AFF Sentinel Vol.6#15

Consider things unthinkable just three years ago, before Pelosi, Obama and Reid (POR) gained control:

• A union, the UAW, is poised to be handed majority ownership of GM
• The UAW is slated in the government's bankruptcy plan to be handed Chrysler's majority ownership
• The Administration has told California that if it wants its promised $6 billion stimulus, it must rescind pay cuts voted in through the state's budget process to cut deficits. The cuts affect unionized home health care workers (Service Employees International Union) and President Obama wants to block that.
• Carol Browner, who as energy czar answers only to the president, has a previous EPA record of favoring punishment for industry
• The U.S. Supreme Court and EPA are tangled in greenhouse gas regulation rulings and proposals that could result in crippling taxes on livestock.
• Certain banks, auto and insurance companies are already government controlled.

AFF Sentinel Vol.6#14

Dog Fighting Not Okay, Fighting Farmers Is Okay?

Imagine driving down the road and suddenly Pope Benedict XVI comes on the radio endorsing the American Satanic Worship Society. Had it not been for nerves of steel, I would have driven off the road when I thought I heard Rush Limbaugh plugging the Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS). My wife and I looked at each other ... did we really hear that? What was the punch line?

Unfortunately, no punch line was forthcoming. The current King of Reason had fallen for a pitch from that slick-tongued prophet of darkness himself, Wayne Pacelle. Because, you see, Slick Tongue only talks about his compassion for animals, about HSUS fighting animal cruelty. He mentions legislation that "HSUS," has "passed," purportedly to rescue animals from evil farmers.

AFF Sentinel Vol.6#13

Colorado Springs, CO April 29, 2009

Click here to see Tea Party photo 1

A key question readers asked after our issue listing the challenges raised to freedom and free markets by the new administration and Congress was, in effect, are we free market agriculture advocates alone in our concern? Is anyone else paying attention?

The hundreds of Tax Day Tea Party rallies and the hundreds of thousands of citizens of every age, economic strata and political affiliation who showed up answered that question. After meetings in Washington D. C., we were in Virginia on Tax Day. We had our choice of roughly 15 Tea Party rallies to find on to fit into our travel schedule. Virginia Beach fit and the photos here came from that rally of 2,500 to 3,000 people.

AFF Sentinel Vol.6#12

The U.S. has a multi-hurdle BSE control system that has limited its total BSE cases to two -- one of the lowest numbers from any major beef producing country. No infectious material is known to have entered the food supply. Millions of cows have tested "negative."

So why has R-CALF charged America's system harbors an "unacceptable, unnecessary and entirely avoidable risk," charged the USDA has "acted recklessly and irresponsibly" and claimed FDA has no choice but to implement the enhanced feed ban unless USDA rescinds the Over-Thirty-Month rule?

It has nothing to do with any risk to consumers or animals, despite R-CALF's overheated charges. It is mostly their fear of even comparatively minor competition. They flatly oppose cattle or beef imports. They totally ignore the retaliation other countries would impose on American exports.