The Agriculture Department is looking for feedback on next year’s farm bill; and they are closing the doors on the subject tonight. I guess they aren’t too anxious to hear our feedback. I left them some of mine anyway.
Stop the NAIS, the National Animal Identification System. If we start chipping the animals to keep track of them, how long before we’re chipping the citizens to keep track of them?
Why does no one understand that creatures aren’t born with an RFID tag attached, and consequently there is no way to guarantee that infected animals won’t intermingle without being tracked? This is a waste of time boondoggle of a program that sets an extremely bad precedent, profits only the large corporate farms; and it should be stopped immediately.
I probably should have said “Don’t pass one, other than to repeal the provisions of the previous ones” but I’m sure I would have been dismissed as a flake with a message like that.
Don’t pay farmers not to grow produce, or pay tobacco farmers to grow tobacco while at the same time paying for advertising discouraging smoking. What kind of weirdo is he…?
I’ve added you as a friend on Digg. My account name is “BigKitty.”
I suggest that you check your Friends/Befriended list. It can be reached via the Friends menu selection (not a tab at the top, but a selection further down on the page).
Alternatively, you can use:
http://digg.com/users/ranthony/friends/befriended
BTW, here’s another helpful DIGG hint:
There’s a “cloud view” URL that will let you list the titles of stories in the upcoming stories queue.
These stories will get to the front page if enough people decide to DIGG them within the first day or so after they’ve been submitted. It’s convenient because it will show a large selection of titles on one page for easy selection and viewing:
http://digg.com/news/upcoming/cloud/most