Re: NAIS ???

[Guest guest]

It is not at all

the same. The NAIS traces back from the slaughter to the farm, and food safety

problems are typically from the slaughter to the consumer, in terms of

contamination.

Feedlots, that

harbor large numbers, and swine houses, as well as large vertically integrated

poultry facilities can “tag” the whole group w/ one ID#. The small

farmer must tag each and every animal.

The cloned thing is

a red herring. It is so expensive to clone that it is not a reasonable source

at this point, and is simply serving to distract from the reality that is

hitting hard now.

NAIS is not, and

has never been about food safety.

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From: RawDairy [mailto:RawDairy ] On Behalf Of a_milkman72

Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008

5:15 PM

To: RawDairy

Subject: NAIS ???

In a nut shell can some one tell me what is so bad about having a

national ID on cattle. One of the biggest reasons why people purchase

beef and milk from small farms is because they know where it comes

from. Is this not the same thing, just in a grander scale? With them

wanting to introduce clone animals into the food source, it would be

great to track these cows down if there ever was a link to someone

getting sick or something.

[Guest guest]

1. Unconstitutional Government Intrusion - the BUREAUCRACIES are

making the laws (or 'rules'), enforcing the laws ('rules'), and

deciding the punishments. No Congressional oversignt needed!

2. 'Disease Control' = they shoot (shoot and kill!) ALL the animals in

a 12.4 MILE diameter from the offending farm, and burn the wooden

buildings (including my house?) - see the Sharon Zecchinelli & Doreen

Hannes interview at:

http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?ContentId=189559

3. Monetary Cost? Who knows? No one's saying, but there are ear

tags, scanning wands, and unless my computer suddenly grows a 300'

extention cord, laptop computers involved.

4. 48 Hour Tracking - they haven't told you there will be a CHARGE

every time you report a birth, death, movement, etc. OR FACE A FINE

(if your cow gets out in the middle of the night, you won't know it,

but the government will, and undoubtedly, bill you accordingly)

5. Cost to taxpayers? Who knows? But it's estimated that Wisconsin

will spend $900,000/year on premises registration alone.

6. Identity Security? Private contractors have been hired (in

Wisconsin, it's WLIC - the WI Livestock Identification Consortum) to

maintain the databases. Who has access to these databases in PRIVATE

hands? And we all know how good any agency is in maintaining the

confidentiality of information - thousands of names & SSNs are stolen

every year from 'government' databases.

7. Title? Under NAIS, farmers are 'stakeholders' in the 'national

herd'. What do these terms mean? Why not OWNER? NAIS clouds the

title to your property so that even now, real estate agents are

worried about the ramifications.

8. Contrary to popular belief, we KNOW where disease comes from -

confinement/feedlot/BST/grain-fed/etc. animals. But they're trying to

tell you that this system is much, much easier than confronting the

truth - that we treat animals in sick and inhumane ways, and thus

create diseases for ourselves.

9. Studies have found that Verichip, the RFID chip approved by the FDA

for implantation in animals, CAUSES TUMORS! (Tommy , former

head of the US Dept. of Health & Human Servies, got Verichip approved

by the FDA, resigned a few months after its approval, and now works

for - drumroll, please! - VERICHIP!)

10. Confinement dairies, feedlots, and flocks of birds have to only

get ONE NUMBER PER LOT(farmers like me who pasture our animals, have

to have ONE NUMBER PER ANIMAL) - the rationale is that confined

animals don't come into contact with wild animals, or escape on

occasion, to spread disease, but mine could. So NAIS supports

industrial ag! Yum!

11. Countries that have NAIS - England, Australia - have fewer animals

and fewer farms than us. Is this about disease control or CONTROLLING

AND CONSOLODATING THE FOOD SUPPLY?

Read about Dobbin, a British farmer whose entire herd of 567

dairy cows was destroyed by the British government because they

believed his paperwork contained a `number of unspecified

irregularities' -http://www.warmwell.com/07mar14muck.html html

(BUT I THOUGHT THIS WAS ABOUT DISEASE!)

NAIS is an intrusive and abusive system that will push more small

farmers, like me, and people who want to grow their own food (who's

going to spend thousands of dollars on a laptop, wand, chips,

software, and tracking to have a couple dozen homegrown eggs?), out of

business. Small farmers like me are already living on the edge

financially and emotionally. We don't have unlimited finances, nor do

we have employees, to do all the work to maintain NAIS compliance, and

there are only so many hours in a day...

For more, see the 'talking points' by Zanoni, at:

http://www.westonaprice.org/federalupdate/aa2006/infoalert_032006.html

And don't forget - once they chip our animals, they're gunning for

us. Don't believe me? Google REAL ID - they want to put a microchip

in all of our ID cards. Verichip for humans is next. Guaranteed.

Cheryl

[Guest guest]

" The NAIS traces back from the slaughter to the farm, and food safety

problems are typically from the slaughter to the consumer, in terms of

contamination. "

Absolutely. NAIS is designed to blame the farmer for food safety

issues, instead of the (oftentimes) real culprit - USDA inspected

slaughterhouses.

Cheryl