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This is the type Bull that I see continuing under "I'm the Biggest Freetrader in the World"- never saw a free trade agreement he didn't like McSame....Putting the interest of the producers around the world and the multinational corporations ahead of the US producers..... :(

“Fighting for the U.S. Cattle Producer”



For Immediate Release Contact: Shae Dodson, Communications Coordinator
August 25, 2008 Phone: 406-672-8969; e-mail: [email protected]



Op-Ed: Desensitization



By R-CALF USA Board President / Region VI Director Max Thornsberry, DVM, MBA



Billings, Mont. – World history is replete with examples of how governments have successfully desensitized entire populations into accepting actions and policies that reasonable people would consider absurd. The method used to desensitize reasonable people is grounded in psychology. It involves a progressive, repetitive campaign in which the population is first asked to accept a seemingly small absurdity and, once accepted, the absurdities are progressively increased until, over time, the public lose s sight of any frame of reference for their government’s actions.



The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is now using this very technique. Recent news releases document USDA’s desensitization attempts. During the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, the ’70s and the ’80s, U.S. farmers and ranchers patriotically worked with USDA to eradicate serious animal and zoonotic diseases. During this period, hog cholera, foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), brucellosis, Texas fever ticks, screwworms and various other serious diseases were eradicated or controlled. University level courses were taught to instruct veterinarians and livestock producers how to assist in these organized state and federal eradication endeavors.



USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) was established to conduct surveillance for these and other diseases. APHIS was given a mandate by the U.S. Congress to keep animal and plant diseases out of the United States. USDA recently has taken a position that its responsibility is now to support and encourage trade with countries that have documented cases of infectious foreign animal diseases. In a presentation by Dr. Jere L. Dick (Associate Deputy Administrator, USDA-APHIS Veterinary Services) to the Animal Agriculture Coalition on July 24, 2008, this point was made clear. In the USDA presentation about regionalization and compartmentalization of countries with FMD, Dr. Dick said USDA is obligated by the World Trade Organization Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement (WTO-SPA) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to allow imports from areas within an FMD-affected country that has been determined to currently be free of FMD. This would be similar to allowing a county within a brucellosis-affected state to be classified as brucellosis free, which, in fact, USDA disallows within the United States.



In a recent request to solicit comments on a proposal by USDA-APHIS to allow pork rinds to be imported from certain regions around the world, the agency no longer refers to countries where FMD, swine vesicular disease, African swine fever and classical swine fever (closely related to the hog cholera virus) have been identified. Instead, USDA states because these diseases are not communicable from animals to humans, APHIS will allow importation of cooked pork rinds into the U.S. market. Although the public can offer comments on these imports of pork rinds – if sent by Sept. 2, 2008, – those comments will not deter USDA from proceeding with this and other dangerous trade-related plans.



APHIS states it has a strong system in place to detect and respond to outbreaks of foreign animal diseases and that APHIS places trade restrictions on affected regions – not countries – to protect against the introduction of foreign animal diseases, yet most accredited veterinarians recently have taken mandatory courses to identify foreign animal diseases that have been absent from the United States for over half a century.



My grandparents and parents paid a heavy toll to eradicate these dangerous and costly foreign animal diseases. By the process of desensitization, USDA-APHIS will undo decades of hard work and epidemiology, all for the sake of free trade at any cost.



The mission statement for USDA-APHIS is to protect the health and value of American agriculture and natural resources. In its strategic plan, APHIS states that by keeping this mission statement in mind, the agency will work and make decisions that will direct APHIS to carry out its mission. The Secretary of Agriculture, by law, must take an oath that, in part, states: “I do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.”



We have a problem.



The last time I checked, it was the United States Department of Agriculture, not the United Nations Department of Agriculture.



Note: Dr. Thornsberry also chairs the R-CALF USA Animal Health Committee. This piece runs 684 words. To request a photo or bio of Dr. Thornsberry, please contact R-CALF USA Communications Coordinator Shae Dodson.
 

Sandhusker

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This globalist crap has got to go, but do you think someone who calls himself a "Citizen of the World" will do anything that protects the sovereignity of the US?

The only one who can help us is Ron Paul.
 
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Sandhusker said:
This globalist crap has got to go, but do you think someone who calls himself a "Citizen of the World" will do anything that protects the sovereignity of the US?

The only one who can help us is Ron Paul.

Oh- I think Obama's going to be much more for equalizing these free trade agreements and making them "Fair" trade agreements- whether its labor, enviromental, safety, currency inequities, etc....He's already said that all these trade agreements need to be looked at- and reopened if it appears there are inequities in some of these issues...

Many of these folks feel the same way as I do- these things shouldn't be written in stone for perpetuity- and something Bill Clinton did in 1990 shouldn't be stuck on my kids and grandkids- as times and conditions in both countries change....

The one good thing is that we know the Dems will control Congress and probably by a large amount more than they do now-- so even if McSame gets in they'll be able jerk his chain- kind of like they've done with the Columbian agreement... Its almost certain there won't be any fast track again-everything will have to be worked with Congress- and I'm sure they will put more rules into any new ones to protect Made in American products and American business and producers...

I can remember a day when the Republicans were the ones that supported and promoted "America First"- and American business/industry...Too bad the neocons took it over.... :(
 

Sandhusker

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"He's already said that all these trade agreements need to be looked at- and reopened if it appears there are inequities in some of these issues... "

You can't believe a word the man says. He told the people in Ohio that NAFTA had to be looked at and then told the Canadians it was only campaign rhetoric. The man has already been caught red-lipped lying how many times now?
 
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Sandhusker said:
"He's already said that all these trade agreements need to be looked at- and reopened if it appears there are inequities in some of these issues... "

You can't believe a word the man says. He told the people in Ohio that NAFTA had to be looked at and then told the Canadians it was only campaign rhetoric. The man has already been caught red-lipped lying how many times now?

You mean like McSame and his "he learned his lesson on Amnesty" stuff he told all the conservatives- and then when he appeared in front of La Raza and the Chamber of Commerce said he was for amnesty- a road to citizenship- and more immigrants :roll: :lol: And he went so far to appease LaRaza to remind them that the native language of his home state was Spanish :mad: ( He forgot about the Native Americans)...

Sounds like red-lipped lying and pandering too me..... :(

That guy is a loose cannon...McWorse than Bush.....He'll look you in the eye and tell you one thing while he's doing the other...We just had 7 years of that- we can't stand 4 more....

I sure wish I could get rid of my free trader Senator- Baucus--- but the Repubs couldn't even get anyone to run against him :roll:
 
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