THE NATIONAL ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM is a direct threat to our ability to build community gardens and city farming in of Coatesville

This post is related to the Meeting concerning Community Gardens in Coatesville:
http://coatesvilledems.blogspot.com/2009/03/do-you-want-community-gardens-and-city.html

“Radio Chip Animal Identification Would Do ALL Harm To Our Real Food Safety, And No Good”

It is almost a monthly ritual, nationwide peanut butter fecal contamination, beef fecal contamination, lettuce fecal contamination, tomato fecal contamination and whatever is next. The source of the contamination is self evident:

“It's the huge factory farms that overflow with seas of untreated animal waste, that then spill into our food supply, including through our agricultural plant crop fields.”

More at:
ACTION PAGE:
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum942.php

I believe that industrial farming is a bio hazard. It is not only all our non-organic food supply that is subject to biological contamination emanating from the raw sewage in the open effluent pits of factory farms. The larger factory farms dump raw fecal effluent into their pits that can be equal to the entire fecal effluent output of New York, NY.

I believe that Monsanto, industrial meat producers such as Cargill and Tyson have reached into our land use laws. Our aquifers and waterways in rural areas of Pennsylvania that are nearby the open sewage pits of factory farm operations are in danger of fecal contamination. Our zoning laws were recently revised so that the small municipalities cannot regulate the industrial farming operations in their townships. Our tiny townships can have the potential of a New York City sized fecal effluent dump in their township with no ability at all to regulate it.
Jim Pitcherella

More at:
"Living a Nightmare: Animal Factories in Michigan"
A 24-minute documentary about the horrors of industrial agriculture in Michigan.
Click the "play" button at the bottom of the screen to watch the movie
http://www.sierraclub.org/factoryfarms/nightmare_documentary.asp

See also:
the ORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_16869.cfm