NoNAIS is my effort to spread the word of how harmful the USDA's National Animal Identification System (NAIS) is to small farmers, homesteaders, pet owners & consumers.
Use the comments of this post during this month if you have things you would like to bring to people’s attention and are not sure where else to post them. I’ll make a new Bulletin Board each month for free posting.
Have at it, communicate and keep up the good fight!
Cheers,
-WalterJ
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If you think our problems are just with the police state coming after our animals, read this article: Massive Police Raids on Suspected Protesters This will shock your sensibilities as Americans. Where would our nation be today if peaceful protests had been stopped in this manner throughout our history? Who will be next to fall victim to warrantless searches and seizures as well as brutal intimidation? No one is safe in such a nation.
Comment Pat H — September 2, 2008 @ 3:48 pm
Here is a report about how mandatory pet sterilization doe not work and really costs the tax payers, maybe if they get enough of this, they will (through our continuing to tell them) that NAIS will be more of the same….article has been annotated. You can read the complete article at the following where the whole article gives statistics and websites.
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Los Angeles Animal Shelter Becomes Slaughterhouse After Spay/Neuter Law
by JOHN YATES-American Sporting Dog Alliance
LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles animal shelter system has become a slaughterhouse for dogs and cats less than six months after City Council passed an ordinance mandating pet sterilization, an analysis of official city statistics shows:
Euthanasia rates for dogs and cats have increased by 28-percent, compared to the same period a year before the ordinance was enacted.
There was a 20% increase in impoundments for dogs, and a 21% increase for cats, compared to the same period a year ago.
Those numbers came from the official shelter statistics compiled by the Los Angeles Department of Animal Services. We encourage our readers to verify the accuracy of this report for themselves.
In only six months, Los Angeles has mirrored the same brutal results that have been proven in every other community in America that has enacted mandates to spay and neuter pets. All of these ordinances have failed, and dogs and cats have paid the price in blood.
The American Sporting Dog Alliance attempted to warn Los Angeles City Council members of what would happen before they passed the ordinance, but the truth was drummed out by the shrill voices of animal rights groups that knowingly and deliberately misled Los Angeles officials into believing that the ordinance would save animals’ lives.
The animal rights agenda is the elimination of animal ownership in America, but these plans are concealed from elected officials and people who love animals. The leaders of these groups know full-well that spay and neuter mandates will result in the abandonment of thousands of pets, and an increase in shelter killings as a result. They know it, and these brutal deaths are a major part of the animal rights game plan.
Now the truth has come home to roost in Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles ordinance became law in early February, 2008, following several months of intense media coverage and a coordinated disinformation campaign by animal rights groups.
City Councilman Richard Alarcon called it a “humane” ordinance that was needed to save the lives of cats and dogs.
Since then, this “humane” ordinance has taken the lives of 1,667 more dogs and cats than were killed during the same period a year before, the data shows.
The first six months of 2008 represent the first increase in Los Angeles shelter admission and euthanasia rates in more than 15 years, official data shows. These rates had dropped steadily over that period.
In a single sweep of the pen, the ordinance has destroyed more than 15 years of hard work and dedication by many people who had succeeded in moving Los Angeles much closer toward “no-kill” status.
In just six months, the Los Angeles shelter admission and euthanasia rates have soared back to levels that have not been seen since 2002, the data shows.
Comment esbee — September 2, 2008 @ 7:22 pm
NAIS Naughty:
American Sheep Industries (ASI) who has a resulution on NAIS. The resulution 7-11:04:R06 reads in part: Be it resolved that ASI supports the concept of a mandatory national identification program for livestock, and resolved that ASI endorses the 2005 recommendations of the Sheep ID working group and be it further resolved that…1. the cost of identification, database services, supplies and devices be provided by the public sector. 2. NAIS should not be duplicative of the national Scrapie Eradication program ID requirements…3. A NAIS for sheep should accomodate all the various production systems in the US… including group lot ID. 4. NAIS should contribute to the management, marketing and business needs of the sheep industry. 5. NAIS should be thouroughly field tested before implementation to demonstrate the technology is compatable with normal industry operations. 6. Implementation of this system must not economically burden any sector of the US sheep industry
Comment LuAnn — September 3, 2008 @ 8:41 am
On the fence:
Minnesota Lamb and Wool Producers.
MLWPA has not taken an individual stance on this issue. We are an affilliate of the American Sheep Industries (ASI) who has a resulution on the topic.
(see previous)
Comment LuAnn — September 3, 2008 @ 8:45 am
The RNC and the DNC even brutalized and arrested members of the press. Five so far that I know of. One female reporters even had her nose broken.
When they were in jail a FBI type came around and removed their press passes!
The report and film was on [Google] “democracy Now” narrated by “Amy Goodman” who was one of those arrested.
Comment Snazy snezy — September 3, 2008 @ 9:42 am
Walter you mentioned this in passing, but I think we need to address it more throughly.
All of us who have learned about NAIS knew it was just the opening shot in the war to gain complete control of the US and world food supply. The next step is in the planning stages and I think this is the equivalent of NAII. Its goal is to implement the Guide to Good Farming Practices disguised as a grassroots NGO initiative. NOTE only ORGANIZATIONS are allowed to join. Perhaps the Anti-NAIS crowd should form several “organizations” (one for each state) and join.
About The Center for Food Integrity
The Center for Food Integrity was established in 2007 to increase consumer trust and confidence in the contemporary U.S. food system. Our primary mission is to promote dialogue, model best practices, address issues that are important to consumers, and serve as a resource for accurate, balanced information about the U.S. food system.
Our Mission
To build consumer trust and confidence in the contemporary U.S. food system by sharing accurate, balanced information, correcting misinformation, modeling best practices and engaging stakeholders to address issues that are important to consumers.
The Center was formed to serve as a resource where consumers and other stakeholders can find accurate, balanced information about the food system and engage in constructive dialogue on important issues affecting the production and supply of food in the U.S. Additionally, recognizing that continuous improvements are expected in today’s society, the Center will provide food system stakeholders with a forum to address common issues.
We also believe the entire system can learn from individual companies or associations who have embraced sound principles and model best practices. Sound principles and best practices can help the entire system improve performance, increasing consumer trust and confidence in the food system.
How can my organization become a member?
For further information about membership, contact The Center for Food Integrity at (816) 880-5360.
Food Integrity Org
I am coping this in full since it is members only news.
The Center for Food Integrity’s 2008 Food System Summit will explore issues related to sustainability, immigration, food safety and better communications with consumers. The conference is Oct. 8 and 9 in Indianapolis.
Scheduled speakers include Wal-Mart’s Jack Sinclair, Bon Appetit Management Co. CEO Fedele Bauccio, Jason Clay of the World Wildlife Federation and Tamar Jacoby from ImmigrationWorks USA. CFI also will release the results of a consumer survey on food safety, host a live consumer panel discussion on the topics, and discuss options for the industry’s response.
The year-old Center for Food Integrity is a non-profit group aimed at promoting dialogue, modeling best practices, addressing issues that are important to consumers, and being a resource for information about the U.S. food system. Its member organizations represent each segment of the food chain, from producers to distributors, as well as the government.
Meating Place Members only
[Several times I’ve looked at exactly this, forming an organization so as to join these groups to find out what they’re up to and be able to make input. They have interesting hurdles, typically extremely high membership fees, to keep out the riff-raff like us. -WJ]
Comment Snazy snezy — September 3, 2008 @ 9:45 am
Food Integrity Organziation Members from their website…
American Farm Bureau Federation
Dairy Management Inc.
Elanco Animal Health
Fair Oaks Dairy Farm
Foster Farms
Indiana Farm Bureau
Indiana Packers Company
Indiana Soybean Alliance
Indiana State Department of Agriculture
International Association of Fairs and Expositions
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Maple Leaf Farms
Michigan State University
Missouri Department of Agriculture
Monsanto******************
National Pork Board
National Pork Producers Council
Novus International
Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin
Purdue University
South Carolina Farm Bureau
United Egg Producers
United Soybean Board
Comment Dave — September 3, 2008 @ 11:59 am
I am passing this on for another person…this tells how NAIS is being pushed in the back door to negatively affect the sheep industry. You may feel the need to call your elected offal and keep them on the cutting edge of the truth about NAIS.
http://community.dog.com/forums/t/85080.aspx
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There was a lowly woman in the Bible (Luke 18:1-8) who kept bugging the judge until he heard her case, not because he cared about her, or justice, he just wanted to get her off his back. We have to be like this woman and keep bugging our elected offal, not because they care about us (even though they want our vote), or love justice, but because they want us to quit bugging them…why do you think the lunatic fringe gets heard, because they do not quit howling about their so-called injustices.
We need to wear down the USDA, the elected offal, big ag and let them know we are not taking NAIS just because they say so. They are not our bosses.
THE DAILY TIMES—EASTERN SHORE NEWS
NEW LAW ~~~forces sheep owners to major loss
On Oct. 3, NAIS Virginia Scrapie Regulations will take effect unless you contact our representatives in Richmond immediately before the meeting of the Joint Commission on Administrative Rules on Sept. 11, and ask them to suspected enactment of Va. Reg. 2 VAC 5-206.
Under this rule, all sheep and goat owners must:
• Register their farms and obtain a Premises Identification Number;
• Keep records for five years every time you buy, sell, barter, lease, loan, trade, exhibit or otherwise move a sexually intact goat or sheep unless the animal goes directly to slaughter. Records can be inspected by the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
Any violation is punishable by a year in jail and/or a $2,500 fine.
Scrapie is not a public health threat. It is also not an animal health issue. In Virginia, there has never been a case in goats, no cases in white-faced or hair sheep for the last 10 years and only a handful of cases in black-faced sheep.
These regulations are simply a way to punish us into NAIS through the back door and all of your animals will then have to be registered and tagged and movements reported.
Many other states have much less strict regulations and are still considered “scrapie consistent” under federal requirements.
If you have a pet goat, as many of us on the Eastern Shore do, don’t think you are not included.
Contact your representatives today and stop this infringement.
There is a bill filed to limit these regulations. It is HB 1525. Ask your representative to hold the regulations until they have reviewed further this useless effort and financial damages. Louise T. Johnson—Greenbush
Comment esbee — September 3, 2008 @ 3:20 pm
I attended the quality assurance training last Thursday required for Badger Vac 45. Many normal protocols are part of the requirement and were known for some time, however there are some interesting twists. The claim was made that the requirements were set up by cattle buyers. When questioned as to who they are, no one knew. Program is sponsored by Wisconsin Beef Council, Wisconsin Cattleman’s Assn. and the UW Extension. It cost me $15 to take the course from someone paid by my tax dollars to provide me research data paid for by checkoff dollars. Purchased feed requires signatures of the receiver and delivery person, and samples of each batch must be kept for two years. Samples will be the only way of proving your innocence in case of contamination found later. You will be required to cover ALL expenses in the event of contamination. Sale committee has the authority under the contract to inspect records and cattle at any time without warrant. I asked this specifically. The committee will fine you $100 per head for bred heifers or stags. Records are to be transferred with cattle. No mention was made of how transfers would be handled to assure compliance with the 1974 Privacy Act. A Wisconsin Beef Quality Assurance ID number would be issued and required to be used on all records. Records include Individual Animal Treatment Record, Group Cattle Processing Record, Cow/Calf Herd Health Procedures Record, Mass Medication in Feed/ Water for Group/ Pen record, Premise Pesticide Use Record, Feed Ingredient Record, WI BGA Shipping/Transfer Release Record-here you sign guaranteeing compliance and list Individual animal ID numbers 840 tags, Confirmation of Veterinarian/client/patient Relationship- affidavit confirming this relationship and definition of this relationship. The bottom line is that after 10 years of below normal prices here in Wis because the state allowed Equity Livestock Coop to create a monopoly, our savior has now arrived to burden us with contracts shifting all liability to feeder cattle producers if they can’t prove they are innocent.
Comment Paul-Martin:Griepentrog — September 3, 2008 @ 9:29 pm
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Comment scotty — September 4, 2008 @ 8:11 am
Un-freakin’-believable! Are Wisconsin cattle producers going to fight, comply or quit?
Comment Pat H — September 4, 2008 @ 10:52 am
esbee,new mexico is doing the same thing,only with TB in cattle.
Comment nick — September 4, 2008 @ 9:25 pm
Pat, we will fight. Although this is a pilot program I have been informed that the organizations doing the “education” will later become the enforcers. During the power point presentation it was indicated that Organic and Natural labels will also be required to meet these standards.
Comment Paul-Martin:Griepentrog — September 5, 2008 @ 11:30 am
If you put comment 6, comment 9 and comment 12 together you can see the Fifth component
The Codex/WTO/OIE/FAO/ISO combined project:Guide to Good Farming Practices
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FDA is also jumping on the “farm to Fork” Bandwagon
http://www.hhs.gov/asl/testify/2008/07/t20080731a.html”>FDA Enhancing Traceability of Foods
“FDA formed an internal multi-Center group to meet with external entities (such as industry, consumers, and Federal, state, local, and foreign governments) to better understand the universe of track and trace systems that are currently in use or being developed. FDA has reached out to various organizations, including trade associations and consumer groups, to gain a better understanding of best industry practices for traceability, including the use of electronic and other technologies that speed and enhance the traceback process and the use of systems that connect all the links in the produce supply chain. FDA is using this information to develop recommendations for the fresh produce industry to use to improve its internal traceback systems. We plan to hold a public meeting in the fall to further the exchange of information on available technology and best practices for enhanced traceability.
We have been working extensively with states and the fresh produce industry to encourage incorporation of traceability procedures and technology. For example, FDA assisted the Florida Tomato Commission and the University of Florida/Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences in the development of Florida’s Tomato Best Practices Manual. This Manual incorporates Good Agricultural Practices, Good Handling Practices, and traceability recommendations for industry. The Manual formed the basis of the State of Florida’s tomato safety rule.
Another recent example is the final guidance for the fresh-cut produce industry, which FDA issued this year…
We will continue to work with Federal, state, local and international food safety partners and with industry to develop guidance, conduct research, develop educational outreach materials, and initiate other commodity-, practice-, or region-specific programs to enhance the safety of fresh produce.”
Comment Snazy snezy — September 5, 2008 @ 11:43 am
There is an update today at farmtoconsumer.org on the Nais lawsuit; it has a Case #: 1:08-cv-01546 and the Judge is Rosemary M. Collyer …was glad it was not the one who ruled for USDA against Creekstone…lately. Check out their FTCLDF website today.
Comment The Phantom — September 8, 2008 @ 5:26 pm
news from down under on how their NAIs (NLIS) is working or rather NOT working!
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From a cattle producer in Australia:
“Cattle have been particularly hard to sell to feedlots due to the increase in grain price, the rising Aussie dollar against the Green
Back and over the top fuel prices forcing costs up on export of beef over seas. Diesel fuel is now $1:50.9 at the petrol pump PER LITRE!
You travel 6 mile for that!
Argentina had a frost and has closed trading grain which has sent the grain futures market scrambling to lock in supply!
Here in Australia we have continuing drought and unseasonable rain at harvest time (happening now) affecting yields with down grades in quality.
Cattle purchased 6 months ago for $700 as milk vealers of 350kg have been attracting a feedlot price of $1:55 for a 450kg beast ($697:50) so there has been some seller resistance as you can appreciate. One company decided to raise the price to $1:80 and attracted an
avalanche of steers and then closed the offer when they gained the supply they required! ($810 was rather attractive going into a hard
summer of continuing drought for the 5 year old end).
So we had 6 loads booked (450 head) and began to prepare them. The deal is based on a grid payment system so you gain the best price if you target the “wanted” weight and breed. The catch is they have to be Lifetime Traceable ……their buttons have to scan and record on
the data base as being owned by the vendor and have been transferred from owner to owner ensuring they have kept their Lifetime place of birth button. Given that there is a recognised loss of buttons by the time they reach feedlot weight, the company allows for a 10% loss of traceability. Over 10% loss you are automatically docked 5 cents on the entire weight of cattle delivered in one day!
Normally our scanner will pick up faulty buttons as they don’t register and these are drafted out and not sent. Apart from the cattle who lose the button completely on fences and gates and hay
feeders many buttons are faulty or damaged and won’t scan. Our scanner was away for this rushed exercise being repaired so we didn’t have it to alert us of these faulty buttons for 2 loads of cattle. As the 150 head went on the trucks we scanned 12 less cattle than we actually sent and we knew we had put in 8 substitute orange buttons which are NOT considered Life Time Traceable as they are NON BREEDER buttons. The total of non Lifetime Traceable cattle was 20 head……..therefore over the 10% permitted and the 5 cents over kg across the entire weight was $3375 dollars less than we could have received for the 150 head or $22:50 per steer sent per head.
Yes it takes the smile off your face when you get hit in the guts like that. Don’t forget these buttons have cost the breeder $3 each and even our Non breeder orange substitute button we have to buy as no beast can be sold without a button of one sort in their ear, and we have had to pay $1:50 plus GST for every beast purchased in
scanning fees, and $30 for a booklet of 20 NVD (National Vendor Declaration forms) a copy of which must accompany each load, and we have $5 per head deducted and sent to MLA (Meat and Livestock
Authority) that helps run this wonderful system we suffer!
This cut in the price would have paid for the trucking ($900 per load) and all the add on costs associated with selling to feedlots ……like suffering a 50 cents per kg chop on any beast that is injured in transit, or is deemed unsuitable for feedlotting on arrival and has to be slaughtered, or has pink eye on arrival….very common in this summer heat and dust with multiple handling in the pre preparation of the cattle. Fortunately we had none of these!
I urge you to consider stopping the introduction of this NAIS system in your country. Just as the feedlots manipulate the system to suit
themselves to lower the price for cattle purchased so will you find the system will be rorted in the horse world. We currently have an outbreak of Equine Influenza and horses that are vaccinated must be
microchipped ($80 dollars). A passport system akin to the Race Horse scene ensures the traceability of those chipped and vaccinated, a requirement for horses who go off farm to Shows, to events, to stud
etc. Vaccination must be undertaken every 6 months by a vet at a cost of $100 for the vaccination plus the vets’ expenses in travel and
consultation fee. The 80% of pleasure horse owners in Australia can’t afford that…the 20% race horse owners are used to the cost of micro chipping but not to the cost of vaccination but it looks like we have it forever…like you do. It will impact greatly on people owning horses, breeding horses and competing with horses. It has already had a huge impact on event cancellation and the breeding season has been
destroyed as horses can’t move off their farms due to the lock down.
So I urge you to fight this NAIS with all you can muster in resistance! Jenny Bird.Down Under
Comment esbee — September 8, 2008 @ 6:45 pm
More on Australia’s System. Two letters from those involved with NLIS, one short one that is ok with it and one very long letter detailing the problems with the program….my suspicions are the first letter was written by an employee of their local Aussie Dept of Ag.
It would be good to send a copy of the second letter to your elected offal in Wishy Washy Seedy
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Australia’s NLIS by Lynda Griffiths.. We have had the National Livestock Identification System [NLIS] in Australia for a couple of years now and our cattle have to have the buttons in their ears before they go through the sale yards. Each of our properties has a property number and the tags are issued promptly and relatively inexpensively on request. They really aren’t any great bother. We have to tag only sheep and cattle.
Second Opinionby Rob Johnson
The newspapers here in Australia reported about a calf buyer who claims that only 85% of the 12,000 weaner cattle his company bought last summer were transferred correctly on the NLIS database. A Department of Primary Industries spokeswoman countered that 51 buyer audits were held in Victoria since late 2004, consisting of calling buyers to verify they had purchased the number of cattle specified, and asking if the animals had been transferred to their Property Identification Code [PIC] number, and 98.4% of the cattle had been transferred accurately. However, a contract eartag scanner said the only way to know if the same cattle that were transferred on computer actually physically arrived at a certain PIC is to rescan them on-property, but “To my knowledge, no one has the capacity or ability to check that.”
Some feedlots now apply discounts of 5 to 10 cents per kilogram for cattle that lost their lifetime traceability status. For a 450-kilogram feeder steer, this discount can mean a loss of AU$45 a head (about US$35/1,000-pound steer) for each animal that hasn’t had every property movement accurately recorded on the database.
NLIS has been in effect here coming on two years. I haven’t registered my place, and I am selling cattle to a neighbor who also isn’t registered. There is one heck of an underground trade, making the whole thing pointless. I’ve always been opposed to it, but I can mount arguments for its implementation in the bigger picture. In theory it gives the customer what he wants, but in reality it has lots of big holes.
At the last bullocky [ox drover] meeting I raised the subject of just how ridiculous NLIS is, and plenty of people there were in total agreement. NLIS had just bogged them down in paperwork.
Our Patron is a retiring senator. His advise? “Just ignore it!” Which is what everybody who can already does. So it’s only those who put stock through the market that it affects. Hardly a watertight system!
Lynda Griffiths and Rob Johnson both live in Victoria, Australia. Their letters appeared in print in Autumn 2006.
Comment esbee — September 8, 2008 @ 6:50 pm
I learned that money is the only thing that talked while working in industry and I forgot all about that. Mention the loss of a couple million dollars, (oops its more like 4.5 billion) and eye balls pop. The
Ag census 2002 breaks it down by state.
For example in my state all farms except for 171 are family held. That is 53759 family farms with $3,145,202,000 spent on supplies and $617,679,000 spent on labor. A total of $3,762,881,000 added to the states economy. Then add in the Horse Population of 256,000 horses with a Total Economic Impact: $ over 704 million and you get 4.5 BILLION. A real healthy chunk of change. Do the politicians want the newspapers to know they plan to kill 4.5 BILLION dollars worth of business for the state?
Maybe something like this will wake up the reporters and Sheeple.
Comment Snazy snezy — September 9, 2008 @ 4:54 pm
OOPS!!
posted this to the wrong bulletin-board.(Aug) go there for whole article
More Attacks on Small Farmers:
China:Organic food declared deadly
A working team at Nanjing University in China has published preliminary findings based on a three year study of the safety of organically grown vegetables and organically raised livestock.
The study alleges that the there is very substantial evidence that the very same chemicals and artificial substances that make produce less attractive to insects and pests protects the human body by making it less fertile for the growth of cancers and viruses….
all news web
Comment Snazy snezy — September 11, 2008 @ 7:27 am
COMMENT #16 Esbee
If you have access to horse sites you might have them look at The guide to Good Farming Practices. Once that is in place only the very wealthy will own horses, there will be no showing, rodeos, trail rides, boarding, or lessons.
Can you just see an instructor requiring a health certificate from each kid for every lesson!
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Comment Snazy snezy — September 11, 2008 @ 8:13 am
Anybody hear of these Corporate Shills before?
Center for Science in the Public Interest urges FDA to impose Good Farming Practices
CSPI has urged FDA to adopt a series of preventive measures starting at the farm that could control foodborne pathogens. Our suggestions, outlined in a 2006 petition to FDA, include common-sense food safety control measures:
1. Farmers and processors should be required to keep a written food safety plan specific to the environmental conditions on that particular farm.
2. FDA should develop uniform standards to evaluate those plans, for water quality, worker sanitation, and manure use and management.
3. Written plans should be audited once per season, either by FDA or a 3rd party auditor (whose audits should be reviewed by FDA).
It is clear that produce safety must become a priority for FDA, starting at the farm. Congress should also act to ensure that the agency has the authority and the resources to fulfill its critical public health mandate.
CSPI net.org
Comment Snazy snezy — September 11, 2008 @ 9:56 am
The Center for Science in the Public Interest has a very good graph in their 2006 petition to the FDA (pg4) SHOWING THE MAJOR INCREASE OF FOOD CONTAMINATION AFTER 1995 the date WTO and The Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures were signed. This graph is good ammunition to show WTO andsps are causing the disease not the tradition Safety Measures that have been abandonned by USDA and FDA.
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Comment Snazy snezy — September 11, 2008 @ 10:11 am
Hmmm, Eating poison food will keep you healthier eh?
Well that does it I want a bowl of triple 19 with monsantos bovine growth milk and a good 1/2 cup of nutrasweet on top,I should live forever!!At least I’ll be pickled:)
Is it just me? am I in a time warp where the cancer rate is through the roof for only the area I live in???
I have never seen so much cancer,just buried another friend monday, a whole 48 years old,cancer in every organ,the fact is the food most folks eat to live is killing them and they dont even know it,so sad, I eat 95% what I grow or hunt and no one will convince me different,
These people have no shame,none,they want to kill off the average people and they are succedeing,cant depend on anyone but yourself to take care of your health, I dont believe most folks will fall for stupidity like that but we know the politicians tend to follow stupid non logic enough that they may believe it and dictate accordingly,best to ignore these idiots and take care of yourself,you’ll likely live longer/healthier,thanks.
“Live free or die tryin”
Comment Lee — September 12, 2008 @ 8:31 am
There is a new article on Natural News, “Codex Alimentarius: Population Control Under the Guise of Consumer Protection”. It is the lead story today at:
www.naturalnews.com
I was not aware of all the items listed under “The Real Threat”, in the article, that are to take effect 12-31-09.
Good luck to all Texans with the hurricane. We are barely on the outskirts of it, if it stays on the course predicted.
Comment Texas Goat Gal — September 12, 2008 @ 3:03 pm
Sorry, it is NOT the lead story. Just search “Codex”. It is near the top, dated 9-10-08.
Thanks!
Comment Texas Goat Gal — September 12, 2008 @ 3:21 pm
Check out Devvy Kidd’s article today at newswithviews on Real ID…(so similar to Nais, and of course “voluntary”…) newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd393.htm (put the www in front) She references Rep. Sam Rohrer’s excellent, in depth review of what Real ID is really about…. you can access his article from her article.
Comment The Phantom — September 18, 2008 @ 6:01 am
One of the local NAIS groups is being tested by a disagreement over the Presidential election. Groups like this are one of the few who are aware of NAIS and are working to stop it. We can’t afford to self destruct.
NAIS isn’t a liberal or a conservative issue. When we contact legislators about NAIS, Walter asks that we be civil and courteous. We should extend that same courtesy to each other. Keep your eyes on the prize, people: stopping NAIS.
Comment mumrock — September 19, 2008 @ 6:09 am
Sorry, I meant to say Walter.
[edited. -WJ]
Comment mumrock — September 19, 2008 @ 8:43 am
I watched the news ticker today and the FDA are planning to “regulate” GM animals. The article in the LA Times included such phrases as “produce cows that are less sustuible to Mad Cow” and “produce heart healthy chickens”. What?! So cheaper feed with more animal by-products can be fed to them?!
Oh Yeah that will increase the profits for the giant corps that can afford GM animals.
Google “FDA GM Chickens” and see what you get
Comment Lorene — September 19, 2008 @ 3:48 pm
FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS!
Comment Kevin — September 28, 2008 @ 6:52 pm
PA Senator Bob Casey is listed on the nonais site as Nice/Anti-Nais. However, FYI, this is the letter I just received from him in response to my query about NAIS:
Dear Ms. Kline:
Thank you for taking the time to contact me regarding the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). I appreciate hearing from all Pennsylvanians about the issues that matter most to them.
For hundreds of years, farmers have recognized the usefulness of keeping records on their flocks and herds so that they can be more easily tracked from birth to slaughter. While at one point that meant using a hot brand, today’s farmers have at their disposal a number of less invasive options for marking individual animals such as ear tags, neck chains, and leg bands. Some of these labels can also be outfitted with radio frequency ID transponders, which further increase efficiency in animal identification processing.
Because accurate animal identification has the potential to improve animal health, strengthen food safety and promote the commercial production and marketing efforts of our Nation’s agricultural producers, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has proposed a voluntary National Animal Identification System. The initial guidelines for the program, which were released in early 2004, set out practices for labeling species such as cattle, bison, poultry, swine, sheep, goats, deer, elk, horses and alpacas. Since that time, the Department has continued to work with state and local officials, representatives from the livestock industry, food safety advocates and other key stakeholders to develop this program.
In the months ahead, I will be monitoring negotiations closely to see that officials at USDA address some outstanding concerns that I have about NAIS. These would include how to handle liability and confidentiality concerns regarding animal identification records, how to determine who pays for the costs of compliance with the program and whether to make NAIS a mandatory program at the federal level or to allow individual states to establish their own standards. As this work continues, please be assured that I will keep your views in mind.
Again, thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. Please do not hesitate to contact me in the future about this or any other matter of importance to you.
If you have access to the Internet, I encourage you to visit my web site, http://casey.senate.gov. I invite you to use this online office as a comprehensive resource to stay up-to-date on my work in Washington, request assistance from my office or share with me your thoughts on the issues that matter most to you and to Pennsylvania.
Sincerely,
Bob Casey
United States Senator
Comment Vicki Kline — September 30, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
Sum days I just want to hunt down the berocrats and their ilk deep six em and be done with the problems.
Comment Nat — November 24, 2008 @ 10:14 am
Nat,
In response to the shrub
The USDA and Pres Bush Are stating the USDA is not involved in RFID tagging of cattle in Michigan.
But if a paid assassin kills my husband and has a written contract with my neighbor and a bank acct full of money transferred out of my neighbor’s account then under US law my neighbor is considered guilty of murder and the contract is considered null and void.
Why are RFID tags being placed in the cattle’s ears. Because of signed contracts between states, tribes and breed associations and the USDA for which the USDA has paid over 2 million of my tax dollars. If my neighbor is guilty of murder because of the contract and exchange of money, then the USDA is tied just as tightly to the RFID tags by contracts, money and the written business plan.
However the USDA’s involvement goes further back. According to the Sec of Ag Schafer
“Some livestock producers in Oklahoma and elsewhere have declined to participate in the voluntary tracking system, which the government promised to create after the nation’s first case of mad cow disease in December 2003 in Washington state.
“It’s an important public policy,” Schafer said. But many farmers resist it because they feel it is government intrusion..”
This statement is an outright lie. USDA officials have also stated RFID tags are “needed for trade” and “disease control” why because of the WTO agreement on Agriculture. That states.
“Aims to ensure that governments do not use quarantine and food safety requirements as Unjustified trade barriers to protect domestic industries from import competition. It provides Member countries with a right to implement traceability as an SPS measure”
Who wrote that agreement?
Dan Amstrudz wrote the agreement in 1995 (not 2003) under direction from former USDA Secretary Ann Veneman .
And just as my neighbor was guilty of murder, Dan Amstrudz, Ann Veneman, and Ed Schafer are guilty of conspiring with foreign nationals to harm, poison and murder Americans. That agreement written under the direction of a Sec of Ag and enforced by another has closed USDA disease testing labs, refused to allow independent disease testing and has KNOWINGLY opened the US border to a flood of harmful foods and drugs with no quarantine or other security measures.
IF it is legal for the USDA to sign contracts with states that take away our freedom of property and religion and intentionally open our borders to possible bioterrorism, is it just as legal for American farmers and consumers to sign contracts with mercenaries to defend ourselves against USDA and FDA officials intent on doing us harm??
Comment Snazy snezy — November 25, 2008 @ 4:21 am