fugitive247/agriculture

Arkansas Against NAIS is a sub-group of Americans Against NAIS. This web/newsgroup e-list continues to provide more pertinent, up-to-date info than Google news alerts.

From the page: "The House version of the Farm Bill is not final yet, and we must keep pushing until it is! ... Remember that the Senate Agriculture Committee will be doing its own version of the Farm Bill very soon, so the fight is definitely not over. But as we keep fighting, we can be encouraged by the fact that the legislators are obviously hearing the message that the people are against NAIS!"

Includes representative contact info. Call now. Today NAIS is going after our livestock. If they are allowed to succeed, what will they pursue next?

From the page: "On Thursday, July 19, the U.S. House Ag Committee passed the Farm Bill with a provision that paves the way for mandatory NAIS. Inserted by Collin Peterson (U.S. House Ag. Committee Chairman, D-MN), the provision allows linking mandatory NAIS to Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) by repealing a law that now prevents that."

From the page: "On May 1, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano signed a bill to prohibit mandatory participation in the National Animal Identification System (NAIS), making Arizona the first state to take such action."

Regarding NAIS, Phelan asks: "Beneficial costs? For whom? Cargil? Wal-mart?"

You said it, honey. And that's just the obvious insult to the American public. ;oD

Survey being conducted by Penn State on NAIS in regards to horses.

Everything you didn't want to know about
Colony Collapse Disorder



From the page: "Perhaps the most ominous thing about CCD, and one of its most distinguishing characteristics, is that bees and other animals living nearby refrain from raiding the honey and pollen stored away in the dead hive. In previously observed cases of hive collapse (and it is certainly not a rare occurrence) these energy stores are quickly stolen. But with CCD the invasion of hive pests such as the wax moth and small hive beetle is noticeably delayed."
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This is a very lengthy, but well-constructed thesis that examines many plausible factors which may be contributing to Colony Collapse Disorder. From a broader perspective, it's not hard to draw parallels between CCD and industrialized human "society." I concur that this very much "...sounds like the start of a Kurt Vonnegut novel." (Thank you, Master Ho!)

Not to sound like a heartless monster, but this USDA-jacked pic's caption literally made me laugh aloud. Anthropomorphic emotional guerilla warfare, anyone?

"Chicks raised for meat start their lives hatching in incubators. They never once meet their mothers."