Re: Register your farm and every unit of livestock

Posted by shawnspeed3 on July 27, 2006 at 17:07:36 from (65.164.255.91):

In Reply to: Register your farm and every unit of livestock posted by VTfarm on July 26, 2006 at 17:58:34:

I don't have a problem with desease tracking,I don't have a problem tagging my animals ...what I do have a problem with is the violation of my constitutional rights being violated with unwarrented survalance,(RFID tags can be tracked by satilite ,and without a warrent is illigal). also part of the NAIS entails a quarintine area up to several miles around a farm on which an animal is SUSPECTED, not confirmed but suspected ,to have a desease, can be sized without warrent,and destroyed without compinsation. How would you like the USDA confiscating you herd because a neighbor 2 miles away MIGHT have Bovine TB? say it can't happen? well That very thing is happening right now in the TB zones of Michigan.A man In upper Michigan is loosing his Whole beef herd due to the fact His herd sire came from a herd that MIGHT be positive for TB ...mind you his heard has been tested yearly and has had no problem, but one cow on the farm he obtained the bull from might be infected( TB tests are not very conclusive, local dairy man had 1 cow test positive or reactor as they call it but they couldn't tell until the cow was slaughtered at which time it was found negative) Is tagging and tracking good ,yes , is the NAIS the way to go, In my opinion , not as it's written.I personally don't sell in the local auction houses, all my animals are sold as freezer meat or breeding stock , that is tracible through my breed registry anyway.If their is a problem with my stock I will be the first to know about it.Also most of the food borne illness has been due to problems at the Prossecers, not the farm, listera,botulism,saminella,e-coli are all due to poor processing conditions not how the animal was fed or handled on the farm. And why not do a mad cow check on all beef headed to market? one farm in the US wants to do this but the USDA told them if they buy the test kits from France they will prosicute them for illigaly possesing a controlled substance. Who's the USDA looking out for???What are they afraid of??If this sounds like a conspiricy theroy than so be it...but I normally wouldn't question the motives of the goverment,feeling like they are looking out for our best intrest, but if you really look at who authored this part of the farm bill, it was a group called the NASS, which consits mostly of SUPPLIERS OF TAGGING EQUIPMENT...their we are again ...it's down to the money...the tagging industry will make millions if not billions of dollars and YOU and I are payn' the bill...Shawn

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