U. S. Government's Plan to Protect You From Terrorist Livestock
A new animal-tracking system could put Big Brother in your backyard--even if
you're not a farmer.
Even without legislation, states are being encouraged by USDA to use coercive
measures to enroll farms and ranches in
NAIS.
...To find out who's driving this, we have to ask the old Latin question, Cui
bono? (Who benefits?)
...Which brings us to the chip companies and sellers of computer tracking
systems. In addition to such brand-name
players as Microsoft, outfits with names like Viatrace, AgInfoLink, and Digital
Angel are drooling over the profits
promised by the compulsory tagging of all farm animals. The USDA figures there
are more than two million premises in
the United States with eligible livestock. There are 6 million sheep in our
country, 7 million horses, 63 million hogs, 97
million cows, 260 million turkeys, 300 million laying hens, 9 billion chickens
and untold numbers of bison, alpaca, quail
and other animals--all needing to be chipped and monitored. And, as new animals
are born, they need chips, too--a
self-perpetuating market!
Amalgamated into the NIAA front group, these money interests established a task
force in 2002 "to provide leadership in
creating an animal identification plan." The group had already been promoting
the idea for months, using fears of
disease outbreaks and bioterrorism to put a sheen of respectability on their
intentions and to gain endorsements from
America's corporate dominated agriculture establishment. In essence, this
small, private group of profit seekers
developed a self serving plan that will affect millions of people and got the
USDA to adopt it whole, with practically no
public participation.
Full article at:
http://www.alternet.org/rights/62858/
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