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To: MrsNose who wrote (2761)	6/18/2003 4:35:14 PM
From: SofaSpud	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37811

I like beef as much as the next person (probably more, in fact) but you're absolutely right in fighting this. This is an example of what economists call "market failure", where the cost of externalities is borne by society. In this instance, the externalities include the risk of contamination of water supply and diminished enjoyment of your own property due to ambient odours. The tremendously competitive nature of the industry makes it impossible for a producer to genuinely internalize those externalities in the absence of a change to the system -- either to property rights or the regulatory environment. That, too, is what led to the (IMO) abomination of feeding animal protein to herbivores, which is thought to result, occasionally, in BSE.

To: MrsNose who wrote (2761)	6/18/2003 5:01:18 PM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 37811

you could check with federal auth. to see if this proposal complies with all the environmental rules... Pa. is a big farming state I think one of the five largest in U.S. and the pollution from the years of run off from steers, cows, pigs, chickens into the streams , etc have really done a job... I know out in Lancaster County all the drinking water has to be processed by some type of blue light because of high contamination in the wells from all the fert. put down.