some good news about speed bumps(manatees)

[FISHEYE]

The House of Representatives recently voted not only to gut the Endangered Species Act, but in a last minute attempt to please developers, Representative Adam Putnam (R-FL) added an amendment to exclude the endangered manatee from protections under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

 

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[Peg Leg]

We can sure see who is being backed by Developers can't we.
Peg leg

 

[mad4wrecks]

I hope this means they will re-open the "no motor" zone on the Banana River. They closed down a very large, pristine and fish filled section of that river under the guise of protecting the manatee.

 

[Peg Leg]

The next thing wil be outlawing boats of anykind in the banana River.
Is this crap ever gonna stop?
Peg leg

 

[JRich98150]

From the same folks that prefer leaving history in the ground to rust and disintergrate by "preserving" the historic areas. Them's some smart folks there in Washington. But I guess it doesn't say much about the folks that put them in office either and I am one of those folks.

 

[stevemc]

I always thought that the dock building moratorium was stupid. How do docks kill manatees? They say it leads to more boats. There will be more boats, but now they will all be crammed together at one marina or boat ramp, instead of spread around.

 

[cpt scuba]

there are more manatees in fl water s than ever before because now they no longer migrate when water gets cold they go to the power plant out flow and lay up for winter manatees were never real common in fl i have freinds in the keys who rounded them up for food in the islands called the cow pens hence the name and they can tell you that they are much more common now than in the 1880s when the coralled them up

 

[FISHEYE]

More manatee can be saved if they are farmed where warm water is discharged. One way that capitalists can farm manatee is by fencing them in where warm water is discharged (another method is by using “homing” tags to own and track manatee as private property).
If “sea cows” were farmed like other cows then people could eat them, they wouldn’t be endangered, and the many “manatee festivals” in our state could then provide culinary delights from their namesakes, as does the strawberry festival, tomato festival, rib festivals, seafood festivals, et cetera.
Manatee were used in history for meat, bone, hides and fat. manatee were relied upon among ancient Indians and manatee hides were made into leather shoes, cords and shields, and the ivory-like bones were thought to have medicinal value. Florida Indians hunted manatee to supplement to their diet and may have sold excess meat to the Spanish.
In the seventeenth century, shiploads of dried manatee meat were shipped from the Guianas to feed sugar plantation laborers in the Caribbean. Pioneers arriving in the nineteenth century shot manatee for meat, oil and hides, and poaching was common in parts of Florida during the Depression and World War II. Cowpens Key in the Florida Keys is thought to be so named because manatee were once penned in a small cove there as a food supply [from The West Indian Manatee in Florida, Copyright 1989, Florida Power & Lights Company].
Despite the foregoing, actual farming of manatee has either not been tried, or has been outlawed. Environmentalists are endangering manatee with misguided, anti-capitalistic statism.
The lack of property rights in sea cows and in so much of Florida’s waterways makes it difficult, if not impossible, to farm manatee.
Socialism is killing manatee. A more Libertarian approach will save the manatee by bringing it closer to everyone’s heart (deep inside everyone’s stomach).
Private property rights and farming keep chicken, cattle and many popular forms of restaurant fish off endangered species lists. Tuna is the “chicken of the sea” and the manatee is the “cow of the sea” and their cow-like qualities make manatee ideal for farming.
Farming will produce manatee meat of greater quality and flavor, and insure that manatee never face extinction.
Everyone should look forward to the day when there will be real manatee festivals, when manatee are included in all the seafood festivals, and when manatee will be as popular and abundant as other farmed seafood, meats, fruits and vegetables.
As the bumper sticker says “I love manatee.Manatee tastes just like filet mignon.”