Posted on 01/19/2006 10:54:01 AM PST by Calpernia
Former Gov Codey was pretty busy signing many items into NJ law before Corzine stepped up this week.
One of the Amendments Codey signed into law is the Model School Nutrition Program.
http://www.state.nj.us/agriculture/PolicyQA.pdf
I became curious because it seems to be an initiative of the USDA. I always thought it was the FDA that dealt with foods and labeling.
Anyway, the School Nutrition Policy is an effort of another initiative called Healthy People 2010. The Model School Nutrition Program is the first implementations of the Healthy People 2010 Project.
The USDA, State and Local levels are presenting this as a FEDERAL program.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/otheract/hpdata2010/abouthp.htm
The CDC says it is a Non Governmental Organization.
The Goal of the Healthy People 2010 Project is to have all our health and food safety needs tracked in a National Database by 2010. The school children's lunches are the first steps.
Made me go hmmmm.
The USDA is also working on strong arming the animal producers into having all of their animals tracked in a national database too for food safety issues.
NATIONAL ANIMAL ID SYSTEM
The National Animal Identification System is being put into place “to enable 48 hour traceback of the movements of any diseased or exposed animal.”
The NAIS consists of three components:
# Premises registration
# Animal identification
# Animal tracking
Those putting this into place do not consider you the owner of your animals. Their approach to this is “We must ensure the participation requirements of the NAIS not only provide the results necessary to maintain the health of the national herd …
The government is already encouraging voluntary registration on the radio.
“The USDA…will enact regulations by early 2008, requiring stakeholders to identify their premises and animals. At that time, all animals leaving their current premises must be identified with the AIN or Group/Lot ID.
Even with public funding, there will be costs to producers. Both public and private funding will be required for the NAIS to become fully operational. The Federal government is providing the standards, national databases, and basic infrastructure.
More here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1552189/posts?page=12#12
What does School Lunches have to do with Animal Tracking?
They are both tracing back to:
Food Safety Network
The tracking methods of health and nutrition and animal tracking are both going to be using a Nationally Interactive Database.
Livestock
http://www.optibrand.com/uploadedfiles/Animal_ID.pdf
Tracking Healthy People 2010
http://www.healthypeople.gov/Document/html/tracking/THP_PartA.htm
Both of these efforts claim to be a product of the:
Food Safety Network at the University of Guelph
1984! Thanks.
From: http://nanobotinvasion.cjb.net
Fueled by funding from the National Nanotechnology Initiative, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Energy and the Department of Defense*, nanotechnology (the science of building new chemical compounds and microscopic machines) is poised to profoundly alter the biosciences and social reality. Imagine molecule-sized robots capable of manipulating DNA, or invisible "smart dust" walking microchips and radio frequency identification (RFID) tags broadcasting surveillance information across wireless communications networks, or clusters of nanomachines building chunks of matter one atom at a time.
Nanotech and microelectromechanical (MEM) silicon motors are all the rage right now in corporate and university research labs, where breakthroughs in fields such optics, lasers, chemistry, and biotech, as well as a concerted federal funding effort spearheaded by President Clinton's National Nanotechnology Initiative and Oregon Senator Ron Wyden's recent legislation (SB 189), has accellerated this experimentation.
This should be of keen interest to animal rights and biotech activists as nanotechnologists plan to "revolutionize" medical science. Theoretically, nanorobots could be injected into the bloodstream where they would "enhance human performance" by carrying out such tasks as attacking tumors, gene therapy, interfacing by neurological systems to effect cognition (repairing or replacing stem cells, downloadable sensations and memories), monitoring vital signs, acting as tracking devices, augmenting the immune system, etc. Of course, prototypes for these potential applications will be tested in notoriously brutal animal laboratories.
http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/New/html/20000121_4.html
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
January 21, 2000
NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE:
LEADING TO THE NEXT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
President Clinton’s FY 2001 budget request includes a $227 million (84%) increase in the government’s investment in nanotechnology research and development. The Administration is making this major new initiative, called the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), a top priority. The emerging fields of nanoscience and nanoengineering -- the ability to manipulate and move matter - are leading to unprecedented understanding of the fundamental building blocks of all physical things. These developments are likely to change the way almost everything -- from vaccines to computers to automobile tires to objects not yet imagined -- is designed and made.
The initiative, which nearly doubles the investment over FY 2000 will strengthen scientific disciplines and create critical interdisciplinary opportunities. Agencies participating in NNI include the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Defense (DOD), the Department of Energy (DOE), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Roughly 70% of the new funding proposed under the NNI will go to university-based research, which will help meet the growing demand for workers with nanoscale science and engineering skills. Many of these research goals may take 20 or more years to achieve, but that is precisely why there is an important role for the Federal government.
Please take a look at this thread. There is a ton of information here, and here's the bottom line (assuming I understand it correctly):
A method for states to track children and their nutritional habits has been established using the schools, and a foreign organization will be storing the data, including names, ages, etc. And, one by one, the states are signing up.
The Freeper who discovered this information will correct me if I'm wrong.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1563271/posts
Healthy People 2010
That link may be easier to follow. I've been researching this for days.
Oh (big) brother!
Cal,
I'm not a tech person - just a computer "user" - but it really wouldn't be as complicated a procedure as it sounds, would it? If that company, which is tracking livestock, is tracking meat sent to the schools, too, the schools would simply have to send their rosters listing names, ages, and addresses of the students to that company, which then can just match the names by school to the meat sent there. Right?
And, just watch, the general public, when they find out, will buy right into it. They'll think it's a wonderful idea "for the children."
Actually, the rules for a Model School Nutrition Program http://www.state.nj.us/agriculture/PolicyQA.pdf requires agents to enter the schools for checks, audits and approvals to ensure all standards are being met.
AND, I didn't want to add on to this because I'm afraid no one is following me up to this point...
There are 'law offices' training 'agents' of all these projects to be enforcers.
I found seminars being held right here in our state in New Brunswick
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1562040/posts
NJSBA Animal Law
This one I initially found is for the pet/livestock laws. But they have other seminars too.
Yes, you're right. If only people would wake up. It's the government that usually creates problems and then we're further doomed when they offer the solution.
Watch out. Here come the Food Police! LOL.
I have to admit, one of the reasons I don't send my children to school is the junkfood. So, the fact that they're changing the menus is a good thing, imo.
It's the tracking part that concerns me. And, why is it necessary to train and send "agents" to check the schools. (Sounds like a big bureaucracy). And then there's this little tidbit on page 8 of the link you posted:
"Q. Do the standards apply to items the students bring in from home?
"A. No. These standards only apply to items made available to students by or through the school. Items brought by home would not be bound by these standards, unless the local board of education chooses to regulate in this area."
It leaves the door open for the schools to track what parents feed their children. And, little by little, people will buy into it as a good idea. Baby steps. Those are all it takes.
It leaves the door open for now. I already checked that. Each milestone of the healthy people 2010 project has a new enforced milestone goal.
And I'm not disputing changing the menu. I'm disputing taking grant monies from foreign sources to do it.
The food is a red herring. Absolutely no on can convince me that Robert Fourdraine of the Netherlands was concerned about whether there was a cookie or an apple in my kids lunch bag.
The nutrition program is a nice nice sell to get the data.
Heads up.
One of the people that runs http://www.nonais.org/ just received a phone call from the USDA.
The following is an exact quote:
I just got a call from “‘Alice’ calling on behalf of the USDA.” She wanted to know if I would take part in a survey and said it would only take up a few minutes of my time. I asked what the questions are. Turns out she’s gathering the information that they could use to “Voluntarily” enroll me in NAIS without my permission. This already happened in Washington state. Watch out! The USDA and some states are making a big deal about how many “voluntary” enrollments they already have from farmers. They use this number to emphisize that farmers strongly support NAIS. Makes me wonder. Be very wary of any communications from the USDA and other agencies. Remember: “They’re from the government and they’re here to help us.”
Well, if animals are now required to be chipped, it won't be long before some ARA says chipping animals and not humans violates animal rights, and some dumbass judge (probably Ruth Bader Goldturd) votes that into the majority, which would force people to be chipped as a result.
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