Re: Andy S


"AndyS" <andysharpe@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Andy apologizes:
> I am very very sorry for not looking up what the hell NAIS stood
> for before replying. Obviously, I thought it stood for something else.
>
> Regarding animal identification...... I was an engineer involved in
> the TIRIS identification system, which is used in Europe to
> identify every single pig with a radio frequency chip embedded
> in it's ear (or otherwise) so that an animal is permanently identified
> from cradle to plate..... It is also used in cattle and ostriches.
> Maybe others......
> The Europeans accept it as a cost of doing business.
>
> Although it may be done differently in the US, I like the idea
> of permanent animal identification. I do NOT like the idea of just
> another pain in the ass that the government legislates on breeders.
>
> We are mostly horse country around here and I am not aware
> of vast herds of horses . I am guessing that you are talking about
> cattle and pigs and chickens ---- a hell of a lot of expense.
> Also I have heard of a large paperwork requirement when a horse
> breeder takes a horse ANYWHERE off his property -- to shows,
> to the vet, to a race, to a rodeo, to another ranch ---- and I have
> listened to radio callers to the Mark Davis show (820AM in Dallas)
> bitching and moaning about this. So I know that some people
> are upset...... Nobody's shootin' at each other, tho....
>
> Andy
>

What really ticks me is that Cargill, Conagra, ADM, Tyson, Smithfield and
IBP got the government to do this in an effort to drive the small
farmer/rancher out of business and to assume the liability from the Big Boys
for any disease outbreak because they don't want to absorb the expense of
testing at the processing plant. Just think what this BS is going to do to
the 4H and FFA kids, the small poultry and egg farmers, the rabbit breeders
and show circuits. This is a disaster in the making. And, to top it off,
those big boys mentioned up there are the ones that got the contract to
produce the chips, readers and software and THEY GET TO MAINTAIN THE
DATABASES. So, would you willingly register your firearms with the federal
government and have them put a tracker on it?


--
What this country needs is a government in which
there are two four year term limits for everybody,
no contributions of any kind to anyone that the
contributor can NOT vote for, no retirement plan
for politicians and no taxpayer money to anyone
that has not voted in 3 of the past 4 elections and
no taxpayer funded grants to anyone, only loans that
must be paid back at the private sector rate of interest.
And I submit to you that it is YOUR fault for not insisting
that we have such a system.

I've made a New Year's Resolution to be a more
cheerful, agreeable and congenial person. So
shut the hell up and get off my case!

J.C.


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