Monday, January 21, 2008

A reader writes about the NAIS! Just say NO!

As I have written before...the NAIS is an invasion of your privacy, a violation of your constitutional rights and just another arm of government reaching out to control another aspect of our lives. A reader left a comment recently on an older post but it was so important that I wanted to re-print it here for your benefit. If you value your freedoms, please read this post and respond appropriately!
To: tnfarmgirl@comcast.net
Author : susan barackman
URL : http://nonais.org
Comment:
Good comments about NAIS...it is indeed a sorry plan developed only to benefit corporate ag but the rest of us have to do the work like tagging and tracking and paying for it.

I am convinced that NAIS is wrong on so many levels.

1. I found out by word of mouth not from the USDA. Those involved with
NAIS are the "big" guys in ag and horse business AND the chip makers. Not one backyard breeder was asked anything about inputting into NAIS regulations.

At the USDA website, it was claimed they wanted our input. I among many many others wrote our opinions on why we think NAIS would not work and our oppositions to NAIS. The USDA took those opinions and came out with a booklet on how to deal with those against NAIS, also claiming we are on a 6th gr level. I am sure you have a copy of it.

2. Many have been signed up for NAIS without their permission or knowledge
(nearly 14,000 in Idaho). Would you like to be signed up, say for a new car
lease, without your permission or knowledge. be responsible for the monthly
payments and not even sure the car will run and its the very make of car you hate?

3. The reasons we are told NAIS is needed keeps changing. (Disease
protection, bioterrorism, global market, etc) Yet when Creekstone Beef
wanted to test every cow they process for BSE, the USDA says they
cannot!!!Creekstone had to take the USDA to court to sue for the right to
test for BSE! And what does my reporting to the USDA when I take my horse
off my property have to do with big ag selling beef to Japan?

Actually, NAIS is NOT about protecting us from animal disease...it is a marketing plan for corporate ag. NAIS traceability ends at slaughter which is where many food issues happen. Why does the NAIS document allow only for depopulation?

4. The following is a must read for all horse owners....

http://arkansasanimalproducers.8k.com:80/whats_new_29.html

5. Tracking disease is not new. In 1938-Nazi Germany targeted one segment
of society they thought responsible for spreading disease, the JEWS. A law
was passed that ALL JEWS had to register their property.Every piece of
property they own into a massive database. IT worked. The Gestapo knew
exactly who to raid by the value of their art and jewelry. We know the rest
of the story, a minor event called the Holocaust!

In the same time period, the Russian Communist Govt under Stalin starved
millions of farmers in the most fertile part of the country because the law
stated that ALL the grain they grew belonged to the govt! They were not
even allowed to eat what they grew!

6. Several Constitutional rights/religious rights will be broken by NAIS
regulations. How can the Amish comply with this program when they feel it
will go against what they believe and they do not have electricity. How
about the impoverished who keep a few animals yet can barely afford potato
chips, let alone microchips. Then there is the Santeria religion, legal in
the US, animal sacrifice is practiced (chickens and goats) often in city
apartments. Will those animals be reported?

7. Why are there so many websites that are against NAIS and I cannot find
any for NAIS? Except govt sites+

8. A cost analysis of NAIS has not been done. The $3 promised cost of tags
in Australia went to $37.

9. Livestock owners will be under closer surveillance than illegals, drug
dealers, convicted six offenders/child molesters. Currently in the USA,
only convicted six offenders/child molesters have to register their premises
and file movement reports.

10. The issue of private property rights: In the NAIS document those who own livestock are called "stakeholder"
and the land upon which the livestock presides is "premises". Contracts
use certain words for a reason. The lectric law library states that the
word premises signifies a formal part of a deed,and is made to designate an
estate; to designate is to name or entitle. Therefore a premises has no
protection under the United States constitution and has no exclusive rights
of the owner tied to it. Stakeholder (the term the USDA is using to
identify us) refers to a third party who temporarily holds money or property
while its owner is still being determined.

By signing up for NAIS, title to property rights are clouded, basically
making the owner little more than a sharecropper.

11. NAIS is trying to be a one-size-fits-all program yet there is a huge
difference between granny's back yard hens, a pot belly pig in suburbia,
horses which are not in the food chain and the multi-billion dollar
corporate ag and factory farms, which this program was ultimately made for.
(oh by the way, the factory farms get one lot number per groups of animals,
but granny has to microchip every animal she has and report their births,
deaths and off-property movements.)

12. After much public outcry, USDA nows claims NAIS voluntary, but continues
to use our tax $$$ to bribe states to pass laws to make it mandatory. Gives
$$$ ot FFA and $H to get them to sign up. Some fairs say you cannot enter
your animal without premise number. There was a big stink at the Colorado state fair over this summer about registering premises. I question the legality of minors signing up private property that they do not even own for NAIS,be it their parents or someone else's property.

13 What is so magical about the number 48 traceback. Nais does not address
the fact that many diseases are coming in with the Illegals, Newcastle
disease in chickens and TB in a goat. But these were found without NAIS.

14. There are disease protocols in place that already work. NO foot and
mouth in the US since 1929. NAIS would be a costly boondoggle.

15. My mom always told me be careful what you sign your name to.

16. If NAIS is such a wonderful panacea, why is there so much opposition to it. You can learn a whole lot about why NAIS is opposed by so many by visiting these websites. Please check out these websites and organizations fighting NAIS. (national animal identification system) The research contained within them is from reading the NAIS document.

http://www.nonais.org/ http://www.tofga.org/
http://www.farmandranchfreedom.org/ http://libertyark.net/

1 comment:

  1. I couldn't agree more, only this is the tip of the iceberg. The plan is not to only "chip" the animals, but everything. Walmart has already participated in a testing program to chip products and shelving units in order to send information to the companies about those who purchase or just look at their merchandise. This has already been done in several stores. They really mean it when they say that "these premises are under surveillance". IBM has been involved in the research and production of this technology for years. NAIS and RFID tags are "the wave of the future" if we don't make our voices heard.

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