It is no secret that corporations or bureaucracies can outlive the will or strength of an individual person. Why do I bring this up? I do this because the National Animal Identification is being pushed on farmers and ranchers by corporate businesses and a huge government bureaucracy, the USDA. Believe me; they do not have your [...]
Author Archives: Mike
Lamb of God
December 24, 2007 – 7:57 am
We have had a bottle lamb in our home for the past couple of weeks. Her name is Nollie. (She was named after Corrie ten Boom‘s sister.) We aren’t quite sure if she will make it. It usually works out that when a neighbor gives you a bottle lamb, it is the smallest out of [...]
Feeling Like Cattle
November 4, 2007 – 8:23 am
Have you ever been to a conference or meeting where you were herded around like cattle? Now you really can experience NAIS for yourself! Computerworld published a story, IBM Uses RFID to track conference attendees, that describes IBM’s public trial of this technology. One interesting quote: Of the 6,500 people here, approximately 2% didn’t want [...]
Can I Do It?
October 27, 2007 – 8:45 am
I recently finished reading Joel Salatin’s latest book, Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food Front . This book illustrates how government regulation favors Big Agriculture and limits what is possible for small-scale farming. Most of what is big today, started as a small-scale farming idea. Regulatory barriers to [...]