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Thank you Missouri!

The law also prevents the Missouri Department of Agriculture from making the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Animal Identification System (NAIS) mandatory.

Stouffer said the bill doesn’t keep those farmers who want to participate in ID programs from doing so, but just keeps the program voluntary.

“If the NAIS were to become mandatory, the legislature would have to authorize it,” he said.
-Marshall News

I’ve had a lot of people send me this article. It is an example of how Big Ag twists things to protect themselves…

Study questions safety of meat from animals raised without antibiotics

The meat from hogs raised in a free range fashion and without antibiotics carries more pathogens and parasites than the meat from hogs fed low levels of antibiotics and raised in a conventional fashion, according to research conducted at The Ohio State University and published in Foodborne Pathogens and Disease.
-Iowa Farm Bureau

Bogus.

The study was funded by Big Ag.

They want you to believe you need confinement animal feeding operations and antibiotics to grow healthy food. They have a vested interest.

This is not a real threat. So why are they bringing it up and making such a big deal out of nothing? Because Big Ag is scared.

They are desperate to justify their existence. Certified Organic and Certified Naturally Grown are denting their profits.

They fear the tiny percentage of farms raising pigs naturally outdoors.

The reality is that the pathogens they spout off about are all killed by proper processing and cooking which is the norm, recommended and required.

What they fail to mention that Big AG CAFOs factory farm indoor pigs are creating new more powerful super bugs that are resistant to the antibiotics - MSRA or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

the Center for Disease Control reported 94,360 “invasive MRSA infections” in the United States in 2005 — of which 18,650 resulted in death. More people now die of MRSA than of AIDs.
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Recently, though, a researcher at the University of Iowa decided to do what U.S. authorities have avoided: test U.S. CAFO-grown pigs for MRSA. Evidently, it wasn’t t that hard. Schneider reports that assistant professor of epidemiology Tara Smith and her team of graduate students merely “swabbed the noses of 209 pigs from 10 farms in Iowa and Illinois.”

The results were unsettling: they “found MRSA in 70 percent of the porkers.” Stunningly, this apparently marked the first-ever publicly released test of U.S. hogs for MRSA.
-Grist

The reason that the Big Ag organizations are trying to show that outdoor pigs have bacteria on them is that the reality is the confined pigs have far worse. They are attempting a slight of hand, a distraction.

For more reading see this search.

In other words, the study funded by Big Ag and cited by the Iowa Farm Bureau is a desperate hoax to justify their existence by pointing fingers. Don’t be fooled by Big Ag’s PR and spin.

From DarolDickenson of Texas:

Great News!!! After 6 months one livestock producer is officially “Opt Out” of the feared NAIS premises registration. Mr. Skinner did not sign up, but got freely fabricated to the premises list by his own state dept of agriculture when he purchased hay from the state. (Read the correspondence from bottom to top)

Reliable sources report, over half of the NAIS premises enrollees have not volunteered to sign up nor do most producers even know that their name is on the federal NAIS data base. When Mr. Skinner found out the potential blight NAIS premises enrollment attaches to his property title and the problem involved when he sells or transfers title, it was a no brainer to want out.

Below is his final official removal notification. This required a stack of communication of nearly an inch thick and more than the persistence of Hillary to ride this bucking snake to the end of the arena. Mr. Skinner is free now and a happy man——unless the USDA demands to go mandatory and gut shoots him again.

Pass this on. Every producer must know if their name has been forged by the government and proceed to escape from their grip if at all possible. For more OPT OUT info go to naisSTINKS.com and “USDA approves Opt Out-1-29-07″

Darol Dickinson

—– Original Message —–
From: Ron Skinner
To: darol@texaslonghorn.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:33 AM
Subject: FW: Priority opt out request fully processed

Darol,

Thought you might be interested in the final outcome of my lengthy attempt to have my premises removed from the NAIS program (see below). It only took about 6 months!

Ron

Ronald D. Skinner, Chief Operating Officer
Carolina Precision Plastics LLC
405 Commerce Place
Asheboro, NC 27203
Phone: (336) 544-0761 Ext. 4105

—–Original Message—–
From: Ron Skinner
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:03 AM
To: ‘Ray, Tom’
Subject: RE: Priority opt out request fully processed

Mr. Ray,

Thanks for your help in this matter. Hopefully going forward changes will be made to the system to ensure that what takes minutes to get signed up for doesn’t take 6 months to get out of, which could ultimately be a significant cost savings to the taxpayers!

Regards,

Ron

Ronald D. Skinner, Chief Operating Officer
Carolina Precision Plastics LLC
405 Commerce Place
Asheboro, NC 27203
Phone: (336) 544-0761 Ext. 4105

—–Original Message—–
From: Ray, Tom [mailto:tom.ray@ncagr.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 6:51 AM
To: Ron Skinner
Cc: Marshall, David; Starling, Ray; penny.page@ncmail.net
Subject: FW: Priority opt out request fully processed

Mr. Skinner;

We were just notified last week of your complete removal from all aspects of the National Animal ID database; please refer to the message below for more details. If you have any further questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact me by any of the below listed methods.

Thank you.

Tom Ray, DVM, MPH
Director, Animal Health Programs-Livestock
NCDA&CS, Veterinary Division
2 W Edenton Street, 1030 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1030
919-733-7601 office
919-733-2277 fax
Tom.Ray@ncagr.gov

The following premises has been fully processed by our NAIS IT staff. All data has been deleted from the Standardized Premises Registration System, all contact information has been removed from the National Premises Information Repository (NPIR), and the Premises Identification Number (PIN) has been deleted from the NPIR. If, in the future, this location is registered, it will be given a new PIN.

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Thank you for your patience in this process.