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Bob, you are right, I try to stay out of political talk in 
general as I'm on the list to glean homesteading 
knowledge.

From a food standpoint, and an egg farmer, I'm very aware 
of NAIS and how it's pushing small farmers around. But my 
understanding of APHIS is limited, from my friend in plant 
pathology research, not my field. Maybe I'm naive, and 
only looking at botanical proctection from the sense of 
keeping plant disease and insects out of the country. I 
suppose Homeland Security could involve the feeding of 
people, but then that should require agronomists.

I see all of this largely driven by corporate greed of the 
Monsantos who have undoubtedly benefitted from NAIS and 
eight years of Bush politics. The last I'd heard the NAIS 
thing was dead. What happened?

--Sage


On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:33:54 -0700 (PDT)
 bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> You normally don't participate in our political 
> discussions , Sage.  So, I'll let Lynn , or someone else, 
> give you a non-political reason the gov't needs, for 
> supposed security reason, to identify, and track 
> preactically every animate and inanimate object in the 
> world, including 'me' .
>
> I think centralized gov';t simply ,always, demands more 
> and more control.  But, I think Lynn is fairly familiar , 
> atleast with the NAIS stuff __ Now both are kind of being 
> combined ....bobford