So what is my favorite organization to hate, the United States Department of Agriculture (<acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>), up to now. First they say they are <a href="http://www.farmandranchguide.com/articles/2006/01/30/ag_news/updates/update01.txt">abandoning the private database concept of National Animal Identification System (<acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym>)</a> when talking to the foes of <acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym> and then turns around and tells the U.S. Animal Identification Organization, the people who are setting up the private database, <a href="http://www.capitalpress.info/main.asp?SectionID=94&SubSectionID=801&ArticleID=22745&TM=54526.7">to continue it's work to build a consolidated database</a> of all animals as envisioned. Sounds like they are trying to blow smoke up my ass if you ask me. Tell the foes of it what they want to hear and then continue on just as you are doing. <br />n<br />nThis whole <acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym> issue needs to stay on the front burner where it can be seen by everybody and I am doing all I can to do this. <acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym> does not mean food security. It means the death of small farmers and ranchers every where who can't afford the cost and abuse this system will bring to all of us, big and small. Remember, an ear tag, ID number, or premise ID, never stopped a disease. Proper health and nutrition by caring people, not factory farms, provide disease prevention.<br />n<br />n<b>The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. Hannah Arendt</b>