Category: food security
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Food Production
Over at <a href="http://www.mtpolitics.net/archives/2341">mtpolitics</a> there is an interesting link to a story on ethanol (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/business/25ethanol.html) in the NY Times yesterday. If you are at all interested in the politics of ethanol it is a good read. It also raises some of the concerns I have as a livestock producer in the US.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>"Unless we…
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Enjoying Lunch
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Beating the Drum
<a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49321">Government's idea of 'tracking' animals</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Reaction to the National Animal Identification System is shining a light on a growing problem that independent producers believe is threatening the entire livestock industry. Vertical marketing practices in the meat processing industry, combined with the industry's access to and influence on the Department of Agriculture and Congress,…
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The Need For Nais
Walter at <a href="http://nonais.org/">NoNAIS.org</a> brings us some interesting information about the <a href="http://nonais.org/index.php/2006/02/28/usda-no-need-for-nais/">need for <acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym></a>. All along the government has proclaimed that Nais is necessary to control diseases like <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym>. According to the <a href="http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~comm/bsefaq.html">US Food and Drug Administration</a>;<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Are the protective measures in place sufficient to…
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Japan Demands More Yet Again
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000101&sid=afdYlqd4GdPc&refer=japan">Japan Needs More Assurances Before Resuming U.S. Beef Imports</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Japan needs more assurances over the safety of U.S. cattle before resuming beef imports, government officials said.<br />n<br />nThe government is still studying a U.S. report released last week over how banned cattle parts were shipped to Japan in January, and there are likely…
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Another Thought on the USDA
One of the whole reasons behind the push for the National Animal Identification System (<acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym>) by the <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> is animal diseases such as bird flu. Yesterday <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/1508-<acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for…