Posted on 02/15/2006 11:15:31 AM PST by vrwc0915
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…
http://www.theeagle.com/stories/012906/business_20060129065.php
Better, tag the members of the commission, preferably with a radio transmitter, too.
This is just a big beta test for the true goal the Human herd tracking program
And it is about $6.50 per chick to register them.
They made it a class c felony. You risk losing your right to vote or bear arms.
Maybe that was the point of this?
Somewhere back upstream, you just know the Treason Club is involved in this.
Be afraid. This is a program by the NGOs. They partnered with our gov offices. I would like to know when that happened.
Kitties too?
Yes
Just say the chicks came over from Mexico.
>>>This will make me an instant criminal or the government can feed and care for my critters.
Each state is writing up their own terms and conditions of this insanity; but my state has it written that if my animals are confiscated, I am responsible for the bording and care they get financially.
>>>I own 3 dogs. I have 6 horses.
NAIS hit the feedstores before they introduced this to us.
You won't be able to buy feed for your animals without giving up your premise id number.
Reasonably sure my Chick is registered.
Here a good premise ID # 7.62x51
Ummm.
Don't mean to be disrespectful or seem a smartass, but since this is February 15, 2006, this article and post is rather pointless and sort of redundant -- no?
No people need to know how coporate farmers and the feedlots plan to stamp out the family farm
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The ambiguities boggle the mind...
I'm sorry ID# 308 has already been issued
Hey, if they can do it for .22 rimfire cartriges...
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