This graphic was extracted from a 2006 NAHRS Power Point.  The plan is still the same.  We have just been experiencing “the umbrella effect”.

Here’s to You! Peoples of the World

(ALL IMAGES TAKEN FROM A REAL GLOBAL DOCUMENT)

LINK Here

We’re Sgt. UN-Pepper’s Animal Health Roadside Van,
We hope you will enjoy the show,
Sgt. UN-Pepper’s Animal Health Roadside Van,
Sit back and let your life go.

Sgt. UN-Pepper’s animal,
Sgt. UN-Pepper’s health,
Sgt. UN-Pepper’s Animal Health Roadside Van.

It’s wonderful to be here,
It’s certainly is a thrill.
You’re such a lovely audience,
We’d like to take you home with us,
We’d love to take you home.

Taking the UN Home

As most farmers have discovered over the past few years, governments at large, and I say that loosely, are running amok with their plans to institute global food control.  The European Union released this particular Health and Consumers Directorate-General based on extensive collaboration.   Right up front it clearly states that neither the EU Commission nor any person acting on their own behalf is responsible for any use that might be made of the information in this report.  They also state that the document is “for information purposes only”.

Suspending the Constitution

Farmers are the most likely people in the world to understand the issue of animal health and disease.  If they didn’t they would not be in business, and for hobbyists, they would, frankly, not have their beloved animal any longer.  The Communication Plan sows the seeds of *panic* policy complete with the suspension of Constitutional rights of the sovereign citizens with its insertion of the abused “Emergency Clause”. This “Emergency Clause” states that for the  “health, safety, and welfare” of animals AND the economic health costs of a possible disease outbreak, all public rights need to be suspended in the name of “disease control”.  The Animal Health Framework preys upon your concern about open borders and imports of contaminated animals and animal products endangering you and your family.

Communication Strategies

The Communication Strategy group will annually change their policies and initiatives to include more and more intrusive food control schemes.  Initially communication will be delivered in “different forms” and to “targeted audiences”.  Might these “forms” include coercion, enforcement of a targeted farmer?   Read on.

Those participating in this unique “communication” include international and national events.  They will develop relationships with the media and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s), and improve websites which contain relevant information including:  Checklists, Manuals, and a Q & A forum.

One Health

The Communication Plan must be effective and user-friendly to adequately dictate policy action for animal health.  New media must be exploited, especially the DG SANCO’s “One-health” website located at www.one-health.eu , which will be developed further in 2009.  One of the goals of the website is to enhance the public part of the website.  One Health also has a private ‘For Your Eyes Only’ section that We the People are not allowed to access.  The website is striving to be your one stop website for all your animal policy information and discussion.

It’s Sergeant Pepper’s Community Animal Health Roadside Van

The modern Animal Health Framework calls for the Animal Health Roadside Van to roll out.  The Animal Health Roadside Van is modeled after a very successful operation by Top Foods & Hagen’s Food on the West Coast which features weekly visits from the “cancer chip-mobile” which will chip and vaccinate for a fee, of course.  You can “Pay & Play” Russian Roulette with your beloved companion animal.  You have the opportunity to inject into your pet’s flesh an RFID that has been scientifically linked with cancer and infection.  You could choose to vaccinate your pet for a plethora of diseases abounding, due to the elimination of borders, with the risk of preservative contamination that will destroy your pet’s immune system.  And here you thought that the EU and collaborators had your pets and livestock health and welfare in mind.  The Animal Health Roadside Van will visit agricultural shows, veterinary conventions, tourism fairs, and schools.

Global Vets Unite

The Animal Health Framework was conceived in 2008 and has forged a partnership with the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe.  It will evolve into the Community Animal Health Policy which will promote and increase awareness, and encourage changing Animal Health Law as we know it.  Animal Health Law has been an effective mechanism to circumvent national barriers and the Animal Health Framework seeks to add to what it has already been achieved in changing animal health law.

Identification and Traceability are the Cornerstones

Identification and traceability are the foundation stones of the new Animal Health Framework, all under the guise of threat prevention and crisis management.  The Animal Health Framework demands a harmonized identification and surveillance system known as TRACES, the Community TRAde Control and Expert System for traceability.  TRACES includes:  identification, labeling, and traceability.  The Framework intends to identify problems (risks) and manage problems.  If you are a consumer or a farmer you are considered a risk.  Future developments and highlights will be released during 2009.

Congress, your Legislature, and Representative form of government have been targeted to pass Community legislation through private databases and training campaigns such as the Better Training for Safer Foods Initiative.  Watch for that language in state, federal and even local laws, regulations and policies.

May the Force of the Regulator Be With You!

Supposedly good communication on risk to stakeholders and consumers is of utmost importance.  “Incorrect public perception of risk may FORCE the REGULATOR to take unjustified or disproportionate measures if a crisis arises.  A management system known as the Animal Health Emergency System (AHES) is fully operational and will deal with animal health crises.  They will streamline communication between Member States, the press, stakeholders, and the general public.

Veterinary Supplies & Products Take a Hit!

While it appears unusual, the Animal Health Framework will address the marketing authorization of veterinary products and use of veterinary medicine for the control of disease.    In essence you must comply with global laws and regulations to obtain authorization or you may not purchase or use veterinary products.

THE GAME of Targeting Children

Through the manipulation of animal welfare you begin to see more awareness, creating an environment where an easily distracted public is swayed into supporting policy that might be contrary to their ideology.  Children will be another group targeted to learn about global animal welfare through the website launched in 2008 called ‘Farmland’,  http://www.farmland-thegame.eu/. It proposes to raise awareness among children about the importance of “farmed” animals using a scantily clad young girl and the board-game approach to seduce children into their web of deceit.  It will be designed to indoctrinate children for the Community good, that “treating animals respectfully and humanely will improve the welfare of people”.  Any child visiting a real farm knows there is an instantaneous bond between God’s creatures and children, young and old alike.  Who doesn’t love to pet the soft fur of a baby kitten or nestle the new yellow fuzz of a baby chick?

More and More… New Legislation, Regulation and Policy

Details will be forthcoming on an Inter-Ministerial Conference on Global Trade and Animal Welfare.  New legislation is being developed regarding slaughter, animal transport, animal welfare quality, animal welfare labeling, and creation of a European Center for Animal Welfare.

It was the a year ago today,
Sgt. UN-Pepper told the animal health roadside van to roll
They’ve been going in and out of style
But they’re guaranteed to raise a smile.
So may I introduce to you
The act you’ve known for all these years,
Sgt. UN-Pepper’s Animal Health Roadside Van!

THE GAME

Turning the serious issue of animal health into THE GAME

What is THE GAME?

You have a good idea.

USDA ANNOUNCES NEW FORM TO CHECK FARMERS’ INCOME

News Date March 23, 2009

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced March 19 that USDA and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have begun efforts to ensure that high-income individuals and entities who request USDA payments meet income limits set forth in the 2008 Farm Bill. 

What one needs to understand that definitions are a living document and are constantly being updated.  A certain agency mentioned believes that if you have five-cents in your pocket it is there’s, so…….farmers beware.  You may think you are middle class or low income but the “Agency” believes otherwise.

Beginning with the 2009 crop year and for successive years, in order to be eligible for USDA payments all recipients will be required to sign a separate form which grants IRS the authority to provide income information to USDA for verification purposes.

Before IRS will provide the information for a particular producer, IRS form 8821, or a similar form,

• Must be obtained from each producer authorizing the release of information.
• Failure to obtain such form will make the producer ineligible for program benefits.
• A written release from each producer or payment recipient will be required for this process.

The merging of the “Agencies”….. very soon one will not be able to buy or sell without that unique identification and prostration to governmental authority.

In the eyes of the the United Nations the only good animal is a dead animal, Agenda 21.

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The Terrestrial Animal Health Code: http://www.oie.int/eng/normes/mcode/en_chapitre_1.4.13.htm

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Addressing Global Challenges

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Groves Hotel-Boise Idaho:  July 12-16

Information is beginning to come in on the agenda and details of the regionalization of the Pacific Northwest.  Beijing was on the this morning and will be in attendance.

Place the dates of July 12-16, 2009 on your calendar, Boise, Idaho.  Let’s show PNWER that We the People are not in favor of their merger scheme whether we are Americans or Canadians.

Protest details will be coming shortly.  We need a large and organized turnout.

Highlights:

Border Issues

• PNWER Border Council Report
• Impact of full WHTI Implementation
• Regional Solutions to Border Impediments

Agriculture

• State of the industry in Idaho  id_animal_health_emergency_management_plan
• New technology and innovative practices (straight from the OIE Resolutions tomorrow to the PNW)
• BC Avian Influenza Response
• Agri-Food CEO Club

Regional Information Sharing Initiatives

• Border Health Alliance
• Evidence Based Health Network

Agriculture- Cross Border Animal Health Conference

Idaho National Lab Policy Tour

“Hey Bessie farming KKK is coming to town!“ 

What is the farming KKK?  It is the Klu Klux Klan of agriculture and they are headed straight for American small farms and hobbyists determined to regulatory lynch each and every farmer who does not comply with their new “safe and secure” farming system.  The new system is “enforcement” based.  The new system is a living document so that you really do not know, and neither will your farmer, what is organic.

It has been discussed for centuries but the international power brokers are making a run for control now that the mass of humanity is waking up.  Eighty five percent of the worlds farms belong to small farmers
and small farmers are precisely what on the international radar to control.  Veterinary Authorities believe that small farms contribute to the economy but are a >>>>major<<<<< weak point for biosecurity.  Small farmers’ animal health needs were seen as higher but their available capacity to address these needs was lower than large farms according the the OIE 2008 Final Report.  Small farms will be the “subjected to the Principle of Equivlance” enhance involvement and particition at the local level.

principle of equivalence should be applied, in certain cases, in developing methods tailored to the local context to enhance the involvement and level of service provided to small farmers.

You may be trusting your families food to the good ol USDA stamp of approval.  Dear reader surely you have noticed the rise in contaminated food products on the shelf.  Maybe you know a friend or loved one who has gotten ill or died from food borne pathogens.  The reason that you are finding more tainted food products on your grocery store shelf is that the USDA has sold out to multi-national companies who control the food:  LINK to USDA The USDA and even your state department of agriculture are beholding to global interests who do not have the safety of your food in mind.

What do these international interests have in mind?  They say a picture is worth a thousand words:

Well folks, as you can see above the OIE has refined their Foot and Mouth Disease conference logo and it quite plainly says:  The Way Towards Global Control.

The OIE has been marching towards your small farm since 1924 and is committed to the dealing with the spread of “sensitive” diseases and zoonoses.  The OIE has teamed up with the FAO for the ultimate ideal of lining up candidates for to be considered for global eradication.  Until FMD is eradicated it inhibits the liberation of animals and animal products.  (The liberation of animals?)

In 1994 the OIE began to develop international standards and guidelines that the farming KKK will use to crush small local farms.  Nationalism and statehood has slowly been transformed into zones and compartments where the Agency rules under direct global authority and accountability.  Agencies will be required to rough up and make note of the resistors.

This will be a costly endeavor especially in these economically challenging times but with political will and commitment and the global veterinary services these agricultural mandates will provide the means for sustainable government by levying, taxing, penalizing, assessing, licensing, registrations, and pay-for-use fees.  So costly is this program that even the task-masters are whining and griping about it.

During the three days at Asuncion, Paraguay the current situation of FMD in the world will be assessed and control measures will be applied.  Strategies for global control funding will be explained by “donor” representatives.  Donors must be the ones putting their money on the line in an agricultural poker game.

I can hardly wait for the conclusion of the FMD conference when they will announce their recommendations for adoption and mobilization of governments, the veterinary community, donors and all stakeholders to make the global commitment.

What will be the program?

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“Permanent Animal Identification Systems and Traceability from Farm to Fork”, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2001 the OIE dedicated an issue of the OIE Scientific and Technical Review to the issue of traceability. In 2005 an ad hoc expert Group was established and, in May 2006, OIE Members democratically adopted a Terrestrial Code chapter: General Principles on Identification and Traceability of Live Animals as official OIE standards. This chapter was updated in 2007.

In May 2008, at the 76th General Session, the General Assembly of the 172 National Delegates adopted a text on the design and implementation of identification systems to achieve animal traceability. Bearing in mind the need to coordinate the development of standards for identification and traceability of both animals and products, the OIE has maintained close collaboration on this topic with the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC), the standard setting organization for food safety recognized by the World Trade Organization. The conference is being organised with the technical collaboration of experts involved in the work of the CAC.

What are the objectives?

• Raise international awareness of the relevant international standards published by the OIE and the Codex Alimentarius Commission and the bridge between the traceability of live animals and the traceability of products

• Give practical information and technical advice on how to implement these standards in different industry sectors and national contexts

• Review latest experience in public and private identification and traceability systems, with reference to the relevant international standards

• Provide practical advice and examples to help national Veterinary Services and other agencies to play their appropriate role in regard to animal identification and traceability

• Identify the type of support that can be provided by international organisations and donors to Veterinary Services and interested parties operating in developing countries, as appropriate to their needs, as regards the implementation of the OIE and Codex standards

• Launch a discussion on the future standard setting needs for animal identification and traceability

• Discuss and propose research and development priorities relevant to animal identification and traceability

The OIE will collate speakers’ presentations and papers and publish them as the official Conference Proceedings, which will be provided to participants in a booklet and CD-ROM and will also be available for purchase from the OIE.

The following is an account of the NoNAISWA battle for food freedom in Washington State.  There is more to the story but his will provide the reader with an overview of why you have tainted food and the dirty politics behind it.

Olympia, Washington-The National Animal Identification System a conspiracy theory?  The largest food fight the world has ever known is taking place and the US government wants you to fall prey to the ultimate conspiracy! A little NAIS registration number here, and a little NAIS identification there, will ensure you have safe food.  How is that?  You have a property tax number and is that making your food safe?  How could transforming your private property to a premises, removing all Constitutional protection, protect you from bad lettuce at the grocery store?  Is your Drivers License a de facto talisman, defending you and your loved ones against deadly pathogens?  You have a greater chance of dying from any medication or a physician mistake than of contracting a food borne illness, albeit there are Agri-Agencies wink-winking to make sure that risk grows higher so they reap the profits.  Common sense tells you that where there is dirty food there is dirty politics, and that is no conspiracy theory.

In 2006 Missouri Assistant State Vet Dr. Terri Woods took to the air waves on The Power Hour with NoNAIS activist Doreen Hannes. The Talk Show Host asked the pivotal NAIS question, “Do you think the people opposing NAIS are conspiracy theorists?” The dirty little government secret they don’t want the public thinking about. Dr. Woods replied, “No…..everybody is entitled to their own opinion. They just need to talk to a few more people.” Talk to a few more people about NoNAIS is just what these activists across the country did. Day and night they have continued to inform the public on the dangers of NAIS which would eliminate food freedom in America and that Big Brother was looking down from the sky.

The war for food was on when NoNAIS activist Celeste Bishop took to the media in Washington State. Bishop asserts, “While it seems unfathomable and outrageous that our own government would resort to satellite imagery to monitor agriculture, it is a sad fact, but true. Why every person with half a brain knows that anyone can Google Earth and bring up someone else’s property. If you are a paid subscriber you can count trees and animals also”. In an article carried by the Snohomish Tribune on February 22, 2006 WSDA employee Chris Spaulding admitted that, “Bishop and pet owners like her could be potential glitches.” The USDA and the various state agencies tasked with implementing the program will focus on the largest food producers first, Spaulding said. But eventually, other animal owners may be ID’d and their animals tracked.” “Spaulding said ‘misinformation’ about the national program is circulating throughout the country,” and that “false information she (Bishop) has heard include the idea that each premise will be photographed from space to search for unidentified animals and people will be jailed if they don’t comply”. This statement was made as the USDA and partner WSDA was actively engaging in satellite surveillance using Terra Server. The information given was relayed to her by a NASS statistician who was very proud of the surveillance operation.

The very Terra Server utilized by the USDA website claims, “it is great for: commercial farmers, family farms, and ranchers. Satellite imagery provides the agriculture business with a means to monitor land from above. We update aerial imagery as soon as we receive it to ensure that you have the most up to date. Higher resolution imagery also allows you to see crop rows and can sometimes even allow you to see individual trees in tree farms and orchards. The imagery available from TerraServer will allow you to have a visual representation of your land that is only available from the sky.” In fact, on January 12, 2006 headlines splashed across the world that, “Satellite Images Used to Detect Crop Insurance Fraud” were used to hold a man accountable.

You are entering the life of Bishop an activist who seeks to protect your food from Agri- Agency which is the merger of multinational companies and governmental agencies.  The Agri-Agencies are the ones trying to sell you and your local farmer on the National Animal Identification System, NAIS.  What is the bottom line on the NAIS?  Global Food Control.  How did it begin?  Dirty food, dirty politics.

Celeste carries her laptop and cell phone back to the bus which will transport her to her automobile which alternates between a farm vehicle and a NoNAIS Legislative Education Unit.  As twilight sets in and shadows deepen, the Washington State Vet, barely perceptible, strolls back to the bowels of his Department of Agriculture with invigorated confidence.  He had accomplished another successful day on Olympia Campus merging agriculture, governmental policy, and industry.  The elderly Doc Eldridge was tall, lean, with a serious furrowed brow.  Whenever he visits the Campus of We the People he wears his cowboy hat.  He is known for his charm, suave charisma, and being the ideal gentleman.  This is the USDA veterinarian model established to sway Congress and the people to accept experimentation with deadly pathogens at Plum Island. Supposedly this was meant to be a positive advancement in the eradication of disease and the elimination of poverty.  This NoNAIS activist, an ordinary American grandmother, takes to the marbled halls to fight for food freedom.  The State Vet and the NoNAIS activist nod to each other as night sets in, the food fight is escalating.

Since 2005 our food supply has become increasingly and obviously, even to a casual observer, very contaminated.  Secret government contracts obtained under the Freedom of Information Act foretold a day when the food supply would become unsafe and the unwary public would ‘demand’ regulatory programs such as NAIS.  As predicted, food contamination escalated and continues unchecked. The plea for safe and local foods resonates within the hearts of average Americans who have no clue as to the battle going on.

In recently written NAIS laws and regulations we are seeing the abused Emergency Clause, “For the protection of the health, safety, and welfare” we need to implement this draconian food control system, NAIS.  The NAIS is one tool in the toolkit towards global food control.  Whenever you see the term “for the health, safety, and welfare” let the reader understand that this is a suspension of your Constitutional rights for things such as your absolute right to property (ownership), referendum and redress.  The year 2009 was, from the beginning, the target date for NAIS to become mandatory.

The National Animal Identification System (NAIS) was introduced to the public on Halloween, 2005.  The system has three pillars:

• Transform and register property into a premises which has no Constitutional protection.
• Electronically identify animals even though the failure rate is high and scientific evidence has been suppressed linking the RFID and electronic devices with cancer.
• And 24/7 surveillance, tracking, tracing of animals including the responsibility to electronically report to the Department of Agriculture each birth, death, movement, and commingling of animals on a pay-for-service basis.

Years before, USDA Director of the Plum Island Biological Warfare facility, relegated to an island off the contiguous United States for the protection of Americans against deadly pathogens, succinctly stated “It is tricky doing research on foreign animal disease, we must take a calculated risk, “Let’s do it!”  Plum Island provided the USDA and Homeland Security with a convenient vector pool for the numerous accidental releases of hazardous germs which streamed out of the darkly shrouded facility.   Homeland Security decided in 2008, in violation of US law, to transfer the remote facility containing its thousands of dangerous germs, right into the heartland of cattle country, Kansas.

Farmers and ranchers were alerted after the announcement and a very poignant article was written by attorney and farmer Mary Zanoni.  They sounded the alarm through media, forums, species groups, and approached the marbled halls of government, educating and then pleading with their Legislators and Congressional members that Agri-Agency predators were rapidly uprooting America’s historically safe food resources and expelling farmers and ranchers from the American agricultural landscape.  The determined Agri-Agencies set up the barbarous NAIS infrastructure where farmers and ranchers who refused to participate would be subject to a vicious assault, and food control would be achieved. The dark history of American food experimentation dates back earlier than WWII, and the millions of dollars spent on the NAIS scheme to date demands that those resisting NAIS must be re-educated on the so-called benefits of food industry transformation, or be silenced, by demonizing, radicalizing,  and death threats.

Quickly in 2006 and 2007 farmers and ranchers across America mobilized to become drivers of consumer protective legislation to halt the NAIS scheme or at least minimize its far reaching tentacles of tainted food products. The food fight was on, We the People against the powerful behemoth of the Agri-Agency bureaucracy.  In 2008 the food fight continued, though somewhat blurred, as the American financial system began to collapse, in part as a result of job out-sourcing.

The public outcry for safe food would be strategically forged into a pro-NAIS regulatory revenue maker.  In the dawn of 2009 an article on the USDA’s NAIS Veterinary Service Memorandums sitewas drafted by Leesa Zalesky, an Editorial and Communications Committee member for the US Cattlemen.  Zalesky’s article states, “Unfortunately, there’s misinformation floating around the countryside regarding the (USDA’s) new (VS) memorandum on premises identification. That misinformation needs to be cleared up before […].”  With stealth Zalesky stepped up to the plate as an industry partner to set the industry straight on the USDA Memorandum and premises identification.  The article ends with Zalesky stating, “If the delicate balance is to be found between protecting individual rights and providing an appropriate and effective animal health disease trace back system, then we all need to stay engaged solidly in the process with facts and truth. Listening to our state veterinarians as to what their needs are as opposed to falling victim to an extremist “black helicopter” theory would be a great place to start.”

It was time to silence the NoNAISWA opposition in a dramatic showdown, Agri Agency vs. We the People.  NoNAISWA proposed legislation ramped up in both the House and the Senate in 2009, the very year that NAIS is to go mandatory.  Within two days word got around the Capitol that NoNAISWA was back to fight the battle for food freedom.  Coincidentally, at that same time a plain text email began being circulated to all the Legislators and selected cattlemen.

From: “Rick Jones” rick.jones20@ymail.com

To: <undisclosed-recipients:>

Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 6:30 PM

Subject: Stop the government from spying on my livestock – support SB 5956 and HB 2086

To Whom It May Concern,

Please support Senate Bill 5956 and the House Bill 2086, which would prohibit a mandatory “National Animal Identification System” (NAIS) in the State of Washington.

The reason I and many of my neighbors support these bills is we need to stop the government from spying on our farm animals. Recently, strange helicopters flew over my farm (see attached photo) and took pictures of my livestock and my property. When I have looked through my binoculars at the helicopters, I saw inscriptions on the side of the helicopters which said “National Animal Identification System” (NAIS).

I want to let you know that these NAIS helicopters are real and it is part of the government’s mission to monitor livestock in the United States. It is invasive and scary. It is a badly kept secret that our government really does spy on farm animals from helicopters. I think it is related to the United Nations working toward a “new world order.”

The other day I was near my hay barn feeding my cows when the helicopters flew over again and started circling my corral.

My reaction was to immediately duck for cover. However, it was a clear sunny day and was able to get a look at them and shoot the attached photograph.

They were totally black and ominous looking and they were flying very low.  I tried to calm my cows and distract them from the helicopters, but they were too close and too loud.

Fortunately, I was able to take my cows into my barn for cover.  However, the helicopters kept circling for the next few minutes. It was a real invasion of privacy.

As you can see, there is a great need to pass either Senate Bill 5956 or House Bill 2086 to stop the government from spying on livestock.

We hope you will support Senate Bill 5956 and House Bill 2086.

Thank you.

Rick Jones

Jones Mountain Ranch, Omak, Washington, 509-826-9982

Conspiracy theory mania had hit the Olympia Capitol Campus.  It caught many who were naive in the ways of dirty food, dirty politics, unaware.  They were quietly and discretely told to distance themselves from the “black helicopter crowd” who were not “listening to the State Veterinarian’s needs”.  In the State of Washington this would be the very same veterinarian who compromises Washington’s livestock each time he goes back to Plum Island and comes back contaminated.  This is the same Dr. Eldridge, the Washington State Veterinarian, who at a regulatory hearing in June of 2007, boasted of having horses from Puerto Rico with Piroplasmosis (a horse disease) quarantined in Eastern Washington for two years.  The horses were quarantined but unfortunately, the ticks were not.  (Since we are dealing in facts here, the USDA has done quite some research on ticks.  Google USDA and ticks.)

Quickly in 2006 and 2007 farmers and ranchers across America mobilized to become drivers of consumer protective legislation to halt the NAIS scheme or at least minimize its far reaching tentacles of tainted food products. The food fight was on, We the People against the powerful behemoth of the Agri-Agency bureaucracy.  In 2008 the food fight continued, though somewhat blurred, as the American financial system began to collapse, in part as a result of job out-sourcing.

The public outcry for safe food would be strategically forged into a pro-NAIS regulatory revenue maker.  In the dawn of 2009 an article on the USDA’s NAIS Veterinary Service Memorandums sitewas drafted by Leesa Zalesky, an Editorial and Communications Committee member for the US Cattlemen.  Zalesky’s article states, “Unfortunately, there’s misinformation floating around the countryside regarding the (USDA’s) new (VS) memorandum on premises identification. That misinformation needs to be cleared up before […].”  With stealth Zalesky stepped up to the plate as an industry partner to set the industry straight on the USDA Memorandum and premises identification.  The article ends with Zalesky stating, “If the delicate balance is to be found between protecting individual rights and providing an appropriate and effective animal health disease trace back system, then we all need to stay engaged solidly in the process with facts and truth. Listening to our state veterinarians as to what their needs are as opposed to falling victim to an extremist “black helicopter” theory would be a great place to start.”

In classical theatrical style the proposed Washington State NoNAIS legislation quickly gained momentum.  In an end run effort Agricultural Committee Chairs got together at dawn one morning with articulate and outspoken Agri Agency lobbyists to determine which agricultural bills would move forward during session.  As you can image Cargill, Tyson, Monsanto didn’t want local farming and put for the order to “kill  the NoNAISWA bills”.

To their credit the Agricultural Committee Chairs scheduled hearings simultaneously in both the House and the Senate at 1:30 on February 11.  This was the opportunity that NoNAISWA had waited for: an opportunity to debate the merits of the National Animal Identification System known as NAIS.  Word spread fast and there was great support for the hearings. The hearings were attended by a diverse and educated public.  Despite being heard simultaneously at both the House and Senate Agricultural Committee hearings, the hearing rooms were both packed to overflowing.  Many of the species were represented: horse, goat, chicken, swine, and llama. Impacted industries such as Realtor, veterinarian, and small farmers were also in attendance.  Dirty food, dirty politics continued to be played out.  NoNAISWA was up first to speak for the bills.  Agri-Agency was next and was allowed the majority of the time.  Paid government contractors made up the next panel who had signed in as ‘for the bills’ but spoke against them and were allowed to speak as long as they had something to say.  Impacted businesses such as small farmers, some of whom had driven as many as 12 hours, were cut off after 30 seconds and some were not allowed to testify at all.  It is with deep regret that I must share that the Agricultural Committees did not really hear the merits of the NAIS.  They did however listen to Agri-Agency. Money talks – We the People have trouble being heard. Governor Gregoire, Speaker of the House Frank Chopp, Majority Leader Lisa Brown, and Agricultural Committee Chairs, Senator Hatfield and Representative Blake, could have individually or jointly have intervened to push the NoNAIS issue forward as they have done with other issues this legislative session.

After the dust settled it was time to do a little research on dirty food, dirty politics and find out the origins of the “black helicopter” rumors and email.  Multiple attempts were made to track down the HTML and the header information on the email.  The phone number at the bottom of the email, “ is a pay phone at Wenatchee Valley College North in Omak, WA.  There is one Richard Jones registered to vote in Okanogan county, but he lives in Waucunda, not Omak. His land doesn’t come up under a parcel search, but he’s listed as a poultry producer.  Jones Mountain Ranch is not registered as a business in Washington. The only Jones that comes up with an open business in Omak is an Edward Jones brokerage.  Two other Richard Jones’ own property in Okanogan County. One owns 20 acres without improvements (tax value =$700). This might be considered Omak, it’s about 20 miles ENE, the owners (Richard and Bobbie Jones) live in Lacy.  The other Jones owns 1 acre in Winthrop.  None of this proves conclusively that this gentleman is a hoax, but the evidence does point in that direction,” said one NoNAISWA person scrutinizing the circulatred email.

As you can plainly see, any photograph taken in Okanagan County this time of year should have snow, there is no snow.  On the contrary the deciduous trees are quite green and those weeds are mighty tall, for winter that is. Observe that the helicopter seen in the photo is not black, nor does it say ‘NAIS’ on the side.

On further investigation, Ms. Zalesky appears to be the only US Cattlemen member outside of Washington State who received an original email in HTML with headers.  From this original, Zalesky was able to ferret out that the email was sent from a Yahoo Account.  The emailer had used a company called http://www.findnot.com/. Then it went through about 8-9 proxy servers and ended up in Sunnyvale, CA.  Zalesky continued saying she was going to use the information that she collected to “write a story”.

Unlike the Agri-Agency, we know you can connect the dots:

• US Cattlemen supports the NAIS as paid contractors

• A US Cattlemen’s Committee member is the only person to have the original email

• A US Cattlemen’s Committee member was the only person who was able to track the header.

• A US Cattlemen was requested to provide a copy of the circulated email with HTML and headers but the request was ignored.

• US Cattlemen is the parent organization of WCA the paid Washington government contractor to implement the NAIS and provided the public with foreign contaminated food.

We the People have made an impact trying to protect people from contaminated food products.  We have done what farmers and ranchers have done throughout history and that is sound the clarion call.  Many of us would rather be home doing what we do best, providing the public with quality and healthy food and enjoying our farms.  We stand firm and continue to wage the war against dirty food, dirty politics. Food freedom and food purity demand we continue to stand in the gap.

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NASDA, your State Departments of Agriculture adopted it!  Bring on the animal welfare system.

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