Let the Bastards Starve

 Not only did we have a Presidential Election but states were able to vote on a wide variety of propositions and the like. The booger eating morons in Massachusetts were hard at it. They passed a proposition that bans the use of gestation crates for hog and veal production and mandated cage free eggs. Nothing about force feeding duck and geese, wonder how they missed that? Here is the article describing the law and its effect: Massachusetts-animals-question.

I don’t have a problem with an individual state deciding to saddle its own farmers, ranchers and manufacturers with obscene regulations that renders them noncompetitive in the market place. Massachusetts takes it a step further and tries to apply their idiocy nationwide.

The initiative will eventually prohibit farming methods that keep animals severely constrained for virtually their entire lives, including the use of veal crates for baby calves, gestation crates for mother pigs and battery cages for egg-laying hens.

Eleven states have passed bans on one or more of those practices. The Massachusetts measure will outlaw all three, and then go further. It will also bar the sale of meat and eggs produced using those methods, even from animals that were farmed outside the state.

There is a simple solution. Stop all food distribution to the State of Massachusetts, let ’em eat cranberries. For some industries I bet transportation and distribution expenses make quite an in road on profits so ceasing doing business in Massachusetts isn’t a hardship. While they are at it I think Massachusetts ought to ban fracking so we can stop all oil and natural gas distribution.

In case you haven’t figured it out the terrorist organization Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) was the guiding force behind this Massachusetts silliness. Such stupidity must have consequences.

Update: According to a source in Massachusetts the law is pretty specific as to the dimensions of the prohibited devices (crates). Add a few inches here or there and the crate is no longer prohibited.

Over two hundred years of inbreeding pretty much guarantees we will never see the likes of Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, John Hancock in Massachusetts ever again.