Anyone who has researched the history of the National Animal Identification System realizes very quickly this global strategy being pushed by the toxic Monsanto Corporation, Genus and PIC, is nothing less than a plan to seize control of the worlds food production on every level. And, like the efforts to convert water from a human right, to one of a commodity to be sold only to those who can afford it, food of all kinds, from all sources will no longer be a human right if these Frankenfood corporations and the United Nations are successful.
http://www.eseap.cipotato.org/upward/Publications/Agrobiodiversity/pages%20475-487%20(Paper%2058).pdf
Genus, and other corporations who are jumping on the bandwagon in the hopes of patenting animal genetic resources, is the primary force behind NAIS. The USDA is a willing and compliant partner, acting as lawmaker, spy, judge and executioner. The USDA having been reported repeatedly for illegal search and seizure is allowed to act as a mercenary agency on behalf of these private interests without reprimand from congress. In fact, you would never know we even have a congress when it comes to NAIS and the actions of USDA.
The biotech company?s intent is to monopolize existing breeds of farm animals just as they have done with genetically altered seeds. 73% of all grain now grown in the US is genetically altered and patented. The intent is to pirate all grain crops using seed which, in the case of Monsanto, is only ?leased? to the farmer…not sold. This according to a rule Monsanto developed itself, after the seeds had been sold. Using this rule, Monsanto is suing farmers?..after sending their own mercenary agents storming onto private land collecting samples and seizing crops.
The ‘inventors’ of animal breeds from No Patents on Seeds
?Corporations like PIC and Genus, who are among the biggest international players in the animal breeding sector, are especially active in buying up other firms and patent applications filed. Monsanto is on the other hand entering this business as a relative outsider, having been basically active in a different area. This company has not only bought its way into pig breeding and filed patents having a broad coverage, it has also concluded extensive licensing agreements with the genome company, MetaMorphix, which has for its part filed numerous patent applications in this sphere.? http://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=53&Itemid=42
Rather than advancing biodiversity which is the claim of not only biotech, but also the United Nations, genetic alteration of existing breeds of livestock and the resulting patents would seriously reduce diversity. Hybrids, which would result from the genetic tampering, would be highly susceptible to disease if such tampering did not actually create new and unknown diseases.
MAIN GENETICS COMPANIES IN GLOBAL LIVESTOCK BREEDING from No Patents on Seeds
?The US company Monsanto, net sales 7 billion USD, is better known for its leadership in genetically modified seed than in livestock genes. But with Monsanto?s acquisition, cooperation and patent policy regarding cattle and pig, it in a few years may well dominate gene markets not only with regard to plants but also to livestock. In 2004 it entered a strategic and exclusive collaboration with the genetic research company MetaMorphix, giving Monsanto access to the completest available swine genome data available/ http://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/images/documents/livestock_genetics_.pdf
Genetic alteration is not the same as selective breeding where livestock is carefully bred to produce the best qualities of the breed. Genetic alteration generally is done to accelerate growth or production at the expense of the animal.
The wildly false claims Monsanto made about recombinant bovine growth hormone [rBGH] is a prime example of the harsh affects of forcing accelerated growth or production. Monsanto claimed rBGH increased production by at least 20%. They just failed to tell the farmer or consumer the 20% was the result of mastitis and the increase was the amount of pus in the milk that resulted from using the growth hormone. http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/dairy/no-rbgh
In order for genetic patenting to overtake independent livestock producers, it is necessary to know who is breeding what and where is it located. That?s where NAIS comes in. This system, if it isn?t stopped, will catalogue all farm and ranch animals and domestic pets. Once catalogued, this data will all be held in corporate data banks which will tell the biotech company just exactly where to establish their altered breeds. As with the contamination of natural crops by uncontrolled genetically altered seeds, companies such as Monsanto will develop herds in close proximity to natural herds and wait for the opportunity to present itself for cross-breeding. Once they are assured this has happened, the livestock owner will be sued, just like the seed farmer, and a valuable natural herd will be stolen and the USDA will likely be doing the herding.
Behind all of the USDA grandstanding about needing to be able to track disease outbreaks, lays the true intent. The USDA is not concerned with food safety or animal disease outbreaks. USDA is facilitating the data collection necessary to locate, identify and seize natural herds and to establish industrialized factory farms to replace independent farms and ranches in the US.
Every effort must be expended to not only halt any further activity in implementing NAIS, but also to abolish the USDA which has become nothing more than a mercenary enforcement arm of biotech pirates.
(C) 2009 Marti Oakley
No patents on Seeds
http://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=53&Itemid=42
http://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/images/documents/livestock_genetics_.pdf
Monsanto rBGH/ pus in milk
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/dairy/no-rbgh
International Agreements Relevant to the Management of Farm Animal Genetic Resources
http://www.eseap.cipotato.org/upward/Publications/Agrobiodiversity/pages%20475-487%20(Paper%2058).pdf
