Letter to the Vermont Standard on Premises ID

NoNAIS.org ^ | 2006-06-19 | Walter Jeffries

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The Vermont Standard, a weekly newspaper, ran a very biased article about NAIS and Premise ID that looked like it had been written by the Public Relations officer from the Vermont Department of Agriculture. Here is my Letter to the Editor in reply:

The Vermont Standard
Post Office Box 88
Woodstock, Vermont 05091
802-457-1313
vstand@sover.net
http://www.vermontstandard.net

Dear Editor,

I read your article "Some Bird Raisers Cry Fowl Over Pending Regulations" and was very disappointed. Your writer, Cassie Horner, just doesn't get it. Premise ID and the USDA's proposed National Animal Identification System (NAIS) will do nothing to protect us from Avian Influenza (AI), Mad Cow (BSE) or other diseases. The real threat from AI is human travelers - chickens are merely a terminal host.

A basic point that is being totally missed by the USDA, the Vermont Agency of Agriculture and large producers - NAIS does not fit traditional small producers. Even worse NAIS is a total disaster for homesteaders. The minimum cost of doing NAIS is going to run a homesteader or small farmer more than $500 per year. There are no extra profits to pay for that. NAIS is not needed at these levels - Not for disease and certainly not for export profits, the original reason for NAIS.

The biggest problem is the USDA has not seen fit to notify small farmers, homesteaders or other consumers who will be affected by NAIS. Instead they have just taken input from the big industry players. The resulting system is like using a 100-lb sledge hammer to drive thumb tacks - it will kill traditional farming and our rural heritage.

Maybe NAIS and Premises ID make sense for the factory farms and big producers selling into the anonymous commercial wholesale food distribution system but these programs are unnecessary and harmful for small farmers selling direct and for homesteaders. NAIS and Premises ID should be kept 100% voluntary and market driven. The producers who want the trace-back for the markets that demand it would be able to have it and the rest of the very small livestock producers and taxpayers would not be burdened by the costs. Grandma's egg hen is not a threat to society.

For more information about how NAIS and Premises ID will affect small livestock owners please visit http://NoNAIS.org

Thank you,

Walter Jeffries
Sugar Mountain Farm
West Topsham, Vermont
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