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
What birdbrain thought this up?
the myth of private property and AG ping
Depends on if you sell down them at the local 'Peking Moon' or not. . . the cats in the kettle . . .
Why didn't they just call it under the guise of NAZIS - the National Animal Zany Identification System.
Yeah? And you would know this how?
Securing Everyones Real Freedom
License plates for chickens now. Where will it all end?
"The federal government plans to have a mandatory national animal identification system in place by 2009."
Quote from:
http://www.kyagr.com/news_events/premisesregatfair.htm
http://matrixbookstore.biz/farm_socialism.htm
Disclaimer some of the authors other ideas are beyond kooky but he nails it on government agriculture
Ridiculous!
Maybe the motivation is bird flu preparedness. If it ever becomes that big a threat, they'll kill all of the chickens except for a select few sequestered in the lab, and most of the wildfowl, then rebreed. That would make more sense than tracking through 15 digits of chicken ID to contain an epidemic.
This isn't like mad cow, where it is rare and the numbers of animals in a given lot of meat products is manageable. How many chicken IDs do you think go into a bucket of chicken nuggets?
How anyone can vote for these idiots I'll never understand.
Next thing you know, we'll have automated chicken cameras that send the owner a citation in the mail if the chicken does anything it's not supposed to do.
Thats one of the selling points that resonates with the sheeple but having a database will do nothing to stop the spread once it starts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1565481/posts
USDA steps up efforts to track livestock
http://nationalpropertyowners.org
National Property Owners
Full research sections on National Animal Identification System (NAIS)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563271/posts
Healthy People 2010
Information on where the funding came from for NAIS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1561077/posts
Animal Tagging and SCHOOL LUNCHES???
Information on some of the partners on these posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1564815/posts
Digital Angel and Microchip
Info on the technology that will be used for the tagging
Well, once you tag them, it will be easier to get rid of them. Most livestock are not natives to the USA.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576897/posts
Executive Order 13112 - Invasive Species Advisory Committee
Some states already have it mandatory.
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