Posted on 03/25/2006 7:45:40 PM PST by Jonas Grumby
Moore says mad cow timing odd Saturday, March 25, 2006 KIM CHANDLER News staff writer
MONTGOMERY - Republican gubernatorial candidate Roy Moore said Friday it was a "strange coincidence" that mad cow disease was found in Alabama just as government officials want to start an animal-identification system.
Moore is opposed to a national tracking system that would give identification numbers to farm animals and to a bill pending in the Alabama Legislature that would authorize Alabama to start its own tracking system.
"It's a strange coincidence that we have a case of mad cow disease at the same time the Senate is debating this bill," Moore said. "I see this as an imposition on freedom and liberty.
"This is not to track disease. The precept is for tracking disease," he said, "but it will cause small farmers to be run out of business, small animal owners."
© 2006 The Birmingham News
Well, I don't know about Roy Moore, but an animal ID system is a Soviet style imposition on small farmers.
Do you think that in these days of potentially catastrophic diseases (like Mad Cow) it is the responsibility of the government to monitor such, especially with the technology that is available?
Charlie Sheen move over, eh?!
Tracking of farm animals is a good idea.
I loved him in the Dolemite movies, though.
He's a paranoid.
I'm really surprised he didn't call animal ID "The Mark of the Beast." That's right up his alley.
"It's a strange coincidence that we have a case of mad cow disease at the same time the Senate is debating this bill," Moore said. "I see this as an imposition on freedom and liberty.
Linking unrelated incidents to suggest the existence of a sinister conspiracy is the hallmark of the delusional paranoid.
You're right. Most people have no idea where their food comes from and don't care. This will hurt small famers and is really about government/corporate control and power over people. The timing of this is just too coincidental.
Would you care if you had beef that was infected with mad cow disease? Would you suddenly have an interest in finding the source and isolated?
They can track cows after they track the illegal aliens.
Moore is correct in his assumption this is more about corporate agribusiness forcing family farms who do not have a full timer to tend to embedded RFID/GPS tags on their farm animals.
They are talking cows chickens hogs turkeys - all livestock.
Most small farmers do not have the overhead.
You want to track all the livestock in the USA; but lord help us, they cant track illegals or islamokazis.
Most of the small producers would care. It would mean the end of their existence as farmers.
Farmers do not make money from sick animals.
I bet a substantial outbreak of some livestock epidemic would destroy the small producers a whole lot faster than this plan would
Do you really want to live in a country that would put electronic tracking devices, just like in livestock, in humans? I'd say that your analogy is not very accurate. Do you think we should have the same efficiency at tracking humans as we do cows, dogs, chickens and sheep?
MOORE IS CORRECT!
The timing is COMPLETELY suspect.
Mad cow is bullshit!
150 people in ALL OF RECORDED HISTORY OF ALL PEOPLE CONSUMING BEEF have ever been thought of or tested as having mad cow.
It is actually more caused by abundance of magnesium in the food sources and ground supply.
The cow that died of mad cow in Alabama was born, weaned, and eating solid feeds long before 1997 when it became federally illegal to put animal waste products in feed sources.
Foot and Mouth Disease is also not a problem in this country and won't ever be.
The USDA is run by city-folk PETA types that have never been on a farm much less raised on one.
NAIS is completely a fascist program designed to take away breeders and animal owners rights of private property.
And this animal id thing will extend to ALL PET OWNERS INCLUDING GRANNIES PARAKEET she keeps in her senior living studio apartment.
You take your dog for a walk or let it ride in the car to the store, you have to let the feds know.
Don't believe me? Look it up!
NAIS is complete extortion and abolishment of 4th amendment rights.
uh....okay.....I'll disregard all the scientific evidence.....and actual deaths from mad cow.
It's another way the globalists are trying to offshore agriculture production to Mexico, Central and South America where there are no controls on pesticides, antibiotics, livestock feed.
These idiots are talking of creating a tracking system for all livestock. It's unnecessary.
If there is some substantial livestock epidemic does break out; there will be many more dead humans prior to the livestock having issues.
Of course when they get the livestock prototypes done, you can be the first in line to get yours.
This livestock tracking is asinine.
Track the illegal aliens that bring in human diseases - Incurable TB; HIV and all sorts of tropical crud. If they can track them; do the prototypes on them first.
Not to mention this is a whole new boondoggle for the USDA and the feds.
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