Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
 
Board
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
 
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Health Requirements Governing the Admission of Agricultural Animals, Companion Animals, and Other Animals or Birds Into Virginia [2 VAC 5 ‑ 141]
Action Promulgate New Regulation to Replace Chapter 140
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 4/1/2011
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2/24/11  3:37 pm
Commenter: Robin

Government regulation of farm animals only serves big agribusiness. Who do we serve here?
 

Large Corporations have been enslaving small scale farmers ever since they could greedily lobby our various levels of government.  Look at the abuse in the Dairy industry and how the dairy farmer himself/herself receives very little of the vast dairy industry profits, it is the middle men who grow fat and greedy.  It was greedy middlemen who in fact poisoned us with rBGH because it increased their profits.  According to www.sourcewatch.org, Monsanto even lobbied to make it illegal for farmers to make the claim that their milk was free of this toxic product.  These are not good people here, and they will put profits above morals EVERY day!

Monstanto, Astra-Zenca, Novartis, Dupont, Dow and NASF are all now involving themselves in the march toward global control over the profits of every grain and every thing that eats grain.  They patent grain and plant it EVERYWHERE regardless of the fact that the multitude of independent studies show that these products mutate living cells and damage their DNA.    When these altered mutated grains mix with local farmers normal fields through the natural process of cross-pollination, their crops are then damaged and mutated as well, but instead of apologizing and coming in and making reparations, Monsanto actually comes in with a battery of lawyers and other corporate henchmen and sues these small scale farmers into oblivion for "using their product without authorization".  Why would good American corporations do such a diabolical thing you ask? GREED!  If they own the right (read patent) to food, no one can put a bite in their mouths without money going in their greedy corporate pockets.   Google Food,Inc. or King Corn or the excellent french documentary (subtitles) "The world according to Monsanto"  I found it online in segments that you can watch for free if you have the time.

Mr Obama's secretary of the USDA is Tom Vilsack.  Mr Vilsack is a former Monsanto insider and he has been very busy with Monsanto's wish list ever since he was put in office.  He is not looking after the good of American Citizens my friends.  He is looking after the interests of his paymasters.  We can no longer trust the government agencies who were put in place to protect us  because they have become part of the Agricultural Industrial Complex's revolving door con game.  

This "requirement" is simply yet another avenue for big agribusiness to shut the door to the free market for the small scale farmer.  Only big agribusiness has  the resources to punch a RFID chip into every egg that hatches or every calf or kid born.  This is horrifying and I want you to stand up against it with every moral fiber in your being and say no to the enslavement of America's small scale farmer!  How will the future generations view you, our elected officials when their children ask "How did this happen, how did all of Americas farmers become slaves?"  "Who was in charge of the public trust when all of this scurrilous activity was taking place?"   Well good Sirs and Ladies, that would be you.  I am asking you to do your duty and protect Americas small scale farmers and for that matter all American citizens and say no to the inhumane march toward the corporate ownership of food.  

"Who controls the food supply, controls the people..." Henry Kissinger

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