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The Mark of the Beast for Livestock by 2008
Satan is going after the small farmers now, because we will be the ones not relying on the evil government!
Look at the new law that the USDA is going to force on
everyone that has live stock, even if you raise it
just for yourself. And it is going to include everyone
who has even 1 horse that they use for transportation
(Amish).
I have been raising animals for most of my life.
Always trying to live a better life through natural
foods and always helping out whoever needs help. I was
very upset to read that I may not be able to do that
anymore. Please support and boycot this new law. Tell
EVERONE! This is still our country, but only if we
fight for it. Don't just sit back and let things like
this happen.
Why You Should Oppose the USDA's Mandatory Property
and Animal Surveillance Program
By Mary Zanoni, Ph.D. (Cornell), J.D. (yale),
Executive Director of Farm for Life~ P.O. Box 501 ·
Canton, New York 13617 .' 315-265-2800 · mlz@slic.com
For several years,' the USDA has been working with the
largest-scale animal industry organizations (for
example, the National Pork Producers, Monsanto
Company, and Cargill Meat) to develop a mandatory
"National
Animal Identification System" ("NAIS").
However, most small scale livestock producers, people
who raise animals for their own food, and people who
keep horses or livestock as companion animals do not
know about the USDA's plans.
The NAIS will drive small producers out of the market,
will make people abandon raising animals for their own
food, will invade Americans' personal privacy to a
degree never before tolerated, will violate the
religious freedom of Americans whose beliefs make it
impossible for them to comply, and will erase the last
vestiges of animal welfare from the production of
animal foods.
The Problem On April 25, 2005, the USDA released
"Draft Program Standards" ("St.") and a "Draft
Strategic Plan" ("Plan") concerning the NAI8.
If you think the description below sounds too bizarre
to be true, please go to usda.gov/nais, read the
Standards and Plan, ana check the citations.
By January 1, 2008, the NAIS will be mandatory. (Plan,
pp. 2, 10, 17.) Every person who owns even one horse,
cow, P.ig, chicken, sheep, pigeon, or'virtually any
livestock animal, will be forced to register their
home, including owner's name, address, and telephone
number, and keyed to Global Positioning System
coordinates for satellite monitoring, in a giant
federal database under a 7 -digit "premises 10
number." (St., pp. 3-4, 10-12; Plan, p. 5.) Every
animal will have to be assigned a 15-digit 10 number,
also to be kept in a giant federal database.
The form of 10 will most likely be a tag or microchip
containing a Radio Frequency Identification Device,
designed to be read from a distance.
(Plan, p. 10; St., pp. 6, 12, 20, 27-28.) The plan may
also include collecting the DNA of every animal and/or
a retinal scan of every animal. (Plan, p.13.)
The owner will be required to report: the birthdate of
an animal, the application of every animal's 10 tag,
every time an animal leaves or enters the property,
every time an animal loses a tag, every time a tag is
replaced, the slaughter or death of an animal, or if
any animal is missing. Such events must be reported
within 24 hours. (St., pp. 12-13, 17-21.)
Third parties, such as veterinarians, will be required
to report "sightings" of animals. (St., p. 25.) In
other words, if you call a vet to your property to
treat your horse, cow, or any other animal, and the
vet
finds any animal without the mandatory 15 digit
computer-readable 10, the vet may be required to
report you.
If you do not comply, the USDA will exercise
"enforcement" against you. (St., p. 7;
Plan, p. 17.) The USDA has not yet specified the
nature of "enforcement," but presumably it will
include imposing fines and/or seizing your animals.
There are no exceptions under the USDA plan, you will
be forced to register and report even if you raise
animals only for your own food or keep horses for
draft or for transportation.
The Negative Effects Eradication of Small Farms People
with just a few meat animals or 40-cow dairies are
already living on the edge financially. The USDA plan
will force many of them to give up farming. Loss of
the True Security of Organic and Local Foods - The
NAIS is touted by the USDA and agricorporations as a
way to make our food supply "secure" against diseases
or terrorism. However, most people instinctively
understand that real food security comes from raising
food yourself or buying from a local farmer you
actually know.
The USDA plan will only kill off more local sources of
production and further promote the giant industrial
methods which cause many food safety and disease
problems;
Extreme Damage to Personal Privacy - Legally,
livestock animals are a form of personal property. It
is unprecedented for the United States government to
conduct large-scale computeraided surveillance of its
citizens simply because they own a common type of
property. (The only exceptions are registration of
motor vehicles and guns, due to their clear inherent
dangers but they are registered at the state level,
not by the federal govemment.) The NAIS would actually
subject the owner of a chicken to far more
surveillance than the owner of a gun. Surveillance of
small-scale livestock owners is like the government
subjecting people to surveillance for owning a couch,
a tv, a lawn-mower.
What about non-livestock animals? Will the government
next want to register all cats, dogs, and parakeets,
and demand the' global positioning coordinates of
their owners' houses and apartments?
Insult to Animal Welfare - The NAIS is the ultimate
objectification of higher, sensitive living creatures,
treating individual animals as if they were cans of
peas with a bar code. Many people who raise their own
animals or buy from small, local producers do so
because they are very troubled by industrial-scale.
production of chickens, cattle, and pigs. These people
will be forced either to sacrifice their personl
privacy to government surveillance, or to stopraising
their own food by humane standards.
Burden on Religious Freedom .... Many adherents of
plain (and other) faiths raise their own food animals
and use animals in farming and transportation because
their beliefs require them to live this way. Such
people obviously cannot comply with the USDA's
computerized, technology-dependent system. The NAIS
will force these people to violate their religious
beliefs.
What You Can Do Do not participate in any ''voluntary"
state or federal program to register your farm or
animals-the USDA is using. farmers' supposed
willingness to enter a ''voluntary'' program as a
justification for making the program mandatory. (See
Plan, "Executive Summary" and pp. 7-8.) Help Inform
and Organize other concerned citizens. The USDA
presently does not plan to finalize its rules for
mandatory ID until the summer of 2006. There is still
time to oppose this plan.
We have formed FARM for LlFETM, a public-interest
organization to support the rights of small and
subsistence farmers and consumers of organic, natural,
and local foods. Our first project is to stop the USDA
plan for mandatory animal lD.
. FARM for LlFETM will publish a newsletter three
times a year (first publication scheduled for 7
November 2005), to inform you of developments
concerning animal ID and other issues vital to the
small farming and
natural/organic food communities.. FARM for LlFETM
will send you information at appropriate times on how
to contact lawmakers and the USDA to oppose animallD.
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It is relatively troubling to me, as it had been
proven that the pollen of the genetic modified plants
have polluted even the "heirloom" seeds we all try to
perserve and use in our own gardens...
It seems to me that pretty soon we wouldn't even be
able to grow our own food! God Help Us Remnant Saints Who Are Preparing Places! Sister Hannah
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It's disgusting and unnatural. People should not be forced to chip their pets or livestock. They're familiarizing people with it, so when they want to actually do it to people themselves- there will be no problem.
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I am concerned that the national animal ID system is too invasive into people's lives. If the real purpose of NAIS is to track the food supply for instances like mad cow disease then:
1) NAIS is not necessary for horses, donkeys, guardian animals or other non-food animals - these animals are not going to enter the human food chain in our country and should NOT be tracked by the government.
2) NAIS is not necessary for sales direct to the consumer from the farm. In these cases there is already far better tracking of the food chain. I breed and raise my own pigs and sheep. I sell directly to the consumer. The consumer, my customer, knows me. I know the consumer. I know my animals. My customer knows exactly where their food came from - me.
3) NAIS should not be at all involved with people who are raising livestock for their own family consumption. They know exactly where the food came from - they raised it. There is no need to have any government involved in our own kitchens and backyard food raising.
NAIS is being implemented too broadly. To include the above three groups suggests the government has ulterior motives and is trying to invade people's privacy. There should be exemptions for the above three groups. -
Even if the stated purpose of disease tracking was really the purpose of NAISE the problem is the government is implementing NAIS to cover a lot more than the above needs. There is no need for NAIS to track food people raise for themselves, direct farm to consumer sales and pets.
The National Animal Identification System is totally unnecessary for the homestead. If you are growing food for your own consumption you already have 100% trace back. You know where your animals came from, where they went. The government does not need to be involved.
NAIS is also not needed for direct farm to consumer sales. Again there is already 100% trace back available. I breed and raise most of my own livestock which I sell directly to the consumer. I know exactly where it has been. My customer knows where they got it. The government does not need to be involved.
NAIS is not needed for pets either for the same reasons. In fact, this is the most absurd aspect of the whole thing that points out just how flimsy the government's excuse that NAIS is for tracking disease or contamination in the food chain. If NAIS were really for that purpose then they should be tracking every food, from beets to broccoli to beef. The most likely source of threat to our food chain is at the processor and distribution levels.
NAIS is to benefit government (think taxes), big businesses (eliminates small business competition) and the consumers (feels good because food supply is 'safe') who buy from the big businesses and pay taxes to the government. It is harmful to small farmers and individuals who raise their own food. The government is offering us paper work, snooping, threatening huge fines and confiscation of our property. Next they will be taxing what they require us to register. Their goal is to make everyone dependent on them. -
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Just checking to see if there is any news about the missionary in Timor, Austraila?
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and GOD Bless you
1/28/06 11:25 PM
-Walter Jeffries
Sugar Mountain Farm
http://SugarMtnFarm.com/blog/