Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Good for you. Time for some more "Don't Tread On Me!".

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 12/23/2007 at 5:42 AM Ken Hargesheimer wrote:

>Saturday, I received an envelope from the Texas Animal Health Commission
>to my mother's trust.  When my mother got sick we put the family farm in a
>trust [no animals].  The trust was disolved in 1997 upon her death.
>   
>  It was a form to fill out from the NAIS.  I can't believe that America
>has come to this.  I changed the name on the return envelope to:  TX
>Animal Gestapo. I enclosed the following; nothing more.
>   
>  Ken Hargesheimer
>  minifarms@gmail.com
>   
>  National Animal Identification System (NAIS):  The way to stop Mad Cow
>disease is to stop feeding animal parts back to cows.  Cattle are
>herbivorous; not carnivorous.  It is stupid to do so but corporations do
>not care as long as they make a profit.  It is illegal but they do it
>anyway.  Enforce the law!  The way to stop the bird flu is to close all
>chicken factories and raise the chickens on farms.  Problem solved.  If a
>person treats their dog or cat the way chickens and pigs are treated, the
>person will go to jail. 
>  1) USDA proposes surveillance of every property where even a single
>animal of any livestock species is kept; and to require, at a minimum, the
>radio-frequency tagging of every animal through NAIS. 
>2) NAIS proposes forced registration in a huge, permanent federal database
>of individual citizen's real property (the homes and farms where animals
>are kept) and personal property (the animals themselves). 
>3) NAIS proposes that an animal owner will have to report, within 24
>hours, any missing animal, any missing tag, the sale of an animal, the
>death of an animal, the slaughter of an animal, the purchase of an animal,
>the movement of an animal off the farm or homestead, the movement of an
>animal onto the farm or homestead. 
>4) NAIS proposes that animal owners will have to pay the costs of
>registration and surveillance of their homes, farms, and livestock.
>("[T]here will be costs to producers,"  "private funding will be
>required...Producers will identify their animals and provide necessary
>records to the databases... All groups will need to provide labor...", 
>5) VIOLATIONS:  Persons in violation of the regulations once they become
>mandatory will first be issued warnings to register their farm for the
>program.  Persons who do not register after receiving a warning will be in
>violation and subject to penalties as provided by the NAIS standards
>expected to be $1000 per day.
>6) Currently (NAIS) is voluntary. The plan is slated to become mandatory
>by January 2008.
>  The TX Agriculture Gestapo is alive and well.
>  2 Aug 06  I am sure that the tag manufacturers are really pushing
>Congress to implement this law.  Just think how much profits they will
>make.  If I had animals I would go to jail before I would do it.  That is
>what it is going to take. 
>  You're absolutely correct.  It's all quite open, too.  Take a look at
>the members of the NIAA, the trade organization that proposed the plan in
>the first place -- many of them are technology companies.  The technology
>companies even have representatives on the species working groups.  No
>business would have a vendor sitting in a decision-making capacity!  Yet
>that is exactly what our government has done with NAIS. www.naissucks.com;
>  
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