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The Food Fight Continues: Your Privacy Clashes with ‘Animal’ Health

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Animal Health Monitoring and Surveillance System

Celeste Bishop

(To date 3 people have made comments on this crucial regulation.  Take time to make your voice heard today, For the Record.  Comment Deadline:  DECEMBER 28th, IMPLEMENTATION DATE:  January 9th)

The USDA and APHIS are embarking in a new direction and mission that you will see unfold through the next three years.  Regulations from this point forward will be evolutionary.  They be continually changing and regulations that will be released in the next months seek to be free burdensome regulatory process.  Subtly and quietly forthcoming regulations will garner the authority to rid themselves of the “chains” of traditional accountability through the regulatory process.  By 2015, agencies will have set themselves up in essence, to become the gods of life and death. Continue reading →

Memorandum of Opposition: Animal Health Monitoring and Surveillance (AHMS)

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The reason this is long is to head off the coming tsunami of evil that is poised to crush small agriculture.  Take a few minutes to write your own Memorandum of Opposition.  Feel free to use anything put in my Memorandum, it is for your use also.  I have a template on the right hand side at www.nonaiswa.org if you are new to this list.  I know this is getting old but we need to stand firm.

Next year is going to be very interesting to say the least….

From the trenches of liberty,
Celeste

Celeste Bishop
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Memorandum of Opposition

 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

[Docket No. APHIS-2010-0007]

Animal Health Monitoring & Surveillance System, Privacy Act

 

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Public Comment December 28, 2011

USDA APHIS

[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 228 (Monday, November 28, 2011)]

[Notices]

[Pages 72897-72900]

[FR Doc No: 2011-30429]

 
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Memorandum of Opposition

Privacy Act Systems of Records:

APHIS Animal Health Surveillance and Monitoring System

USDA-APHIS-15

ACTION: Notice of a proposed new system of records; request for comment.

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STATEMENT OF FACTS Continue reading →

Veterinary Services 2015 to Regulate ‘Unique’ GMO Livestock

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If you love real food like organic beef or chicken, let the buyer beware, that Veterinary Services is planning to establish regulatory authority over a unique category of genetically modified livestock and you will never be the wiser because you can be assured that it will not be labeled.  In fact, the Veterinary Services wanted to bury this little GMO gem in the 150-page VS Vision 2015 which they plan to implement in the next three years.  Unless you are spending your holidays wading through electronic paperwork you probably didn’t know they were creating regulation authority for genetically modified organism monster livestock. 

You can find this modern-day monster in the: Veterinary Services Vision 2015  M&MWG on page 17 under “Improve certifications for continuity of business”, under compartments it says:

“Establish regulatory authority to recognize domestic swine and poultry compartments, and unique categories of livestock such as genetically modified cattle producing human proteins. Then they desire to allow movement of this GMO monster livestock across state lines, international lines, and even go so far as to hide GMO by-products in the food chain.  Just try to take a real dairy goat, chicken, or cow across state lines and see what you get.  Your life would never be the same with all the non-compliance penalties, fees, and their favorite ‘other’ consequences.

 

What can you do?

10 Minute Citizen:

  • Support your local farmer.
  • Ask if they grow real food or GMO monster food.  Ask who their supplier is because these days many farmers are hoodwinked into buying GMO products.
  • CALL Veterinary Services and let them know you OPPOSE this ‘unique’ genetically modified monster livestock
  • Challenge and forbid VS from regulatory authority over GMO monster livestock and from creating a category of unique GMO livestock
  • Call and write your Legislators and Senators to protect you from invasive GMO livestock
  • Further demand that these abominations be down-right banned altogether.
  • Better yet, after you call send VS a Memorandum of Opposition which puts you officially on the recorded opposing GMO’s
  • Specifically challenge VS establishing regulatory authority over GMO monster livestock.
  • Support Scientists for Responsible Technology, Dr. Jeffrey Smith
  • Activism is easy with the Memorandum of Opposition template on our main page (www.nonaiswa.org) right hand side.
  • Here are the phone numbers.  Call today!  They are cheaper by the dozen!

 

 

Animal Related Issues

Phone: 301-734-8364

Fax: 301-734-4704

 

Exporting Animal Products

Phone: 301-734-3278

Fax: 301-734-0571

 

Importing and Exporting Live Animals

Phone: 301-734-8364

Fax: 301-734-6402

 

Select Agents and Organisms and Vectors

Phone: 301-734-5960

Fax: 301-734-3652

 

Regionalization

Phone: 301-734-4356

Fax: 301-734-3222

 

International Trade Negotiations

Phone: 301-734-4356

Fax: 301-734-3222

 

National Veterinary Accreditation Program (NVAP)

Phone: 301-851-3400

Fax: 301-734-3641

 

Sanitary International Standards

Phone: 301-734-5324

Fax: 301-734-8818

 

From the trenches of liberty,

Celeste

VS Vision 2015: SMS-Secure Milk Supply

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Under the new global health regime all animals are considered to be exposed to exotic, novel, and foreign diseases as food trade is demanded by the global profiteers from once sovereign nations.  Just last month numerous new and reemerging diseases popped up around the globe.  The global profiteers make no bones that they are in it to take money after all it really isn’t about making your food safe.   This will be a series on the new VS Vision 2015 for America’s food supply.  Read it and weep. You will find that our milk supply is being commandeered by power hungry and money-sucking parasites for a disease which they acknowledge is NOT EVEN A PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERN!  One might imagine what they have in store for real disease concerns.

In their own words:

The Secure Milk Supply (SMS) Plan is currently under development. In the event foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is diagnosed in the United States, an animal health emergency will be declared and livestock and allied industries will feel the immediate impacts of animal quarantines, increased testing, and product movement restrictions. The just-in-time supply practices of milk movement in the U.S. could result in significant interruptions of milk and milk products to consumers, as well as create significant milk disposal and animal welfare issues on dairies. A well-developed, science and risk-based plan requires the input of industry, state and federal animal health officials. Continue reading →

Regulation & ‘Dark Matter’: Are we are on the eve of destruction?

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On October 12, 2011 MIT published a research paper exploring so called ‘dark-matter’ in the human genome.  Twenty-nine species were looked at including humans and primates.  Supposedly researchers have discovered the part of the genome that REGULATES the turning on and off off genes.  The publication hailed this as a positive discovery because it could expose genetic links which cause disease.  The article goes on to say, “regulatory information that controls genes dwarfs the information in the genes themselves”.  Is this a true scientific finding or is just another promo piece for regulation down to the cellular level justifying its sustainability and existence?  The study was conducted by Broad Institute, MIT, Washington University in St. Louis and Baylor College of Medicine with project was support by the National Human Genome Research Institute, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the European Science Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, an Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship, the Gates Cambridge Trust, the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the University of Copenhagen, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Danish Council for Independent Research Medical Sciences and the Lundbeck Foundation.

“With just a few species, we didn’t have the power to pinpoint individual regions of regulatory control,” says co-author Manolis Kellis, the Karl R. Van Tassel (1925) Career Development Associate Professor of Computer Science at MIT. “This new map reveals almost 3 million previously undetectable elements in non-coding regions that have been carefully preserved across all mammals, and whose disruptions appear to be associated with human disease.”

 

A Treasure Trove

 

In their own words, “This new map helps pinpoint mutations that are likely responsible for disease — generally in genes that have been preserved across millions of years of evolution. Knowing the causal mutations and their likely functions can then help uncover the underlying disease mechanisms and reveal potential drug targets.

The scientists were able to suggest possible functions for more than half of the 360 million DNA letters contained in the conserved elements, revealing:

  • almost 4,000 previously undetected exons, or segments of DNA that code for proteins;
  • 10,000 highly conserved elements that may be involved in protein production;
  • more than 1,000 new families of RNA secondary structures with diverse roles in gene regulation; and
  • 2.7 million predicted targets of transcription factors, proteins that control gene expression.”

There are three and probably many more disturbing insights with this project:

  • The emphasis on regulation being the key.  Anyone engaged in activism understands the duality of words and semantic word games
  • The emerging filed of synthetic DNA.  At what point do we loose being human and the human soul?
  • And one very articulate comment posted at the end of the article:
It’s interesting to see what happens when those in disparate fields, like computer science and biology, collaborate. This fascinating and important study is one result. Another is the statement by a computer-scientist co-author that elements of non-coding DNA “…have been *carefully* preserved across all mammals…” [emphasis added]. I believe biologists are trained to avoid such phrasing, which suggests a conscious agent deliberately manipulating DNA through the generations. I trust the co-author’s statement reflects computer scientists’ more casually way of thinking and speaking about such topics, rather than a religious assertion.

Time will tell if humanity is on the eve of destruction as scientists, regulators, and government “play god” with their experimentation and manipulation across the fields of sciences adulterating all that was pure and good from the Creator.

From the trenches of liberty,

Celeste

 

 

 

 

 

BioSurveillance Report Exposes Origins of 3rd Pillar of NAIS or Traceabiltiy Regulations

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From a report issued in April 2011 on Biosurveillance:

 

Very interesting.  The implementation of IHR 2005, you know that annoying little “regulation” that requires you to have a passport to go to Canada or Mexico, was really the first tangible step in the One World-One Health global governance plan.  This sentence clearly exposed the concept from its once shadow existence: “actionable biosurveillance data should be promoted through support for implementation of IHR 2005; integration of human, animal, food, vector, and environmental surveillance systems into a national biosurveillance strategy; and expansion of biosurveillance to include environmental aspects that are the greatest threat to human health, including water, food, animals, and vectors.”  Once humans, animals, food, vectors, environment is in one big pot they will are be merged into one conglomerate.  At a Farming Conference a few years ago there was I speaker, I do not recall his name, but he put forth to all the farmers that wouldn’t it be so much easier to manage thousand acre parcels instead or all these lots and small acreages. What he was getting at is the slow boiling frog that y’all are familiar with, incremental merger of all disciplines for easy management by large, very large, appointed global entities.

Support your useless Federal Workforce Plan

This golden nugget suggests that the ” federal government should promote and ensure a sustainable interdisciplinary workforce with investments in expertise, especially in public health informatics; social and behavioral epidemiology; environmental, human and animal health; vector biology; and disaster response.”  This is the same federal government that out-sourced your job to another country, is making life very difficult through it’s layered regulations, bypasses Congress (not that they are much use any longer) but seeks their own sustainability and fat pay checks while you starve.

These are only two illuminating sentences in the CDC Final Report.

Read on

 

Homeland Security Calls and CEEZAD Call for Animal Traceability/Identification and One Health

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Speaking recently at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science Summit Conference in Washington, D. C., Professor Juergen Richt, Kansas State University Regents Distinguished Professor and Director of the DHS Center of Excellence for Emerging and Animal Diseases (CEEZAD), surprised his audience by opening with a little-known fact: “It has been estimated that a pound of meat (beef, chicken or pork) generally travels about 1,000 miles from farm to fork.” In view of such extensive movement, Dr Richt explained, “our agricultural supply chain here in the United States is under threat, because of our remarkable mobility that permits animals, people, food, diseases and even terrorists to move around the world with impunity.”

 

The Challenges Ahead

 

“For various foreign and zoonotic diseases—that is animal diseases that cross the species barrier to infect people—we face six tough challenges: (1) a research challenge for scientists to understand how viruses and prions behave;(2) a developmental challenge for pharmaceutical firms to manufacture the necessary vaccines and antiviral drugs quickly; (3) an organizational challenge for international agencies and national governments to fund and distribute those vaccines and antiviral agents; (4) an agricultural challenge for farmers and firms to protect their animals and workers; (5) a medical challenge for physicians, nurses and families to care for those who are ill; and (6) a personal challenge for politicians, public health officials and households — to each one of us—to respond with resilience and calmness.”

“The scale of this challenge is indicated by the fact that in the past two decades there have been numerous outbreaks of infectious diseases, each of which has cost its host country at least $350 million. The most serious recent outbreaks have all begun in animals—Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) which cost China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada and other nations some $50 billion, Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) which cost the United Kingdom some $30 billion, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) which cost the United Kingdom $13 billion, and numerous outbreaks of Avian Flu in Asia, North America and Europe costing more than $10 billion.”

 

The Need for an Effective System of Animal Identification

It is precisely the unpredictability of emerging diseases that makes it essential to introduce an effective system of animal identification in the United States in order to ensure animal traceability. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has now taken the lead in a new effort to codify federal regulations and require an interstate certificate of veterinary inspection for all livestock moved interstate. Although producers and distributors of livestock are concerned by the costs of implementing an animal identification system in the United States, such costs are minimal compared to the costs of a major animal disease outbreak in the U.S. For example, the efficient control and eradication of FMD cannot be achieved without traceability data to identify the location of infected animals.

The Need to Link Human and Veterinary Medicine

“The opening line of Charles Dickens’ novel, A Tale of Two Cities, summarizes what I have tried to communicate,” commented Dr Richt. Remember when Dickens wrote: ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.’ Today it is the best of times when we develop policies that are grounded in One Health, linking human and veterinary medicine with an ecologically healthy environment. It is the worst of times when we think that we can ignore the possibility of a major disease outbreak in the U. S.”

 

Dr Richt concluded, “We are confronted with many challenges, but given sufficient determination and funding these challenges can be met

 

Food Fight: USDA Handed Authority to Regulate Personal Gardens & Farms

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They’re Coming to Take Your Home Food Assets

USDA Regulation of On-Farm Activity

http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org/assets/crs/R40577.pdf

The Congressional Research Service has recently released USDA Authority to Regulate On-Farm Activity (R40577, Brougher)

 

Celeste Bishop

 

USDA given authority to regulate personal gardens and farms

 

Your perception may be that the USDA is doing America a great service in their role within the current food safety system.  While it may appear that the USDA is focusing on inspections during production, the USDA is making a bold claim stating that it has the authority under numerous statutes to regulate at least some on-farm activities. A Congressional Research Service clearly states that this authority does not explicitly provide for oversight of farm operations, the statutory language does not explicitly prohibit USDA from carrying out its authority on farms.  Thus, it the USDA is staking a claim of statutory authority over all on-farm activities, if the on-farm activity is one that is generally covered by the relevant statute for the sole reason that statutory authority does not prohibit the USDA from encroaching onto your farm and garden. The statutory authorities discussed in this report generally require that the exercise of authority provided be linked to products within interstate commerce.  The USDA is now fuzzying the commerce lines to justify implementation of food-safety programs making an unconstitutional incursion into intrastate commerce, personal gardens, and farms. Continue reading →

Another Day, Another US Representative Traitor: Calling for *New* International Biosecurity Body

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Bill Would Establish Global Biosecurity Body

U.S. Representative Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) last week introduced a bill aimed at establishing a new international body charged with bolstering global preparations for biological threats, the International Security and Biopolicy Institute announced.

The new “International Biosecurity Initiative” would seek to improve biological threat detection and response efforts in other countries through education and other programs, according to the think tank. The bill calls for a State Department report on international legal arrangements with regard to biological threats, and it seeks the formation of an expert panel with representatives from various nations to advise the new initiative.

House Foreign Affairs Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade Subcommittee staffers said they have discussed with their Homeland Security Committee counterparts possible inclusion of the bill’s content in the WMD Prevention and Preparedness Act of 2010, a proposal awaiting a House floor vote.

The United States’ biodefense policy “is in need of a well coordinated strategy to ensure the effectiveness of efforts to protect [U.S.] national security and foreign policy interests,” the legislation states.

“Biological risks extend beyond biological weapons developed or used by foreign countries and also include intentional release of harmful biological agents by nonstate groups or individuals, harmful outcomes through unintentional release or unforeseen consequences of biological research and experimental biological agents, and natural disease outbreaks,” according to the bill.

Such an event “anywhere in the world could cause devastating loss of life and economic harm,” the document states. “Improving global capacity for monitoring and detecting disease outbreaks improves the ability of the United States to counter both natural and man-made biological risks.”

The International Biosecurity Initiative would advance the objectives of the President Obama’s National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats in part by seeking worldwide standards for securing sensitive biological materials and laboratories.

Such standards would be created and routinely updated in cooperation with multilateral entities with private-sector input, and the rules would be “based on international needs and domestic lessons learned,” the bill states. The cooperative effort would also aim to advance relevant codes of ethics, emergency reporting and response procedures and training programs.

In addition, the proposed initiative would seek to “ensure a strong legal regime for biosecurity” by strengthening criminal penalties in various countries, improving related law enforcement cooperation between governments and by working to bolster enforcement of the Biological Weapons Convention.

The initiative would aim to make sure governments meet all World Health Organization reporting requirements, and it would work with the U.S. Emerging Pandemic Threats program to enhance biological threat monitoring capabilities (International Security and Biopolicy Institute release, Oct. 1).

10 Minute Sovereign: Tell Congress in no uncertain terms:  WE DON’T NEED NO STICKING INTERNATIONAL BIOSECURITY BODY!  GOT IT?!  America is a Republic and is NOT governed by international laws, bodies, or treaties.