Robert Kennedy Jr.: ‘Factory Farm’ Crusader Lives High On the Hog
What is the environmental movement thinking?
Now extending the list of their mistakes is a Robert Kennedy Jr. campaign to dump millions of tons of hog waste into American rivers … while his trial lawyer acquaintances take billions suing the modern confinement farms that produce most of America’s meat and eggs. How does that square with Bobby’s long-term claim to be the nation’s top “riverkeeper”?
For more than a decade Bobby has been railing against “factory farming,” which he defines as any farm that keeps its birds or animals indoors. Kennedy claims the big hog farms produce more manure than a large city, and claims their waste is ruining our rivers.
Bobby’s got it backwards.
The little hog farmers keep their hogs outdoors, and often use the creeks as hog sewers. Today’s commercial hog farms are zero-discharge. They don’t pour any water or waste into the streams. The hog wastes are carefully collected in ponds and tanks and then used as organic fertilizer on crop fields.
When Bobby Jr. sued Smithfield Farms a few years ago, claiming the hog waste was ruining North Carolina’s rivers, his suit was tossed out of court. The judge even forced Bobby Jr. to pay Smithfield’s legal fees.
The big problem for Kennedy, then and now, is that he can’t demonstrate any impairment of the rivers. In the Smithfield case, North Carolina’s water quality reports have consistently shown that larger hog farms, with 99 percent of the state’s hogs, discharge nothing at all into the rivers. Land-grant university investigating teams found the offending one percent were on smaller, older farms that didn’t have the latest equipment and techniques.
We need Lawyer Confinement Farms and the first place to use is Gitmo where they can be locked up with the rest of Americas enemies.
First in line, the DOJ political appointees that are deliberately undermining our country’s laws, followed by most of the trail attorneys such as these blood suckers. No need to segregate them from the Muslim population…they are among friends.
Give Pat another drink or six. Maybe some illegally obtained pill. Then tell him to shut the hell up, go home and try not to be as big a pompous ass as his father.
Sorry Pat, tell your cousin you’ll share the drugs and booze with him if he shuts the hell up too.
My best friend is as liberal as I am conservative. He’s a retired, part-time judge who continued to practice law while on the bench, and still does. He is/was not a trial lawyer. But – it occurred many, many years ago – the one and only time that he expressed a view about a trial lawyer (one of his friends) suing a major company, he very viciously remarked: (I paraphrase) “He’s going to get a ton of money out of those bastards.” In other words, the lawsuit wasn’t about the law, per se, or any sort of righteous indignation, it was all about money.
Sounds like my friend could have been talking about Robert Kennedy, Jr.
It’s past time for loser pays. In fact, it’s time for judges to take the law licenses of those who bring frivolous suits.
There is absolutely, guarantee, for sure, only one thing that smells worse than being down wind of a full confinement hog farm . . . that is the odor that is coming out of the White House these days.
Now for some personal experiences of this very, very conservative person. If you have driven past a confinement hog farm and the wind just happened to right . . . you will have the absolute worst experience in your life. On a hot summer day, the odor can be SEEN . . . sure it probably only water vapor in the air . .. but it will flow across the fields and it is like being hit in the head with a hammer, you realize “I am not breathing” . . . the odor just takes your breath away . . . and then comes the follow-up . . . since it is such a powerful odor . . . it activates your taste buds . . . and you mouth waters . . . some people will at that point lose their lunch.
Of course it is not just confinement hog farms, although I think they are the worst smelling . . . this includes poultry farms and cattle feed lots. In Oklahoma WE got um all.
I assure you, yes you can enjoy your pork roast and your bacon, but if a hog farm moves to YOUR neighborhood . . . your property will be worth substantially less, you will hate setting out by the pool, it will wake you up at night, shucks folks . . . You will not even want to mow the lawn. LOL
KENNEDY’S ..ALWAYS OUT TO SCREW SOMEONE..PUN INTENDED…
PK is the apex poster boy for libtardism. Thank goodness he doesn’t make it onto TV much as I’d truly go off my feed if I had to actually look at him. Listening to him on the radio (never more than for a few seconds) makes me want to retch.
I don’t think a nation can survive long once his type comes to represent more than say 20% of the population and we are way past that figure. 1984/Brave New World is here. Now.
(I’m always amused that the two prophets most acute in predicting human kind’s future came from opposite poles of the political spectrum.)
If you knew Bobby like I know Bobby… not the brightest light in the closet who surrounds himself with those of his ilk. Forrest Gump said it best: stupid is as stupid does. Ya, I know… it stinks, doesn’t it!
Sounds like you *do* know Bobby like I know Bobby. That was a perfect description of him, lol.
Many years ago, Del Webb Corp wanted to start a retirement community in Arizona and needed a lot of cheap land so it bought a large amount of acreage outside of Phoenix cheaply, right next to a feed lot. This became Sun City. As soon as some homes were sold to some retirees, they sued the feed lot for nuisance because of the smell. To get to the point, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that the plainitffs came to the nuisance and not the other way around so they could not prevail. Eventually the feed lot was bought out and moved! Thus you cannot move to the nuisance and then sue.
I suppose it could be worse. At least this generation of Kennedy spawn has no chance of ever occupying the White House. Way too many skeletons in the closet. My brother owned a restaurant in Hyannis back when these kids were in college. Had the opportunity to toss then to the curb quite a few times.
Good Times:)
I am aware that is very un-Canadian to boast.
In Ontario, our civil courts are conducted under the Rules of Civil Procedure.
Section 57.07: Where a solicitor for a party has caused costs to be incurred without reasonable cause or to be wasted by undue delay, negligence or other default, the court maay make an order,
(a)disallowing costs between solicitor and client or directing the solicitor to repay to the client money paid on account for costs;
(b)directing the solicitor to reimburse the client for any costs that the client had been ordered to pay to another party;
(c)requiring the solicitor to pay the costs of any party.
In addition prior to establishing any livestock operation, the farmer must obtain a “certificate of complience”.
This involves valid objections from neighbours.
A manure management programme….entailing having suffient land to dispose of the waste.
“Right to farm legistlation”
However, if an individual should build a house or occupy a dwelling after a livestock operation has been established that individual can whine all he likes but has no right to redress for inconvenience or odours.
IF A KENNEDY IS FOR IT…I’M AGAINST IT…
IF A KENNEDY IS AGAINST IT…I’M FOR IT…
Good one #1. I agree……
Da*n the Kennedy family. They have been a scourge on this nation for the past 80 years!!!
The fact that Bob Kennedy is not well liked in this place is not surprising. However, I have to correct many of the above writers on just one assumption. The money. Bob Kennedy, like his father, and his uncles (both Ted and John) never took public money. They were one of the last “dollar a year” politicians that donated their public salary to charity. Dont misunderstand, they did not have to because they were already quite (filthy) rich prior to public service and they were certainly not the first, or the only public office holders to do this. Also, their families did earn their money on the backs of others, ruthlessly. Anyways, there are not many in public office that do (Sen. Rockefeller of Wva) it anymore as the noble “public service” has lost its glamor for the rich over the years, hence, much of the reason for the “sinless, holier than thou” clowns we now have serving in our congress. Ahhh, the good old days eh?
The swine flu was caused by Hog factories in Texass and Mexiko and sum say it was a man maid virass too. I am tarred of big bidness killin off the sheep and that just about sums it all up.
Another Kennedy is in the news? Is there no end to this plague of self-righteous perverts? So this spud-knocker shills himself out to be America’s river warden, eh? He’s more like America’s water moccassin to me!
If anyone has ever had the extreme good fortune of hearing RFK Jr speak, he or she will understand what I’m about to say.
Hearing RFK Jr speak is like going to a Walt Disney cartoon.
RFK Jr sounds like Mickey Mouse on helium and makes statements similar in depth and perception to those of Daffy Duck.
I recall that about 25% of the 500 people present when RFK Jr began his speech walked out before he was half way through his presentation.
In a word. the man is a JOKE!
It appears President John Kennedy must have had a very different father than his so called Brothers and relatives .
JFK Jr keeps sending his big Lie …. The Polar bears are dying .
Lie the population has grown 31 % in the last 31 years since it has no natural enemies according to the top Polar bear man in the world … Goggle him up . .
If odor is a problem, it can be controlled. Carbon adsorbers on forced-air systems are a good way. If that isn’t sufficient, we can look at catalytic oxidizers and wet scrubbers. There are an array of options that are far better than “shut them down”. Changing to free-range farms will only spread out the odor, not contain or eliminate it.