Rights, farms, environment ping.Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.
Every livestock animal in the nation (and what they don't say, but suspect, eventually all animals), will be tagged with electronic tracking. EVERY MOVEMENT WILL HAVE TO BE REPORTED TO THE GOVERNMENT. You run your cattle, sheep, llamas, whatever on to your neighbors property to graze for fire control, it needs to be reported. Every porperty that has stock on it, whether owned or leased or whatever, must have a property ID number.
I proposed this scenario at the meeting: you go to your county fair rodeo - every competing horse, all the rough stock, all the ropiing stock, every pick up and show horse, every sheep for the mutton busting, every goat, avery animal will be scanned entering the fair grounds AND REPORTED TO THE USDA. Upon leaving, they will be scanned again and what ever property they go to will need to REPORT THEIR ARRIVAL. Furthermore, every animal that "co-mingles" will need to be registered. That means all fowl at the fair, all guienea pigs, , everything. THE ANSWER WAS YES!
Eventually this will at least include all swine, poultry, horses, cattle, sheep, camelids. They are trying to sell this to us as to how much safer the food will be and what a great management tool this is. For a small herd the estimated cost per animal is $25 (each tag $1.75-$3, scanner $800-several thousand, software, etc.).
In my opinion, this is a test project for tracking and monitoring other things in the future, this is a socialist agenda (your property is OUR property), this is another way to tax, this is an effort to control who may produce.
It already includes horses. Soon you will have to have implants for all livestock. Derry Brownfield has been hammering on this. I dunno, but I wouldn't mock calling it the "mark of the beast".
That's step #1.
Step #2 is to make livestock eligible for MediCare and MedicAid.
Step #3 is to legalize livestock marriages.
http://nationalpropertyowners.org
National Property Owners
Full research sections on NAIS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563271/posts
Healthy People 2010
Information on where the funding came from for NAIS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1561077/posts
Animal Tagging and SCHOOL LUNCHES???
Information on some of the partners on these posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1564815/posts
Digital Angel and Microchip
Info on the technology that will be used for the tagging
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All right, somebody needs to post the picture of the cow with the barcode in her ear with the "It's not just for livestock anymore" caption!
Heads up.
One of the people that runs http://www.nonais.org/ just received a phone call from the USDA.
The following is an exact quote:
I just got a call from “‘Alice’ calling on behalf of the USDA.” She wanted to know if I would take part in a survey and said it would only take up a few minutes of my time. I asked what the questions are. Turns out she’s gathering the information that they could use to “Voluntarily” enroll me in NAIS without my permission. This already happened in Washington state. Watch out! The USDA and some states are making a big deal about how many “voluntary” enrollments they already have from farmers. They use this number to emphisize that farmers strongly support NAIS. Makes me wonder. Be very wary of any communications from the USDA and other agencies. Remember: “They’re from the government and they’re here to help us.”
I normally avoid words such as "idiots" except when talking about gun grabbers and the far left. However, I just cannot imagine what kind of idiots come up with this NAIS stuff, but they too are idiots, and ill-intentioned ones as far as I am concerned.
The program standards are here.
If it turns out that any nationally elected official has been involved in this, I would be most surprised. This reeks as far as I am concerned, and I cannot imagine any politician publicly putting up his hands for this except for maybe the most progressive of the Progressive Caucus.
The best bit for me is where they list all of the animal codings:
Clams = CLM, crawfish = CRA, catfish = CTF, mussels = MSL, oysters = OYS, salmon = SAL, striped bass = SBA, shrimp = SHR, scallops = SLP, tilapia = TIL, trout = TRO, bovine (bison and cattle) = BOV, camelid (alpaca and llama) = CAM, caprine (goats) = CAP, deer = DEE, elk = ELK, equine (horses1) = EQU, ovine (sheep) = OVI, porcine (swine) = POR, chickens = CHI, ducks = DUC, geese = GEE, guineas = GUI, pigeon = PGN, pheasants = PHE, quail = QUA, turkeys = TUR. (Table 10, page 15 of the program standard. And then there is a much larger breakdown of breeds within categories in the technical standards supplement on pages 14-17.)
And of course, they want lots of laws to prevent citizens from removing, changing, or counterfeiting a tag. (And I am sure that they will be as rationally applied as, say, our wetlands legislation is so famously applied.) You can find the prohibitions on page 7 of the draft program standards; they include (of course) criminalizing removal of a functional tag from a live animal.
Another interesting sentence when discussing the characteristics of the tag (found on page 28 of the draft standard): "Printed information on the tag will require a U.S. logo and the AIN" (AIN being the Animal Identification Number), and a couple of items down in the table: "The US Shield shall have a minimum width of 0.2 inches (5 mm)." I think that they meant USDA where they have US here, but, then again, maybe they really do want a "US Shield" put on these animals.
Rights, farms, environment ping.That's right. They can stick this electronic .... right up theirs!
Texas Animal Health Commission link on this topic:
Brought to you by the United States Department of Agribusiness.
The expenses associated with this are not a big deal to folks like Tyson and ConAgra, but they will kill the small farmer (or make them serfs to the AgriCorps).
I have an email forwarded to a list that detailed a conversation with some of the state officials in Oklahoma who are going to implement this. I will post it when I find it and get permission from the originator.
To the small farmer, the USDA is not your friend!
This is insane!!!
Argh.....leave my goats alone.
I am so against this, I can hardly find the words.
I am able to ride my horses directly from my property. This means I have to report my every movement that I make, or I am a criminal.?? Bull----!!
The cost factor alone is far more onerous than people realize.
Every car and truck and trailer in the USA has had a VIN number for a number of years, and the police cannot seem to adequately find them and match them with their owners who have reported them stolen.
The cities, counties, states and the Federal government CANNOT keep track of CONVICTED SEX OFFENDERS, and now they propose to track every animal?
GIVE ME A BREAK.
Every time a kid competes with his or her pony at a local schooling show, the animal is to be kept track of. This will put most horse shows out of business. Only the pros will compete, no more lead line classes for your grand kids, etc.
There are more horses in the USA today than ever before, even before the mechanization of farming. This puts a hell of a burden on each and every one of them. Do you see having a pony for your grandkids and having to buy a scanner that costs "only" $800 to keep track of it? I don't think so.
If I have an emergency and have to take one of my horses to the vet or the clinic, I will be damned if I will wait on the phone to get permission from someone in the "government".
Either I will become an instant criminal, or the government can come and take my horses and dogs and feed them. Since they do such a poor job at so many other things, I don't expect them to take better care of them than I do.
We cannot keep track of thousands of illegal intruders coming across the border from Mexico, and they want to track every single animal and pet bird and chicken in the USA?
Someone's got a rather large screw loose.
They can pound sand. I will not comply.