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  • From: "Lisa K. V. Perry" <lkvp AT floydva.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] USDA's Mandatory Property and Animal SurveillanceProgram
  • Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:25:21 -0400

Marie McHarry wrote:

We're living in a country where the government can't fund port security and
is going trillions of dollars into debt to irritate the Arab world and turn
the Undecideds there into bona fide terrorists. To imagine that we'll have
inspectors climbing into the trees to see if the hens and guineas are in
compliance -- well, I suppose it will be interesting to see how it all works
out.

Love it. I explained the law to my sons this morning at breakfast and they both looked at me like I was nuts. My oldest son, now 15, began his rant with "you've got to be kidding me, they want to keep track of our chickens and they can't even...." I'm with Rob, why waste the time, energy and money to discuss such an issue in the first place? The good old USDA, who can't keep track of mad cow disease and won't fund testing of more than 1/10 of 1% of all cattle going to market. My memory may not be correct on the percentage of cows tested, but I do recall it was a very small number, less than 1%. Where is that Hightower report when I need it?




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