Vote No on Ohio Issue 2
October 10th, 2009Editor note: The same people who sold us out on NAIS want Issue #2. Could there be a serious connection? We don't trust them because of NAIS and now the confidence level is very very low. RH
The Greediest Corporate Agribusiness Move We've Ever Seen!
Help us defeat Issue 2 and the corporate takeover in Ohio
October 1, 2009
We need your help to stop factory farms from being written into the Ohio constitution. |
Ohio could become the first state to have corporate agribusiness acting as judge, jury and executioner for all animal agriculture rules and regulations. Who do you think their rules will favor? Safe, local, sustainable agriculture, or the more than 200 factory farms already in the state? We're hoping not to find out. That's why Food & Water Watch is working on behalf of our 5,000 Ohio supporters to Oppose Issue 2. Can you help us defeat Issue 2 in Ohio?
In the most ambitious power grab we've ever seen, corporate agribusiness proponents are trying to write themselves into the Ohio constitution. Technically the product of the Ohio General Assembly, the ballot issue is heavily backed by groups representing major agribusiness interests, including the Ohio Farm Bureau, the Ohio Pork Producers Council, and the Ohio Cattlemen's Association. While masquerading as an attempt to improve food safety and animal welfare, Issue 2 would give a board of political appointees unchecked power to decide any and all regulations related to animal agriculture. The board could make decisions that would radically shift policy in any direction and would not require any public input process. This could include decisions on issues like the use of antibiotics and growth hormones, genetically engineered animals, cloned animals, animal ID and traceability, and factory farm zoning reguations.
The proponents of Issue 2 literally will be the foxes guarding the henhouse if Issue 2 passes, and they're running a multi-million dollar campaign to make sure this happens. Worse yet, their slick campaign tries to trick voters into thinking that Issue 2 will support safe, local food from small farmers. We need you to help us get the truth out about Issue 2 and stop this greedy power grab in the Ohio Constitution. Help us spread the word about Issue 2 and Vote NO on November 3rd!
Thanks for taking action,
Sarah Alexander, Senior Organizer
Food & Water Watch
goodfood(at)fwwatch.org
NAIS ~~ over estimated, over promised, over budget, unnecessary, unneeded and unwanted.
Brad Headtel
The NAIS is a years-old concept that has outlived its time and fails to recognize that economic instability is our greatest national hazard, not, if all the animals have a government number.
Mary--Fireworks Farm, CA.
NAIS is not a direct ban on meat or chicken or goat meat or ...
but a slow, complex legal threat entailing loss of more and more
control and then of isolated bankruptcy or of just giving up farming
or ranching completely.
Linn Cohen-Cole, 2008
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State
(Source: New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973)
Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.
Brad Headtel-------On Bruce (USDA) Knight's pandemic
projections
of national livestock catastrophic die-offs.
Bureaucracy never sleeps.
Neil Young
Makes ranchers paw the dirt----like a bull looking forward to the virtues of castration.
on NAIS-------Brad Headtel
Only Jesus loves the stupid. As He looks closer toward the DC Beltway------it's an ever increasing stretch.
Brad Headtel
You are known by the low morals of the bureaucrats you tolerate.
Brad Headtel
Phony science begets phony public policy.
Walter Williams
NAIS~~~~ Mother of all unnecessary federal job creation schemes.
Brad Headtel
The issue is not the issue. Who decides the issue is the issue. If you decide the issue you are a free man. If a politician decides the issue you can un-elect him, but if a bureaucrat decides the issues you are his pawn and practically without recourse.Harold Hockstatter
It is sad that here in the United States of America we must fight our government to protect our own rights, but fight I will.Jerry Fennell--From "Shattered Dreams"
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.On NAIS -- H.L. Mencken
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it..Adolf Hitler
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.Robert Heinlein
If a government program is not worth doing at all, it is not worth doing well....on NAIS - Brad Headtel
Communism ~~ the government owns the means and method of production. In fascism the government controls the means and method of production.We're not happy until you're not happy...USDA official on the Westland/Hallmark Meat recall of Feb. 17, 08
NAIS is one of those issues that everyone wishes never became an issue. It is a genie that will not go back in the bottle.Troy Marshall, Seed Stock Digest, 1/7/08
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.on the NAIS program..... - Frederick Douglass
We're out here branding cattle, worrying about our best horse going blind, when all of a sudden the USDA is working at mach speed filling our saddle bags with heavy NAIS rocks.Michelle Reid
....NAIS matters less than flea sweat.....producer interest in NAIS is less robust than a paper pig in a barbeque pit.Wes Ishmael, Contributing editor,
BEEF Magazine, Dec. 2007
I work day and night to prevent NAIS!This is the first time in my life I have had the opportunity to save billions of dollars of wasted government tax for my fellow livestock producers all over the nation. As it was said about Queen Esther of old, from the great palace of Shushan, '...who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this.?' I feel the NAIS program, as planned, will embezzle from 10 to 60% of the profit from every livestock producer, and that is not an acceptable price to pay for a naive USDA concern about future unknown or previously eradicated diseases. Every consumer or livestock owner should spend full time to prevent the enforcement of this cost to our nation.
Darol Dickinson
NAIS will not be mandatory under my tenure. I repeat will not! Mike Johanns on mandatory National Animal Identification Surrender.
Sec. of Agriculture Mike Johanns quit the job two months later.
NAIS will put Livestock owners under closer surveillance than terrorists, illegals aliens, drug
dealers, and convicted sex offenders/child molesters. Currently,
only convicted sex offenders/child molesters have to register their premises.BSE, bovine spongiform encephalopathy takes five to seven years to develop. It's not actually a disease that you have to rush to trace. You can take about all the time you need. What you want to do is prevent it in the first place.
Reno, Nev. --- 11/29/07 Jay Truitt
NCBA VP for governmental affairs,
on the USDA proposed
48 hour
emergency
disease
trace back.
Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gunna happen.
Will Rogers . . . . on NAIS
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
Mark Twain
What this country needs are more unemployed bureaucrats.
Edward Langley
Each time we give up information about ourselves to the government, we give up some of our freedom. The more the government or any institution knows about us, the more power it has over us. When the government knows all of our private information, we stand naked before official power; stripped of our privacy, we lose our rights and privileges. The Bill of Rights then becomes just so many words.
Senator Sam Ervin, June 1974.
The USDA is a run away agency out of control, with total disregard for U.S. citizens, yet full regard for other countries and free trade at all costs. Dr. Max Thornsberry, President R-CALF USA
NAIS . . . a program that somewhat resembles an expensive plan to use baseball bats to kill mosquitoes . . . when we haven't found the mosquito---and the plan was proposed by a bat manufacturer. NAIS . . . when freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free. The urge to save humanity is almost always a fake front for the urge to rule.
H.L. Menchen
Is the USDA run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it? NAIS is like a fat man in a swim suit - you may not appreciate what you see, but what isn't revealed is even more fearful. NAIS Employee -- Never argue with a person whose job depends on not being convinced. Remember - A major animal disease outbreak to a State Veterinarian is like a multi-car wreck to an auto body shop.NAIS is the very model of how an unresponsive Executive Branch agency can cooperate with a globalist industrial agriculture and a technocratic corporate elite to force an undesired program upon an unwilling populace.
Mary Zanoni
NAIS press releases from USDA could present caviar in such a light we want to run from it like a falling meteorite.Many associations embrace the NAIS because their paid leadership does so, regardless of what their members truly want.
Marida Favia delCore Borromeo
On NAIS - If USDA comes up with a stupid idea -- If Congress votes to fund it -- If 296,000,000 taxpayers write the check -- I'm sorry, it's still a stupid idea.NAIS is a disease masquerading as its own cure.NAIS is the result of looking for trouble, not finding it anywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying costly incorrect remedies.As the government is doing wrong to us, like with NAIS, you gotta know they are doing wrong to people all over the world, right? Why do all these countries hate the USA?
Linn Cohen-Cole
Once government gets its hands on new power, it is never relinquished.
Henry Lamb ~~~ Sovereignty International
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