About six miles away is the North Bosque River and two counties over is Erath County, home to at least 250 factory dairy farms called CAFOs, for confined-animal feeding operations. The CAFOs milk as many as 2,000 cows a day, and the county has about 110,000 dairy...
...Stephenville, the Erath County seat, there's a fiberglass statue of a cow named Moola standing by the courthouse; beneath her udder is a sign boasting that the county sells $220 million worth of milk a year. But milk prices are sagging, and some dairy farmers are threatening to move to the Panhandle. A lot of folks wouldn't mind seeing them go. Many of the CAFOs are owned by people from the Netherlands, who came in droves for the cheap land, high milk prices and lack of regulation. One result is growing animosity in the region against the Dutch...
...other reassurance my side had been giving is that stem-cell research is not about cloning. A day after the news from Norfolk we learned that a laboratory in Worcester, Mass. (the very same lab that three years ago produced a hybrid human-cow embryo) is trying to grow cloned human embryos to produce stem cells--but could be used to produce a full or (even more ghastly) partial human clone. What other monstrosities are going on that we don't know about...
...This, of course, is what anti-anti-smoking contrarians in the U.S. have been whispering for years: to the government, Big Tobacco is half scapegoat, half cash cow...