Remember, the records are to be kept for an indeterminate period of time. If you lose even one record on the location of one egg since that egg was laid, even if you do not sell eggs, this results in the Secretary not being able to determine the location of that egg at any given moment. If a cow loses an eartag, that is destruction of a means of identification. If you need to replace an eartag, you must get permission from the Secretary. This section cannot be reasonably complied with either.
As all of our attention is directed to HR 875, with good reason, it still remains imperative that we do not neglect the other bills such as HR 814, that might just slip by us in our zeal to expose and stop the global takeover of our food supply by multinationals.
The establishment of a traceability system that cannot be complied with by any operations other than CAFOs, and extends to individual animal ownership by people who simply have pets, means that we will not have any other choice in what goes on our plates other than those given to us by large multinationals that pollute the environment, torture animals from birth to death, then serve them up on a plate filled with hormones, antibiotics, and disease. It also means that individuals will no longer have the choice of owning animals without complying with onerous regulations that make the ownership and use of those animals impossible to comply with.
This bill puts into place what its proponents say it is trying to solve, and robs us of our individual liberties. Read it, understand the implications, then get mad. Add this bill to your list along with HR 875, and start yelling about it. It must not be passed, and it is up to us to make our voices heard. Read the full bill HR 814 here: click here
© 2009, Barbara H. Peterson
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