Will NAIS Make Food Safer?
By Monica @ 9:44 AM   
From NoNAIS:
In Ireland industrial oil contaminated the pig feed at a major commercial feed supplier resulting in 200 times the acceptable levels if dioxins in the pork. As a result 100,000 pigs face depopulation as the government likes to euphamistically puts their killing sprees. The result is a total worldwide recall of Irish pork products which will hurt farmers, workers, retailers and consumers. It also leaves in question the safety of beef, poultry and lamb that may have been fed tainted food from that same supplier. This disaster points to the problems with centralization, consolidation of Big Ag both in the single source of feed and the small number of large pork producers. Indeed. Imagine a top down centrally planned system in which all auto makers in the United States are encouraged and supported through "auto subsidies" from the United States Department of Automobiles (USDA) to make only 2-3 types of vehicles. The consolidation of these companies is supported through government handouts over the course of a century, because the government has decided that auto makers will be far more efficient if there are fewer of them and if they each concentrate their efforts on 2-3 types of automobiles rather than 20 or so. Billions of taxpayer dollars are spent in an effort to encourage the auto makers to produce as many autos as possible, regardless of consumer demand. When problems of quality, efficiency and safety arise, regulations are piled on top of regulations to "ensure" the safety of both the autos and the products used to make these autos, under various programs under the United States Department of Automobiles (USDA). A number of new, small auto makers wish to sell their autos, for which there is great demand. However, the USDA is concerned about these uninspected automobiles. A few defective autos from these smaller auto makers result in a public outcry for the USDA to start regulating the smaller auto makers as well, regardless of the fact that the USDA-approved manufacturers are pumping out a higher proportion of defective products. The USDA comes to the obvious conclusion based on this public outcry. It must outlaw the direct sale of any automobile not made in a USDA-approved plant. Despite the slightly higher production costs to produce their product in a USDA approved facility, the smaller companies operating without USDA subsidies and outside of the USDA approved supply system see their market share continue to grow due to increased demand by a minority of informed consumers. Because of regulations outlawing the sale of these autos in ordinary establishments, they work directly with consumers to establish CSAs, or Community Supported Auto companies, in which consumers will buy autos directly from the manufacturers in an attempt to escape the costly USDA regulations. These CSAs are so successful that they see their market share grow from $1 billion to $12 billion over the course of a decade. Nevertheless, this new arrangement is branded as uncapitalistic and an obvious communist threat to free enterprise. Quality continues to decline in USDA approved facilities. Massive recalls of millions of autos result, so the USDA does the obvious. It attempts to avoid disaster by providing more "auto subsidies" to the subsidized auto makers so that they can improve quality and safety. All at the USDA agree that consumer confidence in the socialized auto market, which they insist is an example not of socialism but of free enterprise, must be upheld. Unfortunately, over time, recalls of the USDA-approved items keep getting larger as the USDA-supported consolidation continues. The USDA can no longer ignore these problems. The USDA comes to the obvious conclusion that the current regulations are insufficient to ensure the safety of the public. A new system of safety must obviously be drawn up. After all, the majority of the public is crying for the USDA to “do something”. Many important people at the USDA, together with the USDA approved manufacturers, get together and brainstorm a system that might once and for all finally ensure the safety of autos everywhere. They call the system NAIS, the National Auto Identification System. They propose that all autos be tagged with radio frequency identification chips so that any auto with a problem can be traced back to one of the four auto making plants in the United States, all of which rely on 1-2 auto parts supply companies for their raw materials. Most of the larger, USDA subsidized auto makers sign up for the program. When problems are found either in one of the four auto plants or one of the two parts suppliers, the tracking system is hailed as a marvelous success at determining the source of the safety problems. Although this does nothing to actually make autos safer, it does determine the source of the safety problems so that yet more regulations can be applied to the few remaining producers to ensure safety. The government responds to this success at tracking safety problems with the only obvious solution. New regulations must be drafted that mandate the tagging system be used and paid for by all auto makers, not just those not using USDA certified suppliers or USDA manufacturing plants. After all, how will people who buy their car directly from a particular auto maker through a CSA know where the safety problem originated? More safety problems emerge under producers compliant with NAIS. The solution is obvious. The NAIS tagging system must now obviously be required of all those producing autos for their own use, even if they do not sell their autos to anyone else. After all, public safety and confidence in the USDA must be upheld! Shortly after the enforcement of NAIS for every automobile in the United States, all transportation production becomes controlled by the USDA. Home-produced autos and even bicycles not inspected in a USDA facility or bearing a USDA RFID chip are outlawed as an obvious threat to public safety.
Under the Auto Patriot Act, anyone questioning the lawfulness or utility of the USDA’s NAIS system is branded as unpatriotic. The Bill of Rights is discarded and the US Constitution is re-written. Shortly thereafter, the NAIS information is handed over to the EPA so that the EPA can collect emissions taxes. What a handy system at monitoring exactly who owns how many automobiles! That wasn't the original intent of NAIS, but it sure became convenient once the EPA got their slimy hands on the information! Now the USDA, in concert with the EPA, can mandate the total number of automobiles a person is allowed to have. The EPA continues to draw new and lower threshholds of the number of autos per person as the decades pass. Eventually the mission of the USDA is transformed over the course of a century from the regulation of auto safety to bicycle redistribution and education through the Bicycle Stamp Program and the Bicycle School Transportation Program.
(See any similarities to the previous post yet?)
Labels: Government Idiocy, NAIS, Why the USDA is Not Your Friend
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