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  • From: "Hook Family" <ghf AT townisp.com>
  • To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Market-farming Digest, Vol 46, Issue 1
  • Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 07:23:47 -0500

I agree with the below statement. This is what gets glossed over in all the pro Nais propaganda "protection", making the food "safe". How safe did those few hundreds or thousand spinach eaters feel. With trace BACK people often many people have to get sick first. And from what I've read on other sites by an underfunded and corporate run organization. Just the fact that ID chip makers are on the "committee" for this program makes me think the reasons for the program are not especially altruistic.

Just this summer there was an online Yahoo article about how they are testing fewer animals for MadCow at processing plants, oh but the powers that be so care about the publics health, yeh right.

I have also read that every cow leaving a processing plant can be tested for Mad Cow for a few cents each a much better use of the consumers money in my opinion (they pay to get sick with NAIS).

I think more effort should be made to send uncontaminated food into the food chain in the first place, most small farms already do the big guys just want easy fixes, pasteurization, radiation, Id chips. If "they" really want safe food this program isn't it. Beth


From another post:
Aside from that, I don't think the NAIS will work. Most contaminated meat
isn't caught until (like the recent spinach problem) it's mixed with tons
of other meat and on the supermarket shelves. Instead of one cow's-worth
of contaminated meat, we've got tons. Feedlots where e. coli breeds and
the huge operations that mix tons of ground meat together are the problem.
Once the animal is cut up and comingled with other meat, tracking does no
good.




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