USDA's National Animal Identification System (NAIS - RFID) - YOUR FOOD SUPPLY!

I'll check out those links as it seems there is very little evidence this regulation will curtail disease in animals as Bruce Knight, USDA Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs insists. Unfortunately, he does not say how NAIS will work other than to trace back a diseased animal to it's farm of origin. Beyond tracing it back, they've offered little into what will happen next. That also does little to stop disease if incubation periods for some of the most horrific diseases, such as:

TB incubation 70 days
Equine Viral Arteritis 2 - 10 days
Glanders - the organism can live 4 - 6 weeks in a contaminated area
Coccidioidomycosis - can be present for months before a diagnosis.
Anthrax 1 - 2 week incubation period
Dourine 2 - 12 week incubation period
Listierosis highly infectious, progresses slowly unnoticed, once obvious death 3-10 days after appearance of clear signs of illness.

won't show symptoms until it has already spread. The other consideration that seems to escape most people is that wild deer carry TB and pass it to cows. NAIS will eliminate (or depopulate) the herd of cows normally found in a small farmer's back yard, but it does nothing to depopulate the infected deer which go on to infect more cows. Just as West Nile Virus hit our shores a few years back and the USDA did nothing. Now, this disease regularly infects animals and is a crossover disease so affects people too. Where did the disease originate? Mosquitos in New York. Had they sprayed or done anything to prevent it's spread, it's possible it would not have infected wild birds who have "migrated" with the disease across the country.

Ultimately, NAIS is a financial hardship for the smaller farms because they must purchase RFID tags for each of their cattle/livestock. Whereas, the corporate farms need to purchase a single RFID tag because their herds are closed and killed apparently in the same location. Cargill, Tyson and other big corporate farmers (who feed our school children) can be found at the root of the most recent ecoli outbreaks discovered only when a person becomes ill - the most recent ecoli outbreak in Jan, 2008 damages the kidneys. NAIS does nothing to prevent this diseased food source - no funding for more inspectors at the corporate farms who often fund political campaigns. Ironically, there is a conflict of interest with Kevin Kirk who is an Michigan Department of Agriculature (MDA) official implementing this program as mandatory in Michigan and who is also the treasurer of NIAA, which is advocating NAIS. Where was the MDA when Iso-plus was introduced into the cattle industry? It was a by product of the Kodak Company. Where was the MDA when the animal fat supplement was introduced to the cattle industry? Where was MDA upon the introduction of Boving Somatrin (BST)? This product drove many consumers to try to purchase raw products from their local milk producers. Now the government has passed a law to prevent anyone in Michigan from buying raw milk.

It's important to keep in mind what Henry Kissinger did in countries like Allende’s Chile to force a regime change to a ‘US-friendly’ Pinochet dictatorship by withholding USAID and private food exports to Chile. Kissinger dubbed it ‘food as a weapon.’ The role of the USDA in backing and financing Delta & Pine Land’s (Monsanto) decades of Terminator research is even more revealing. As Kissinger said back in the 1970’s, ‘Control the oil and you can control entire Continents. Control food and you control people…’ clearly application of classic Lenin Bolshevik tactics—Two Steps Forward, One Step Back.

Between NAIS putting many small farmers out of business and Monsanto's terminator seeds, our food sources will be in corporate hands with little to no competition. I'd like someone trained to investigate the inconsistencies between the spinning lies of the USDA and the corporate power structure which is driving this inane program forward all under the guise of being helpful in controlling disease, which it will not do. If it could do that, four people would not have died from Listeria in Jan, 2008.

How do we get coverage on this?

Thanks for your help, again!

E Dieter

Alot of people are on myspace talkin' about the food supply, and they post links, bulletins, and write blogs. :
http://www.myspace.com/stop_monsanto is against genetically modified foods,
http://www.myspace.com/organicconsumers for organic news,
Look through their friends lists if you dont find what you need. I hope this helps you.

SINCERELY,
"A"agent green