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Sharon Zecchinelli
My goal here is to wake people up re: USDA mandate called National Animal Identification System (NAIS). Under NAIS any property with even one livestock animal, 33 species - clams to cows & horses and pet pot bellied pigs, is to register to receive a premises identification number. Please notice, it is called "premises", not property.
The 2nd prong of NAIS is assigning ID numbers to individual animals, in the case of small/private farmers, etc. Huge factory farms, CAFOs, & other business partners of USDA, get a single group ID for in/out lots of animals, upwards of 10K animals.
The last prong is reporting animal movements from one place to another. I ask you, what other segment of society has to report the movement of real property to the government.
For you animal rights folks and vegans, where do you think organic manure for your food comes from? Without small farms, how are you going to eat even if you don't agree with keeping animals for what they provide.
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Sharon commented on the article |After the first melamine outrage in China, several government officials who were charged with making sure melamine did not find its way into the food chain were executed. Yes, executed. I am not opposed to that.
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Sharon commented on the article |Here's something else to read, my soon to be published novel, First They Came for the Cows, a fictionalized account of the activists fight against NAIS. To read an excerpt, click through to my blog, henwhisperer.blogspot.com and from there you can navigate to the preview.
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Sharon commented on the article |If I remember it correctly, Cipro was, initially, only to be used for a act of bioterrorism - anthrax, etc. -
http://www.fda.gov/Cder/drugprepare/default.htm
and yet, here it is, having found its way into mainstream medicine. I remember when a doctor gave Cipro to my elderly mother for a cold. Made me very, very mad. -
Sharon commented on the article |What do you know about the seed vault that has been put together by Bill Gates, Monsanto and others?
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Sharon commented on the article |Luella, Jesus ate meat. Jesus cooked fish. Jesus was about having people be restored in their relationships to God. God gave people all the animals to eat. In order to eat the meat that God gave people to eat, some animals must be killed. You know nothing about Jesus and your understanding is skewed. How can you say anything about what you think he might or might not have done when you probably have never even read the New Testament. What he lived for was to be killed on the cross so that God could have relationships with people. That is the only reason.
This is a circular argument, the one between vegans and meat eaters. You aren't going to convince me, I'm not going to convince you. Why not just go talk to other likeminded people? Seriously. -
Sharon commented on the article |
KL: Humans DO come first. I can't understand any other thinking. (Risking getting flamed here, I am not a humanist, but a follower of Jesus. I have a right to identify myself in that way but won't go further than that under this topic, so please, no flames.)
I agree with you when you say this (though the term "sustainable" is growing out of proportion to what it originally meant):
"The most sustainable food is really what you can grow in your own garden without the use of pesticides, without prepackaging and without it traveling hundreds of miles to get to you."
I'd like to add the the healthiest of meat is the meat that is grown by farmers/homesteaders who have proper animal husbandry. The healthiest of meat that a consumer can buy is what they can look at as it is growing. Know your chicken, in other words.
