Posted on 08/18/2006 10:52:50 AM PDT by pubwvj
Mandatory Premises ID registration and the USDA's proposed National Animal Identification System (NAIS) are dead in Vermont! See this article for more details:
http://nonais.org/index.php/2006/08/18/vt-premises-id-killed/
In a nutshell, which is where these programs belongs, the Vermont Agency of Agriculture (AoA) has finally heard the enormous protest against the program and said they are letting the proposal for mandatory Premises ID expire and will not share information with the feds thus killing NAIS at the same time.
Secretary of Agriculture Steve Kerr told a crowd of nearly 100 at a Montpelier hearing Thursday that the agency would let its proposed rule that would require those keeping livestock to register with the state to expire.
It is unnecessary to violate our rights and privacy in order to control animal disease. The government should focus on education and being polite. The VT AoA is one 800 lb guerilla that just learned it can't sit anywhere it pleases.
Cheers!
-Walter Sugar Mountain Farm Orange, Vermont
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Thanks for posting this pub!
VT killed NAIS!
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Ah, that is cute!
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