While the USDA foists the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) on American consumers, farmers and livestock* the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is proposing importing chickens from China. Yes, that’s right. Is that crazy enough? They want to tag and track all animals in the USA to prevent disease’ and then import poultry from China where Avian Bird Flu (H5N1) has been killing millions of birds as well as some people. Wait a minute?!? Wasn’t one of the justifications for NAIS to stop the spread of Avian Bird Flu???
Not only that, but the USDA wants to ship poultry to China, have it slaughtered and canned and then shipped back to the USA for consumption! What!?!
Does this make sense? Wait… sense… cents… Ah, think dollars! Now I understand! They’re outsourcing more jobs so big corporations can use cheap Chinese labor to keep the prices down and make up for the increased costs of raising chickens under NAIS! Well that makes cents!!! I’m glad we’ve got that cleared up! As always, follow the money trail…
Of course, only big producers will be able to take advantage of this deal so all you small farmers are out of luck twice over. You get the increased cost of NAIS. Plus, you’re faced with lower market prices for your product since the big producers will undercut you with cheap, Chinese, slave labor. Sounds like the USDA is going to screw small producers coming and going. Move along folks, nothing new here.
*Is there a difference I ask or does the Govi-Corp consider all of us livestock to be managed for their maximum profit?
So basically all the hype about a bird flu pandemic being eminent is hypothetically correct, inasmuch as the government obviously intends to spoon feed us the virus via imports from China right onto every American’s kitchen table….
Oh yeah, any coincidence that the US has borrowed tons and tons of $$$ from China - guess the “interest pay back plan” included importing their poultry and anything else they want as well.
Lou Dobbs also “briefly” mentioned it in his newscast on CNN last night. I have the link to his transcript at South of the Gnat Line.
UNBELIEVEABLE……America, wake up!!
Harriette Jacobs
Comment Harriette Jacobs — January 28, 2006 @ 4:49 pm
This just blows me away. Our government in action! Or is that inaction? Na, they’re moving, just backwards!!!!
Comment Jack Hammonn — January 28, 2006 @ 6:59 pm
Did you notice that the comment period closed before this became generally reported in the news media. Thiis another think like Nais where they are sneakign it throu without people knowing about it or anything.
Comment Mark Volen — January 28, 2006 @ 7:11 pm
Sometimes I’m not sure which is worse… knowing about all this crap or being in the dark. Seriously.
Thanks for starting this site, Walter.
Comment Liz — January 29, 2006 @ 8:34 am
Would you eat a Canned Chicken?…
How about if it came from China? How about if it were American Chickens processed in China for export back to the US? Thanks to NoNais for bringing this article to our attention. At a time when Avian Flu is wrecking havoc in Asia and the USDA is prop…..
Trackback The Podchef Show — January 29, 2006 @ 10:32 am
I’ve been wondering what the true reasons behind this were and I could only come up with 4 tinfoil hat style ones. Here they are anyway:
Mad Cow Disease is really worse than we’ve been told.
This Sh*t is really going to hit the fan economically and TPTB (the Powers that Be) need to know where the food assets are when the dollar implodes due to hyperinflation.
Another way for corporate farms to take over small family farms due to the extra expense of all this and penalties.
An excuse for the police state to tramp and snoop all over rural areas looking for animal registration compliance.
I hadn’t come up with the consumption tax one but I think that is a minor issue.
Comment Vicky — January 29, 2006 @ 10:51 am
I love this site. I put a link to it from my site. Thank you for doing this.
Comment Vicky — January 29, 2006 @ 11:01 am
our government is becoming more of a joke every day. this is insane. to quote harold’s mom (harold and maude) ‘this is just too much. i can’t take much more of this!’
how do they explain this away in light of nais???????
Comment stella — January 29, 2006 @ 11:39 am
The link on the USDA page does not work. Maybe they got so many negative responses they Closed it!Keep up the good work with the website.
Comment Susie Stretton — January 29, 2006 @ 9:01 pm
No NAIS…
In case you are one of the few homesteaders who has not heard of this dangerous bill, I thought it best to do a official community alert.
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Trackback The Front Porch — January 30, 2006 @ 6:28 am
NAIS is insane, killing off the little guys while using disease as the excuse, then wanting to import food from China that will almost certainly be infected with H5N1 Bird Flu. As for Mad Cow Disease, the thing that started it and is still causing it, is the big factory farms feeding cows to cows, not the little farmer down the road selling eggs and pork.
Comment HotRodder — January 30, 2006 @ 9:05 am
Welcome to the new corporate AMERIKA. We ain’t seen or heard nothing yet.
Comment Rod — February 5, 2006 @ 9:47 pm
Welcome to Corporate Amerika
Comment Rod — February 5, 2006 @ 9:50 pm
We have a meeting this week in our state capital about nais and I am going. I urge people to be sure to attend all public metings to let officals know you oppos nais. we must fight this.
Comment Helen — February 27, 2006 @ 10:08 pm
At first this NAIS stuff looked reasonable. I mean everyone wants safe food. But I have come to realize that this is not about safe food. NAIS is not goign to make food safe. The problems are not on the small farms or even the big farms. The problems are with the government failing to do its jbo of inspectingt food and the big butchers spilling oil and bacterai and brain tissue into the meat. We don’t need nais. We need to get ride of the USDA. They are power hungry.
Comment Ralph — March 2, 2006 @ 8:00 pm
What is the government going to do? Tag every wild animals? That is were a lot of the dieseases all come from originally. Rabies and bird flue and the dear wasting disease all are wild. The government cant do anything about that by making farmers and hoobyists waste their money tagging and reporting on their chickens for eggs. This is just one more prime example of how peopel in our government are wasting our money. They dont care. They just raise taxes and fees on us which are really taxes anyways. I say replace the whole dammed bunch of them. Better yet we should tag the politicians. See how they like that.
Trackback Evalin N — March 5, 2006 @ 9:48 pm
There are some very fundimental flaws in this legislation. First of all it is not even constitutional. The government does not have the right to come into our property and do inspections or anything else like that. They are strictly limited in what they are able to do in the constitution and later amendements so that they will not end up with too much power and become dangerous. Our founding fathers were very concerned with abusive government.
Comment don — March 6, 2006 @ 11:30 am
There is no way it will work. They wont’ get compliance. Even if they try to intimidate people with huges fines there will be too many people they will miss which invalidates the whole idea of disease prevention. Its bogus.
Comment Irene Henderson — March 7, 2006 @ 2:42 pm
how would our governments founding fathers feel about the way the country is being led right down the crapper hole
Comment Paul — March 9, 2006 @ 10:25 am
There is no way I will comply with this absurd unlawful regulation.
Comment David Hanson — May 5, 2006 @ 5:44 am
I don’t get this hole de-populating thing. killing off all the animal will stop disease. There will be no animals to get the diseases. But what’s the point? That is such a dumb idea I can’t believe we are paying peiple with our taxes to think up dumb ideas like this. The head of the USDA should be made to look for real work. He is obliviously unfit for the job.
Comment Mable — May 5, 2006 @ 5:44 am
It is rediculose for the government to setup a system that will fail. There is no way that nais can succceedd. It is too complex. It is to tech dependent. It is too expensive. Maybe the usda is not aware of the reality that a lot of people here in VA don’t have computers, phones or even electricity. They’re not going to report or even register. This is a load of bull.
Comment addy — May 5, 2006 @ 5:45 am
This has got to be the most corrupt government in this countrys’ history.
I could see them importing these birds, make people sick and cull every bird where there are convenient outbreaks.
I can’t believe that they want to import chicken.
I hope that we defeat this, otherwise, I really believe I’m just going to leave. What can I do? I will become a Vegan, I’ll tell ya that much because i don’t want to eat a chicken that came all the way from china. I am really tired of all this GM food too. We are going to be left with little option as far as food goes. This is just mindblowing, this just keeps snowballing. Our government is making war on its’ own citizens. We will be marked and led to slaughter next.
Comment Irene — May 28, 2006 @ 8:21 pm
Sunday I was watching a program on the Discovery Channel about the Three Gorges Dam project in China, that has been under construction since 2003. At that time the waters began rising, eventually to cover more than 100 towns. I’ve read about this Chinese Big Government scheme for several years, but as I watched Sunday, I saw many parallels to their project and our own Big Government NAIS.
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1.2 million Chinese, many peasants, will be displaced by the dam project.
Millions of American farmers, ranchers, and homesteaders will be driven out of business or off the land by mandatory implementation of NAIS.
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Unofficial estimates are that this dam project will cost over $100 billion (US).
Multi-billions of US taxpayer dollars will be wasted on the implementation and maintenance of NAIS. (After all, it’s only funny money that is printed whenever the Fed says “print it”, and is backed by nothing.)
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The Chinese government is relocating those displaced, either to high-rises, or with 300,000 farmers being provided land that is less fertile than what has been tilled for centuries.
We can look forward to one of the following: loan foreclosure (which will rid many of that pesky debt), selling our land to another who doesn’t care about Big Government’s intrusion in their lives, or eminent domain for highways, or for Big AgriBiz to put our land into “greater profitability”.
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Approximately 1,300 important cultural sites will disappear under the water.
The backbone of the farm and ranch industry - small producers - will disappear with NAIS.
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There are charges of inferior workmanship and corruption in the construction of the dam.
We can rest assured there will be corruption at the highest and lowest levels of NAIS, and unfair, indiscriminate punishment will be applied.
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The river/flooding is expected to be at its full depth by 2009.
NAIS is projected to be fully functinal by 2009.
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Are we to think our government cares any more for its citizens, their livlihoods, and the continuation of a rich history of hard work and rewards therefor, than the Communist Chinese government (yes, still communist) cares about its citizens or culture. Our government wants us to think communism is waning, so we will not see the similarities of what we are becoming to what we used to think were repressive governments. The plan is to “harmonize” the world - bring the less-affluent countries up, as we are being brought down.
Walter, I wasn’t going to clog your website with more of my rantings on this long weekend, but I can’t help myself. It seems DECEIT never takes a holiday, so we can’t either.
Comment Texas Goat Gal — July 3, 2006 @ 3:08 pm
The Hippocracy of this Government is extreme. At every turn Mr Bush sold out to a corporation, many of which are forgein, and we are at war with. He’s wrapping us up and is going to give america away as if on big gift, or shall i say pig on a platter.
They pass NAIS, I then consider my life in danger. This is so wrong and i am astounded that this is going on.
There is a program in the WTO that is to wipe out our access to nutrients/vitamins, and it
CODEX is an international agreement touted by Big Pharma, Big Chema, and Big Medica aimed at internatinally banning vitamins/supplements and herbs, and make it mandatory for the world’s food supply to be irradiated and for all animals be fed antibiotics and growth hormones.
SO there is another piece of the puzzle. Thanks again to the USDA FDA and our government, big pharma and agri biz and i’m sure MOnsanto.
www.healthfreedomUSA.org
Comment irene — July 4, 2006 @ 8:14 pm