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I know Ohio has long standing doubts about the sanity of its neighbors to

the north...... This goes too far. KL

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From: Kris RR <cjohnson143@...>

Date: Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 2:04 PM

Subject: [wapftoledo] Fw: Insane Michigan government announces plan to

destroy ranch livestock based on hair color and arrest hundreds of ranchers

as felons

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This is so absurd it needs to go viral! Sounds unbelievable, but I've heard

of authorities confiscating whole herds for completely unfounded fears

before! People in Michigan need to know and speak up! Let your Michigan

friends know.

The story is also here

http://www.alternet.org/story/154752/owning_pigs_a_felony_in_michigan_big_ag-ins\

pired_law_targets_small_farms

Kris

http://www.naturalnews.com/035372_Michigan_pigs_farm_freedom.html

Insane Michigan government announces plan to destroy ranch livestock based

on hair color and arrest hundreds of ranchers as felons

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

by Mike , the Health Ranger

Editor of NaturalNews.com

(NaturalNews) The state of Michigan is only days away from engaging in what

can only be called true " animal genocide " -- the mass murder of ranch

animals based on the color of their hair. It's all part of a shocking new

" Invasive Species Order " (ISO) put in place by Michigan's *Department of

Natural Resources* (DNR). This Invasive Species Order suddenly and

shockingly defines virtually all open-range pigs raised by small family

farms to be illegal " invasive species, " and possession of just one of these

animals is now a felony crime in Michigan, punishable by up to four years

in prison.

The state has said it will " destroy " these pigs beginning in April,

potentially by *raiding local farms with government-issued rifles*, then

shooting the pig herds while arresting the members of the family and

charging them with the " crime " of raising pigs with the wrong hair color.

This may truly be a state-sponsored serial animal killing spree.

*Reality check*: You may think this story is some kind of early April Fools

prank, but it isn't. This is factually true and verifiable through the

documents, videos and websites linked below. The state of Michigan

seriously intends to unleash a *mass murder spree of pigs of the wrong color

* beginning April 1.

Yet these are the very pigs that farmers and ranchers in Michigan have been

raising *for decades*. The state doesn't seem to care about this, and there

are indications that *this ISO may have been nudged into position by the

conventional pork industry* as a tactic to wipe out its competition of

local, specialty ranching conducted by small families and dedicated farmers

who don't work for the big pork corporations. (The Michigan Pork Grower's

Association.)

Hear the shocking interview and watch the family farm video...

I have recorded an exclusive interview with *Mark Baker* from *Baker's

Green Acres* -- one of many ranching operations threatened with total

destruction by state bureaucrats and this new Invasive Species Order.

Listen to that interview here:

http://buzz.naturalnews.com/000025-Michigan-pigs-invasive_species.html

The Baker family has also recorded a video explaining their farming

operation and how the state of Michigan is threatening to destroy their

entire farming operation. Watch that stunning video (and spread the word

about it) at:

Mark Baker, by the way, is a veteran of the United States Air Force. As a

veteran of the U.S. armed forces, he served to protect the rights of

others, yet he now finds his own rights and freedoms under assault by the

state of Michigan. He told NaturalNews he is determined to protect his

livelihood at all costs and to take a stand against tyranny in Michigan.

Got the wrong hair color? The state of Michigan will kill you

The state of Michigan has issued a document describing nine " traits " of

what they call " feral pigs " which they claim should be destroyed on April 1.

Read the document describing those nine traits at:

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/MDNR_DECLARATORY_RULING_2011-12-13_FINAL_3\

71200_7.pdf

Those traits include *having the wrong color on the tip of the hair* or

even *being born with striped hair*. The traits are written so that

virtually all pigs raised by family ranchers across the state of Michigan

will be targeted for destruction by the state of Michigan starting April 1.

Farmers who defend their livestock may be arrested as felons and charged

with multiple felony crimes by the state.

Michigan to destroy pigs based on the color of their hair - racial

profiling for animal murder

Here's some of the language from the Michigan document describing which

animals are to be destroyed. Remember: For a pig to qualify as " feral "

according to state tyrants, it only has to exhibit ONE of these traits, not

all of them:

1) Bristle-tip coloration: exhibit bristle tips that are lighter in color

(e.g., white, cream, or buff) than the rest of the hair shaft.

2) Dark point coloration: exhibits " points " (i.e., distal portions of the

snout, ears, legs, and tail) that are dark brown to black in coloration,

and lack light-colored tips on the bristles.

3) Coat coloration: exhibit a number of coat coloration patterns: *solid

black*, solid red / brown, black and white spotted, black and red / brown

spotted.

4) Underfur: exhibit the presence of underfur that is lighter in color

(e.g., smoke gray to brown) than the overlying dark brown to black

bristles/guard hairs.

5) Juvenile coat pattern: exhibit striped coat patterns -- a light

grayish-tan to brown base coat, with a dark brown to black spinal stripe

and three to four brown irregular longitudinal stripes with dark margins

along the length of the body.

6) Skeletal appearance: Structures include skull morphology, dorsal

profile, and external body measurements including tail length, head-body

length, hind foot length, ear length, snout length, and shoulder height.

7) Tail structure: Straight tails.

8) Ear structure: Erect ear structure.

9) " Other characteristics not currently known to the MDNR that are

identified by the scientific community. "

Did you catch that last one? So now the so-called " scientific community "

can simply invent whatever trait they want and the state of Michigan will

legalize the mass murder of all ranch animals displaying that trait.

The state of Michigan plans to bring guns to destroy local food, local farms

What's clear from all this is that Michigan bureaucrats plan to bring guns

and handcuffs to ranches all across Michigan, shooting their family

livestock dead and ruining their farming operations. They then plan to

arrest these ranchers as felons and separate them from their families, then

charge them with felony crimes.

This is all being done under the mantra of " government is good! Government

protects you! " It's being pushed under the guise of protecting people from

" invasive species, " yet what the Michigan bureaucrats don't tell anyone is

that now your local food producers have had their own ranch animals placed

on that list!

That's the trick here: Michigan has declared *farm animals* to be an

invasive species!

An epic battle of truth, freedom and justice is being waged in Michigan

We need your help to defend farm freedom in Michigan and across the

country. Here are some actions you can take:

1) SHARE this article.

2) WATCH the video: http://youtu.be/843yH_0RMIA

3) LISTEN to the interview at:

http://buzz.naturalnews.com/000025-Michigan-pigs-invasive_species.html

4) SUPPORT the Farm-To-Consumer Legal Defense Fund:

www.FarmToConsumer.org <http://www.farmtoconsumer.org/>

4) DONATE to help support the legal fees of the Baker family farm. Their

website is at www.BakersGreenAcres.com <http://www.bakersgreenacres.com/>

5) DEMAND farm freedom in your area! No government has the right to tell us

what food we can or cannot grow, eat or trade! It's as simple as that, and

any government bureaucrat, tyrant or local dictator who thinks they can

trample on your God-given right to choose what kind of food you wish to

produce or consume is in desperate need of having a boot shoved deeply and

forcefully up their rear ends.

Give tyrants the boot! Defend local farms. Even if you don't eat pork (I

don't), this is still a farm freedom issue worth fighting for.

Read more at:

www.farmtoconsumer.org/michigan-dnr-going-hog-wild.htm

www.BakersGreenAcres.com <http://www.bakersgreenacres.com/>