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PPJG original post.<\/strong> Author: Marti Oakley \u00a9 August 22, 2009 4:23 pm cst<\/p>\n

This is such a crock even I can\u2019t believe it.\u00a0 This is the actual public statement by USDA claiming they heard substantial support for NAIS\/Premises ID.\u00a0 What were these people smoking?<\/p>\n

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\u201cOfficials with the Department of Agriculture<\/a> said they heard<\/p>\n

substantial support for animal disease traceability during a series of<\/p>\n

public meetings but many animal owners indicated concerns. Cost,<\/p>\n

privacy, bureaucracy, liability in the event of a disease outbreak,<\/p>\n

and the religious implications of such animal identification are<\/p>\n

behind ongoing opposition to the department\u2019s National Animal<\/p>\n

Identification System.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those guys at the USDA are such jokers! And, after reading this press release\u00a0from Wisconsin, the Wisconsin\u00a0AG department must be in on the joke. The USDA listening sessions, each having been taped, shows that an estimated 95% of those attending were vehemently opposed to any such plan as the National Animal Identification System\/Premises ID plans.<\/p>\n

This small announcement has been picked up in various places but Wisconsin is one of those three test states that took cooperative agreement funding (bribery) to implement Premises Id through the state legislature.\u00a0 Wisconsin is now preparing to go into Phase 2, NAIS.<\/p>\n

Did I mention that Wisconsin wasn\u2019t included in the listening session tours?\u00a0 I wonder why?<\/p>\n

It must have come as quite a shock to USDA representatives to be confronted with the high numbers of independent and family producers who showed up for each and every one of these sessions in every state where they were held. \u00a0I say this because for the most part USDA reps stuttered and stammered and had a look about them as if they were about to face the gallows. Then to have these same participants, whom the USDA was sure would be awed simply by its presence, whom the USDA was sure were just dumb farmers and ranchers who didn\u2019t know anything, stand up and pointedly and with knowledge explain that they knew, what the intent of these programs really were and what it would do to their operations, must have been a frightening experience for them.<\/p>\n

Nothing is worse than the realization that you have seriously underestimated your opponent and the obvious misconceptions you had about them.<\/p>\n

In fact, if USDA is that confused about what took place at these \u201clistening sessions\u201d and the \u201cbreakout sessions\u201d meant to steer those simple minded rural folk into thinking or believing that NAIS\/Premises ID was a good idea, You Tube is loaded with videos documenting the public anger and outrage over this attempt to run them out of business.<\/p>\n

The only \u201csubstantial support\u201d the USDA can truthfully claim was from the hired security guards that stood between them and the people they feared most:\u00a0 The farmers and ranchers they intend to put out of business on behalf of industrialized corporate agriculture, and international interests.<\/p>\n

Just a side note:<\/em><\/p>\n

The Pork Producers, Farm Bureau, and Dairy Industry via national organizations gave token support for the program; each of them listed as campaign donors to many of the politicians in the Ag Department.<\/em><\/p>\n

Many of the larger producers most of whom belong to national organizations, speaking on behalf of members (who had no real idea of the impact this would have on their operations and many of whom are still in a state of shocked numbness,) claimed they needed NAIS to protect the security of their Industry.\u00a0 Ironic how the dairy and pork folks have their hands out for cooperative agreement funds (bribes) and many have signed MOU\u2019s (memoranda of understanding) with the USDA.\u00a0 I wonder how these organizations will explain to their members how the government\u2019s involvement in their industry was the cause of their financial problems to begin with\u2026and they knew it.<\/em><\/p>\n

USDA: You jackasses\u00a0did NOT hear any substantial support for this ill advised plan.\u00a0 What you did hear was the growing backlash against government takeover of agriculture.<\/p>\n

Did I mention that Tom Vilsack never made an appearance?\u00a0 Neither did Collin Peterson (D) MN, head of the Agriculture Committee in the US HOUSE who swore after the March AG meeting he would have NAIS mandatory by December 31 of this year.\u00a0 Now you would have thought these two guys would have been out pitching their plan. Maybe they were busy those days; probably having lunch with those good old boys from Monsanto or some corporate lobbyist looking to make a buck\u2026\u2026or spend one.<\/p>\n

(C) copyright 2009\u00a0 Marti Oakley<\/p>\n

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