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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Perils of Industrial Agriculture
  • Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:03:19 -0600


I hope you're wrong but Barb and I have our suspicions too. Remember the
cartoon where a farmer pulls a carrot from the ground and it has a bar code
on it?

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 7/7/2008 at 9:58 AM D K wrote:

>> Why does the government?particularly the FDA, which is in charge of
>produce?have such a hard time finding the problem when there is one? It's
>been almost a month since tomatoes were linked to salmonella poisoning
>(that must have originated in meat), and the FDA still hasn't found the
>source of the problem. That's because the FDA doesn't track produce. The
>administration wrote a report outlining the need to track tomatoes in
>particular, but never asked for funding to implement the plan.
>
>
>I bet someone in the FDA or USDA is already thinking and working on
>ideas such as (with seriousness) "Gee, we need to figure out a way to
>make NAIS for produce!"
>
>Maybe it would be called NPIS (pronounced "in piss").
>
>"National Produce Identification System" and some RFID chip
>manufacturer CEO sees a pile of money floating in a cloud above his
>head.
>
>It would not surprise me to see the introduction of a ridiculously
>expensive and impossible program to track produce. Rather than
>encouraging local markets, they will come up with a new superhuman
>scale program to defeat the evil emperor "nature". Nature sits there
>and tells us, in no uncertain terms, "This ain't working,", but humans
>want to continue defying it.
>
>Diane K in FL
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