Michigan Government Unleashes Armed Raids on Small Pig Farmers; Traditional Livestock Declared ‘Invasive Species’
April 17th, 2012Why does the state respond to people who sell homekilled meat in the same way that it responds to people who violently attack the state? … It’s because ubiquitous, small scale agriculture represents a greater threat to state power than armed resistance.
—“What if the millions of so-called dropouts are onto something?”
Via: Natural News:
NaturalNews can now confirm that the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has, in total violation of the Fourth Amendment, conducted two armed raids on pig farmers in that state, one in Kalkaska County at Fife Lake and another in Cheboygan County. Staging raids involving six vehicles and ten armed men, DNA conducted unconstitutional, illegal and arguably criminal armed raids on these two farms with the intent of shooting all the farmers’ pigs under a bizarre new “Invasive Species Order” (ISO) that has suddenly declared traditional livestock to be an invasive species.
I assume the reason no-one’s commented on this is they don’t know what to say other than how frackin’ pissed off they are about it.
It’s a real pisser that we actually pay for the privilege to be harassed, oppressed, and killed.
Our controllers did this to Haiti in the 80s:
Unlike the pink pig encapsulated in the image of Wilbur, the pig from Charlotte’s web, the Creole Pig was not pink. It, like the population of Haiti, was black and thus unlike American pigs did not sunburn. Raised by eighty to 85% of rural households, the relatively small but dense Creole pig subsisted not on grain, but on the detritus of the island’s human population. It could thrive on the husk of rice, the cob of corn. In a nation without consolidated trash pickup the Creole pig acted as the nation’s garbage men playing a key role in maintaining the fertility of the soil. And, because it was not dependent on feed for its survival, it functioned for the peasant population as a sort of mobile, literal piggy bank – the animals were sold or slaughtered to pay for school, for marriages, for unexpected medical expenses.
All of this is spoken in the past tense because between the 1970s and the 1980s the Creole pigs were systematically eradicated under pressure of the US government.
http://www.justmeans.com/-Tale-of-Creole-Pig/6530.html
The indigenous breed was replaced by imported U.S. pigs, which proved so unsuitable to island life that they more or less promptly expired. Haitians dubbed the newcomers princes on four legs, given their dependence on clean water, regular vaccinations and imported feed.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/haiti/article/754722–this-little-creole-piggy-once-stood-for-haitian-pride