BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Farm Bureau believes a state constitutional amendment is needed to prevent the Legislature or local governments from approving potentially harmful restrictions on farming and ranching, its president said Tuesday.
The proposed ballot initiative, which the Farm Bureau hopes to put on the November 2012 statewide ballot, would add language to the North Dakota Constitution to block any law “which abridges the right of farmers and ranchers to employ agricultural technology, modern livestock production and ranching practices.”
Because they’re not stupid.
Anyone found a good way to go “Galt” yet?
I don’t believe these Humane spokesmen as far ya can throw them…they speak with forked tongues.
They talk about reasonable and then next breath they admit thier ultimate goal is to end animal agriculture and to outlaw pets.
“This isn’t about letting farmers go out and do anything they want, any time they want,” Aasmundstad said. “What this really says, and our intent is, that agriculture will not be held back. Agriculture is also not going to do anything to alienate our customers.”
That’s a very creepy statement, he means to stomp on farmers because “agriculture will not be held back” WTF?
What a pack of lying skunks. Their taking lessons from the jihadists in stealth change.
They will now just conive with the EPA & other Marxists to dismantle the family farm. To be replaced with collectives of course. Better yet Corporate welfare monopolies to make farming by individuals impossible.
They will nickel & dime farmers out of buisness with petty regulations.
There are very few areas where government control at all 3 levels are not invasive. From busting 4 year olds selling lemonade to having a few vegetables growing in your front yard. From TSA agents groping your children to controling your salt and calorie intake. The nanny disease is spreading at a alarming pace and activists of all causes are becoming more empowered with every little victory. Every idiotic cause has its champions and it seems like they all clamor to eliminate whatever is logical or whatever you enjoy. Always to save you from yourself, the planet, the cost to something or other and the favorite standby…..the children.
A free country is quickly becoming a distant memory.
Sorry Kate, increasing the space of laying hens in wire cages from 67 square inches (8″ by 9″) to 144 (12″ by 12″) OVER 15 YEARS! doesn’t seem enough to me. If all farmers had to do this only the consumer would have to pay more and they should. Intensive animal “farms” are not your “grandma’s farm, they are brutal factories that use hormones and antibiotics in large quantities to produce our “cheap” food. Give your head a shake, these “farmers” aren’t worried about you or the animals.
If you make the cages bigger, the chickens will just expand to fill them.
Lets just let the inbred Jeds grow all our food. Start with these policies first, at Hutterite cults, then we will see the size of the balls of the do-gooders, they never shove “good farming practices” down the throats of the food growing cults called colonys, no they just restrict the family farm with bullshit! All while Hutterites continue to pollute groundwater, run 40 businesses from the colony with slave labor, drive small towns into oblivion and ruin every road around all while taking Cash every week at the farmers market never declaring it. But let Claire Prophet, David Koresh, The Bagwhan or any other “modern cult” whack-job start a cult, and we will “shut you down”. Say good-bye to the family farm and small towns folks, govts love “preferred” cultists growing our food not free thinking farmers, like the inventors of the Noble blade, the air seeder the threshing machine etc.
The ND Farm Bureau should make the amendment their number one priority. Caving in to the ” humane ” society is a non-solution; they must be fought politically, and defeated, using the same methods as the humane society uses.
I wonder how many of the humane society members understand their dues will ultimately lead to the banning of pets?? The farmers should organize, starting with a public education campaign on the PETA types efforts to end animal testing of human therapies, and their aim to abolish ownership of pets and, particularly targeting Congressman who carry water for PETA, Humane Society, etc. with defeat at the ballot box.
I have no idea what Agenda 21 is.
None.
sasquatch and small c conservative have it right. The ultimate aim of these people is to outlaw any animal husbandry. Just like the gun control people’s ultimate aim is the confiscation of firearms. Wendy Cukier even admitted that a few years ago.
peterj, that is exactly why we and people that think like us are on SDA and on many other websites like SDA, as well as the efforts of a growing number of other information mediums, are fighting back against the political and cultural Marxists. Unfortunately they have a forty year head-start. Stalin and Khrushchev’s ideological acolytes have done a good job since the 1940s.
The ultimate aim of these people is to outlaw any animal husbandry…(they are)political and cultural Marxists.
Posted by: Ken (Kulak) at August 4, 2011 11:20 PM
Absolutely.
And as if that wasn’t a bad enough mix, all to often their affinity for animals is just a manifestation of their peculiar form of social retardation: an inability to interact socially with members of their own species.
“to produce tangible and meaningful outcomes for the animals” \
isnt a steak dinner or a bucket of KFC tangible enough. or are they going to promote careers for the animals.
In the end, the guy with the best fried chicken recipe always wins!
I really, really, like bacon.
Yes rob h, that’s all they want. Bigger chicken cages and they’ll just wander off – mission accomplished – never to be heard from again.
The animal rights fascists really don’t care that they would endanger others by limiting our food supply and intentionally creating a famine. This is why leftists are dangerous morons. They consider themselves part of the “progressive” crowd but are bent on mayhem and destruction. The only good use the world would have for these types of self loating useful idiots would be to feed them to the pigs and then once shat out would become fertilizer.
Try to get a comment that doesn’t support “Mr Compromise” Pacelle’s philosophy on his blog sometime. Good luck.
You guys are confusing animal welfare with animal rights. They are two separate sets of ideals, with some overlap, certainly, but with a lot of acrimony between them as well. Animal welfare basically believes that animals will be used for food or pets or as working animals and that our goal should be to let them live as normal a life as possible and if they are meant for food that they are slaughtered in as painless and stress free manner as possible. The movement from free range chickens to battery cages was done for financial reasons, so the farmer could make more money – and I don’t begrudge them that. Still, I do believe that we should treat animals with some compassion while we make use of them. I do make choices to buy more humanely treated animal foods (NOT organic!) and I will pay more for that. It may move the market, and it may not.
Certainly, worrying about the treatment of food animals is a luxury many in the world cannot afford, but I can.