Thread: Forget the illegal aliens, track the cows!

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By Henry Lamb on Jun 17, 07


For more than 20 years, illegal aliens have crossed the U.S. border by the millions, and have successfully avoided thousands of law enforcement officials whose job it is to capture and remove the illegals from the United States. Government has utterly failed to locate, capture, or remove the illegals.



Despite this spectacular failure - the inability to find 20-million illegal aliens - this same government is preparing to locate, monitor, and control the movement of hundreds of millions of livestock animals. Every cow - as many as 100-million - must have a unique numbered identification tag, most likely, a Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID). More than 500-million chickens must be identified with a similar tag. Every horse, every pig, every goat, every sheep - every livestock animal in the United States will be required to have a unique number, loaded into a national database, along with the coordinates of the premises where the animal is housed. And should an animal leave the premises for any reason, the owner would have to report it to the government within 24 hours, or face fines and jail penalties.


Why would the government undertake such a ridiculous program, when it has already demonstrated that it has no hope of keeping track of illegal aliens?


Illegal aliens bring in drugs, guns, disease, and who knows what else. Illegal aliens drive down wages. Illegal aliens commit a disproportionate number of crimes, and clog the court system and fill the jails. Illegal aliens drain social services at taxpayer expense - and the government is helpless - or unwilling - to do anything about it.


But the government is all hot to trot about tagging all the animals in the country because - they say - it may help locate the source of a disease, should one break out.


The National Animal Identification System (NAIS) is not about an animal disease, or potential disease. It’s about money. It’s about big money for big meat processors and the political campaigns they can fatten.


Thanks to the various committees and working groups of the World Trade Organization, the international community has decided that global trade in meat products should be traceable, and require a “national systemâ€

It is a shame that our Senate and president has lied to the american people for the last twenty years. We could have had this stopped in 1986 like we were promised. Congress has never taken responsibility for the laws that cause problems for the american people. For instance ethenol, we still have high gas prices and now we have high food prices. At least with just high gas prices I could have driven less, but with high food prices there is nothing I can except to grow a limit amount of my own food.

If the illegal immigration bill gets passed, our taxes are going to go sky high, prices will increase (these new americans will want increased wages and benefits), jobs for existing americans will be harder to find (hispanics only hirer hispanics), social security will disappear, social benefits will go down,etc. Once again our congress has refused to accept responsibility for their actions.

I heard a report about this on TV. It drives home the point that the gov't definitely does NOT want to know who is illegal or where the illegals are. There are fewer illegals here than cows, pigs, etc.

Also outrageous is that the gov't won't let individual farmers test for mad cow. This is a terrible and cruel disease (lost my brother-in-law to it a year ago). Many cases are spontaneous and don't result from eating tainted meat. In any case, farmers should be allowed to test for mad cow if they want to.

Duh