Posted on 09/17/2007 3:58:42 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
PING!
But they should.
Thanks for the post. We definitely need less intrusion into our privates lives, not more.
Seems every politico wants to oversee their “domain”.
I sure feel sorry for Zeke. Jasper is right on.
Poor little Zeke is going to be traumatized because the steer he bottle-fed and raised and bonded with isn’t going to be sold and killed? What a crock.
The shape of things to come.
Actually your response is a crock.
Well, it would be nice to know which specific animals have hoof-and-mouth disease or mad cow disease so we don’t have to cull the entire herd, which is why Ag set up the program that way.
The purpose of this article is not about Zeke and his steer. This article is pointing out the problems bureaucrats in government are creating for local farmers and the youth that will grow up to support your country when you cannot.
Mad Cow hysteria was created for the purpose of ramming this through (the UN proposed this long before any alleged outbreak).
This is about setting control methods into place so they can decide who farms and what they farm from a central bureaucracy.
It’s about socialism.
How about we chip every human being in order to prevent crime and punish criminals?
I might be up for installing a chip with an audio and video transmitting device on every politician.
LOL, bet it wouldn’t even slow ‘em down.
There would just be convenient down time for servicing whenever they needed it (for dems, anyway).
Just another indicator that it’s time for those who can, to move another step back off the grid while there’s still time.
Things will get worse before they get any better.
Shore up the door with another timber, FRiends!
I worked very briefly on the IT team working for APHIS, and we had no interest in controlling people or farmers, but we had a big interest in finding contaminated meat. Your concerns are not matched by the intentions of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. If you want to make sure that such chipping would not be abused, then the enabling legislature can be written to assure that the data only be used for animal health measures, not for taxation or other controls. The Federal Government, believe or not, is very scrupulous about using information lawfully — IF the legislation is drafted well.
I am sorry that there is this restriction. Instead of mourning the roadblock, blaze a new trail and start a new organization for competition between non-registered farms. Make it superior to the one rewuiring registration, and shove in their face.
Shorty became a pet, a friend. Zeke and Shorty were inseparable. Shorty would romp and run with Zeke to the south pasture to bring the cows up for milking.
Zeke is portrayed as a little boy with no family of his own, who bonds with a calf/steer as a pet and friend. To suggest that it would be a good outcome to then have the steer sold to be killed, is preposterous. This would require the little boy to learn to turn off his feelings for a friend who trusted him, like a light switch, and arrange the friend's killing for money. There's far too much of this going on in our country involving human friends, and it's mostly fueled by boys who grow up with no functioning family, join gangs and/or become addicted to drugs like meth and crack, and learn to turn off feelings in order to survive in a violent social structure and feed their drug habits.
Has Jasper taken any farm handouts from the feds? Just asking.
This is the same type of BS that your major grocery stores do with that registration card you have to buy in order to shop there.
She self-diagnoses, don’t waste your time.
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