PLEASE OPPOSE S. 1219
Please Don't Give Tax Breaks to factory farms to
burn their filthy Cow & Hog Waste.
S. 1219 was introduced by Iowa Republican Senator Charles Grassley
on July 23, 2001. S. 1219 is to amend the Internal Revenue Code of
1986 to include swine and bovine waste as a renewable energy
resource for the renewable electricity production credit, and for other
purposes. (To review the bill : http://thomas.loc.gov ,
then enter bill number: S 1219 )
The bill amends the "Section 45" renewable energy electricity
production
income tax credit to include manure from hogs and cattle as "renewable
energy sources". Section 45 was originally intended to only provide
incentives for traditional renewable energy, such as wind power.
But a 1999 law included chicken feces as an eligible fuel to generate
electricity. The chicken provision, however, is set to expire in January
2002. Section 45 provides a tax credit of 1.7 cents for every kilowatt
hour of electricity produced (this amount increases each year with
inflation). Grassley's bill will include hog and cattle manure (but not
chickens) as a qualifying fuel for the credit from 2002 through 2007.
The tax credit would reduce income taxes for hog and cattle
factories by hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
Please let's write to the Senators to stop tax credit to encourage the
cruel and extreme polluted factory farms. Thanks so much for
your kindness and important help.
WHAT YOU CAN DO :
We enclosed the following Sample Letter and all of the important
Contact information for you to help.
SAMPLE LETTER :
Please put your Name, Address at the beginning and the end of your
letter. You may write your own letter or modify our letter if you wish.
FROM : Your Name,
Your Address,
U.S. Constituents.
Subject : PLEASE OPPOSE S. 1219 .
Please DO NOT give Tax Breaks to Burn Filthy Cow & Hog Waste!
Dear Senator (name):
I am urging you to OPPOSE S.1219 .
S. 1219 is a bill which was proposed by Senator Charles Grassley
to provide tax credits for electricity produced from hog and cow
manure and other related waste. We oppose this legislation because
incinerating the waste is bad for public health and the environment.
Allowing hog and cattle farms to burn their waste will encourage
increased production at factory farms, where animals are raised in large
warehouses and produce waste in excess of what can be absorbed by
the land. Tax dollars should not be used to subsidize factory farm
pollution when money is needed to develop Non-Polluting,
renewable energy sources like Wind and Solar.
S. 1219 would amend the "Section 45" renewable energy electricity
production income tax credit to include manure from hogs and cattle
as "renewable energy sources." Section 45 was originally intended to
only provide incentives for traditional renewable energy, such as Wind
power. A 1999 law included chicken feces as an eligible fuel to
generate electricity, but that provision is set to expire in January 2002.
Senator Grassley's bill will classify hog and cattle manure (but not
chicken) as a renewable fuel.
Studies show that burning this animal waste is just as polluting as
burning coal. Nitrogen oxides, hydrogen chloride and mercury
emissions from burning manure equal that of burning coal, and sulfur
dioxide emissions are nearly equal to that of coal.
These pollutants are extremely hazardous for public health. Mercury is
a neurotoxin which is especially damaging to children and can cause
developmental disorders in fetuses. Sulfur dioxide causes acid rain
and can also impair breathing and aggravate existing respiratory
diseases. Nitrogen oxides create acid rain and damage lung tissue,
create ground-level ozone (a poison), and contribute to
global warming. (see References # 1,2, 3, )
While we mourn the unspeakable tragedy in the World Trade Center,
however, the cruelty to raise ten billions of "sentient" animals
every
year for "food" in USA is no less than the WTC tragedy. In animal
agriculture, institutionalized massive animal cruelty which skins and
dismembers millions of animals routinely every day for "food" while
they
are fully conscious is a common scene in thousands of slaughterhouses
across the United States. (see Reference # 4, 5, 6, 7,8 )
In 1999, 1.29 million, or 54%, of all U.S. deaths were attributed to
diseases for which consumption of animal products represents a
substantial risk factor. The most popular, deadly western diseases are
Heart diseases, Cancers, Diabetes, Strokes which are mainly derived
from long term consumption of high saturated fat and high cholesterol
animal sources foods. ( see Reference # 9, 10,11 )
We will vote for any legislator who promotes healthy life style and
prohibit the polluted, harmful, cruel factory farms. Rather than spend
hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to the factory farms on this
public health hazardous process to give tax breaks to burn filthy Cow &
Hog Waste, money could more wisely be spent on clean renewable
technologies like wind and solar. Please Vote "NO" on S.1219.
Thank you for your kindness and consideration.
Sincerely,
Your Name,
Your Address,
U.S. Constituents.
References :
1: http://www.factoryfarm.org/waste.html
2: http://www.factoryfarm.org/reports-waste.html
3: http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/factor/cons.asp
4: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60798-2001Apr9.ht
ml
5: http://www.meat.org/holocaust.htm
6: http://www.hfa.org
7: http://www.meatstinks.com/VegKit/meetmeat.html
8: http://www.factoryfarming.com
9: http://www.vegsource.com/articles/meat_deaths99.htm
10: http://www.llu.edu/llu/vegetarian/redmeat.htm
11:
http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/06/06292001/reu_vegeta
rian_4414
5.asp
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CONTACT INFORMATION :
1: First of all , please CALL all of the 22 Senators in the Finance
Committee. Every vote counts ! POLITELY ask them to:
a: OPPOSE S. 1219.
b: Please Do Not encourage the cruel Factory farms.
Please Do Not give them the tax breaks to burn filthy
Cow & Hog Waste which is hazardous for public health.
To get their phone number , please click the following site:
Note: Senator Max Baucus is the Chairman of the Finance
Committee: (Please call him first. )
http://politics.yahoo.com/politics/Congress/Senate/Committees/
Then click "Finance " , then click "Roster" .
then click each name , you will see all of their phone/fax number.
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2: Then it is important to give your message to the following US
Senators by using our SAMPLE LETTER or write your own letter :
Please Copy and Paste the following list into BCC field in your Email.
Then put your other DIFFERENT email address in the TO field
before you hit Send : Note: it must have a comma between addresses.
Before you hit Send, please check everything correctly !
Please address to : Dear Senator , or : Dear Honorable Senator,
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3: The following Senators do not have Email address.
However, you can send email thru their web sites one by
one. Please click each one of them to send your massage :
http://www.senate.gov/~craig/webform.html
http://murkowski.senate.gov/webmail.html
http://cantwell.senate.gov/mailform.html
http://miller.senate.gov/email.html
http://crapo.senate.gov/email.htm
http://grassley.senate.gov/webform.htm
http://roberts.senate.gov/email.htm
http://thomas.senate.gov/html/contact.html
http://allard.senate.gov/contactme/index.cfm
http://daschle.senate.gov/webform.htm
http://baucus.senate.gov/EmailMax.htm
http://wellstone.senate.gov/webform.html
http://domenici.senate.gov/contact/contactme.cfm
The following Senator does not have Email address
nor Website either, please Fax/Call him :
Senator Mark Dayton (D - MN)
Tel: (202) 224-3244 , Fax (202) 228-2186
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4: If you have any problem to send your email by using the above
list, then please send your message one by one thru the followining
Senate Finance Committee's roster list site :
http://politics.yahoo.com/politics/Congress/Senate/Committees/
Then click "Finance " , then click "Roster" .
then click each name , then click "Send Email"
(or click "Visit Website" if there is no personal email address) :
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(References :
http://www.gracepublicfund.org/docs/aa8-15.htm
http://www.factoryfarm.org/waste.html )
If any question, you may contact GRACE:
Tel: (212) 726-9161
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Thanks so much for your kindness, compassion and help. cc
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