USDA Drops animal ID

[littledoggie]

Mandatory collection of information under the Animal Health Act for control of disease is one thing. The arbitrary release of said information for commerce is another. As primary producers, we should have the right to ownership of this information for marketing purposes.

[Kathy]

Here is the link to another article, far more detailed and with important info. regarding the USDA and their own animal traceability program, now called animal disease program.

Author Doreen Hannes, title:
"Easter Bunny Reports: NAIS is Dead" (not!)
http://farmersandfreeholders.org/


I am sorrily disappointed that so many in the ranching community do not realize that this "Premise ID" is your new "License to Operate". As such, it can be yanked if you do not comply with up and coming regulations. Do you like being told how to run your farm?

Personally, I believe the manner in which this was passed in the AB Legislature, was illegal. I will not comply. The article points out that this is an OIE mandate; thanks to our federal governments signing onto World Trade Agreements, we agriculture in Canada) are now being run by the OIE... So, if we are being told what to do by this unelected bureaucracy.... why on Earth do we need our own provincial Agriculture departments? Ah, yes, they are the enforcers for the new rules.

Vote these yahoos out, and wake up. Your freedoms are being eroded.

It is amusing that just as Brian Neillson (in an interview) predicts that in years to come, Canada will not need to sell any beef outside our borders, as we will have increased populations to consume what we produce {stating only 20% goes out our borders right now}... Thus, the new rules for global trade will likely be in place, not to help us export, but to allow other countries to IMPORT beef into Canada.