This NAIS tagging is frightening. It is clearly in violation of the IVth Ammendment and potentially the Vth and XIVth.
USDA officials will not need a warrant to enter a premise to inspect animals; they will be able to enter private property whenever they deem it 'necessary." The draft strategic program standards also indicate that the identification will include the GPS coordinates of the premises where the animals are kept.
As with the Vth and XIVth ammendments, which state that no one can be deprived of property without due process of law, the USDA claims the right to remove animals from a premise, and it makes no mention of remuneration to the farmer or rancher.
This program has nothing to do with "disease, terrorism, and market competetiveness" as they claim. We already have a feed ban that greatly reduces the risk that BSE would ever spread from sick cattle to other cattle through feed. None of the cows that have been found to have BSE never entered the food supply.
As for terrorism, why couldn't someone sneak into an auction barn and replace a clean cows tag on an infected cow?
This whole program is meant to increase profits for the large meat packers. The cost of this is going to put a lot of small family farms out of business due to all the fees, equipment needed (The tag, the reader, data accumulator, software, internet access, subscriptions and upgrades) and required paperwork. I bet that it is going to cost about $25 per head of cattle. If this crap is enacted, we are going to witness the end of the small family run farm. I find it quite disturbing, that the federal government seems to be trying to control the food supply. I realize that they have been doing that for years, but this is at a whole new level. They don't have the authority to do any of this.
Now for the wonderful Model State Energency Health Powers Act.
The Model State Emergency Health Powers act. It is not law yet, but I am sure soon will be. It was prepared by the public law and health at Georgetown and John Hopkins Universities for the center of disease control and prevention. It is very similiar to what Hillary had proposed before. The main auther is Lawerence O. Gostin who was a member of Clinton's task force on health care reform.
You will have a mandatory vaccination or be charged with a crime.
You will get a mandatory medical exam or be charged with a crime.
Your property can be seized if there is reasonable cause to believe if your property may pose a public health hazard.
Puts everyting in the hand of the Governor.
-declare a public health emergency (whatever that would be) without consultation.
-Suspend any regulatory statutes or rules of any state agency if they would delay or hinder any necessary action.
-Can commandeer any private facility. "immediate posession thereof"
-May compel a health care facility to provide services. Any physician or health care provider who refuses to perform a medical examination or testing will be liable for a misdemeanor.
-May destroy any material or property of which there is reasonable cause that it may endanger the public health. Compensation will not be provided for facilities or materials that are closed, evacuated, contaminated or destroyed when there is reasonable cause to believe that they may be endangering the public health.
I have a PDF of this act, but I don't know how to post it or if there is even a way to.?