i was born in Europe and have never seen cattle on crates. i used to ride the cows that would graze on the large pasture next to my dads mountain home in Austria, though.
Conservative literally means to preserve the good of what currently is existant. And cows actually are part of that, so you might think that a true conservative should be a conservationist.
for some reason, conserving natural resources and preserving good things that are hard to quantify monetarily in America is a "liberal" agenda -- seems weird to me
true conservatism would value conservationism, and not deride it as a liberal scam while ruining our world for the sake of profits
and if you are not aware of it, most any major construction project requires a study of the environmental impact because its good policy to do so, not because its stupid. take the atlantic station develpment, im glad they had to do remidiation on that site to try to get rid of some of the poison that had been deposited there for many years. Seriously poisonous industrial waste.
would you like that stuff to be seeping into the ground water if you lived over there?
I knew this would occur if the Steelers won the Super Bowl.
We have family relatives that are pig farmers in n.w. Germany (the family farm dates to as far back as the churches can find and possibly to the 1200's). They are considering changing to cows and if they do, they will raise them on grates for their whole life (like others do in the area now).
According to dictionary: Conservative: 1) Favoriing Preservation of the existing order. 2. Moderate, prudent, cautious. 3. Traditional in manner or style. 4. Tending to conserve;preservative.
I dont see many Tech grads arguing to not clean up poisonous spills in the earth. What you are trying to expand is the Tech grads arguments that global warming is just not a proven science and that global warming and cooling occurred many times in our past without mechanical engines and other modern inventions/uses.
Liberals came out with second hand smoke as cancerous in order to shut down tobacco. Now I personally enjoy the smokefree bars of today, but all the newer studies showed that second hand smoke for the vast majority of claims by Clinton was just not true. But he got what he wanted.
I personally don't like being led around my deceiving people. You know the kind that claim that they'll only hire solid untarnished citizens and work bipartisanly on our problems only to do neither the first chance they had.
What we do know is that education is a very good investment. Instead we're investing billions in the greening of America when in reality global warming is probably due to sun spots activity.
Your environmental attack on conservativism just doesn't hold water. A conservative on the east coast beaches that wants to put up a coal plant to compete with China just wants to know why he has to spends hundreds of millions to clean the air that drifts away, when China is polluting the air ten fold and which drifts right toward America.
(unfortunately I have to run so I can't clean this up a bit. I'll be back).
