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NAIS Shows How Government Takes the Wrong Approach - Discussion Wall

Finally starting to get it

R. , 05.25.2009 4:39:04 am

Thanks for an article that is finally showing the light!
Over 90% are against NAIS due, not only to this issue of microchipping but many other things. Current listening sessions being held by USDA show the people are against NAIS.

Had a pleasant chat with a very nice lady at FoodLogiQ a company that tracks veggies from farm to store AND cattle in Wisconsin and Canada…I asked did they have plans to include home gardens as they could be a source of pathogenic contamination —she said no that would be too intrusive, too much trouble on their part and logistically impossible and there would be a huge outrage from the people. In other words it just could not be done!
I asked but what if salmonella or other pathogen from a private garden somehow got on the produce that would eventually go to the factories for canning, freezing or just to any grocery store…her reply was the factories are rigidly controlled to prevent that kind of stuff and the TRACEBACK WOULD BE JUST
TO THE INFECTED PRODUDE THAT CAME FROM THE FIELDS (regardless of how they were infected) NOT THE PRIVATE TOMATO GROWER FROM WHICH THE ACTUAL INFECTION MAY HAVE COME FROM!!!
And from this past few months we have experienced how stringent these factories truly are when it comes to tainted food (i.e. peanuts)
so I asked her if the govt knowing about every privately home grown tomato or cucumber was too intrusive AND UNWORKABLE then why does the same argument not hold for privately owned cattle, goats, pigs, ponies, chickens, etc when it comes to NAIS.
She agreed with me.


The reasons we are told NAIS is needed keeps changing. (Disease protection, bioterrorism, global market, etc) Yet when Creekstone Beef wanted to test every cow they process for BSE, the USDA says they cannot!!!Creekstone had to take the USDA to court to sue for the right to test for BSE! And what does my reporting to the USDA when I take my horse off my property have to do with big ag selling beef to Japan?

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