The Truth About the Animal ID Plan

Hmm... Has anyone addressed the fact that if every animal is chipped, what happens to those chips when the animal is slaughtered at the packing house? How much time is the average employee going to spend looking for a chip the size of a grain of rice in a carcass, when they are paid on rapid processing and production? Am I missing something here?

Will folks be frying up ID chips with their chicken, stew meat or bacon and consuming them? Will the ID chips be floating around in people? Am I going to be tracked down as a cow, several chickens and a pig on a National Animal data base? HA!

The NAIS project is beyond ridiculous. Washington can't even balance their budget without printing money. You and I would go to jail for that. And they plan on expanding their phenomenal incompetence?

Besides fighting it tooth and nail...may I suggest building animal friendly ramps so we can hide them in our house. Or camofladging them to look like 1960 hippie vans. I guess what I mean is I will do whatever it takes to keep my animals. This is a big step toward communism.

Wake up America. This animal ID program is just a precursor to
your ID implantation. This is just part of the greater plan. An
experiment.

Tracie you're right this is in preperation for the mark of the
beast. Let the nay sayers laugh we know the truth!!!

Well, It looks like Illinois is joining the pro-NAIS band wagon. On
the website for the Illinois State fair, we see that no one can
exibit livestock at any Illinois fair(county, state, 4-H , or FFA)
in 2008 without a Nais premise registration number. Too bad for any
youth with a single lamb or any livestock project. My kids use to
earn their "summer wages" by showing livestock. This could well
eliminate the numbers at small county fairs, resulting in the
disappearance of many livestock shows due to less dollars allocated
for premiums!

Just one more intrusion into our freedom, in the name of doing
good. Taken by itself, the National Animal Identification System
would be benign, but added to all the other identification systems,
it takes us even closer to the Brave New World. Want to apply this
technology to sex offenders? You have my vote. Repeat illegal
aliens? The same. Cows? Give me a break. Better yet, get the
government out of my life.

So the State of NH which has most of the pieces in place under
voluntary measures is the source of large scale animal diseases and
the home of the 'Beast'? Or are we a large scale corporate farming
State? Or is it the rest of the western world? Notice how their
fixing their bio-security problems? While America is gearing up for
a 'surge' in Iraq? And its pretty hard to believe an article that
puts the blame on corporate agriculture for the program... they
were the first to raise opposition.

Of course the Ag. Dept. doesn't care about the inconvenience or
cost or enviornment or anything else except the welfare of the
corporate agriculture giants. we have government of, by and for
corporations. Abe Lincoln must be spinning in his grave. My
grandfather was a vetinarian, and he fought against the
corporitization of agriculture with everything he had. We had what
was, for the time, a large farm, 400 acres more or less. We raised
cattle on pasture, milked cows and sent the milk to the local dairy
in a refrigerated truck, and raised tomatoes, which weent to the
local cannery, and grains, which went to the local elevator. When
we cleaned the barn, the straw and contents went into the manure
spreader for application to the fields. We rotated crops, with
legumes before and after corn, and pastured the cattle in the
orchard. The chickens and geese were in the coop at night, and out
in the morning. Sometimes that meant a hunt for where one of the
hens had hidden a nest, and sometimes we didn't find it and she
came home with her brood following her.

Thank you, Mr. Kittredge, for this excellent summary of a very
ill-advised and ill-motivated program. My work is in H5N1, doing
community-based education about this virus. For a long time, it has
been clear to me that the CAFO system has been the source of
accelerated mutations, creating this highly virulent and
unprecedented strain of the H5N1 virus. Throughout Asia, Africa and
Europe, the poultry industry has been using one tactic or another
to force backyard farmers to "cease and desist" their biodiverse,
healthy, small scale operations. Overt and covert coercion has been
government policy for several years now, blaming migratory birds
and backyard producers for the spread of H5N1, when the strain is
directly caused by the conditions in the large-scale factories. So,
I commend your efforts to block yet another tactic on the part of
the agriculture industry to wipe out small producers. The tagging
system, as you point out, has no real purpose in controlling
disease, but is just another way to try to coerce all food
production into the large-scale and dangerously unhealthy
industrial systems. Carry on! Margot White, JD Institute for Public
Health Univ of New Mexico 505-925-4452 MLWhite@salud.unm.edu

Laugh if you want, but this "animal I.D. system" and others like
it, are preparing the world for the human identification chip. We
have RFID chips in our clothing, animal I.D.'s in our pets and even
chips implanted in the elderly who have alzheimer's. Just as the
Bible predicts, we will soon have a "mark"/"chip" in our right hand
and forehead. Yes, "The Mark Of The Beast." Yes, I'm sure you're
smirking now. Just remember this comment when it comes to pass. :)

I think most of the large groups opposed to NAIS have moved on.
According to Sen. Inhofe's minority statements on the Sen. Science
Committee, they are now focusing opposition on increased CAFE
standards.

See also: http://www.spychips.com

See also: http://www.spychips.com

Excellent overview of NAIS. We don't need more corporate welfare.
NAIS is designed to maximize large corporate profits and markets
for the big exporters while burdening small farmers. NAIS does not
protect our food supply. It does violate our fundamental
Constitutional rights. The best solution is to know where your feed
comes from through buying locally or raising your food yourself.
There is no need for NAIS.

WHOOPS :) here it is again, cleaned up a bit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcYRm0wxgOw
http://birdflubook.com/a.php?id=110
http://birdflubook.com/a.php?id=68
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=meet_your_meat&Player=wm&speed=_med
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4925
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=36651
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2004/WHO_CDS_CPE_ZFK_2004.9.pdf (see
pages 55,56,57,62 in link above) http://grain.org/articles/?id=12
http://www.grain.org/m/?id=84
http://www.grain.org/briefings/?id=194
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4721598.stm
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2007.00699.x
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:c_ZShE9CNjIJ:www.warmwell.com/avian%2520flu%2520report%2520final.pdf

This is why I no longer buy the magazine... one-sided commentary
without any editorial oversight.

Thank you Mr. Kittredge for an excellent article. I see you have
done your homework. For your information, we in Missouri have been
fighting Missouri Farm Bureau, Missouri Cattleman's Assc., Pork
Producers and the Missouri Farmer's Alliance and others who are
proponents of NAIS. We've spent an enormous amount of time and
resources trying to get good, solid no-NAIS legislation passed in
Missouri but in the end, on the last day, we were blocked by Rep.
John Quinn who is the Ag-Policy Chair and Speaker of the House Rod
Jetton. Our legislation passed both the House and the Senate by
overwhelming majority but in spite of a verbal commitment from Rep.
Quinn to bring the bill (sb156) back for a final vote on the last
day of the session, he refused. And Speaker Jetton allowed him to.
As far as Farm Bureau goes, it's amazing to me that an insurance
company is telling our legislature what ag-policy we should or
shouldn't have. And what's more amazing is that farmers continue to
support them. The truth is that Farm Bureau is no longer a
grassroots-run organization. The upper management folks are against
the small farmer and rancher. If you look, they are always on the
side of legislation that benefits thier pocketbook and big-ag
businesses.