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  • From: John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] National Animal ID program
  • Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:37:25 -1000

Aloha,

Thanks for the on-the-ground report.
This is the kind of direct information we need more of on these kinds of topics.

I have no idea if this is headed our way (Hawai'i) any time soon so I will put the word out...our Know Your Farmer Alliance is meeting in less that two weeks, I'll see if anyone has heard about this in our 'hood.

cheers,
John S.

Forest Garden wrote:
Hello Everyone,

I am from Texas. I farm and have livestock. This aniaml ID issue is real -
I've been to the official public comment meetings. Registering the premises
where animals are kept is scheduled to be mandatory by July of this year.
Tagging will be implemnnted as soon as as possible thereafter.

The program amounts to the small farmer being burdened with oneous paperwork
and fees. Farming is hard enough work to have to deal with this kind of
extra load.

This amounts to the government deciding to license and make it now a
'priveledge' to own livestock - which used to be an inherent right. The
cost of some of the fee's are more than the chicken itself.

As someone in the real world, on the ground, dealing with this issue as a
part of my livelihood - from here it looks like an insidous plot by large
organizations to control what little remains of the food supply that is not
coming from a corporate factory farm. It's really freaky the extent they
are going to.

Buckle up.



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----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 1:59 AM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] National Animal ID program



Loren Davidson wrote:


At 1:05 AM -0500 2/28/06, Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:


John Schinnerer wrote:



Heather, can you tell us the name of the 'microchip guy' you spoke

with?

Perhaps that will help people sort this out without needing to resort

to

personal attacks on list members.

Spreading hysterical unresearched BS to a large list isn't a great idea.


I'm with John on this one. There appear to be two very different
points of view out there, and right at the moment, I don't know which
one contains truth and which one contains "hysterical BS." I am
willing to believe that both sides are acting in good faith, based on
the data available to them.

Archer is right; a national livestock ID program is a must. As time

progresses I am sure

methods will evolve that will enable small farmers to be able to get with

the program and mark all their animals.

It can't be that difficult. Huge corporate poultry operations will have a

task at hand of another order of magnitude.

Do you farm or otherwise work the land in any way for a living? Probably

not. Those that do will have to

defend their livelihoods, now and in the future, from those who would

disrupt them through limiting access to their fair

market share. This appears to already be happening around the world to

farmers in 3rd world countries. These are issues

you and js will probably never have to deal with. It would be wise for all

livestock owners, homeowner to corporate to

work cooperatively with the government to make a sensible ID program work,

one with a level playing field with

implementation processes that work for all.


Innuendos, hell. There are mailing lists I moderate on which
namecalling like "hysterical BS" is clearly defined as a personal
attack/insult, and would get the poster warned and/or booted for
repeat offenses.

Sounds like Fascism to me.


I don't think John is "implying" anything - he comes
right out and calls it like he sees it - and I agree with him that
your words are really uncalled for.

Calling it like I see it is exactly what I did.


Whatever happened to "thoughtful and protracted observation?" Care of
the Earth? Care of the people? How does namecalling promote *any* of
that?

What namecalling? You're fantasizing.


If we're going to start ripping each other apart over "matters of
faith," we're going to do Monsanto's work for them. If you can't

Let's see you and js do more to help defend small scale agriculture,

homestead farmers and local market farmers against

the ravages of government sponsored fascistic rulemaking, subsidies and

tax breaks bought and paid for by the likes of

Monsanto, which with the rest of The Cabal would probably like to take

over our food supply and probably more. If you

want to rail at someone rail at them.

LL


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