I am compelled to respond to Sharon Zecchinelli’s letter to the Editor dated October 17, 2007 in which she reports on a seminar about surviving foreign animal disease held in Sheldon on October 12.

 

Fact: Common Ag words have been re-defined or morphed if you will into alternative meanings. Webster’s will not give you the current definitions. For instance: surviving has been changed to mean compliance. Keep this in mind as you read through this document.

 

Ms. Zecchinelli, aka “The Hen Whisperer”, distorts the reason why Dr. Julie Smith from DVM Extension and I, along with two respected local veterinary practices and the venerable St. Albans Coop called this meeting for local farmers.

Fact: Extension Offices, Veterinary Medicine Association’s, as well as some industry ‘partners’ and ‘stakeholders’ have become paid contractor’s to the State Department’s of Agriculture and USDA. Go to NoNAISWA.org to see the actual “Purchase Agreements”. Yes folks these ‘professionals’ and industries have been PURCHASED. Property owners and farmers have good reason to be suspect of their ‘partnerships’ and the fine print that may ensnare them.

WSU Takes Aim at 4-H and FFA! Posted in July 10th, 2007 Link

WA Vets for Sale Posted in July 10th, 2007 Vet Purchase Service Agreement

As a group of Vermont veterinary and industry professionals, our message to ALL Vermont farmers, large and small, commercial and non-commercial enterprise or hobby, was, is and always will be, “Plan to Survive”. That theme resonated through the evening’s presentation.

 

FACT: It is of communication to command a controlled and consistent message. Your ‘Plan to Survive’ is a basic awareness campaign to heighten public awareness of your perceived hazard. While I was not in attendance this letter appears to be comprehensive in addressing hazard vulnerabilities of FMD but unfortunately falls glaring short in your audience analysis. Your target audience was in fact a very informed audience despite your innuendos to the contrary. It remains to be seen how effective your awareness campaign will be.

FACT: It is goal of US policy under HSPD #9 is to raise public awareness and educate them on threats.

FACT: Entities can best achieve the awareness and education program by:

· Educational opportunities on the issues at hand , not Command and Control

· Scope and nature of the issue(s)

· Community status

· Media Updates-Broadcast/radio, instead of NAIS

· Donations information for those wanting to help farmers (preventing the 911 fiasco)

· Eliminate the Fear Mongering

Ms. Zecchinelli posted the original invitation, alongside with her personal agenda, on her website entitled “Post Menopausal Musings” at http://henwhisperer.blogspot.com Ms. Zecchinelli represents those who have moved to Vermont and have organized to resist and frustrate the long term prevention and immediate control efforts necessary to endure a devastating biodisaster with potential to threaten Vermont’s livestock.

FACT: Ms. Zecchinelli’s site is: ‘Post Menopausal Ponderings’ for accuracy. Details are important if one is to describing oneself as an authority. Ms. Zecchinelli moved to Vermont in 2001 not for the purposes of agriculture. The mission statement and goals of Ms. Zecchinelli and others are not to frustrate certain ‘prevention’ and ‘control’ efforts but to preserve the Constitutional form of government laid down by our Founding Fathers and respecting the privacy of others with honor and dignity.

FACT: You, yourself, admit that this biodisaster is only ‘potential’. We also could ‘potentially’ live on Pluto.

FACT: Sir, what precisely is the ‘Plan to Survive’? It is my understanding that a plan was never presented to the audience.

 

Ms. Zecchinelli, a retired cook, did not report that the meeting was arranged and paid for by Vermonter’s, myself included, for Vermonter’s This meeting was not sponsored by nor was paid for by commercial for, USDA, DVM or the Agriculture of Agriculture. No fees were charged by the speakers. All of us, including my wife who assisted with the session, gave freely of our time to benefit, dare I say “help safeguard”, Vermont agriculture. Neither Dr. Smith nor I are employed by the USDA or the Vermont Agency of Agriculture.

 

FACT: Ms. Zecchinelli is a trained culinary chef; once again accuracy is most important in building integrity, especially if one is attacking another person’s integrity.

FACT: Are you clarifying that this “Plan to Survive’ Education & Awareness is not under any private or governmental auspice?

FACT: All meetings cost money and it is said. “Follow the money trail.” Who did fund this meeting?

FACT: Your business card states that you are a certified trainer for the Department of Homeland Security. DHS has a large pool of volunteers who “help safeguard” our communities. A man of your talents would most likely be under the ‘Voluntary’ Veterinary Corp’ umbrella and would have very close affiliations with the above mentioned department.

FACT: Hand outs by The Alliance were freely distributed:

http://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/special_topics/alliance_for_biosecurity/

FACT: Who are these members?

Members of the Alliance
Acambis, Inc.
Avecia
Bavarian Nordic
Center for Biosecurity of UPMC
Cangene Corporation
DOR BioPharma, Inc.
DynPort Vaccine Company LLC, a CSC company
Elusys Therapeutics, Inc.
Emergent BioSolutions
Human Genome Sciences, Inc.
Iomai Vaccines
NanoViricides, Inc.
Pfizer Inc.
PharmAthene

 

Animal diseases which exist in other parts of the world, but not in the US, are called “foreign”. Our animals have no natural immunity to them. Many of these, not just Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), move like wildfire on air currents, via animal to animal transmission and via our modern transportation system. Animals may die from some of these diseases, others such as FMD, do not kill animals. The animals suffer horribly while they are rendered unable to eat or move about. This was explained in our presentation.

 

FACT: Our healthy American animals are being exposed to these ‘foreign’ diseases because of international treaty as a result of GREED. I would highly suggest utilizing your professional talents behind proposed legislation that closes our borders to diseased animals.

FACT: In our state ‘foreign’ can be from another state within the US.

FACT: I have quite the stack of official documents obtained under Public Disclosure pertaining to this very topic, one of a severe problem with diseased and undocumented animals coming into the United States, also into our food supply. Let’s just say the USDA and State Departments of Ag are looking the other way. <wink, wink>

FACT: You are correct in saying our animals do not have immunity to the diseases being played with at the extensive laboratory and educational facilities within the United States. Does Plum Island ring a bell? You mention the suffering of FMD animals which is much akin to the flu, but remain silent on the suffering inflicted on captive animals at the laboratories such as Plum Island and Ames, Iowa and other such facilities.

More Than 100 Laboratory Mishaps Reported Since 2003 Posted in October 16th, 2007

There have been more than 100 mishaps since 2003 at U.S. laboratories conducting research on highly dangerous disease agents, the Associated Press reported today (see GSN, Sept. 24). The risks have been highlighted by reports of incidents in which laboratory personnel were exposed to infectious diseases […]

FACT: It is provocative that you mention ‘wildfire’ and ‘air currents’ at this time. It would appear on the surface that you are privy to events to come or real-time.

FACT: Due to the perception of FMD risk the media let’s say has been, ‘fanning the flames’. You are assisting in creating panic-based policy versus scientific-based policy. Panic-based policy has been used by regimes in their attempt to control populations.

FACT: The former strains of FMD were eradicated in 1948 in North America, thanks to the USDA & Mexican counterpart ‘partnership’. The current strain(s) comes not from the historic FMD that animals have survived through time but comes from research facilities, where Nazi scientists who fled Germany, continued their morbid and mortal experiments genetically modifying and weaponizing the organism(s), not onl of FMD but many other ‘bugs’.

The current weaponized strains escaped during the vaccine making process. Plum Island’s sister laboratory in Pirbright, UK of recent fame just had several ‘accidental’ FMD releases.

These laboratories are pivotal in bringing the Terrestrial Animal Health Code and Terrestrial Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines. The mandate for this implementation as you know comes from our treaty agreements, originating with the United Nations.

http://www.oie.int/eng/Normes/mcode/en_sommaire.htm

Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals …

`It is increasingly likely, whether by accident or intent, that a foreign animal disease will arrive on US soil in the future. In the past two years alone, no fewer that four incidents that would have brought FMD to the US have been intercepted by USDA, US Customs and State Agencies.

 

FACT: As mentioned above we have experienced hundreds, or more, accidental releases. Documentations indicate that there will indeed be a release by intent on US soil.

FACT: As stated above, the USDA and State Departments of Agriculture are not preventing all FAD events. The number of events is significantly higher than 4.

 

As a Vermont veterinarian who spent over 6 months assisting the massive FMD eradication effort in England in 2001, I now lecture nationally on this topic. I know the hand that our livestock owners, large and small, have not been educated about the draconian measure necessary to eradicate these diseases. Admittedly these are neither pretty nor pleasant. Not for the animals, not for the impacted farm families and not for those called upon to respond. It is certainly not for their communities.

 

QUESTION: Dr. Van Wie, were you in England because out of great compassion and humanitarian need? Or, were you in England during their time of crisis to learn from the mistakes England made to bring a perfected system to the US? Washington State did this same thing going to Australia in 2006 to bring home a perfected NAIS scheme.

FACT: You mentioned you were not paid for ‘Plan to Survive’ meeting yet you say you lecture nationally on this topic. That costs money. Who funds your national lecture circuit?

FACT: Our livestock owners have not been educated purposefully by our government. Only those selected farmers and ranchers are invited to educational events. As concerned livestock owners many of us have become educated on our own. We are savvy in the ways husbandry and emerging issues. These livestock owners are aware of depopulation or stamping-out plans in the ‘spirit’ of sustainable agriculture.

FACT: Draconian measures are not needed to eradicate disease. Diseases have been here for years. You are here, I am here, and our animals are here. We have survived without government enablement. On this we concur: depopulation (KILLING) is not pretty, nor pleasant.

FACT: MANUAL ON PROCEDURES FOR DISEASE ERADICATION BY STAMPING OUT

FACT:USDA Harmonized Cattle Trade with Canada in Line With International Animal Health Standards

FACT: And for your convenience the AVMA just updated in June 2007 their euthanasia policy:

http://www.avma.org/issues/animal_welfare/euthanasia.pdf

No one at the USDA, no on at any State agency, and certainly no practicing US veterinarian, ever wants to be forced to implement these measures. Dr. Julie Kyle from Cold Hollow Veterinary Service organized this meeting precisely for that very reason.

 

FACT: Agriculture has become biodefense, i.e.-‘forced health’. I am sure you are familiar with the concept. Hence, the Awareness and Education seminars.

 

Following a video on the horrors that befell English farmers in the spring of 2001, Dr. Smith and I turned our presentation to a hypothetical infection of a diary herd in Tulare County, California with FMD. We showed how easily this could be accomplished by someone with malicious intent. The audience immediately understood how far it would already have spread on the day of the first discovery.

 

FACT: The populations at large, 99 percent, have no agriculture roots and so can be easily manipulated to fear by media imagery. “Rarely do we ever think about where our food comes from. It’s that ignorance that ‘terrorists’ will look to exploit.” Fear can also be exploited by governments.

 

In order to understand the ramifications of the arrival of these disasters and thus understand why they need to think through how they would survive in advance we must first graphically demonstrate the currently available control measures to them. Those measures do, sadly, include depopulation of all susceptible animals across the board expanses of rural landscape; they do include the loss of contaminated buildings and they will bring economic ruin that spreads far beyond the farm economy. That is the horrific, immutable reality of doing nothing now! It is not a lie nor is it a scare tactic. It is cold, hard, inescapable fact.

 

FACT: Traditional farmers do understand the ramifications of these disasters and preparedness. Control is not necessary for survival. Dependence is not necessary for survival. Compliance doesn’t ensure survival, just as it did not ensure those who complied in WW II. Faith in G-d will assure survival. A person having the right mindset, rationally thinking, basic survival skills will achieve survival.

FACT: Just as the Nazi’s depopulated various populations sectors, you too, talk of depopulation with the same cold and calculated manner.

FACT: Your scare tactics do not work on us and that Dr. Van Wie is a fact.

 

I asked the audience, at the moment we know this disease has arrived, perhaps in California or even in a neighboring state, what is ‘true’ of a dairy cow, pig, goat, or Llama in Vermont? The answer is that at that moment in time very likely the livestock of Vermont will not be infected. They will be healthy and continuing to produce meat, milk, and wool. They will continue to provide companionship to small holding farmer and enhance the rural landscape we cherish in Vermont.

 

FACT: We understand very clearly that due to the perceived planet’s limited resources companion animals (non-productive or hobby animals) will be killed.

 

To see that continue, we must immediately implement measures necessary to keep our animals healthy, producing, and surviving. At that moment, farming in Vermont must operate as ‘One Agriculture’.

 

FACT: Let me clarify, continuing means the ‘global owner’s’ want their stock healthy, producing (to make them money, and compliant. You are in error on one thing, it is not operating Vermont, ‘One Agriculture’, it is ‘ONE AGRICULTURE’. As in ONE WORLD AGRICULTURE, you probably just missed reading those documents.

 

That means every farmer, from those with 1000 cows on down to those like Ms. Zecchinelli and her two pigs “Pork” and “Chop”, must pull together at the fundamental of community levels in order to have any hope of surviving.

 

FACT: Sustainable agriculture is about implementing the ‘Utilitarian Theory’, sacrifice the one for the sake of the community. In addition, you add a new paradigm, that if you don’t produce, like a good little producer, it allows the ‘potential’ for extermination.

 

On that fateful day USDA will be busy doing other things that it will have no time to worry about protecting an individual farm in Franklin County, Vermont.

 

FACT: The Federal Government in a Constitutional Republic has no business on matters of health for individual farms. What ‘other’ things does the USDA, under federal jurisdiction, have going that would prevent it from doing aiding in a disaster as it always has? Unless, of course, the USDA job description has changed due to let’s say economic reasons.

FACT: Farmers planning to survive do not want any ‘financial incentive’ because with dollars bring strings to which we do not desire to attach ourselves.

 

First, a team of veterinary response processionals will work to eradicate the disease on the ground where it is first diagnosed. Yes, that multi-agency effort was recently exercised in Washington State. Failing to plan and exercise, as Ms. Zecchinelli suggests in the Messenger, would be an absolute dereliction of duty at the Federal and state levels.

 

FACT: We know well your team of professional ‘exterminators’ who have exercised and perfected the Art of Killing. Not all in the multi-agencies are as ruthless as some. We know the players, we know the plans, and we know our response.

FACT: There are already Emergency Plans on the books which address emergency animal health disease. Federal Level: Federal Response Plan. State Level: Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan. These plans, unless recently updated, do not cost the taxpayers any more than they already pay (including farmers) and do not invade privacy:

National Response Plan: www.dhs.gov/nrp

Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan:

http://emergencymanagement.wi.gov/subcategory.asp?linksubcatid=11&linkcatid=37&linkid=30

We have become numb to TV images of national Guardsman, FBI agents, and “Moon Suits against a backdrop of fallen buildings such as happened on 9/11. To see a dairy farm become the scene of a practice event utilizing the same resources is, at best, chilling. I shared those images with dairymen at the Sheldon meeting to demonstrate what would have to happen were this biodisaster to befall Vermont or any other state. This was not done to “scare” but to educate. Imagine camouflage-clad soldiers standing guard at farm gates across Vermont while depopulation is in progress. That is the only alternative we have if we remain unprepared to survive.

 

FACT: Exercise by design, media by design…desensitizing the population to ‘police state’ images and associating those images of 911 with the farm grows fear of food and is pure evil. We live in a culture where the image is powerful and is exploited. Education does not instill fear. Images presented by folks such as you are purposefully manipulation, instilling fear into people who have lost knowledge of agriculture in their lives.

FACT: Our camouflage-clad soldiers should be protecting our nation, borders, and throwing out illegal aliens from our country, not harassing farmers who grow the crops and animals you and they eat.

 

Second, at the national level, all transport of susceptible species will come to a halt in a way similar to the grounding of the aircraft fleet in the aftermath of 9/11.

 

FACT: Through a series of Presidential Executive Orders, manipulation and deception of animal health certificates, interstate animal conveyance (travel) will be cut-off unless one is compliant.

 

Dr. Smith explained how the State Departments of Agriculture, including that of Vermont, will be totally consumed in supplementing national efforts by closing our borders to the movement of animals. Internally, states will further restrict the movement of agricultural vehicles like milk and feed trucks because those movements could carry infection from farm to farm at the township level.

 

FACT: You mean quarantine because that is what each state agreed to do when they took the money to implement the NAIS. Government does have its duck in a row for quarantine and isolation (this is one document but it is neither comprehensive nor limited to just this one document):

http://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33201.pdf

FACT: Emergency Support Function’s # 11 and #25 within the Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan addresses the role that the Department of Transportation (DOT) plays within an animal emergency (for instance but not limited to this document):

• Provides representation to the SDG when requested by WSDA.
• Provides support for roadblocks on state and federal highways in restricted or quarantined areas delineated by the PDG and/or the USDA.
• Provide expertise and assist in planning any required movement off-site of carcasses for disposal.

 

I have been involved in drafting, training, and exercising national and state animal disaster response plans for 5 years. I have instructed veterinary and allied responders in the mechanics of depopulation. As a result I can safely predict that the efforts at the national and state levels will, without doubt, rapidly exhaust all available personnel and equipment the respective agencies have at hand, perhaps in a manner of a few days. The efforts will not be air tight. There will be leaks of an invisible deadly disease.

 

FACT: Many large scale disaster ‘overwhelm’ state resources hence a Presidential Declaration and assistance. See Hurricane Katrina-

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050827-1.html.

This is Standard Operating Guidelines (Procedure)

FACT: In Sheldon you said that only 7 people showed up for the ‘exercise’ in the State of Washington. That is false. This exercise was exactly 3 miles from my home and I know the participants. You also said that you had only practiced this exercise twice and that included the State of Washington. Five years?

FACT: We currently have ‘mysterious illnesses’. What is new?

www.ktvu.com/news/4170085/detail.html or what about the Peruvian meteorite mystery illness?

QUESTION: What are your credentials for training of the ‘mechanics of depopulation’?

 

Nearly thirty farms were represented in Sheldon. A survey of the group showed that on average Northern Vermont farms had sufficient feed to sustain their animals for about 8 days without receiving fresh supplies from beyond their farm borders. They could not survive about one month without farm income before they faced the specter of bankruptcy.

 

FACT: The threat of quarantine and isolation will impact farms. You garnered this insight from the UK and promptly ‘brought the chickens home to roost’ so to speak to implement here in the US. Instead of providing farmers with educational steps they can take on how to weather the storm of animal disease you talk succinctly of bankruptcy.

FACT: Entities also have at their disposal unique algorithms to assist them in determining impacts & assessments of all kinds.

FACT: If farmers did encounter financial loss due to disaster the government would offer its *financial incentive* thus becoming a party to whom the farmer would have to account for their farming practices. See FEMA Grant fine print. When the government offers a grant (or even not) it can then march towards yet another land-grab, such as it is currently doing in the environmental arena. See Wilderness Heritage sites, to many to list.

While an agricultural biodisaster unfolds elsewhere, likely stretching from weeks into months, all Vermont farmers will have to operate in crisis or protective mode. It is not a matter of large versus small, nor a contest between commercial farming and sustainable, backyard, or organic agriculture. No matter if they have 2 animals like Ms. Zecchilli, or 200 on a diary farm that supports an entire Vermont family, all farmers will need feed for their animals in an environment which must restrict feed delivery. They must be able to send meat and milk to market under laborious biosecurity protocols which frustrate those movements.

 

FACT: Quite frankly if we have a disaster of this proportion we will be in a state of martial law, not only for farmers but for a hungry population, who has no ability to obtain food without government benevolence, common to Third World Countries. But that is part of the plan, reducing America to Third World status while elevating Third World Country status… the UN mandate, the great equalizer. It is the redistribution of wealth from the ‘rich’ to the ‘poor’.

http://www.fao.org/

http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/documents/agenda21/index.htm

 

Ms. Zecchinelli, who is not a veterinarian, misrepresents the current role of vaccinations in her October 12 letter.

 

FACT: There are no readily available vaccines that would eliminate the need to depopulate animals. World-wide, there are seven major serotypes of FMD virus, each with up 60 known sub-types. Thus, there are potentially over 400 separate and distinct variants of the disease-producing virus. Alternatively, the diseases would progress nationwide while we waited at least 8 weeks for a specific vaccine to be produced. Second, vaccinated animals continue to shed infectious virus. Third, 10 to 20 percent will come down with the disease despite being vaccinated!

 

Ms. Zecchinelli writes that “an extensive FMD outbreak can be controlled and eradicated in a very short time, with minimal disruption of the rural society by vaccination of cattle only.” I wish that were true.

 

FACT: The HenWhisperer ignores the millions of swine, goats, sheep and other species that can contract, amplify, and serve as reservoirs for the virus. She advises us that a quick and easy solution lies in vaccinating just cattle with non-structural proteins (NSP) vaccines. Yet, she fails to tell your readers that such vaccines are only in the research stages; not yet proven. And, as with having stocks of conventional vaccines against each and every possible serotype, NSP vaccines simply do not exist in then massive amounts, i.e. millions of doses, necessary to control a US outbreak of FMD before it swept across the US.

 

Put bluntly, vaccination is not available as a “one size fits all”, control option today, nor is it seen as being available in the near future. That future could, easily, be upon us tomorrow morning.

FACT: UN Emergency Management Plans for your Farm Posted in September 19th, 2007

It is prudent to plan for emergencies. Emergencies should be handled taking into account our unique areas and the peoples living therein. We should not have a one-size fits all, cookie-cutter emergency management plan, that mandates uniform policies mandated or ‘guidelines’ from the UN. Coordination and communication are one thing, […]

FACT: NAIS is a one size fits all solution to a complex issue.

Ms. Zecchinelli, a self described “small holding farmer” and “beekeeper”, tried to convince me in Sheldon that an FMD event would actually be beneficial to Vermont livestock! Animals that survived would become immune. That is true for only 80-90 percent of those vaccinated. In her world, as a direct result, genetically transferable immunity would magically be theirs. They would simply pass that along to all future generations. That ill-conceived notion is simply wrong. Surviving any disease and thus gaining “single animal immunity” does not suddenly confer inherited immunity upon the offspring. Were her theory true, the words “infectious disease” would not exist regarding mankind or animals.

 

FACT: Some of Ms. Zecchinelli’s personal information is private. You obtained it either from a database which is to be used exclusively in an animal health emergency (that is what is told to those of us in agriculture) or it was through the National Statistical Service (NASS).

 

FACT: WSDA Public Disclosure from the WSDA-How the WSDA gets your data.

Chapter 14-Researching non-validating addresses

2005

“Investigation toolkit”

Street atlas

www.delorme.com

MapQuest

www.mapquest.com

Census

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/AGSGeoAddressServlet?_lang=en&_programYear=50&_treeId=420&_sse=onGoogle maps

http://google.com/maps

Intelius

http://www.intelius.com/

Melissa Data

http://www.melissadata.com/

Meredian TRS Graphical Locator

http://www.esg.montana.edu/gl/

Neutronline Public Records Portal

http://www.netronline.com/public_records.htm

Property

http://www.netronline.com/

Reverse Phone search

http://kevdb.infospace.com

Email Tracking

http://kevdb.infospace.com/info/kevdb?OTMPL=%2Femail%2Femail-out.html&QK=5&QN=smith&QF=john&KCFG=email&ran=14657

Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/maps

USPS

http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/citytown_zip.jsp

Obtaining GPS Coordinates

http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocoding.html

http://esg.montana.edu/gl/xy-data.html

National Map Server

http://nationalmap.gov/gio/viewonline.html

http://nmviewogc.cr.usgs.gov/viewer.htm

Terra Server

http://www.terraserver.com/

TRS DATA

http://www.publicdatabase.org/

www.esg.montana.edu/gl/trs-data.html

Prizm Codes

http://www.melissadata.com/Lookups/PrizmDes.asp

http://www.claritas.com/MyBestSegments/Default.jsp

“Addresses are typically held by local 911 Boards […]As local 911 addresses become available to the NAIS, it will be incorporated as a data source to be used for validation”

[..] When a new 911 address is assigned to mailing addresses in an area previously using a Rural Route type address it typically adopted into the USPS database. When this occurs, the former address information will updated in the NPIR, a history of the old address will be maintained, and the state will be notified of the change in premises address. This will avoid duplication.”

[…]This will prevent premises address duplication as a old addresses are updated to 911 addresses, and also when city-zip pairs are changed due to re-alignment into postal zones.”

 

FACT: Dr. Van Wie “infectious disease ’has been around since the beginning and we survived and our animals without, believe it or not, Command and Control.

FACT: GAO 05-214

Vaccines cannot be deployed within 24 hours of an outbreak as called for in HSPD-9. First, supplies are limited because USDA maintains vaccines for only one foreign animal disease—foot and mouth disease—since this disease is so highly contagious. USDA generally prefers to immediately slaughter diseased animals rather than to vaccinate them. Also, these vaccines cannot be rapidly deployed because they are not stored in a “ready-to-use” state and would first need to be sent to the United Kingdom for bottling and testing. USDA officials told us that it has recently established a steering committee that will address vaccine stockpiling issues, but it is not clear that the committee will address […]

Sharon Zecchinelli advices your readers that meat and milk from FMD infected animals is perfectly safe to eat. True, the disease does not affect humans. The sad fact is that the animals infected with FMD, and those in proximity to them, will, be killed and disposed of. Those products will not reach market. Beyond that, what consumer will want products from a State with animals infected with any disease? The largest maker of frozen hamburgers closed its doors forever and fired its workers this past month after an accidental e coli contamination of its product.

 

FACT: Let’s just say certain entities have incentive to ensure our animals are killed and disposed of and their products do not reach market. What consumer will want animals infected with diseases? All the media ‘Plague of the Day’ has consumers fearing their food supply. They have good reason. Not from farmers who have animals with common diseases but from contaminated foreign & domestic products. One can’t even purchase safe pet food any longer. But the USDA, et al, is right on top of the situation (as we daily hear of new recalls and are subjected to the ramifications of these poisoned foods). See the news or AVMA site.

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Fsis_Recalls/Open_Federal_Cases/index.asp

What is your definition of ‘disease’ Dr. Van Wie? All animals have ‘disease’. Is it your intention that all animals must be eradicated? For your information the Terrestrial Animal Health Code implemented at the Federal level and currently is being incrementally implemented at the state levels includes mammals, humans are mammals:

http://www.oie.int/eng/Normes/mcode/en_chapitre_1.1.1.htm See definitions

It is true, many companies will go out of business as food is legislated and regulated out of business. Before long your will see “Closed” signs similar, yet far worse, than the Depression.

 

Tuberculosis, in cattle is communicable to humans. It is threatening the market for dairy products produced in Michigan. Ms. Zecchinelli’s website shows that she is one of the ring leaders of the resistance to eradication of bovine TB in Michigan where the technology of the National Animal Identification System is being used. If Vermont was an FMD state, what would happen to the national sales now enjoyed by Ben and Jerry’s or Cabot Cheese? Would the folks who work in those plants have jobs if no one purchased their employers’ Made-In-Vermont products?

 

FACT: You are unable to debate Ms. Zecchinelli with the facts so you attack her character, referring to her as a ‘ring-leader’ of resistance. Where would you be today Dr. Van Wie had not a few folks stepped up to the plate in WWII? Demonization of the opposition is a glaring tactic of propaganda. You damage your reputation when utilizing it.

FACT: TB would not be a factor in the US except we allow foreign infection in to this country openly.

FACT: Ms. Zecchinelli focus’s her efforts in Vermont and nationally. She is not intimately involved with the Michigan Eradication of bovine TB as you state. One again, Dr. Van Wie…accuracy.

FACT: We are looking at a future where only productive and compliant farms, companies and employees will retain their jobs during and after the ‘transition period’. The rest, “Oh so sorry.”

 

Will the federal or State governments hand our producers a survival plan on a silver platter? No. Just like Ms. Zecchinelli’s panacea, “NSP vaccines”, no such plan exists. How about a big fat recovery check? The relevant law, 9 CFR 52 says farmers’ losses will be reimbursed at “fair-market value” for lost animals, and depreciated value for lost property. I explained at Sheldon that our nation’s ability to fund a recovery program covering the loss of our national livestock herd would be in doubt. Replacement cattle prices tripled for depopulated farmers after 2001 event in England.

 

FACT: I have accumulated over 1000 “plans” from officials. It is true farmers will not be handed this information on a silver platter, but some of us are getting the word out on various “plans”.

FACT: Reimbursement checks? We heard about those in the UK. Those of us who refuse to comply do not want the financial incentive. Most financial incentive is for compliant farms exclusively, kind of like a posh exclusive club. We are hard working individuals who do not believe the government is our big teat, if you know what I mean?

FACT: We have individuals in the real estate industry who are keeping us apprised and are fully aware of the detriment that can be brought down upon us if the word “disease’ should be purposefully circulated in our neighborhood and afar, resulting in lost property value. It is a sham to grab property at the low dollar when the powers-that-be decide to drive independent farmers and property owners out.

FACT: Economic coercion is when a controller of a vital resource uses his advantage to compel a person to do something he would not do if this resource were not monopolized. If someone is the owner of the only water supply, then the owner can compel the thirsty person to pay an exorbitant price for that water or have him perform enormous labor. This is also referred to as a form of exploitation. It has been argued that as the global economy has expanded greatly in scope, economic coercion has replaced other forms of coercion such as coercion involving physical or military force.

Economic coercion requires market power. In the above example, the coercer’s refusal to supply the coerce would be meaningless if the coerce had access to other independent sources of supply. But the coercer can turn his conditional refusal into a vital threat only because of his coercive monopoly over an essential resource, with no other substitutes. In a competitive marketplace, the possibility of economic coercion is much reduced as suppliers are compelled by competition to accept less money or labor for their goods.

Can massive logistics needed to continue viable farming at any level be hastily put in place on Day 12 or 13 after biodisaster has gained a foothold in the US? Again, from my experience in England, the answer is a resounding ‘No’. We would have, at best, 5 days to hunker down and protect Vermont’s livestock.

Planning to survive must be done in advance. It must occur, now, at the individual farm, neighborhood, township and county levels. These efforts will fall, quite literally, in the laps of the Selectsmen in our Towns that play host to animal agriculture. That was the educational purpose of the Sheldon discussion.

 

FACT: As you well know Dr. Van Wie massive logistics does not need to be hastily put in place. The plans are already in place to keep viable agriculture, at the touch of a key pad or phone call, once the ‘event’ begins’ the powers-that-be have their ducks in a row to preserve agriculture and by the way Continuity of Operations (COOP).

FACT: Most farmers, non-large commodity, are prepared to hunker down for a multi-hazard event(s).

FACT: Selectsmen, the money brokers. It is true the Federal government is attempting to circumvent our Constitution by offering money to entice the local level to come on board. They know that matters of health belong to the State’s and local government. See any Cooperative Agreement, Memorandum of Understanding or massive other contractual agreements.

 

Ms. Zecchinelli has vowed to spend the balance of her life opposing the National Animal Identification System as do others in Vermont. They claim “Big Brother”. They say that “Microchips for your kids are the next step.” And, they raise privacy issues. I am ashamed as I travel this country that my home state is known not for is maple industry or its cheese, but as a hotbed of resistance to the urgently needed NAIS. It is selfish and patently wrong.

 

FACT: Privacy is essentially gutted with the NAIS as you can see in the Federal Privacy Impact Assessment:

http://www.nonaiswa.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/veterinarian_services_process_streamlining_projectvspspia.pdf

FACT: A four month investigative report by Associated Press (a credible source don’t you think?) concluded through scientific-based evidence that microchips are linked to an aggressive & malignant form of cancer.

http://antichips.com/press-releases/microchip-imlants-tumors.html

 

Let’s get one thing perfectly clear: I do not want to end my veterinary career killing the cloven hoofed animals in Vermont.

 

FACT: I am wondering why you selected out exclusively cloven hoofed animals. Other animals also are ‘disease’ carriers.

FACT: Vets across the country, due to their licensing requirement, be forced to comply and enforce governmental decree or loose their license. Be the decrees right or wrong. Due to this fact vets for the most part have ‘bought-into’ or should I say they ‘voluntarily’ were ‘purchased’ to support the National Animal Identification System known as NAIS.

FACT: Our State Vet does not want to end his career until he fully implements NAIS then he is “going fishing” while the rest of us fight to retain our property ownership and food.

FACT: There is not a single veterinarian professional in this Country sitting by the phone eagerly awaiting the call to commence a depopulation operation.

 

I do, however, want to be called to protect our State’s livestock when a crisis arises. When I am, the first thing I must know within minutes, not hours or day’s, is the simple location of each and every farm that owns and houses livestock which could contract, harbor and dispense a vicious foreign animal disease. That means the very visible Vermont dairy farm, and equally, it means the pigs and sheep Ms Zecchinelli has on her less obvious small holding and features of her website.

 

FACT: Your plans to protect the State’s livestock will not protect, nor secure, us from a crisis.

FACT: Shepherds throughout time have had to defend their flocks and herds from predators.

I firmly believe, as do Dr. Smith, the St. Albans Coop and your local veterinarian practitioner’s, that the small State of Vermont can survive the arrival of a foreign animal disease elsewhere in the United States or in Canada if, we are prepared at the local level to do so from the outset.

 

FACT: Those involved in this scheme are stalking our state and local governments for gain just as a coyote stalks a sheep. Can you say undermine our Constitution? Cooperative Agreement, Contractual Agreement, and Compliance?

FACT: Predatory coercion-The purely selfish kinds of coercion are a form of predatory behavior by the coercing party, whose aim is to narrow down the scope of other people’s actions so as to make them instrumental to its own personal interests.

 

We can only do that if we are untied in advance as One Vermont Agriculture.

FACT: Also known as ‘One World Government’

FACT: Pedagogic and thought coercion-In all forms of thought coercion the immediate objective is to force other people to act as if their basic choice rules were identical to those of the coercing party. However, this mere conformity of “outward” behavior is but a first step. The true and final aim of thought coercion is to induce a change in the victim’s objective function itself, i.e. the basic set of values and rules by which the victim determines his or her own choice among the alternatives of any feasible set. Thought coercion is thus generally meant to be only temporary. Once the desired change in values has been brought about, the victim is expected to conform spontaneously, without any need for further coercion. It is also

Yes, Ms. Zecchinelli, it does mean registering your premises. Please, rise to the call and be the first of your peers to put your name and address on the list as someone who has a few members of a susceptible species. FMD can expand outward in every direction at this rate of over 20 square miles per hour! Every minute we waste physically searching for animals on unknown farms, or battling with defiant folks who think they “know better”, is another minute the disease has to ravage the countryside.

FACT: Ideological coercion-Ideological coercion is the use of thought coercion in the attempt to modify people’s social and political philosophy. This is of course quite different from plain propaganda, or even the simple persecution of political opponents, because its objective is to force individual ideological conversions. Unlike religious coercion, it is a quite recent phenomenon, confined to some of the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century. Will the US be next?

 

Be a part of the solution, not a part of the problem. Note that I do no ask you to identify each and every animal. That is secondary.

 

FACT: Traditional farming is the solution and those who would thwart its success are the emerging ‘problem pestilence’ that needs to be eradicated.

FACT: Sir, you do not need NAIS and you know that is true. As stated at the end of this letter you know exactly where and how many animals are located awaiting the ‘event’ time. A recent swarm of interest has occurred recently in the mapping of agriculture utilizing tools and agencies such as: GIS, geospatial mapping, remote sensing, Homeland Security, Emergency Management, NORAD, USNORTHCOM, DARPA, and a host of other alphabet agencies. To get word out to farmers and the population all it takes is to do a Press Release a voila you will have response, unless it is Control and Command with enforcement, that is the desired outcome.

FACT: It is the policy of the US under HSPD #9 : (a) identifying and prioritizing sector-critical infrastructure and key resources for establishing protection requirements; (of which agriculture and its components are a part and your plea to Ms. Zechinelli to join the team).

FACT: This is known as fuzzy math utilized successfully in the environmental take-over.

I ask you to do this not because I want to come kill your cattle, pigs, or sheep. Quite to the contrary, I want to be able to include you in a protection and survival effort right in your own farming neighborhood. I know that to you this sound like USDA propaganda. But, it is true-no one wants to kill any animal. NAIS will help us survive a biodisaster.

 

FACT: Righteous cannot commingle with evil. Public Disclosure documents state: TRUTH (Capitalized for emphasis, y’all being truth, lower case) vs. anti-nais (lower case emphasized). Whoever pulls the strings at the top has thrown down the gauntlet. No fence-sitters any longer. At the moment those entities declared themselves TRUTH a spiritual battle commenced. May I be quite candid? You might win some skirmishes, but you will not win the battle.

 

FACT: The population at large is being partitioned into segments. Our protection and survival does not depend on earthly beings, powers or principalities.

 

Ms. Zecchinelli, the dairyman who challenged you in Sheldon was correct. His message as clear.

 

“United we stand, but divided as we are now, we will surely fall.”

 

FACT: In psychological coercion, the threatened injury regards the victim’s relationships . The most obvious example is blackmail, where the threat consists of the dissemination of damaging information. But many other cases are possible, including purposeful threats of rejection from or disapproval by a peers group, or even mere anger or displeasure by a loved one. It is yet another instance of coercive persuasion. These techniques have been used extensively and methodically in places such as China during their ‘Thought Transformation’ process.

 

Steve Van Wie

Pomfret, Vermont

Current Contact: Hortonville WI 920-757-9709

newfvt@sover.net

 

 

PS I wonder if Ms Zecchinelli is aware that the event her neighbor’s dairy farms outside Enosburg Falls, one located at the intersection of Horseshoe Circle and Bakersfield Rd, .58 miles away, or the one on East Boston Rd 1.34 miles away, were to contract FMD, that despite any barricades, protests, and resistance she might throw up, in the end “Pork” and “Chop” would be toast?

 

FACT: Coercion is the practice of compelling a person to behave in an involuntary way (whether through action or inaction) by use of threats, intimidation or some other form of pressure or force. Coercion may typically involve the actual infliction of physical or psychological harm in order to enhance the credibility of a threat. The threat of further harm may then lead to the cooperation or obedience of the person being coerced.

The term is often associated with circumstances which involve the unethical use of threats or harm to achieve some objective. Coercion may also serve as a form of justification for a conclusion in a logical fallacy or non-argument.

http://news.bbc.co.ukJ1/scotland/1313129.stm and http://news_bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1311065

 

CHECK: http://www.nonaiswa.org/?p=639 How low can you go? Recycling animals culled due to your ‘starvation scenario’ used as bio fuel. Disgusting!

 

OPTION TO COUNTER A THREAT: Since you and ‘others’ fear this scenario will occur (and no doubt it will) now would it not be a GOOD time to repent of your sins and be forgiven by the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, Y’shua? After all, He is the one ultimately in charge.

From the trenches,

Celeste