Can Chocolate be Part of the Bay Diet?

Pennsylvania News, Pennsylvania dairy farms, Chesapeake Bay get funding

The Hershey Company is teaming up with multiple entities to commit millions of dollars to support Pennsylvania dairy farms and the Chesapeake Bay.

Hershey and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are together giving $2,000,000 to the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and Land O’Lakes will use that money to help farmers deal with run-off that finds its way into the bay.

The four entities are focused on making a difference with their partnership.

“The work that this partnership is going to do is to help leverage public and private dollars together to bring resources to our farming community on the ground to impact the supply chain all the way from the beginning all the way to the end to when our consumers are purchasing it off the shelves,” Alliance for Chesapeake Bay CEO Kate Fritz said.

$2 million sounds like a lot of money, but when the estimated cost of the Bay clean up coming in north of $25 billion (with a "b"), it's really rounding error. Note that it is also actually being given to an NGO, which will likely take a generous cut before being passed on to the farmers, if indeed, it does get passed to farmers, and doesn't get used to create programs to "educate" farmers on how to keep the Bay cleaner. 

The Wombat has a double-stuffed Rule 5 Sunday: Vengeance Bikinis ready for consumption.