Posted on 11/23/2024 8:46:30 AM PST by DFG
I think that's what the big issue here is.
The government dos have an interest in controlling importing non-native species but the (no pun intended) execution of the raid is absolutely uncalled for,
No, that price hike is a totally different problem.
These aren’t genetically modified eggs or GMO chickens. These are heritage breed chickens. They are all the same species as any other chicken, just different breeds. They arent going to go wild and terrorize the country like hogs- raccoons will devour every chicken they can get. But, poultry can carry poultry disease, and another disease, and mosquitos can transmit it easily from one domestic flock to the next, and also to wild birds that cannot be vaccinated and have no resistance to a new disease or new form of an old disease.
That said, our native plants and animals are suffering from several plagues brought in by well meaning people and some started by fed and state governments as well.
My County extension service introduced a new yellow flowering groundcover from S. Africa years ago, and whoever owned this place decided to try it out. As a result there are now 2 or 3 acres of this crappy swallowing my woods and fields and who knows how many hundreds of acres all over this county alone being overwhelmed.
Native sassafras trees, once used to fight malaria, are being hit by some introduced disease now.
Florida’s citrus industry has been nearly wiped out by two different introduced diseases and insects. I lost almost every tree in my orchard except for a couple tangerines and a pummelo.
Sweetbay magnolia trees are being hit by some wilting disease recently introduced.
An avocado disease has been introduced.
Everyone remembers the American chestnut being wiped out - and the animals dependent on those to produce mast, like the now extinct passenger pigeons, got hit too.
Dutch Elm disease did a number on eastern forests.
The fungal species dependent on certain trees suffers and can go extinct with the trees, and take the life they support away, too.
Introduced Kudzu, Tree-of-Heaven, Japanese honeysuckle, ornamental pear, certain invasive rose species, water hyacinth, stinkweed, air potato, aquatic invasive plants and zebra mussels, etc., are screwing up millions upon millions of acres of forest and waterways.
Emerald ash borers, probably brought in on infested wooden pallets, are wiping out prime lumber trees. Globalism has a high cost.
Coupled with a pisspoor economy those pallets are being spread carelessly everywhere carrying who knows what by people struggling to make money, and we will see the results of whatever bugs they brought in eventually when they breed enough to get noticed.
And I suspect some of these economically damaging introductions may be by hostile competitors, and not just accidents.
Here is a bit too far into the problem for my nda.. but you get the drift.
Let’s take a completely fake poultry company.. something totally made up like “Physin Chicken”.
They control intellectual property on breeds and genetics for their highly-secured farms.
They do things to the DNA and genes to increase production and profit.
Sometimes they make mistakes. Those eggs need to be disposed of using techniques that.. possibly, and I say only in our totally made up example that is in no way reality, that they don’t follow.
A truck some along to take the eggs to a facility to be disposed of. And I don’t mean throw into a garbage pile. A few of those trucks have been offered money to instead switch out the loads and bring the coveted eggs to another location. A truck like this can earn millions in one day. Say, for arguments sake, 72 million dollars.
Much of our trucking traffic needs to be under armed guards. Almost none of it is.
Oh, and livestock truckers are a different breed of human. Perhaps other truckers here can testify.
As in my last post, a lot of the problem here is not science. It’s organized crime.
This farm could have been busted for using a trucking company or broker that is involved in other crimes.
If they thought they were dealing with underworld forces, their response makes much more sense.
Foreign Chicken breeds?
Belgian Bearded Bantam, Cubalaya, Hamburg, Holland, Japanese Bantam, Malaysian Serama, Polish, Sicilian Buttercup, Sultan, Russian Orloff, White-faced Black Spanish, Yokohama.....
vs
Ameraucana, Rhode Island Red, Delaware, Jersey Giant, New Hampshire Red, Plymouth Rock,....
GM eggs because they are from GM chickens?!?
ah...sanity.
But they have no problem stabling a kangaroo population i the US.
https://www.hunttalk.com/threads/kangaroos-in-wy.312548/
Unfortunately something like 45% of voters voted for Heels Up. This complicates jury nullification as a strategy.
A lot of effort goes into protecting America’s farming and agriculture business.
This includes limiting/monitoring which species/breeds, or animals that are allowed to be cultivated.
You apparently lack in reading comprehension. She didn't bring in chickens, she brought in just the eggs........
So who is the real ass here?...Sheesh!
I’ve been searching that pesky constitution thingie, and I still can’t find the part where the right to regulate chickens and eggs was granted to the fed...
Now hang on.
What do you mean “GMO eggs from Mexico are killing people in the south”?
Are these sold privately? Sold at Kroger? Should we southerners stop eating eggs?
Don’t drop a loaded statement like that and run.
that bites...
Nope... you only need one person to vote not guilty. The catch is that you must keep “deliberating”. For most here that means a dream come true.
Argue and debate endlessly. They have to feed you eventually.
It’s hard to say. I still eat eggs. I get them at Walmart.
My chicken coop is coming along nicely though. I suggest everyone does.
All genetically modified eggs come from genetically modified chickens. Those chickens come from genetically modified eggs.
I don’t know how to tell you but about 98% of American livestock is just a walking chemistry set.
Someone with more time than me should make a PSA juxtaposing the penalties for harboring illegal chickens vs. the benefits of harboring (sanctuary) illegal humans under democrat rule.
Sidebar:
The matter still doesn’t answer the ubiquitous question about which came first...
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