Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Barbara Fischer" <cen12205@centurytel.net>]

I can't resist answering this......I am not going to give too much info as
there may be "spies" among us.  I have a Premise ID....have gone no further.
My Vet does not require any ID and I can transport my animals around
whenever i please.  The auction I go to does not require anything either.
>From all I have read and from what reality is here.....I think you all are
making a mtn out of a molehill.  Just my opinion.

Barbara
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Claudia & Linda" <dragonhill2@netzero.net>
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing"
<livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] The Future of Farming?


> One of the big dangers right now to small farmers who are finding ways of
> surviving against corporate agriculture is that agribusiness has begun to
> perceive these small farmers as a threat to their strangle hold on the
> economy.  They will stop at nothing to gain control over these small
farmers
> or drive them out of business. NAIS, the National Animal Identification
> System, is just one way they are trying to do this.  Here in Oklahoma
where
> we have an efficient food cooperative, Tyson was so threatened by small
> farmer's poultry sales, that they lobbied legislature thru overnight to
> prevent third party sales.  This meant farmers couldn't have the co-op
> deliver their dressed poultry.  All efforts to get this silly law revoked
> have been blocked because Tyson has money to make sure it doesn't get
> changed.  I've talked to several owners of feed stores or seed suppliers
who
> have had Monsanto agents in their store, demanding their records so they
can
> know who has bought Monsanto seed--without a court order they don't get
it.
> This, of course is so they can make sure they aren't saving any of their
> seed.  And in Oklahoma it's already illegal to save seed from any type of
> wheat.  The big companies absolutely want to control agriculture from top
to
> bottom.  NAIS will destroy us.  We can save and pass heirloom seeds among
> us.  Even if it were made illegal--it would go on.  But you can't hide a
> piece of land and a Premise ID is nothing more than a license to farm.  If
> you live far enough back in the wilds you may be able to hide some animals
> for your own use, but it's a damn poor way to have to live.
>
> Claudia
>
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