The Dairy Tragedy

They say that you can put up or shut up, but I’m going to break that mold and write, and as I write, I hope to rant. Today’s rant will be about yogurt. Weather we know it or not, yogurt is taking over our society and culture. It is creeping in like the Black Plague crept into Egypt millions of years ago. You may object and say that the Black Plague never crept into Egypt, and you would be right…It stormed Egypt by force in a manner similar to the way that Attila the Hun ransacked North Africa. And that is what Yogurt is doing to us. As ice cream and other dairy products bravely battle for space on the slippery shelving slopes of grocery and convenience stores across the country, the American public turns a blind eye, and the mainstream media refuses to report on it. But the sales of ice cream are down by over 30% this quarter alone! And millions of Holfstein cattle are being mercilessly slaughtered because producers prefer Limohorns for their superior yogurt-enhancing milk. This is largely what is wrong with our society. In New Hampshire alone, the self-proclaimed world capital of the yogurt/ice cream world, there are over 3 billion Holfstein cattle. According to the National Cattle Wellness Committee, 4/6ths of this population will be decimated simply because breeders are trying to make the switch to Limohorns. What is even worse is that the government is subsidizing this slaughter. In an attempt to “create new jobs” President Obama has authorized a payment of $2,000 per cow. With 2 billion Holfstein’s being killed, that is a $4,000 billion dollar bill that the tax payers are footing.

This is happening in our country! While the media is covering fluff stories like the alleged terrorist scares in the Winter Olympics, we have mass massacres occurring on our own American soil that are being funded by our dollars and organized by our own elected government officials. As if this were not outrage enough, the Holfstein cattle could be just as fruitful yogurt producers as the Limohorns, provided that the farmers would simply give them a change in diet. But the farmers, headed by Jim O’Hariness, the largest landowner in the state, have formed a league called the “Lords of the Fields. This is essentially a farmer’s union that forces all the farmers to slaughter their Holfsteins so that they get the subsidy. Any farmer that resists the union is frozen out by the union, and it is essentially impossible for the resisting farmers to buy grain to feed their cattle, effectively putting them out of business.