Thread: Cattle must be slaughtered

Think the elites are not trying to destroy our food sources? Wake up!!




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7/11/2008 6:00:00

Cattle must be slaughtered

This week, federal officials announced they are going to slaughter more than 4,800 dairy cattle in Fresno County in California after they were infected with bovine tuberculosis. Another 16,000 cattle more have been quarantined and could remain so for years.Three dairies have been targeted around Fresno and Tulare: According to the media, three herds in San Joaquin Valley have been identified with the herd sizes of about 1,000 to 14,000 head. Using 2002 figures of what the federal government will pay as a maximum if the animals are all destroyed, it will cost $59.7 million.

For California's $7.3 billion dairy industry, that is a small price to pay to protect the health of their other herds and people - and also the reputation of the No. 1 dairy state in the nation.The news must be devastating to the owner and workers at the dairy. It is tough to watch so many animals removed at once and know their fate.

The $3000 per animal payment is also far from the true value of a lot of these cattle. For example, one of the herds has invested 50 years into genetic development, according to an Associated Press story, and sells semen and embryos nationally and internationally.The dairy producers probably wonder how to recover from that.

California's cattle herds, free from TB since 2005, will now face more restrictions and testing to move cattle across state lines. Already a pair of dairy bulls in Idaho are being investigated for TB after being brought from California where they were exposed to TB.

Bovine TB is a contagious disease between animals, but also can be spread from livestock to humans. According to APHIS, at the turn of the century bovine TB was the biggest cause of livestock losses, more than the rest of diseases put together. A very aggressive eradication program helped eliminate most of the problem but unfortunately cases still arise. In the California case, one of the theories is that diseased cattle might have originated in Mexico.

It takes years for symptoms to sometimes appear after an animal is infected, and these California cases may open up even larger investigations that could greatly impact the dairy industry.

While a lot of questions remain about where the disease originated this time, what will happen with the destroyed or quarantined animals, how will farms be compensated, can a better formula be developed to compensate dairy producers, and even how do these producers bounce back from this tragedy as they search to replace lost genetics, there is one thing that is clear.

Federal officials must be tough. Unfortunately, herds that have been infected must be eradicated, even with a multi-million dollar price tag. Politics cannot interfere with science: While politically this may seem horrific in image and too expensive for taxpayers to swallow, it is critical that eradicating this disease be handled promptly and to the fullest extent before it becomes a bigger disaster of staggering proportions

In the California case, one of the theories is that diseased cattle might have originated in Mexico.

Is there no end to the consequences of being invaded?? Diseased cattle, contaminated food, contagious diseases........

Federal officials must be tough. Unfortunately, herds that have been infected must be eradicated, even with a multi-million dollar price tag. Politics cannot interfere with science: While politically this may seem horrific in image and too expensive for taxpayers to swallow, it is critical that eradicating this disease be handled promptly and to the fullest extent before it becomes a bigger disaster of staggering proportions

Well isn't that rich!!! Why don't the federal officials be tough on illegal immigration and border control? What a crock!!! And where do you suppose this bovine TB came from? Hmmm......

It can be transmitted human to animal. I looked it up a few days ago.

The NAIS is another effort to control our food. The elites do NOT want us to grow our own food or raise our own livestock even if it is only for our own consumption! They want to track EVERYTHING!

Legal Defense Fund Files Suit to Stop Animal ID Program



Suit Targets USDA and Michigan Department of Agriculture


Last update: 4:27 p.m. EDT July 14, 2008

FALLS CHURCH, Va., Jul 14, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Attorneys for the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund today filed suit in the U.S. District Court - District of Columbia to stop the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) from implementing the National Animal Identification System (NAIS), a plan to electronically track every livestock animal in the country.
The MDA has implemented the first two stages of NAIS - property registration and animal identification - for all cattle and farmers across the state as part of a mandatory bovine tuberculosis disease control program required by a grant from the USDA.
The suit asks the court to issue an injunction to stop the implementation of NAIS at either the state or federal levels by any state or federal agency. If successful, the suit would halt the program nationwide.
"We think that current disease reporting procedures and animal tracking methods provide the kind of information health officials need to respond to animal disease events," explained Fund President Taaron Meikle.
"At a time when the job of protecting our food safety is woefully underfunded, the USDA has spent over $118 million on just the beginning stages of a so-called voluntary program that ultimately seeks to register every horse, chicken, cow, goat, sheep, pig, llama, alpaca or other livestock animal in a national database--more than 120 million animals. It's a program that only a bureaucrat could love," she added.
Meikle noted that existing programs for diseases such as tuberculosis, brucellosis and scrapie together with state laws on branding and the existing record keeping by sales barns and livestock shows provide the mechanisms needed for tracking any disease outbreaks.
She said the suit charges that USDA has never published rules regarding NAIS, in violation of the Federal Administrative Procedures Act; has never performed an Environmental Impact Statement or an Environmental Assessment as required by the National Environmental Policy Act; is in violation of the Regulatory Flexibility Act that requires the USDA to analyze proposed rules for their impact on small entities and local governments; and violates religious freedoms guaranteed by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
"Other mandatory implementations, which weave NAIS into existing regulatory fabric and programs, have occurred in the States of Wisconsin and Indiana where premises registration has been made mandatory; in drought-stricken North Carolina and Tennessee, where farmers have been required to register their premises in order to obtain hay relief; and in Colorado where state fairs are requiring participants to register their premises under NAIS," explained Judith McGeary, a member of the Farm-to-Consumer Fund board and the executive director of the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance.
"We are asking the court to immediately halt implementation of the program nationwide before more farmers and ranchers are strong-armed into participating in a program that the USDA has called voluntary."
McGeary also questioned the accuracy of the existing database noting that an attempt by the USDA to make the information in the NAIS database subject to Privacy Act safeguards thereby removing them from public scrutiny was suspended indefinitely in a ruling last month by the same federal court that will hear arguments in the current suit. That suit had been filed by a journalist seeking access to the database to determine its accuracy.
About The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund: The Fund defends the rights and broadens the freedoms of sustainable farmers, and protects consumer access to local, nutrient-dense foods. Concerned citizens can support the Fund by joining at www.farmtoconsumer.org or by contacting the Fund at 703-208-FARM. The Fund's sister organization, the Farm-to-Consumer Foundation ( www.farmtoconsumerfoundation.org), works to support farmers engaged in sustainable farm stewardship and promote consumer access to local, nutrient-dense food.
Editor's Note: A copy of the suit filed against the USDA and MDA is available at www.farmtoconsumer.org

Thousands of Buffalo have beem Culled

Thousands of ELK are scheduled to be Culled

Thousands of Kangaroo is Austrailia have been culled to save a 6 inch lizard as they have said

Farm harvests are way down

We are at all all time low in wheat storage in this country...

NOW were going to Cull Cattle

I am ready... it sounds like there are many that is not ... I would suggest you wake up America before your belly button hits your back bone from starvation

Group sues federal government over Colorado elk-culling plan

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DENVER (AP) - An environmental group is suing the federal government, saying releasing wolves was not seriously considered as an alternative to shooting elk to reduce the growing herd in Rocky Mountain National Park.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court in Denver by WildEarth Guardians, a coalition of Western environmental groups, claims federal officials ignored scientific evidence showing that releasing wolves in Yellowstone National Park improved the ecosystem by returning the natural predator.

The lawsuit, filed with the help of student attorneys at the University of Denver law school, also contends the Park Service is obligated to conserve endangered species.

Wolves were native to Colorado but were eliminated from the state by the 1930s after ranchers, government agents and others shot, trapped and poisoned the predator.

"The Park Service should accept that their elk problem stems directly from a lack of wolves in the region," said Rob Edward of WildEarth Guardians. "It's time to restore the balance of nature in Rocky Mountain National Park.

The plan approved last year to cull the elk herd in Rocky Mountain National Park about 70 miles northwest of Denver calls for sharpshooters to kill up to 200 elk annually over 20 years. The number killed each year will depend on the herd's size, which fluctuates.

The herd, safe from hunters and most predators, has grown up to 3,000 elk. The goal is a herd of about 1,200 to 1,700 elk.

Park officials want to thin the herd because overgrazing by elk has nearly wiped out aspens and willows, prime habitat for beavers and birds. Elk also roam through the yards and gardens of homes outside the park, increasing chances for conflicts with people.

The preliminary plan for Rocky Mountain National Park said wolves would best meet environmental objectives and do the least damage, but did not recommend that option.

http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles ... 151897.txt

Where the buffalo roam -- and die

GARDINER, Montana (CNN) -- More than half of Yellowstone National Park's bison herd has died since last fall, forcing the government to suspend its annual slaughter program.

Between harsh weather, hunting and an annual cull, fully half of Yellowstone National Park's bison have died.

More than 700 of the iconic animals starved or otherwise died on the mountainsides during an unusually harsh winter, and more than 1,600 were shot by hunters or sent to slaughterhouses in a disease-control effort, according to National Park Service figures.

As a result, the park estimates its bison herd has dropped from 4,700 in November to about 2,300 today, prompting the government to halt the culling program early.

"There has never been a slaughter like this of the bison since the 1800s in this country, and it's disgusting," said Mike Mease of the Buffalo Field Campaign, a group seeking to stop the slaughter program for good.

Government officials say the slaughter prevents the spread of the disease brucellosis from the Yellowstone bison to cattle on land near the park. Brucellosis can cause miscarriages, infertility and reduced milk production in domestic cattle. Watch Yellowstone bison search for pasture »

The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that half of Yellowstone's bison herd is infected with the bacterium.

Previously, under the Interagency Bison Management Plan, wandering bison were sent to slaughter without being tested for brucellosis. (The meat -- which experts say is safe to eat if cooked -- and hides were distributed to Native American groups.)

Late this winter the slaughter was limited to animals that tested positive for the disease.

Now the program has been further curtailed; no bison have been killed in the past week.

"The plan requires all of us to do two things: protect a viable wild bison population and reduce the risk of transmission of brucellosis from bison to cattle. We're required to keep bison and cattle separate," National Park Service spokesman Al Nash said.

The USDA acknowledges that bison-to-cattle transmission is difficult to document, but it says investigations indicate that bison were the likely source of infections in cattle herds in Wyoming and North Dakota.

But critics call the culling an overreaction. There is no documented case of the disease passing from bison to cattle, they said.

"I mean, it's hype, it's a hysteria," Mease said. "And it's not a fatal disease."

Last month, two women chained themselves to a railing inside the park's visitor center to protest the policy.

"The Park Service is meant to protect and preserve wildlife in national parks, not indiscriminately slaughter hundreds of [bison]," one of the protesters, 20-year-old Miriam Wasser, wrote in a leaflet she distributed.

Yellowstone is the only place in the lower 48 states where a bison population has persisted since prehistoric times, according to the Park Service.

Herds once numbered in the tens of millions across the continent but were hunted nearly to extinction by the late 1800s. Protected since the early 20th century, the species has recovered.

Bison graze high on Yellowstone's grassy plateaus during the summer. When the weather becomes too harsh and food becomes scarce, they often roam outside the park. That's the problem.

Nash explained the situation in its simplest terms:

"Bison are bison. Bison are nomadic animals. Bison are looking for food. Food is difficult and scarce to come by at the end of the winter. They're leaving the interior of the park [and going] to lower places, in part, to look for food. There's limited tolerance for bison outside the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park."

That's because just two cases of brucellosis would trigger stringent limits on export of cattle from Montana.

"Montana has spent millions of dollars over the years to get brucellosis eradicated from our livestock," said Martin Davis, who has a cattle ranch within roaming distance north of the park. "And to put that in jeopardy -- no one wants that to happen."

Control of the bison population is essential, Davis said.

"Bottom line is, there's too many of them. They've got to be managed. They ran out of pasture. ... They're eating themselves out of house and home."

Under the management plan, rangers and cowboys hired by various government agencies try to harass stray animals back onto park property. Officials shoot animals that can't be persuaded. (Ranchers are not permitted to kill wild bison).

Meanwhile, hundreds of bison are rounded up inside the park every winter and slaughtered to reduce competition for food and therefore the need for animals to wander onto private land.

"It becomes a private property issue," said Davis, who has never had a bison encroach on his ranch. "They walked down onto private property. And if you don't want a buffalo on your private property, you shouldn't have to have them there."

Mease, the activist, portrays the conflict as a simple turf war.

"The Montana cattle ranchers don't want the competition for grass," he said. "They want the national forests and public lands to be all their public-lands grazing allotments, and in that process, they don't want bison."

Federal and state officials said last week they will lease private land bordering the park where up to 100 bison eventually will be allowed to graze during the winter. But the problem is not likely to go away.

"The reality of the situation is that whether you have 4,000 bison or whether you have 200 bison, bison are a nomadic species and they will always be looking out to the horizon and expanding their boundaries," said Tim Reid, chief deputy ranger at Yellowstone.

So the culling program is expected to return next winter.

"It is our job to protect the viability of this population," the Park Service's Nash said. "We take that seriously. We are not taking any actions that will have a serious ongoing negative impact on this population.

"The Yellowstone bison population is healthy, it's strong, it's vibrant. We continue to take actions to protect that herd."

But to activists like Mease, it's just not right to kill healthy bison.

"There's less than 5,000 wild, genetically pure buffalo left in America," he said, "and this is how we treat them?"

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/26/bison. ... index.html

This is just one of the many plans the New World Order has in store for us. This is what happens when you let the world bankers (Rothschilds and Rockefellers) take control of your Country.

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KANGAROOS

On Monday May 19, 2008, government contractors started killing the kangaroos on a former naval base in Canberra, Australia. By May 29 they (514) were dead. This is their story and the fight to save them.



ALL OF THE KANGAROOS IN THE PHOTOGRAPH ABOVE ARE NOW DEAD. THEY WERE NEEDLESSLY KILLED ON OR AROUND 20 AND 21 MAY 2008. The area to which they were later driven and killed can be seen at the top of the image. Images © Ray Drew 2008.

MORE NEWLY RELEASED PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE LAST MINUTES OF LIFE OF THESE KANGAROOS here

a photographic background: condemned kangaroos

other kangaroo images

NEW: candid images of the shooter, managers, security guards, and students at work

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THE CULL: LOOKING BACK: the diary.

The end. A final commentary June 5, 2008:

It's over. A crane was there at 10 am, and it removed the remaining chiller boxes at noon. All day I heard the clink and clang of the temporary fences being dismantled – the same sound I heard when some kangaroos, in panic, ran into them last week. I sat next to an old guy, a survivor kangaroo, who was feeding in a remote corner of the site. I am sure I knew him-- he had half an ear torn off from a battle some time ago – and by that I recognised an old friend. Someone appeared through the bush and joined me. We sat there together for quite a time. As the last fences go, the site has an ugly emptiness of death after a plague. I passed the place (above) where fifty or so animals used to lie by the water, some occasionally bathing, and all that remains are pockets of flattened grass.

This series of events have changed our lives. All those who witnessed it from the fence were sickened by what they saw -- animal carers, experienced press photographers, lawyers, writers, teachers. Some of us have dedicated ourselves to work for the kangaroos. Some have rededicated themselves. Some have formed new relationships, some may have lost theirs. Some are preparing for court. There are many stories. Some have sworn to leave Canberra. All will never be quite the same.

It was the first kangaroo massacre, as far as I know, that has been fully ‘outed’, and it revealed the dark underside of European Australia, a society that has never accepted the landscaoe and its wildlife. We also saw cold bureaucracy at work, and with it, a brutal neo-Cartesian scientism . These events have been comprehensively photographed, videoed, and recorded, live. And the world knows about it. I have always believed (and discovered) that showing or publicly ‘outing’ once hidden atrocities works powerfully to end them, whether it be in a mental institution, a prison, an abbatoir, or a kangaroo ‘cull’. In this case we saw, in this decimation, acts of murder of another mammal carried out with dissociated sadism; we saw young PhD students herding the animals and we saw security guards joining in. Almost depraved, other than that, were the rationalisations for the killing and the disinformation in which allegedly respected academics took part: ludicrous, if not so tragic.

I do believe that we have the perpetrators a hell of a shock. But of course they’ll try it again, and again. And they will be answered.

Hundreds of kangaroos at the Belconnen Naval Transmission station, Canberra, Australia, were slaughtered. Their crime: growing up on fenced-in land, 118 ha in size, which the government wants to develop. In a series of rationalisations, the government first announced the animals had to be 'culled' because they were starving (a standard government excuse). Later, more sophisticated rationales - they were supposed to be endangering a rare grasshopper, a golden sun moth, and a peppercrest. When, earlier, these and other 'vulnerable species' were discovered on other patches of land, the government happily built over them. When destroying the kangaroos, contracted vehicles haphazardly criss-crossed quite large sections of the site. The resultant dust bowl in the central area was not caused by grazing kangaroos, but the contract killers. So much for the vulnerable species.
A not-too-distant analogy: in the concentration camps of WW2, human beings who opposed the Nazi ideology were classed as Untermenschen, sub-humans, likened to animals. They were placed behind barbed wire, some were made subject to fertility experiments, most forced into killing chambers and executed en masse. Their bodies were thrown into pits. They were removed to make way for more living space. That process, that mechanism, has returned to eliminate wild animals in order to make room for more living space. The kangaroos have been labelled 'pests', killed, body parts made into scrotum bags and novelties, devalued, brutalised, vilified, and eaten. I spoke to an elderly European lady who witnessed the killing. 'Other than the fact that they were killing kangaroos,' she said, 'it was the same as it was then with the Nazis. It brought it all back.'
The fundamental ideology that animals exist to be controlled, utilised, exploited, tortured, or killed by human beings is so deep seated and widespread, so embedded in this culture and civilisation, that nearly all scientists cannot comprehend a viewpoint other than this. In fact, 'civilisation,' it may be argued, is an elaborate project to try to justify and rationalise distantiation from other animals and nature. The careers of most scientists are intertwined with this neo-Cartesian, anthropocentric outlook. Hope for a change appears to lie more in the field of new ideas and protest arising in the fields of deep ecology, eco feminism, cultural studies, or contemporary psychoanalysis.

MAY 29, 2008 The 'cull' has allegedly finished. Apart from the experimental animals, only a few kangaroos appear to remain of over 500 (we trust those two will be allowed to live out their days). We shall confirm that it is really all over when the internal fences come down. Most of the bodies of the dead animals were removed to another military base today for burial.
MAY 28, 2008 noon The killing continues, but there are only perhaps 50 animals left (around 450 killed). A few male kangaroos have staged a fightback. A witness saw a male kangaroo jump over a pursuer's truck. Four attempts were made by contractors and security guards to corral the kangaroo and all failed. We hope he survives. No doubt the contractors, who have no sense of mercy, will retry in the early morning. (We pray that they shall be spared). Video and still cameras from different locations will be watching them. Below: A dead kangaroo is taken away from near the killing area. I do not know how it died. There is another animal nearby with a collar. That means it is supposed to be saved for experimental purposes. But because it has apparently escaped from the enclosure where those animals have been kept, procedure demands it be re-anaesthetised before being sent back.

http://www.kangaroolives.com/

many more photos at the link of the round up