NAIS - Your government dollars at work

Forget the Native Americans who still in 2006 do not have running water in their homes, forget AIDS babies, orphaned children, families living below the povery level ,and homeless people. The government in all of its wisdom has decided there is a much better way to spend your tax dollars, the National Animal Identification System. The proposal is that by 2009, every farm animal will have to be registered and tagged with a GPS chip, and their wherabouts tracked with a federal database. If your goat has babies, they have to be tracked and registered. If one dies, you have to register where you buried it adn meet more federal guidelines.

No, I am not kidding. If you vote in the US, take a moment to read this article and click the links which talk more about the system.

What in the world happened to land of the free????

Personally, I think it is an invasion of privacy and just the beginning of the end of personal freedoms. Tell your congressmen what you think of this - because if you think $2.00 a pound is a lot for ground beef, you will be astounded by how expensive meat will be when big business controls all the production. Think now about how few producers are already in the grocery store. Your country neighbors who raise cattle aren't likely to have meat in the local store, and that is a shame. Small farmers beleive this is yet another effort to promote big business farming - and the use of GMOS, pesticides, herbicides, hormones, and all the other crap that increases yields, but decreases nutritional value. Why do you think Americans have cancers and diabetes and heart disease in such astounding rates? We have the same genetics as our grandparents generation - but we eat crap disguised as food additives and wonder why our bodies don't operate. It is like putting deisel in a regular gas engine.