"The National Animal Identification System will become mandatory for all livestock owners January of 2008. All animal owners will have to register their premises with the USDA and obtain a premise ID number. Your home will then be under satellite surveillance. Information about your private residence will be placed in a national database. In this age of identity theft does this make you feel more secure? Your animals will have individual 15-digit electronic ID numbers which will require expensive readers. You and taxpayers will foot this bill."
While the impact of the program on small farmers and ranchers is mentioned, what is not told is that the USDA has been granting indefinite waivers to LARGE livestock operations. Those big corporate ranchers, arms and feedlots may never have to comply with NAIS or pay its high costs. Even though the big operators are more of a risk than the small land holders, with all of the past mad cow scares traced back to the big guys because of mass feeding programs. Good pilot program though for testing the chips since they are the same as the human chips that are highly opposed by privacy groups. Testing them in an animal program allegedly for a beneficial purpose avoids the opposition that has risen when human use of the chips has been proposed (for tracking lost children is one example) because they would introduce government tracking of us all. Children with chips grow up, so over time every adult would have one and older adults would be pressured to get them inserted also for health and safety excuses. David Bier http://wluctv6.com/Global/story.asp?S=4484490 National Animal ID, first air date 2-10-06 Presented by: Karen Valley (Guest Editorial) The National Animal Identification System will become mandatory for all livestock owners January of 2008. All animal owners will have to register their premises with the USDA and obtain a premise ID number. Your home will then be under satellite surveillance. Information about your private residence will be placed in a national database. In this age of identity theft does this make you feel more secure? Your animals will have individual 15-digit electronic ID numbers which will require expensive readers. You and taxpayers will foot this bill. Field trials of these electronic tags have proven disappointing. So why use them? The backers of this program include corporations invested in this technology. They will profit--you will not. By January 2009 any movement of your animals on or off your property including pleasure riding will have to be reported within 24 hours. .....Thousands of people die each year from food related illness. In this country no one has died from mad cow disease. All animal parts were banned from livestock feed in 1997, thus eliminating the cause of mad cow disease. Avian flu is spread by migratory birds. Tagging all our poultry will not prevent it. Nor will it prevent this or any other flu from mutating into a dangerous human to human strain. The money being wasted on NAIS could build a vaccine manufacturing plant for our citizens. More inspectors could be hired for food processing plants. There are efficient, affordable USDA programs already in place to eradicate the most devastating livestock diseases. NAIS will just be another invasive, unnecessary burden for small family farms. -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
