NASIS

[Guest guest]

" What I suspect here is that the big ag companies have designed this

whole NASIS program and have been able to plaster USDA on it to make us

all fall in line as good little patriots. "

Puh-leeze. The little guys are a threat to big ag. In their dreams.

" This is totally stupid about containing Mad Cow. And it is a setup.

It appears that the massive Mad Cow problem in Brittain was manufatured

by a manditory pesticide program and not caused by the proposed and

totally unproved prion theory. The Brits mandated administration of

organophosphates on the cattle at unconventionally high rates. Then rather

than admitting the actual cause, the government allowed the promotion

of the unscientific prion theory, thereby forcing the irradication of

hundreds of thousands of cattle and the destruction of countless farms. "

Because slaughtering all those NON-infected cattle, and reimbursing their

owners, and having the foreign market for British beef collapse, was just so

much easier and less costly than creating a fake infectious disease (that's

" fooled " a lot more real scientists than the pesticide theory) and having the

whole world examine in great detail disgusting modern livestock feeding and

butchering practices, thereby creating tens of thousands of new vegetarians?

Puh-leeze. Mad Cow could just as reasonably be a diabolical marketing program

cooked up by grass farmers! Maybe somebody's daddy raises heirloom grassfed

beef and the whole thing was concocted to line his pockets - really, if we're

dispensing with common sense wholesale...

I mean, it's not as though there's any natural model for this, like the other

well-documented brain-wasting diseases of livestock and humans, and an obvious

route of infection. And it's not as though there could be some *interaction*

between prions and organophosphates. Naw. It's just made up!

" It will be used to consolidate

the power of food away from the small producer. "

How exactly? The way my car's VIN number prevents me from driving where I

want to or using it in a demolition derby? Oh yeah. It doesn't. It does make

it harder for me to sell my flood car to an unsuspecting buyer. Damn those

freedom-haters!

" They will then be able to feed us any crap

they please and jack the price up like gasoline any time they please. "

Heavens! I couldn't imagine paying double or triple the price for meat! Wait

a second... I already am.