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Maine Bureaucrats Attempt to Sell

PRESQUE ISLE, MAINE - The United States food supply is provided, for the most part, by large factory farms and ranches with huge distribution chains to our local supermarkets. With all of the technology, and massive production techniques, it is a seeming paradox that only 48 hours of food is available on store shelves in any given community at any given time.

Considering all of those “warehouse” factory farms are under control of a massive central government bureaucracy, it grants new understanding to Kissinger’s ideology, “He who controls the food, controls the country.”

Two bureaucrats visited about a dozen area farmers and two legislators for a meeting at the University of Maine, Presque Isle to attempt to sell them on the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) which would bring them into the loop of control exercised by the Feds on a much larger scale.

Shelly Doak, head of the Maine Bureau of Animal Health and Judy Perry, Maine Animal ID coordinator fielded questions and comments for a group of about a dozen area farmers. The major sales pitch for the voluntary animal ID program was to allow for tracking of diseased animals - not control.

“Knowing the location of the animals ahead of time helps us respond in a quicker manner and helps us in communication to let people know what is going on,” said Doak, “the status of the disease, the status of the outbreak and how to minimize your risks.”

While advocating for disease control, it is ironic that the USDA failed to allow Creekstone Beef in Missouri for attempting to conduct tests for Mad Cow disease on every single cow slaughtered at their facility in order to certify them “Mad Cow Free,” causing some to wonder what the real purpose of animal ID is for.

All animals would be required to wear a Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID), samples of which from Destron and Allflex were presented at the meeting. Doak attempted to dispel the rumor of building a track and trace control grid for animals. “These devices are passive, which means they can only be read from a distance of about twelve inches; and frankly, I don’t care where your animals are at any one time.”

There was conflicting information passed out to the group by Doak, with one USDA paper declaring, “Scenarios that would not call for animals to be identified and/or movements reported in the NAIS include...participation in local fairs and parades…” and a Myth/Fact sheet prepared by IDME/NAIS which stated, “...cattle moving from a farm to an exhibition would need some form of official ID.” When this reporter inquired of Doak to clarify those two conflicting statements in her own literature, she noted the discrepancy, but could not give an intelligent answer. “The NAIS is voluntary,” said Doak in her response, “and we continue to encourage people to volunteer.”

Doak intimated that, contrary to the USDA’s own admissions the government has no intention of mandating the track and trace infrastructure, “We expect this system to be market-driven, with the buyers of the meat demanding the identification system, not government.” However, as one farmer present indicated, the RFID system was rendered useless once the animals arrived at the slaughterhouse. “I currently tag all of my animals with the RFID,” he said, “but when they get to the slaughterhouse in Pennsylvania, they always manage to mix up the IDs, telling us their ’scanners are broken.’”

The same “market-driven” engine described by Doak for animal ID has already evolved within the voluntary Social Security Number system for humans. Like the animal ID, the Social Security system is, and always has been, voluntary. It was originally designed where there was never any intent for the number to be used for identification purposes, but now all employers and their accountants demand the number prior to employment, even though there is still no law in the United States requiring one to have the SSN to live or work here.

“The requirement for mandatory participation by 2009 has gone away,” said Doak.

“They can tell us this today and change their mind tomorrow,” said Suzanne Hussey from Rolling Acres Farm & Ranch in Easton, Maine. “The government changes its mind at will, just like the Social Security Act they said ‘we’ll never use that Social Security number for anything,’ and now you can’t do anything without it.”

Currently, all live-born humans are marked as state-owned chattels with a similar Animal Identification system via their Social Security Number and birth certificate which are the scaffolding culminating in the Mark-of-the-Beast style biometric digital face scanned Driver’s Licenses, which are a creation from the same government attempting to give us NAIS.

The state of Vermont recently pulled out of the NAIS, deciding to implement a system at only their state’s level because according to Doak, “the USDA would not guarantee that the information collected would remain confidential.”