Tuesday
Dec092008
Nature's Harmony on Fox & Friends
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 06:56AM Well, I guess this doesn't happen every day for a farmer. I'm out clearing a new field on Sunday and get a call from the producer of Fox & Friends asking if I'll drive to their Atlanta studio the following morning for a segment on the new proposed "gas tax" for cows. If you haven't heard about this ridiculous concept, click here.
Anyway, all it required was for me to get up at 2:40 a.m., drive 3 hours to do a 6:15 a.m. segment live, say two sentences, and then leave. But it was an experience.
Here is the segment.
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Reader Comments (5)
Great job, Tim!
Like you said, they didn't give you a lot of time, but you made great points in a well spoken manner in the time given.
Maybe advocate/spokesperson for the sustainable farmer is in your future.
Well done!
Here's a nice Op-Ed article in the New York Times today touching on the aspects of factory farming versus "real food."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/opinion/11kristof.html?ref=todayspaper
Tim,
Nice interview. Did you bring the PETA rep. any meat samples? Joking of course, I know he more than likely was not at the same studio :)
It bothers me that we not only have to watch our government to ensure we do not get a silly law/tax like the one proposed, but we also have people looking to apply the UN's bogus reports on our society--crazy.
Anyway, we just found your website and have enjoyed reading through it.
God bless you and Liz and Merry Christmas.
Farmers such as yourself should be exempted anyway as responsible farming does not contribute in a harmful way at all. If studied, I think cows fed healthy diets most likely do not suffer from excessive gas anyway. They are not meant to eat most of what commercially raised animals are fed, Particularly the estrogen laden soy found in so many feed products. But this is a ridiculous law regardless. Now if we could only get rid of the voluminous amounts of gas pouring out of the windbags in Washington perhaps we could see some real "air quality control".