Texans to face $1,000 per Day Fines for Possession of Baby Chick

Texans to face $1,000 per Day Fines for Possession of Baby Chick Alert - State — walterj 1:52 am With House Bill 1361 Texas legislators are determined to keep track of every single little baby chick in Texas. Each cutie must be tagged with a 15 digit number to identify it. All locations containing livestock animals must register as farms. $10 annual premise ID and premise registration fee will be required for all homes where any animal ever exists, even if just visiting. Anyone found not reporting a baby chick hatching, movement or death will face a fine of $1,000 per day for non-compliance. Similar fines for all other forms of livestock were also enacted.

With all this paperwork, fees and fines forget about 4-H. Forget about Future Farmers of America. Forget about that baby chick hatching school project. Homesteaders, you better eat your chickens now and don’t bother counting them. No more eggs. No more summer pigs. Slaughter that fatted calf. From now on plan on purchasing your food only at government approved distribution centers with sufficiently powerful lobbyists and friends in high places. Sorry small farmers - no more farmer’s market or farm stands in the future. The paperwork will destroy small farmers. So dies the Buy Local movement.

This monstrosity was originally brought to you by your friends at the USDA under the guise of NAIS - the National Animal Identification System. The Texas Animal Health Commission, which developed the rules in Texas, can be reached with comments on this absurdity by email until 5pm February 6th, 2006. The question is, are they really listening. Be sure that after that short “public comment” period they’re going to cover their collective eyes and ears as the food supply consolidates into the hands of the big producers. Do you think that will make the national food supply safer?

Perhaps our pseudo-elected Govi-Corp doesn’t have enough to do, so they sit around thinking up things like this. Remember: Idle hands do the devil’s work…

This bunch will push as far as they can, and will slip in wherever they can, with the end game total government control of our food supply and worse.

Rev.13

[16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

[17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Good grief! What total stupidity! i mean, i know i'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but this about takes all! Like the other day i was in Lowe's and i was at the checkout and had to open a latche set to make sure all the parts were in it. So i pulled out my pocket knife and started to cut the plastic container (i'm a contractor and don't like getting to the job site with "most" of what i need), and some woman behind me in line, with here eyes sticking out of her head, in a loud voice, yells..."HE'S GOT A KNIFE!!" All the rednecks in line just looked at her with amazement, i just smiled and said, "Well, yea, been carrying one since i was 5...it's just a knife" and went on doing what i was doing. i think some people are so gripped with fear it's a wonder they are loose enough to even void their bowels! They probably wake up screaming because they remembered there was a butter knife in the kitchen!

No the farmers and ranchers will pay for the chips and readers and for the privilege of having a premise ID, You tax dollars will pay for:

Flash bangs

APC

9mm

5.56

And the SWAT team that does the standard execution of those who are not in good graces with the local party members

It goes like this:

Step1: Throw Flashbangs and rip off the door with an APC

Step2: Shout contradictory commands once inside (Just in case they can still hear after the flashbangs)

Step3: Stitch them across the chest with full auto bursts after they don't follow the commands that they couldn't hear or were confused due to the conflicting commands

Step 4: Call the media and make sure that the message gets out to the serfs you don't f@%$@ with the local powers that be

This is from TX lawyer Judith McGeary. These are her comments after reviewing the EWSG booklet that the AHC posted on their website.

Here are her comments:

I'm sorry for the very belated response, but here are
my thoughts.

Looking through the ESWG booklet, I think a point-by-point response would be rather difficult -- there are simply too many roundabout, ambiguous,
somewhat-misleading-but-not-outright-false statements to be effective.

In other words, they had a better PR person than the TAHC writing this! I'm attaching an overview article I've done about horses and NAIS; I'm not sure
if it fits what you're looking for, but you're welcome to use it however you think appropriate. Without doing a point-by-point, it does address some of the things raised by the booklet.

On the issue of statutory authority (which they address more than once, which is interesting in and of itself):
The USDA has stated that the Animal Health Protection Act is the source of its authority. (Draft Plan at 9)

But that statute addresses only import and export of animals,
interstate travel, quarantines areas, and related program
(AHPA, 7 USC sections 8301-8320. )

The statute contains no provisions that mention registration of every livestock owner farm or a nationwide or intrastate animal identification and tracking program, nor are there any provisions that would provide authority for such a program.

Indeed, there were multiple bills introduced in the 108th Congress to amend the statute to provide for an animal identification system and limit disclosures of the information collected under the Freedom of Information Act, and none were adopted (HR 3787, HR 3822, HR 3961, S 2070 & S 2008, 108th Congress (2004-05).)

There are three bills that have been introduced during the current Congressional session for the same reasons. (HR 1254, HR 1256 & HR 3170, 109th Congress (2005-06).)

Congress clearly recognizes the USDA's lack of authority, even if the USDA has ignored that problem.

The technology aspects are very convoluted.
I have been gathering materials on the whole ISO issue,
and hope to have an article written by mid-month, which I
will pass on to you.

From some off-the-record conversations, it seems like individuals at both AQHA and AHC are very strongly in favor of NAIS, not just the reluctant participants
they claim.

Some folks to keep an eye on:
Amelita Facchiano
(originally with Global Vet Link, now with USDA),

Amy Mann (AHC),

Ward Stutz (AQHA)

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