POLITICAL: Urgent: Stop Corporate Fascists From Taking Over Our Food Supply

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Subject: Urgent: Stop Corporate Fascists From Taking Over Our Food Supply

Please note: We told you about this issue last week and many of you

responded. But we still need your comments with the USDA by the end

of the day, Monday, March 16, to stop the incredibly destructive

corporate scheme described below. Congress is already trying to stack

the deck so only lobbyists have a meaningful voice in this debate. We

can stop them if you speak out now.

Radio Chip Animal Identification Would Do ALL Harm To Our Real Food

Safety, And No Good

It would be too easy to blame the recent peanut panic on one criminal

corporation owner, who KNOWINGLY shipped Salmonella contaminated

product. But before that it was millions of pounds of ground beef,

and before that tomatoes all over the country, and on and on. And

when you ask where is all this horrible filth coming from, with a

over a million cases of Salmonella in the U.S. alone every year, the

answer is self-evident. It's the huge factory farms that overflow

with seas of untreated animal waste, that then spill into our food

supply, including through our agricultural plant crop fields.

We have a lot of work to do to clean up this giant mess, but the

first thing we have to do is STOP a lunatic boondoggle being pushed

by these same corporate interests, to force radio computer chip

implanting of literally every farm animal in the country, EXCEPT on

their own factory farms. It is absolutely nothing but a further

attempt to drive small family farms out of business, who in fact are

our safest source of reliably clean food now.

The proposed National Animal Identification System (NAIS) would force

even the smallest healthy farms to buy expensive new computer

tracking equipment, and potentially would subject them to

gestapo-like tactics by the USDA if they are in even slight technical

non-compliance. And all this just to fatten the pockets of the RFID

chip manufacturers, and to make it LOOK like something is being done

to make our food safer.

The special one click action page below will send your personal

message to all your members Congress and also directly to the U.S.

Department of Agriculture who is trying to rush this thing through

without adequate scrutiny.

Stop NAIS Action Page:

http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum942.php

This action is especially urgent because the U.S. House Agriculture

Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry is holding a hearing on

NAIS implementation on March 11, and many farm activists fear the

plan is to push it out for a full vote in Congress faster than a

greased pig, before we the people have a meaningful chance to speak

out.

You may not have a House member on that particular subcommittee, but

you can pressure your own House member to tell they colleagues on it

that there is massive constituent pressure against NAIS. For the

especially mobilized on the action page above there is a link to the

phone numbers for those on the subcommittee, because they are in fact

your representative as an American citizen if they sit on it.

Below are some more extensive truth points you can select from in

drafting your comments or on the phone, again linked to from the

action page above.

NAIS was designed by NIAA (the National Institute of Animal

Agriculture), a corporate consortium consisting of Monsanto,

industrial meat producers such as Cargill and Tyson, and surveillance

companies such Viatrace, AgInfoLink, and Digital Angel. The NAIS

scheme fits agribusiness, biotech, and surveillance companies to a T:

1) They are already computerized, and they engineered a corporate

loophole: If an entity owns a vertically integrated, birth-to-death

factory system with thousands of animals (as the Cargills and Tysons

do), it does not have to tag and track each one but instead a herd is

given a single lot number.

2). NAIS will only be burdensome and costly (fees, tags, computer

equipment, time) to small farmers which helps push them out of

business, thus leaving more market to giant agribusiness.

3) Agribusiness wants to reassure export customers that the US meat

industry is finally cleaning up its widespread contamination. NAIS

would give that appearance ... without incurring the cost of a real

cleanup.

4) NAIS will allow total control over the competition: Owners of even

a single chicken would be required to register private information,

the Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates of their 'premise'

and if any animal leaves its 'premise', the owner will be required to

obtain an ID number for it and have the animal microchipped. All

information, including 24 hour GPS surveillance would be fed into a

vast corporate data bank, allowing for ease of false slaughter to

hide true problems or to substitute biotech's genetically engineered

animals.

5) NAIS may allow plundering of farmers through required DNA samples:

DNA samples would be invaluable to Monsanto and biotech corporations

genetically engineering animals. Farmers who raise heritage breeds

would have no say in how their distinct DNA would be used and to the

sole profit of biotech companies.

6) The advantage for the surveillance companies is obvious:

Compulsory tagging of 6 million sheep, 7 million horses, 63 million

hogs, 97 million cows, 260 million turkeys, 300 million laying hens,

9 billion chickens, and untold numbers of bison, alpaca, quail, and

other animals -- and new animals being born, means a massive

self-perpetuating market.

Please take action now to stop this insanity. Our health and our

lives depend on it.

Stop NAIS Action Page:

http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum942.php

The health claims for NAIS are a sham though fear of disease is used

to advance it. NAIS does not touch the contaminated source of E.coli,

salmonella, listeria, mad cow, and common meat-borne diseases - the

inherently unhealthy practices (mass crowding, growth stimulants,

feeding regimens, rushed assembly lines, poor sanitation, etc.) of

industrial-scale meat operations. Upton Sinclair's " Jungle " all over

again. NAIS will do nothing to stop these practices. Moreover,

tracking ends at the time of slaughter, yet it's from slaughter

onward that most spoilage occurs. But NAIS does not trace any

contamination after slaughter.

The self-serving Agribusiness NAIS plan distracts from their

contaminatory practices, while targeting hundreds of thousands of

small farms, homesteaders, organic producers, hobbyists ... and maybe

even you. NAIS's purpose is to advance corporate monopoly over all

food in the US. And with it, they have laid the ground work.

Kissinger said if you control food, you can control people. This

immense corporate plan to control of our food supply and eliminate

our independent farmers is, at it heart, the most severe threat

possible to our democracy itself.

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed

to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.

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