ARTICLE SYNOPSIS: "May 1st, 2007 is the implementation deadline for Premises Registration in Wisconsin," reported Family Farm Defenders, adding, "Under Premises Registration all WI residents with livestock (fish, poultry, rabbits, horses, goats, cows, sheep, pigs, etc. etc. etc. ) are required to apply for a unique ID number to identify their farm and let the state know the type and number of animals they have."
Follow this link to the source article: "Wisconsin NAIS Action Alert April 3, 2007" COMMENTARY:In one of the latest outrages, officials in Wisconsin are demanding that all farmers accept government farm ID numbers by May 1st, or risk being prevented from selling their products and facing fines. In an echo of fascism from the 1930's, the program is to be enforced by government-enlisted and directed private dairy product manufacturers and some local officials.
As Family Farm Defenders reported, "Dairy farmers in particular have been warned by the state that if they are not in the system by May 1st they could lose their license to sell milk. Rather than deploying agriculture inspectors or state troopers to impose this measure, the Doyle administration has opted to 'draft' dairy plants and milk haulers as its enforcement agents. Worse yet, the state is forging ahead even though it is not federally required to do so."
This program is not unique in Wisconsin, but is looming all across America under the Federal bait of funding for the REAL ID and other government monitoring programs. In Colorado, state official publications promote this wall-to-wall monitoring of farm animal movements and production to kids with carefully crafted propaganda pieces, and target the 4-H and FFA farm youth groups. Apparently those kids and their lambs and steers and pigs for the county fair are a security risk.
Deadlines also loom for bio-chip ID programs for all farm animals nationally, USDA agents frequently arrest small dairymen for selling "illegal" raw milk, and the FDA is busy raiding small health food stores and seizing food supplements and vitamins.
All of this is happening even as American workers pay higher taxes on income, property, purchases and services. Increasingly invasive bureaucrats are using those huge federal and state budgets to create unfair advantage to corporate mega-farms like Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), while erasing the family farm and freedom.
Perhaps the USDA can use a spin on the current omni-present cameras in England that monitor "anti-social behavior" like littering, which are now equipped with voice capability, and live monitors who hail passers-by in realtime, by admonishing them to pick up their litter, stop spitting on the sidewalk, etc.
I can see — or rather hear it — now... "Hey, Mr. Farmer, did you wash your hands after patting that cow on the head? And for the record, I just video-taped you while milking an unauthorized cow. Her ID shows me that she isn't on your list of 'authorized milkers' and that's a violation. Oh, and I should remind you — that drink of fresh milk your daughter just snuck from that bucket can cost you some serious prison time. By the way, your wife is having some issues with the barn cleaning standards that we established, and to avoid another citation, we think you had better get over there and help her... NOW."
George Orwell, it seems your "1984" is starting to dawn, just a bit tardy, in 2007. Only, should we now call it "Animal Farm?"
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Alan Scholl is the Director of Mission and Campaigns for the John Birch Society.
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