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08 April 2007

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Try to connect with others in your state to see what you can do. There are links on NONAIS.ORG to help you. Many of us have been on the battle field and behind the scenes fighting hard to prevent this scourge now that the USDA has turned it over to the States. It isn't easy, but it can be done.

We shall overcome!

Thanks, Tana, for bringing more of your reasoned clarity to the NAIS situation -- what it is, what it means, why it's being put forward.

A suggestion for other readers: maybe I'm the last one who cares about food to read Michael Pollan's "Omnivore's Dilemma" but if there are any others in that category, read it now. It is an excellent resource for understanding the relationships between all the disparate parts of this discussion - the feed lots, the monoculture corn fields, the chicken and pork factories, the family farms, etc...and if you read it you'll certainly be motivated, if you aren't already, to saddle up and ride in the anti-NAIS calvary...

What an intelligent, eye-opening article. Thank you so much for writing it, Tana.

Right on Tana!! Thanks for letting people know about the USDA/Monsanto /ADM/ Cargill's most recent attempt to rid the country of small farmers. I'm not going to wax on about this, because it's not my style and I've got to get back to my 6:30am to 8pm workday, but let me just say that if the USDA wants to come to enforce NAIS protocols on my ranch (including putting chips in all my pigs), then they had better bring guns. Lots of guns. It reminds me of the lyrics to a favorite Clash song -"when they kick in your front door, how ya gonna go -Shot down on the pavement or waiting in death row." Make mine "shot down on the pavement," please. I know ranchers in Montana who buy guns with the money that they should (by law) pay in income tax. They've known for a long time that the war was coming to the countryside. Does the government really want to pick a fight with America's farmers and ranchers? It seems so. So I'll take a rare chance to quote my President, "bring it on." If they think that a war on the other side of the world is a mess, then they are really not going to like the hornets nest they stir up with this NAIS scam. By the way, avian flu is another scam. There is no limit to what the government will do in order to fleece Americans out of their hard-earned dollars. Do you go to bed at night worrying about bird flu? If you want to worry, worry about something real, like the plain old flu for example. Well, here I am waxing on—when what I really need to do is check and make sure the pigs aren't uncomfortable. Jim Dunlop (pig luva, farmer,soil builder and combat veteran of mother green's killing machine)

Hi Tana, As always your writing inspires and motivates positive action. It is always a pleasure to visit here. I have a small farm with heirloom cattle, 2 rescued horses that were meant for slaughter, and a nanny goat meant for some good cheese. Thanks again for what you do and give to our community. Jenny

Thank you for the eyes you'll open!

Since the USDA has removed the Draft Strategic Plan and the Draft program Standards, they can be downloaded from www.naisinfocentral.net Please read the home page for explaination on why you should read these documents that the USDA state that they no longer apply but instead the New User Guide replaced the Draft Strategic plan and Program standards.
thank you for the Great post on getting the word out.

Alas, Wisconsin is the first state to mandate compliance. No one is being fined (that I know of) and I'm still going to the swap this weekend for a feeder pig or two, but I sure as hell won't be registering, my farm or my animals.

... I think I'm starting to get the "when you pry it from my cold, dead hands" gun argument.

FYI, if you're geekish, you can set up google news to email you daily articles on NAIS. Hideous, frightening stuff. Everyone I've talked to about it here seems to think that it's just like licensing a dog, no big deal, and hey! it's the law! Driving at or below the speed limit is a law too but people have no problem breaking that one.

Call me a scoflaw but I'm not registering the birds that the foxes are most likely going to pick off by fall. That pig I'm eating this winter? Never leaving the farm while it's breathing so there's no need to "track" it.

If you are lucky enough to live in a state that doesn't yet mandate "voluntary" compliance, write, call, hell, *harangue* your representatives. Sooner or later they'll start sending out spotters to nail those of us Badger State refuseniks, and don't go thinking it won't happen in your state, too.

Dude, I have to go out and find a conspiracy to theorize.


Amendments violated by NAIS

1st--religion (Amish, other Christians, possibly Santeria who practice animal sacrifice)
4th-govt surveillance and illegal search and seizure of private property (tracking, tagging, depopulation)
5th-14th forced registration (that is why the USDA stresses registration. of premises is “voluntary” and “free” but they are pushing for mandatory)
13th involuntary servitude (this one freed the slaves but goes on to state people may not be forced to work without pay...livestock owners are being forced without pay to track animals and file reports on their own animals so the USDA can use that info for disease track back which all the NAIS document allows is depopulation. )

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?

When you read about Stalin and the collective farm push and confiscation and starvation that followed you will see the correlation to NAIS and FIGHT tooth and nail against this plus fill your stocks of ammunition to the hilt!

Yes, there are bills in congress that are near a hearing on March 11th!! UP in action everyone!

Comment on the registry:
http://nonais.org/2009/03/05/federal-registry-on-nais/


Actino alert:
http://nonais.org/category/action-item/page/2/
The U.S. House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry will hold a hearing on NAIS on March 11. Bills to put NAIS into law, HR875 and companion Senate S814, are being pushed through Congress, as well as an Appropriations Bill with funding for NAIS. This hearing is critical to blocking mandatory NAIS.

WE need to have people calling this committee!!
AL
R-13
Mike Rogers
202.225.3261
202.226.8485
web site

CA
D-18
Dennis Cardoza
202.225.6131
800-356-6424
(202) 225-0819
web site

CA
D-20
Jim Costa
202-225-3341
(202) 225-9308
web site

CA
D-43
Joe Baca
(202)225-6161
(202)225-8671
web site

CO
D-4
Betsy Markey,
(202) 225-4676
(202) 225-5870
https://forms.house.gov/betsymarkey/contact-form.shtml”>web site

GA
D-13
David Scott (Chair)
(202) 225-2939
(202) 225-4628
web site

IA
D-3
Leonard Boswell
(202) 225-3806
(202) 225-5608
web site

IA
R-5
Steve King
202.225.4426
202.225.3193
web site

ID
D-1
Walt Minnick
(202) 225-6611
(202) 225-3029
web site

MD
D-1
Frank Kratovil, Jr.
(202) 225-5311
(202) 225-0254
web site

NE
R-3
Adrian Smith
(202) 225-6435
(202) 225-0207
web site

TN
R-1
David P. Roe
(202) 225-6356
(202) 225-5714
web site

TX
R-11
K. Michael Conaway
(202) 225-3605
(202) 225-1783
web site

TX
R-19
Randy Neugebauer,
Ranking Minority Member
(202) 225-4005
(888) 763-1611
(202) 225-9615
web site

VA
R-6
Bob Goodlatte,
(202) 225-5431
(202) 225-9681
web site

WI
D-8
Steve Kagen,
(202) 225-5665
(202) 225-5729
web site

For more information, or if you need help in this process, please contact:

Doreen Hannes
[email protected]
(417) 962-0030

Sharon Sabo
[email protected]
(618) 458-7745

Sue Dederich
[email protected]
(847) 873-0251

Sharon Zecchinelli
[email protected]


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