Health
Burning Questions
What is the safest way to dispose of a diseased cow carcass—and what does it have to do with the public health?
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Sunday, September 20th, 2009, 4:49 pm
esbee says:
If the USDA gets their way there may be a lot more burning on dead animals happening. Corporate ag has a business plan that will help them market and claim to the global market the meat they raise on factory farms is safe! I have no meat animals, only horses, but they are forcing me to be part of this program by making me (and thousands of others) to pay for and work it ---
Under NAIS (National animal Identification System) I will have to
1. register my premises with the government, even if i owned even one animal, even if it is a pet. This step clouds title to private property simply by the language used. Currently only sex offenders do this!
2. All critters must be microchipped. Besides the chips, vet calls, scanners and computer programs will be needed and the costs will not be cheap. Factory farms do NOT have to do this, they get one lot number per group of animals. Any animal in that group could be diseased and who would know.
3. All births, deaths and movements reported into a database within 24 hrs. This costs time and money and databases are often hacked into. Again factory farms have few reporting events, already what they do as part of business.
4. If animal disease is suspected in an area, the USDA can depopulate a 6 mile radius (140 sq. miles of dead healthy animals that never came in contact with the supposed sick animal).
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