ping for later
Isn't U of Guelph in Canada?
Oh brother ... ping for later read.
Why do I suddenly feel sick?
I wouldn't have my pets chipped. It's a bunch of nonsense. I've had indoor/outdoor pets for over 20 years. None of them ever got lost. None of them ever ran away from home and we keep an eye out on them when they are out so they are not stolen. It's just more intrusion into your life - using scare tactics. Don't fall for it.
What are you having for lunch?
So this means that only the most special-ist healthy pristine clean animals are tagged for "the CHIIIILLLDDDRRRRREN"? To eat at their pubic schools? So the schools can not only track what the children are eating, but ensure they're eating the very best?
Geez. In any case, this sounds scary.
And even if not scary, ridiculous. We are the cleanest and truly healthiest disease-free nation in the world. We are so *spoiled* now that we expect *absolute* perfection - and aren't satisfied if "even just 1" should develop a tummy ache. In essence, libs think we *are* gods (which they generally hate).
"If it can save just 1....!"; "1 is too many!".
Hungry people can't afford to worry about absolute perfection. What great 98% perfection we have achieved.
Maybe they should concentrate more what they serve in schools...the "food" there is a crime.
The USDA regulates food with meat in it. The FDA regulates other food. A frozen cheese pizza is under FDA auspices. A frozen pepperoni pizza is under the USDA.
SD
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1561499/posts
Japan to Halt Imports of U.S. Beef
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/ChildNutrition/lunch.htm
Since 1946, the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) has provided nutritional lunches to children in participating schools. In 2004, over 94,600 schools (grades K-12) participated in the NSLP. Any student in these schools can get lunch in the NSLP regardless of the student's household income. Depending on guidelines based on household income and size, eligible students can receive free or reduced-price lunches. In 2004, cafeterias served 4.8 billion lunches. The NSLP also provided 154 million afterschool snacks. The cost to USDA of providing lunches and snacks was $7.6 billion.
USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) administers the NSLP and reimburses participating schools' foodservice departments for the meals served to students. To receive reimbursement, the schools must serve lunches that meet minimum nutritional guidelines. These nutritional guidelines include providing one-third of the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) of protein, calcium, iron, and vitamins A and C.
Schools receive and process applications from households interested in having their children receive free or reduced-price meals. Beginning in 1991, schools could "directly certify" students for free meals. Direct certification identifies students from households likely to be eligible for free meals based on the household's participation in a recent period in the Food Stamp Program, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, or the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations. Direct certification is intended to increase certification for students by reducing the household's time and effort needed to obtain certification, and to reduce certification errors through the use of existing administrative documentation.
A recent concern has been that some students may receive free meals in error—that is, without their households meeting the income eligibility guidelines. ERS has studied direct certification's effects on program access and integrity. The study report finds that directly certifying school kids for free meals raises participation in the NSLP, increases the number of kids certified for free meals, and lowers the number deemed ineligible for the benefits they receive. Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is conducting studies of application and certification processes. Recent FNS reports address eligibility and certification accuracy as well as many other aspects of school foodservice operations.
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.
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?
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.”