Congresswoman Harriet Hageman recently gave a great speech concerning the USDA’s most recent push for a government mandate for cattle producers to implement an RFID animal tagging system. The name of the USDA’s program for chipping cattle is the National Animal Identification System (NAIS).
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Around 2006, Idaho Eagle Forum – the Idaho Chapter of Eagle Forum was monitoring legislation and the activities of Idaho legislators. We discovered the National Animal Identification System was being pushed in Idaho. Our conclusions about it then were the same as Hageman’s conclusions now. We alerted the citizens of Idaho and Eagle Forum members around the United States. Documentation on Idaho Eagle Forum’s mobilization efforts opposing the National Animal Identification System in 2006 can be found HERE.
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When Hageman talks about the animal tracking system being an attempt to vertically integrate the cattle market, she is 100% correct. The purpose of the animal tracking system is presented as being for animal health however, information once collected can be used for any purpose subject only to the imagination of the users of the data. Vertical integration means supply chain. Whether intentionally or not, the USDA is attempting to draw the small independent cattle ranchers into the global supply chain for beef. The ranchers will no longer control their own beef production. Most – if not all will be put out of business and the large cattle ranching operations will gobble up their ranches, their cattle and their lives.
While updating the links for the 2006 research on the National Animal Identification System, Proceedings of the 89th Annual Meeting of the United States Animal Health Association held in 1985 was found. On page 126 is a report on the Status of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture’s Proposal for an Inter-American Surveillance and Reporting System on Animal Health. The acronym for the Inter-America Institute for Cooperation is IICA.
USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
USDA – National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)
USDA – US Department of Agriculture
United States Animal Health Association (USAHA)
International
Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture – a specialized agency of the Inter-American System (OAS)
Purpose of the OAS: Article 2 of the Charter of the OAS
“The Organization of American States, in order to put into practice the principles on which it is founded and to fulfill its regional obligations under the Charter of the United Nations, proclaims the following essential purposes . . .
The following are excerpts from 1985 (Pages 126-128 pdf):
With the cooperation and support of USDN APHIS Dr. Mulhern prepared a proposal for such a system, which was sent to 27 member countries of IICA jointly with a questionnaire in order to assess the need for an information system at the hemispheric level, the interest of the governments in participating, as well as the existing capacity for setting up a reporting system.
. . . All countries report to various international systems developed by OIE, FAO, PAHO, IICA, JUNAC and OIRSA
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Design of the IICA proposal
The purpose of the IICA proposal for an Inter-American Surveillance and Reporting System on Animal Health is to unify all the different systems currently in use for various organizations in different countries of the American hemisphere, in order to standardize procedures for collection, analysis and processing of data as well as for the publication and distribution of the information.
History Timeline on the IICA:
1942 The Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences (IICA) was founded, and its headquarters were established in Turrialba, Costa Rica.
1948 Following the creation of the OAS, IICA became the specialized agency for agriculture of the Inter-American System.
1979 The Inter-American Board of Agriculture (IABA) was created as the highest governing body. The organization was also renamed as the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture. By that time, membership had climbed to 29 countries.
United States Animal Identification Plan, published 2004
National Animal Identification System (NAIS) – November 2006
US Animal Health Association (USAHA) – Report of the Committee on Livestock Identification, 2007 * see legislation list
Since I didn’t know what the OIE was, I looked it up. It is the Office International Des Épizooties. In the process, this agreement was found:
Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) / World Health Organization (WHO)
and
Office International Des Epizooties – aka World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH)
Zoonotics is the key to understanding how people were included in this world system. Zoonotics – animal to human transmission; human to human transmission.