Insanity

Do you want to know what my definition of insane is? Letting the <a href="http://www.beef.org/" target="_new"><acronym title="National Cattlemen Beef Association"><acronym title="National Cattlemans Beef Association, shills for the big meat packers">NCBA</acronym></acronym></a> maintain control of the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/20/build/business/52-beef-database.inc" target="_new">database</a> for the proposed Herd Identification System in the US. Letting the <acronym title="National Cattlemans Beef Association, shills for the big meat packers">NCBA</acronym> control the database will be tantamount to giving the database to the big meat packers, who control the <acronym title="National Cattlemans Beef Association, shills for the big meat packers">NCBA</acronym>, who will then use it to solidify their control of the beef industry by only slaughtering cattle of producers that agree with them and shutting out cattle from producers who bad mouth them.<br />n<br />nIs letting the database be managed by the government the answer? NO!!!!! It will be open to public inspection and the big meat packers will still get a hold of the information to squelch detractors. The question of who controls this all important database is one of those really sticky things about the Herd Identification System that is being developed.<br />n<br />nI know, with the title of the post you are thinking I am insane for thinking the big meat packers have such power. You may think that way if you want. I watched them overthrow the <acronym title="National Cattlemans Beef Association, shills for the big meat packers">NCBA</acronym> many years ago and start their reign of terror which has led to the formation of the <a href="http://www.r-calfusa.com/" target="_new">R-Calf organization</a> to represent us dissident members of the cattle industry who will not be lead around by the meat packers. Time and time again R-Calf has stood up to the Meat Packers and <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> and through court orders made them stop trying to hurt the American cattle producers and the American public at large. <br />n<br />nI might be that lone, insane voice in the wilderness to you on this issue but just because it sounds insane doesn't make it wrong, I may just be seeing the light sooner than other people. Something to think about.<br />n<br />n<b>I bring you a warning. Every one of you listening to my voice. Tell the world. Tell this to everybody wherever they are: Watch the skies. Everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies. Charles Lederer</b>