Posted on 08/18/2006 11:55:34 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
bttt
I believe the same sort of plan in Texas died a quick death - some wording in the legislation would have every canary, every chicken, any foul or animal identified. The utter nonsense of such a plan should have put it's author in the nut house!
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I apologize. This is a duplicate. I kept getting an error message "Termporarily Unavailable" when I tried to post so I ended up with duplicates. I don't know how to delete the extras or consolidate it. Help!
What was that?
/teasing
How dare they stand against the state! What would Ned Lamont think??
The NAID program is one way to counter potential agroterrorism attacks by allowing for a more efficient and rapid response to a foreign animal disease incursion. It is a proven epidemiological method to contain such an occurrence with a potentially devastating impact on the US economy. All classes of livestock will not be tagged, but expect cattle (100 million in the US), swine, sheep to be in the mix.
I predict Vermont will comply simply because USDA funding pulled from their state would force the issue. It is all grandstanding on the part of Vermont politicians, IMHO.
It's not just Vermont raising hell about this crap. Numerous states are now fighting this garbage. We don't need another stupid, worthless government program to "protect" us from evil terrorists. Seems rather stupid that the government wants to monitor and track livestock with pinpoint accuracy but can't keep track of those crossing our borders.
Suit yourself, but when you go without food for a week or two you might change your mind. These are proven epidemiological principles (crap in your vernacular)--it is a science, not politics. In the absence of such a basic program, the results of an intentional or accidental foreign animal disease incursion can be devastating. It will not offer pinpoint accuracy, but it is a designed to check the potential devastation. Check out the foot-and-mouth outbreak in the UK back in 2001.
As a side, I agree with enhanced border security. Perhaps we should chip the illegals.
WOOHOO! 'Bout time!
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