Posted by Don in Missouri on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 at 4:16PM :
In Reply to: Re: How do you clean water passages? posted by Keith in Washington on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 at 11:50AM :
I agree, there are too many rules to be followed. However, I think the root cause is too many people, especially too many people exploiting resources to walk away with profit and leaving society to clean up their messes.
I think it is OK the hot-tankers aren't around. Like chrome platers, they are few in numbers because it is not economically feasible to pay the true cost for their services. The true cost includes getting rid of the waste. For decades, nobody paid this true cost. They dumped waste out the back door, and the cost was shifted to future generations who have to clean up the mess.
I do feel for the farmers. It is difficult if not impossible for family farms to sustain themselves. All the family-run dairies were probably on their way out of business anyway. As the family farms go out, in come the corporate farms. You can be very glad there is not an animal feed lot next to your house. You would not like it. Missouri has a lot of corporate farms-the majority being poultry and swine. I have never understood why a pig barn housing 1,000 swine thinks they should not have to treat their sewage. Pigs produce about 4 times as much feces as humans. Would you want to live in a town of 4,000 people that just crapped in the street with no sewage treatment?