Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Jolley: ID/INFO vs. NAIS Who Blinked?
The ID/INFO Expo occurred on the cusp. The two-and-a-half day event, a long-standing convention of people and organizations promoting animal identification, let’s pronounce that “En – A – Eye – Ess,” brought several hundred people to Kansas City this week. They met at an odd time in the politics of animal ID. Tom Vilsack and friends at the USDA seem to be mounting an all out push for the program at the same time that the House and Senate are slashing his funding with the kind of enthusiasm not seen since Tobe Hooper directed Chainsaw Massacre way back in 1974. Yet Dr. David Acheson, ex-Assistant Commissioner for Food Protection at the US Food and Drug Administration and now the managing director of food and import safety at Leavitt Partners in Utah, told the crowd, “The Obama Administration wants to make capital out of protecting the food supply.” His comments, probably emboldened by Barack’s recently empanelled food safety commission and Michelle’s back yard organic garden, suggested Obama will try to significantly boost food-safety enforcement efforts and force improved food traceability as a tool to achieve his goal. Acheson saw NAIS as a vital part of the plan...cattlenetwork
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I got a real hoot out of the guy down in the comments section on that link who was citing Democratic Underground posts as quality sources for "rebuttals" to the anti-NAIS majority. It is interesting to note that the socialist/fascist/kook fringey types are on board with this whole thing, though. Surprise, surprise, and yet another reason why the public can be absolutely certain that this ia a 100% bad idea.
Why should little Jenny down the road with her little old pony or Ol' Tom with his five head of roping practice cattle have to foot the bill for Monsanto or Cargill's attempt to clean up their act and sell stuff overseas? If they can't sell their products in foreign markets, it is not my problem. That is what really gets me. NAIS is just another massive corporate welfare program dressed up as advanced disease prevention.
The NAIS-at-all-cost crowd had better hurry, though, because opposition is getting stronger and more organized. Rural America just isn't all that into propping up Cargill's profits. Everyone from Henry Lamb to Jim Hightower opposes this program. Only the Corporate big boys and their paid-for advocates support it. The stage is set for a Son of Sage, folks. Let's not disappoint this time.
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