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Something that bothers me about the whole H1N1/A rush to vaccinate is that they are rushing the vaccines to market too fast. Now vaccine maker GlaxoSmithKline has recalled 172,000 doses of the vaccine in Canada. This rush to make money on the flu hysteria has put the vaccines out to the market too fast without proper testing. Normally our whole family gets vaccines every year but this time we’re skipping it because I just don’t trust the corporate greed machine.

In Australia they have 11,000,000 non-existant “phantom” cattle in their system. Farmers are being trapped by errors in the National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) in Australia and then being cheated out of the payment for their hard work. Now in Europe we have the story of a sheep tagging disaster…

ELECTRONIC identification of sheep could be as disastrous to Welsh farming as bluetongue and bovine TB, industry leaders believe. NFU Cymru vice president Ed Bailey fears the EU plans could leave the Welsh countryside bereft of its most potent symbol – sheep. He said the high costs of implementing electronic identification (EID) would cripple the Welsh sheep sector and force many farmers out of the industry.

“It is estimated that EID cost farmers £6 per head in the first year, knocking about 40% off their incomes overnight,” he said. “I do worry about the long-term impact on farming incomes and the possibility that many producers will simply not afford to carry on. “It could have a profound effect on the Welsh countryside as we know it.”

The industry is fighting a rearguard action against the plans, due to come into force in January 2010.
Unions still hope to secure a derogation for Britain, Europe’s main sheep-producing nation, but attempts to allow the voluntary introduction of EID have so far ended in failure.

The Farmers Union of Wales said the topic is high on the agenda on the summer show circuit. At tomorrow’s Denbigh & Flint county show farmers will be invited to sign the union’s online petition opposing the introduction of compulsory EID.

FUW Denbighshire chairman Glyn Jones said the regulation would amount to an additional tax on European sheep producers.

He said: “With money being lost on every sheep, the extra cost of tagging, coupled with the extra time taken to conform with the legislation, will simply add to those losses.”

EID trials are on-going on 14 farms in Wales, but results have not been encouraging. Older farmers have struggled with the equipment, while the hardware and software produced by different companies has often been found to be incompatible. EID readers struggled to work in cold and wet conditions, and at markets and abattoirs equipment suffered electrical interference. At one of the country’s largest abattoirs, a study found that, in perfect conditions, the equipment had a 93% success rate. It meant that, if EID was implemented, seven in every 100 sheep would have to be written off – probably more.

Derek Morgan, FUW hill farming committee chairman, has unsuccessfully trialled EID on some sheep at his Powys farm. He said: “It would be uneconomical to use the system on my commercial hill flock.”

“It could lead to land abandonment in some of Wales’ most sensitive areas as the industry plays a vital role in maintaining our landscape,” he said.

FUW vice president Glyn Roberts has an ongoing petition on the Prime Minister’s website at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/sheepEID/
-DailyPost UK

Our beloved government wants push us to NAIS, if we don’t volunteer they will make it mandatory. A mandatory disaster that will favor the mega-producers and destroy small farmers.

Hat tip to Darol.

Helloooo, Big Brother! This is a GoviCrat’s wet dream:

Britain to Implant Prisoners With Spychips

The British government is planning to begin implanting machine readable microchips under the skin of thousands of convicts to help enforce home curfews. The Independent of London reports radio frequency identification or RFID tags would be surgically inserted into the former prisoners. The spychips would contain scannable personal information about individuals, including their identities, address and criminal record. The government is also investigating how it could use satellite and radio-wave technology to monitor the released prisoners.
-DemocracyNow

What price is freedom? Where does reason end? Do they really believe that a hardened criminal is going to leave the tag in place? Tags can be rewritten, blasted and removed. The Gov needs to get real.

A senior Ministry of Justice official last night confirmed that the department hoped to go even further, by extending the geographical range of the internal chips through a link-up with satellite-tracking similar to the system used to trace stolen vehicles. “All the options are on the table, and this is one we would like to pursue,” the source added.

Consumer privacy expert Liz McIntyre said a colleague had already proved he could “clone” a chip. “He can bump into a chipped person and siphon the chip’s unique signal in a matter of seconds,” she said.

One company plans deeper implants that could vibrate, electroshock the implantee, broadcast a message, or serve as a microphone to transmit conversations. “Some folks might foolishly discount all of these downsides and futuristic nightmares since the tagging is proposed for criminals like rapists and murderers,” Ms McIntyre said. “The rest of us could be next.”
-Independent UK

So, who’s next? Crime suspects? The elderly? Children? The disabled? Dole recipients? Farmers? Citizens? All for their own good, of course… Tag! You’re it!

Hat tip to Mary, Tracy, Ed, Dan, John & Mark.