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  • From: Allan Balliett <aballiett AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: avalonfarmshomegrown AT earthlink.net, Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] NAIS or making an omlette with rotten eggs
  • Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 06:05:28 -0500

I doubt this represents the light at the end of the tunnel for livestock people, but I spend a lot of time in Washington, residential Washington. I happened to run into a fellow who is an employee of the company that is behind the NAIS chips. He let me know that after I started on a tirade about NAIS. This fellow is high up in the company and totally delighted by how large the potential market is for the chip and also by all the industries that already use it. (He told me the Walmart story, how they track a product around the store once you put it into your cart. While I have no idea of how this information is deeper than just watching sales receipts, WalMart apparently enjoys knowing what you looked at as well as what you bought.) He implied that his company is backing down from NAIS because of controversy (not an easy sale) but will get the mega-market they are looking for when accepting a chip becomes one of the requirements in immigrant worker programs. I guess most importantly, all applications were morally equal to this man, he was just joyful that the government and corporations would find so many uses for a passively powered spy chip. -Allan




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