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HEALTH STATS ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: OLD DISEASES ARE NEW AGAIN
The Dark Disease Side Of Illegal Immigration Facts, Figures And Statistics On Illegal Immigration
* Posted by Darla, ADMIN / National Director on July 20, 2010 at 3:17pm in Admin Alerts
* Send Message View Discussions
Legal immigrants are required to have medical screening to ensure that they do not bring any contagious diseases into the United States. Illegal aliens are not screened and many are carrying horrific third world diseases that do not belong in the USA. Many of these
diseases are highly contagious and will infect citizens that come in
contact with an infected illegal alien. This has already happened in
restaurants, schools, and police forces.
Malaria was eradicated from the USA in the 1940s but recently there were outbreaks in southern California, New Jersey, New York City, and
Houston. Additionally, Malaria tainted blood has been discovered in the
blood supply.
Dengue was first recognized in the 1950s, affects most Asian countries and has become a leading cause of death among children in the infected areas.
Heretofore unknown in the US, Dengue outbreaks have now occurred in the
United States.
Leprosy, a scourge of Biblical days, is caused by a bacillus agent and is now know as Hansen's Disease. In the 40 years prior to 2002, there were only
900 total cases of leprosy in the US. In the following three years
there have been 9,000 cases and most were illegal aliens.
As noted in the article Leprosy in America: new cause for concern by Dr. William Levis, head of the New York Hansen's Disease Clinic. "It's creeping into the U.S. ... This is a real phenomenon. It's a public
health threat. New York is endemic now, and nobody's noticed." In
the same article, Dr. Terry Williams, who runs a Houston-based clinic
serving leprosy patients across southern Texas, said that the bulk of
the cases treated by his clinic were immigrants. "A lot of our
cases are imported," he said. "We see patients from everywhere--Africa,
the Philippines, China, South America." (emphasis added)
Hepatitis A-E is a viral infection that primarily attacks the liver. In 2004, more than 650 people contacted Hepatitis A at a single Chi-Chi's Mexican restaurant in Pennsylvania.
Four latter died. Hepatitis B is one of the major diseases of mankind
and is a serious global public health problem. It is estimated that 2
BILLION people are infected and about one million persons die each year.
The new vaccine is only 95% effective in preventing an infection and
will not cure a person who already has Hepatitis B, which results in a
lifelong infection, cirrhosis (scarring) of the liver, liver cancer,
liver failure, and early death. An estimated 1.3 million people in the
US are currently infected. No vaccine is currently available to prevent
Hepatitis C-E and treatment for chronic Hepatitis C costs about $1,500
per person.
Tuberculosis (TB) kills approximately 2 million people each year. It is estimated that between 2002 and 2020,
approximately 1,000,000,000 people will be newly infected, over 150
million people will get sick, and 36 million will die. TB is a highly
contagious disease. Like the common cold, it spreads through the
air. When infectious people cough, sneeze, talk or spit, they propel TB
germs, known as bacilli, into the air. Each person with active TB will
infect on average between 10 and 15 people every year.
The United States currently has one of the lowest rates of TB in the world. Mexico has 10 times the rate of prevalence and many African countries along with Afghanistan, Cambodia, the Philippines, and
Indonesia have rates that are 100 – 150 times higher. Making matters
worse, a few years ago a Multi-Drug-Resistant (MDR) strain of TB has emerged
that is resistant to all standard anti-TB drugs. Treating a single case
of MDR TB costs over $250,000 and as much as $1,200,000 per
person, and even with treatment about half of the patients with
MDR-TB prematurely die.
In an article in the Journal of the American Medical Assn., Dr. Reuben Granich, a lead investigator for the CDC commented on MDR-TB:
"Evidence of it has surfaced in 38 of 61 California health jurisdictions, and it could ‘threaten the efficacy of TB control efforts,' Granich said. The infected were said to be four times as
likely to die from the disease and twice as likely to transmit the
disease to others ... Reluctant to label the infected as ‘illegal' or
even ‘undocumented' aliens, the report notes that of the 407 known cases
of MDR-TB, 84% were ‘foreign-born' patients, mainly from Mexico and the
Philippines who'd been in the U.S. less than five years. The percentage
of TB cases among the ‘foreign-born' jumped from 29% in 1993 to 53% as
of last year."
Recently, there was a TB Outbreak In Oklahoma City in a hospital affecting thousands.
Hopefully, this will not be the new extensively drug-resistant XDR strain just being brought in by illegal aliens (now 4% of US cases) and which is currently impossible to cure at any cost. In any case, it would not be
surprising to find that the source of the outbreak is an illegal alien
working in the hospital or an infected resident worker who became
infected through contact with an infected illegal alien since the TB
rate for residents in the USA is very low.
For more information on TB and the link to illegal aliens, see:
* Is CDC covering up skyrocketing TB rate?
* Immigration helps diseases spread in Valley
* Mayor favors tougher stance against illegals.
Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis), endemic to South and Central America, is spread by infected triatomine bugs, known as the "kissing bugs," that bite people. It was unknown
in the United States until fairly recently. It is now estimated that
between 100,000 and 500,000 people in the US have Chagas Disease. Who is
infected? Mostly illegal aliens.
Since Chagas Disease is basically unknown outside of the illegal alien community most doctors won't recognize it and the blood supply just started being screened for it. Most cases of Chagas Disease that
occur in patients other than illegal aliens are thought to be contracted
from tainted blood – blood sold by illegal aliens with Chagas Disease
before the blood supply started being tested for it as of August of
2006.
HIV The number of illegal Mexican and Central American immigrants with HIV or AIDS is unknown, mostly because researchers rarely ask about immigration status. However, it is known
that the rate of HIV infection among Latino women in California is about
twice the rate of white women. At one free California health clinic,
all of the women have HIV or AIDS. Most are Mexican or Central American
"immigrants."
Then there is Schistosomiasis, Guinea Worm Infection, Whooping cough, Cysticercosis, Morgellon's, and a host of others.
All these diseases and pathogens, and a plethora of others that are not endemic to the US, are being brought in by unscreened illegal aliens who then spread them to an unsuspecting population. These diseases will
give you something to think about the next time you are eating at a
restaurant with the grunt work being done by illegal aliens who didn't
have medical screening before preparing and handling your food.
As recently reported in Hepatitis Risk for East Asians in New York, among east Asian immigrants in New York City, one person in seven carries the Hepatitis B virus and that researchers at New York Univ.
School of Medicine, found that 15% of east Asians in New York - as many
as 100,000 people - are chronic hepatitis carriers, with the rate
highest among immigrants from China. That infection rate is 35 times the
rate found in the general population. The article did not mention how
many of the infected people were illegal aliens but odds are the vast
majority were.
Health reporter Bill Sardi noted:
"Recently an outbreak of hepatitis traced to Chi-Chi's Mexican restaurant, in Pennsylvania was inexplicably traced to contaminated green onions, not the most obvious cause, undocumented food
workers who harbored Hepatitis. For the most part, Hepatitis is a
blood-borne, not a food-borne disease. The Hepatitis outbreak infected
over 650 individuals, caused 9,000 Americans to undergo immune globulin
shots, and killed 4 people.
If Americans found out restaurants can commonly infect their customers from food workers, it would be a serious blow to the restaurant industry. Better blame the green onions. Let's concede the
onions, grown in Mexico, were contaminated from fecal material
containing Hepatitis. Did all the green onions imported from Mexico end
up in one single restaurant? There were no other outbreaks of Hepatitis
anywhere elsewhere from green onions. There were 13 restaurant workers
who had Hepatitis. They were the likely source of the transmitted
infection.
While the unions resist mandatory Hepatitis screening and vaccination for food workers, the government mandates that newborn babies be jabbed with Hepatitis vaccines before they can leave the hospital. The logic
in this defies understanding until one realizes that newborn babies of
immigrant families can more easily acquire Hepatitis so all babies are
given the vaccines."
As noted in a May 2006 article, Milford taking harsher stance against illegals than Framingham, increased levels of TB are being noted and some municipalities are finally starting to take action to protect their
citizens.
As unfortunate as it may be, the US can not bear the financial burden for treating the world's sick, ill, and infected populace, but the Govt. should be protecting American citizens from the diseases being
brought in by illegal aliens.
How many more citizens will come down with Hepatitis, Leprosy, E-coli, or Chagas Disease from contact with an infected illegal alien before something is done? How many school children must get TB before
our government takes action to protect them?
Remember the movie Alien and how the creature popped out of infected bodies? The Guinea Worm is a mini-version. Maybe your kids can take advantage of the experience on show & tell day.
If we screen legal aliens for contagious diseases, why are we allowing unscreened and contagious illegal aliens to roam the country infecting the citizenry?
Diseases - collateral damage from a "victimless crime" to save ten cents on a head of lettuce.
* Posted by Darla, ADMIN / National Director on July 20, 2010 at 3:17pm in Admin Alerts
* Send Message View Discussions
Legal immigrants are required to have medical screening to ensure that they do not bring any contagious diseases into the United States. Illegal aliens are not screened and many are carrying horrific third world diseases that do not belong in the USA. Many of these
diseases are highly contagious and will infect citizens that come in
contact with an infected illegal alien. This has already happened in
restaurants, schools, and police forces.
Malaria was eradicated from the USA in the 1940s but recently there were outbreaks in southern California, New Jersey, New York City, and
Houston. Additionally, Malaria tainted blood has been discovered in the
blood supply.
Dengue was first recognized in the 1950s, affects most Asian countries and has become a leading cause of death among children in the infected areas.
Heretofore unknown in the US, Dengue outbreaks have now occurred in the
United States.
Leprosy, a scourge of Biblical days, is caused by a bacillus agent and is now know as Hansen's Disease. In the 40 years prior to 2002, there were only
900 total cases of leprosy in the US. In the following three years
there have been 9,000 cases and most were illegal aliens.
As noted in the article Leprosy in America: new cause for concern by Dr. William Levis, head of the New York Hansen's Disease Clinic. "It's creeping into the U.S. ... This is a real phenomenon. It's a public
health threat. New York is endemic now, and nobody's noticed." In
the same article, Dr. Terry Williams, who runs a Houston-based clinic
serving leprosy patients across southern Texas, said that the bulk of
the cases treated by his clinic were immigrants. "A lot of our
cases are imported," he said. "We see patients from everywhere--Africa,
the Philippines, China, South America." (emphasis added)
Hepatitis A-E is a viral infection that primarily attacks the liver. In 2004, more than 650 people contacted Hepatitis A at a single Chi-Chi's Mexican restaurant in Pennsylvania.
Four latter died. Hepatitis B is one of the major diseases of mankind
and is a serious global public health problem. It is estimated that 2
BILLION people are infected and about one million persons die each year.
The new vaccine is only 95% effective in preventing an infection and
will not cure a person who already has Hepatitis B, which results in a
lifelong infection, cirrhosis (scarring) of the liver, liver cancer,
liver failure, and early death. An estimated 1.3 million people in the
US are currently infected. No vaccine is currently available to prevent
Hepatitis C-E and treatment for chronic Hepatitis C costs about $1,500
per person.
Tuberculosis (TB) kills approximately 2 million people each year. It is estimated that between 2002 and 2020,
approximately 1,000,000,000 people will be newly infected, over 150
million people will get sick, and 36 million will die. TB is a highly
contagious disease. Like the common cold, it spreads through the
air. When infectious people cough, sneeze, talk or spit, they propel TB
germs, known as bacilli, into the air. Each person with active TB will
infect on average between 10 and 15 people every year.
The United States currently has one of the lowest rates of TB in the world. Mexico has 10 times the rate of prevalence and many African countries along with Afghanistan, Cambodia, the Philippines, and
Indonesia have rates that are 100 – 150 times higher. Making matters
worse, a few years ago a Multi-Drug-Resistant (MDR) strain of TB has emerged
that is resistant to all standard anti-TB drugs. Treating a single case
of MDR TB costs over $250,000 and as much as $1,200,000 per
person, and even with treatment about half of the patients with
MDR-TB prematurely die.
In an article in the Journal of the American Medical Assn., Dr. Reuben Granich, a lead investigator for the CDC commented on MDR-TB:
"Evidence of it has surfaced in 38 of 61 California health jurisdictions, and it could ‘threaten the efficacy of TB control efforts,' Granich said. The infected were said to be four times as
likely to die from the disease and twice as likely to transmit the
disease to others ... Reluctant to label the infected as ‘illegal' or
even ‘undocumented' aliens, the report notes that of the 407 known cases
of MDR-TB, 84% were ‘foreign-born' patients, mainly from Mexico and the
Philippines who'd been in the U.S. less than five years. The percentage
of TB cases among the ‘foreign-born' jumped from 29% in 1993 to 53% as
of last year."
Recently, there was a TB Outbreak In Oklahoma City in a hospital affecting thousands.
Hopefully, this will not be the new extensively drug-resistant XDR strain just being brought in by illegal aliens (now 4% of US cases) and which is currently impossible to cure at any cost. In any case, it would not be
surprising to find that the source of the outbreak is an illegal alien
working in the hospital or an infected resident worker who became
infected through contact with an infected illegal alien since the TB
rate for residents in the USA is very low.
For more information on TB and the link to illegal aliens, see:
* Is CDC covering up skyrocketing TB rate?
* Immigration helps diseases spread in Valley
* Mayor favors tougher stance against illegals.
Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis), endemic to South and Central America, is spread by infected triatomine bugs, known as the "kissing bugs," that bite people. It was unknown
in the United States until fairly recently. It is now estimated that
between 100,000 and 500,000 people in the US have Chagas Disease. Who is
infected? Mostly illegal aliens.
Since Chagas Disease is basically unknown outside of the illegal alien community most doctors won't recognize it and the blood supply just started being screened for it. Most cases of Chagas Disease that
occur in patients other than illegal aliens are thought to be contracted
from tainted blood – blood sold by illegal aliens with Chagas Disease
before the blood supply started being tested for it as of August of
2006.
HIV The number of illegal Mexican and Central American immigrants with HIV or AIDS is unknown, mostly because researchers rarely ask about immigration status. However, it is known
that the rate of HIV infection among Latino women in California is about
twice the rate of white women. At one free California health clinic,
all of the women have HIV or AIDS. Most are Mexican or Central American
"immigrants."
Then there is Schistosomiasis, Guinea Worm Infection, Whooping cough, Cysticercosis, Morgellon's, and a host of others.
All these diseases and pathogens, and a plethora of others that are not endemic to the US, are being brought in by unscreened illegal aliens who then spread them to an unsuspecting population. These diseases will
give you something to think about the next time you are eating at a
restaurant with the grunt work being done by illegal aliens who didn't
have medical screening before preparing and handling your food.
As recently reported in Hepatitis Risk for East Asians in New York, among east Asian immigrants in New York City, one person in seven carries the Hepatitis B virus and that researchers at New York Univ.
School of Medicine, found that 15% of east Asians in New York - as many
as 100,000 people - are chronic hepatitis carriers, with the rate
highest among immigrants from China. That infection rate is 35 times the
rate found in the general population. The article did not mention how
many of the infected people were illegal aliens but odds are the vast
majority were.
Health reporter Bill Sardi noted:
"Recently an outbreak of hepatitis traced to Chi-Chi's Mexican restaurant, in Pennsylvania was inexplicably traced to contaminated green onions, not the most obvious cause, undocumented food
workers who harbored Hepatitis. For the most part, Hepatitis is a
blood-borne, not a food-borne disease. The Hepatitis outbreak infected
over 650 individuals, caused 9,000 Americans to undergo immune globulin
shots, and killed 4 people.
If Americans found out restaurants can commonly infect their customers from food workers, it would be a serious blow to the restaurant industry. Better blame the green onions. Let's concede the
onions, grown in Mexico, were contaminated from fecal material
containing Hepatitis. Did all the green onions imported from Mexico end
up in one single restaurant? There were no other outbreaks of Hepatitis
anywhere elsewhere from green onions. There were 13 restaurant workers
who had Hepatitis. They were the likely source of the transmitted
infection.
While the unions resist mandatory Hepatitis screening and vaccination for food workers, the government mandates that newborn babies be jabbed with Hepatitis vaccines before they can leave the hospital. The logic
in this defies understanding until one realizes that newborn babies of
immigrant families can more easily acquire Hepatitis so all babies are
given the vaccines."
As noted in a May 2006 article, Milford taking harsher stance against illegals than Framingham, increased levels of TB are being noted and some municipalities are finally starting to take action to protect their
citizens.
As unfortunate as it may be, the US can not bear the financial burden for treating the world's sick, ill, and infected populace, but the Govt. should be protecting American citizens from the diseases being
brought in by illegal aliens.
How many more citizens will come down with Hepatitis, Leprosy, E-coli, or Chagas Disease from contact with an infected illegal alien before something is done? How many school children must get TB before
our government takes action to protect them?
Remember the movie Alien and how the creature popped out of infected bodies? The Guinea Worm is a mini-version. Maybe your kids can take advantage of the experience on show & tell day.
If we screen legal aliens for contagious diseases, why are we allowing unscreened and contagious illegal aliens to roam the country infecting the citizenry?
Diseases - collateral damage from a "victimless crime" to save ten cents on a head of lettuce.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Mystery disease causing farmers loss of crops in the south.
http://current.com/1sq5o4c
Chemtrails? Genetically modified diseases?
Who knows. Interesting comments.
Any of my readers out there have a similar complaint? I'd love to know. Please share your experiences here.
Chemtrails? Genetically modified diseases?
Who knows. Interesting comments.
Any of my readers out there have a similar complaint? I'd love to know. Please share your experiences here.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
NAIS - the tagging of domesticated animals...
This isn't about outbreaks of disease. This is about privacy, tracking, food supply and small farmers, which the government really wants to put out of business.
Read this and think about how it's going to affect you and your ability to purchase food for your family.
Don't blame corn for high food prices.
Expect higher food prices as the EPA enforces the Clean Air Act on
every farm and Mr. Chertof enforces the Homeland Security Act to
increase hazardous traffic on the interstate highways.
Proposed EPA GHG fees will annually charge $175 for each fresh or dry
milk cow and bull; $87.50 for each beef head or steer; $20 for each
pigglet, sow, bare, and boar. EPA calculates that 100 tons of green
house gas equivalents are emitted by 25 dairy cows, 50 beef steers,
200 pigs or equal combinations. CAA Enforcement represents an
additional cost of $1 per pound for beef considering four years fee
is charged for both the cow and calf growing two years.
For tracking purposes, each farm must also pay for an imbedded ID for
each critter and purchase and maintain a GHG permit for the farm
operation. Revenues obtained from farms growing food, animal fees and
farm penalties are being used to bail out Wall Street, GM, Ford,
Banks, CitiCorp, Insurance, Credit Cards, PAC, golden CEO parachutes,
$ Trillion political campaigns, ACORN, medical and social security
for foreign aliens and a few federally qualified domestics. Thanks to
the Clean Air Act.
Food prices will also increase to pay to transport fertilizer on the
hazardous interstate highways alongside the family auto rather than
to transport hazardous explosive nitrous fertilizer in the safety of
railcars on the remote railways. Thanks to the Homeland Security Act.
Steep fees associated EPA action will force family farms out of
business and force higher grocery and restaurant prices for food,
cereal, grain, mutton, milk, beef and pork.
More than 90 percent of U.S. dairy, beef and pork production would be
affected. The EPA rate for GHG equivalents of $43.75 per ton of
emitted greenhouse gases is expected to increase each year further
increasing consumer cost for electricity, transportation, food, fiber.
The EPA rules would not decrease global greenhouse gases except as
the additional cost of food reduces the consumption of food. There is
no net reduction when a ton of GHG in the US is replaced by adding a
ton of GHG in China or India.
Unilateral Farm tax and farm regulation of greenhouse gases and farm
animals under the Clean Air Act will impose additional restrictions
on the U.S. economy and the global food supplies but result in no
reduction on greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
The above comes from a list I'm on which includes small farmers.
Here's another comment. Bear in mind, I am not a farmer. But I am a consumer, and I think government should stay out of the barnyards and pastures of America's small farm families.
It's a way of life that will soon be extinct.
The people who started this are not out of office as they were never in
office. BTW: at present Obama supports the NAIS. Do the names Cargill or
Monsanto mean anything to you? Take a good look because the program is well
and pushing forward faster than ever. USDA gets a lot of money from these
guys and the 2 companies that make the id tags. As long as USDA is allowed
to take money from private industry they won't be thinking about what's best
for the American farmers, only what is best for big business. The fight is
not over it is just begun and we need to be filling the website Obama put up
with reasons we don't need the NAIS to become mandatory. That is their goal
and they are gaining ground, not losing it. The last couple of year's
congress voted no money to go to NAIS so the USDA rearranged some programs
and got more money from the agri-businesses and continued to push the
program.
Yes, if they get their way they will be demanding tags at birth and it will
be like putting a repressive tax on people that own a couple of animals and
the small farmers. If I have 10 chickens I pay for 10 tags presently
costing $20 a piece (last I looked). Tyson gets to buy 10 tags for 10
chicken houses containing 10,000 chickens each. Just who is getting a
better deal? The point is not to fine and imprison people for forgetting to
tag livestock. The point is to make it too expensive for individuals (and
small farmers) to raise their own food thereby forcing us to eat whatever
the big companies decide to grow including GM plants and animals. In fact
they are making great strides getting cloned and GM animals into the market
place with neither restrictions nor notice on the labels that you are buying
a food that is not "natural". I'm sorry that isn't a great word to use but
I'm not sure what you call a cow that has antibiotics as part of its genetic
code.
Read this and think about how it's going to affect you and your ability to purchase food for your family.
Don't blame corn for high food prices.
Expect higher food prices as the EPA enforces the Clean Air Act on
every farm and Mr. Chertof enforces the Homeland Security Act to
increase hazardous traffic on the interstate highways.
Proposed EPA GHG fees will annually charge $175 for each fresh or dry
milk cow and bull; $87.50 for each beef head or steer; $20 for each
pigglet, sow, bare, and boar. EPA calculates that 100 tons of green
house gas equivalents are emitted by 25 dairy cows, 50 beef steers,
200 pigs or equal combinations. CAA Enforcement represents an
additional cost of $1 per pound for beef considering four years fee
is charged for both the cow and calf growing two years.
For tracking purposes, each farm must also pay for an imbedded ID for
each critter and purchase and maintain a GHG permit for the farm
operation. Revenues obtained from farms growing food, animal fees and
farm penalties are being used to bail out Wall Street, GM, Ford,
Banks, CitiCorp, Insurance, Credit Cards, PAC, golden CEO parachutes,
$ Trillion political campaigns, ACORN, medical and social security
for foreign aliens and a few federally qualified domestics. Thanks to
the Clean Air Act.
Food prices will also increase to pay to transport fertilizer on the
hazardous interstate highways alongside the family auto rather than
to transport hazardous explosive nitrous fertilizer in the safety of
railcars on the remote railways. Thanks to the Homeland Security Act.
Steep fees associated EPA action will force family farms out of
business and force higher grocery and restaurant prices for food,
cereal, grain, mutton, milk, beef and pork.
More than 90 percent of U.S. dairy, beef and pork production would be
affected. The EPA rate for GHG equivalents of $43.75 per ton of
emitted greenhouse gases is expected to increase each year further
increasing consumer cost for electricity, transportation, food, fiber.
The EPA rules would not decrease global greenhouse gases except as
the additional cost of food reduces the consumption of food. There is
no net reduction when a ton of GHG in the US is replaced by adding a
ton of GHG in China or India.
Unilateral Farm tax and farm regulation of greenhouse gases and farm
animals under the Clean Air Act will impose additional restrictions
on the U.S. economy and the global food supplies but result in no
reduction on greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
The above comes from a list I'm on which includes small farmers.
Here's another comment. Bear in mind, I am not a farmer. But I am a consumer, and I think government should stay out of the barnyards and pastures of America's small farm families.
It's a way of life that will soon be extinct.
The people who started this are not out of office as they were never in
office. BTW: at present Obama supports the NAIS. Do the names Cargill or
Monsanto mean anything to you? Take a good look because the program is well
and pushing forward faster than ever. USDA gets a lot of money from these
guys and the 2 companies that make the id tags. As long as USDA is allowed
to take money from private industry they won't be thinking about what's best
for the American farmers, only what is best for big business. The fight is
not over it is just begun and we need to be filling the website Obama put up
with reasons we don't need the NAIS to become mandatory. That is their goal
and they are gaining ground, not losing it. The last couple of year's
congress voted no money to go to NAIS so the USDA rearranged some programs
and got more money from the agri-businesses and continued to push the
program.
Yes, if they get their way they will be demanding tags at birth and it will
be like putting a repressive tax on people that own a couple of animals and
the small farmers. If I have 10 chickens I pay for 10 tags presently
costing $20 a piece (last I looked). Tyson gets to buy 10 tags for 10
chicken houses containing 10,000 chickens each. Just who is getting a
better deal? The point is not to fine and imprison people for forgetting to
tag livestock. The point is to make it too expensive for individuals (and
small farmers) to raise their own food thereby forcing us to eat whatever
the big companies decide to grow including GM plants and animals. In fact
they are making great strides getting cloned and GM animals into the market
place with neither restrictions nor notice on the labels that you are buying
a food that is not "natural". I'm sorry that isn't a great word to use but
I'm not sure what you call a cow that has antibiotics as part of its genetic
code.
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