It's always easy to be critical of government, but while the new administration cut grants for sociologists who want to "study" why people still play Everquest 2, it also boosted funding for the National Animal Health Laboratory Network, and programs like the National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program and the National Animal Vaccine and Veterinary Countermeasures Bank.

Those are big wins for the public. When only organic eggs in San Francisco were $16 per dozen, that was just coastal anti-science progressives being willing to pay to believe in magic and other states could laugh it off, but when their denial of medicine for animals and pasteurization set off a firestorm of disease outbreaks and poor people everywhere were paying $8 a dozen due to losses, the science community needs to stand up against activists on the left as enthusiastically as on the right.



Had disease outbreaks been caught earlier - Sec. Robert F. Kennedy's favorite raw milk farm, when he was running for the Democratic presidential nomination was out in front poisoning people and animals - by animal control, one part of government that actually works, they could have contained it faster with more boots on the ground. When we deal with supernatural economic numbers, like trillions spent propping up solar and wind gimmicks, $$233 million per year doesn't sound like a lot, but even $10 million per year extra can do an enormous amount of good when they are the first line of defense against food diseases.

Kennedy may be ban-happy, just like when he was a lawyer for Natural Resources Defense Council and a pillar of the Democratic party, but that's because he's never had to think about the cost of food, so let's applaud when other parts of the Trump administration who didn't grow up in toney Hyannis Port quietly do things that will keep food affordable for those without the wealth of progressive elites.

"I am excited to hear about how the increased funding will help their operation of these laboratories, which foreign animal diseases they see as the most consequential, and how we as Congress can be good partners to them," said House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Chairman Tracey Mann.

We all are. No one can legislate using social media outrage and it is good to see other parts of government are trying to make progress where it really matters.