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Island wildlife specialist George Cera has scheduled a public meeting on Friday, April 8 at 10 a.m. in the Boca Grande Community Center.
The topic? Iguanas and the United States Department of Agriculture.
“The taxpayers of this island are being taken advantage of,” he said. “I’m sure the board members aren’t aware of a lot of these facts, so we’re going to educate the public about something that is going on that is very sad, and is taking jobs.”
Cera is part of an organization that has been watching USDA activity throughout the United States. Many are trappers who have been put out of work by the governmental agency, which, in its Wikipedia definition, “is one of the few Federal Agencies that actively competes with private sector companies. Aided by taxpayer funding they are often able to undercut the prices charged by private companies.”
Cera, who was the original trapper for Lee County’s iguana eradication program, said he had few qualms about the agency taking over when his contract was not renewed.
“This is not a sour grapes effort on my part,” he said. “But after watching three years of the same information in their public presentations, hearing a lot of ‘I don’t knows’ from their expert and having one of their researchers admit that they based their research on my original research, I started to do a little researching of my own.”
Cera said he came into contact with countless trappers and wildlife specialists who have had their jobs taken by the USDA as well, an agency which, in its by-laws, claims they will not compete against any private trapper who already holds a trapping job with a private or governmental agency.
Cera and another wildlife specialist, Robb Russell, will give the presentation. Other trappers will offer their stories through video and emails.
“We have all heard about some unscrupulous things that the USDA has been accused of, from mass killings of wildlife to carelessly killing ospreys and hawks in other parts of Florida,” Cera said. “They’ve already discussed trying to perfect a poisoning technique here. We can’t have that, it doesn’t make sense. There is a lot of this that doesn’t make sense, and I’m hoping that people attend this meeting to see just what type of agency we have working for us out here. My friends and neighbors out here are important to me, and they have a right to know.”
United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service WS Directive 3.101 05/25/05d. (They are in direct conflict with their own directives and actively competes with private business across the country using their unfair advantage to steal local work from local business’s.
The video above shows USDA interfering and actually ending up with the contract days later. You decide if they unfairly got involved and stole business from local trapper, George Cera.
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notprovide direct assistance services at the same time and same location or tract of land where a private busines or individual is independently conducting related activities with similar methods.
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