Posted on 10/25/2005 6:59:42 PM PDT by SJackson
Just more of the same of big government socialism and control of your life and property.
Only the people can stop it.
Yes, projects of this type are discussed openly in Industry Trade magazines and newsletters.
Actually the Animal ID project is a compromise offered since the cattle industry especailly is opposed to the Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) many are pushing.
I know it sounds crazy to people who don't grow animals for human consumption, but I happen to subscribe to the theory that everyone deserves to know where the meat they purchase at the Supermarket comes from.
As environmental regulations become more stringent all the time, the livestock industry is moving out of the U.S. into Mexico and Brazil.
In the U.S. livestock diets are more restricted than humans. There are many growth promotants and veterinary vaccines which are commonly used outside the U.S. which the Food and Drug Administration has decided to outlaw here. In the case of outlawed antibiotics, the reasoning for banning the antibiotic is to help prevent humans building up a resistance to them. It is for our own good health that these vaccines are not available to livestock producers to use on their herds. Yet these same vaccines are commonly used in other countries.
This is why I feel it is extremely important that we all know where our food is grown. The COOL legislation would have helped us in that way. Unfortunately there were powerful infulences within the industry (maybe packers who also own livestock???) who were able to stall the COOL legislation. The Animal ID project is the compromise substitute.
Most responsible livestock producers I know are not going to complain too much about it, until they start publishing the information in the newspaper. Then all HELL will break loose.
I don't see it as odd for livestock raised for consumption...
What seems odd is that they have broadened it to animals that are essentially pets such as horses and llamas and the like.
Look here. http://www.aphis.usda.gov/lpa/issues/issues.html
But it's for your own good. For the love of God, think of the children. LOL
"Your papers, please.
Sir, it appears that your papers are not in order.
Come with me."
Another part of the business development plan for government.
I haven't read the Wisconsin law, but if it's like the ones I've read about in the trade magazines they will be required to register the farm the animals are on, not each individual animal.
It is not unusual in the midwest for a farm family to piece together their land holdings over the years they are farming, so all the land isn't necessarily contiguious. The purpose of the bills I know about is to identify 'where' the animals are raised. Which is why I am concerned about the bureaucrats publishing the information and letting PETA and ALF have access to it.
Illegals that enter Wisconsin will be issued a cow, for tracking purposes. Predators, I'm not speculating on that.
Notice how many freedoms are being impinged on in the name of public health? Be it gun bans, ATV regs, or whatever, when a public health concern is expressed an attack on freedoms is sure to follow.
Wait until the mental giants in "Sandal City" aka Madison figure out that fish "poop" in the water.
Next thing Ban fish!
Of course we'll need to tatoo the animals for identification...and then the humans too.
This is nothing new, it's been done before.
Borrowed from http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/fish.htm
Praline: (whistles a bit, then) Hello. I would like to buy a fish license, please.
Postal clerk: A what?
Praline: A license for my pet fish, Eric.
Clerk: How did you know my name was Eric?
Praline: No, no, no! My fish's name is Eric. Eric fish. He's an halibut.
Clerk: What?
Praline: He is an halibut.
Clerk: You've got a pet halibut?
Praline: Yes, I chose him out of thousands. I didn't like the others, they were all too flat.
Clerk: You must be a loony.
Praline: I am not a loony. Why should I be tarred with the epithet 'loony' merely because I have a pet halibut? I've heard tell that Sir Gerald Nabarro has a pet prawn called Simon - you wouldn't call him a loony! Furthermore Dawn Pathorpe, the lady show jumper, had a clam called Stafford, after the late chancellor. Alan Bullock has two pikes, both called Chris, and Marcel Proust had an 'addock! So if you're calling the author of 'A la recherche de temps perdu' a loony, I shall have to ask you to step outside!
Clerk: All right, all right, all right. A license?
Praline: Yes!
Clerk: For a fish.
Praline: Yes!
Clerk: You *are* a loony.
Praline: Look, it's a bleeding pet, isn't it? I've got a license for me pet dog Eric, I've got a license for me pet cat Eric.
Clerk: You don't need a license for your cat.
Praline: I bleedin' well do and I've got one! Can't be caught out there!
Clerk: There is no such thing as a bloody Cat license.
Praline: Yes there is.
Clerk: No there isn't.
Praline: Is!
Clerk: Isn't!
Praline: Is!
Clerk: Isn't!
Praline: Is!
Clerk: Isn't!
Praline: Is!
Clerk: Isn't!
Praline: Is!
Clerk: Isn't!
Praline: Is!
Clerk: Isn't!
Praline: What's that then?
Clerk: This is a dog license with the word 'dog' crossed out and 'cat' written in, in crayon.
Praline: Man didn't have the right form.
Clerk: What man?
Praline: The man from the cat detector van.
Clerk: The loony detector van, you mean.
Praline: Look, it's people like you what cause unrest.
Clerk: What cat detector van?
Praline: The cat detector van from the Ministry of Housinge.
Clerk: Housinge?
Praline: It was spelt like that on the van. I'm very observant. I never seen so many bleedin' aerials. The man said their equipment could pinpoint a purr at four hundred yards, and Eric being such a happy cat was a piece of cake.
Clerk: How much did you pay for this?
Praline: Sixty quid and eight for the fruit-bat.
Clerk: What fruit-bat?
Praline: Eric the fruit-bat.
Clerk: Are all your pets called Eric?
Praline: There's nothing so odd about that. Kemel Attaturk had an entire menagerie called Abdul.
Clerk: No he didn't.
Praline: Did!
Clerk: Didn't!
Praline: Did, did, did, did, did and did!
Clerk: Oh all right.
Praline: Spoken like a gentleman, sir. Now, are you going to give me a fish license?
Clerk: I promise you that there is no such thing. You don't need one.
NB: The TV Version continues.....the album version continues below
Praline: Then I would like a statement to that effect signed by the Lord Mayor.
(Fanfare of trumpets. Mayor gorgeously dressed with dignitaries enters flanked by trumpeters.)
Clerk: You're in luck.
(In long shot now. The Mayor, who is nine foot high, and dignitaries approach a startled Praline. Organ music below a reverent voice over)
I feed the fish here in the lake. Will I be taxed on my pets?
But the government can't allow you to be able to feed yourself and your family directly.
How can they force you to follow their directives if they can't starve you, sort of like the way the USSR did with the Ukraine!
Mark
I guess I can add one more reason to be happy that I don't have crabs.
Sheeple.
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