National Animal Identification System....
Aunt Penny hopes you will help her avoid the dreaded "bracelet." It likely won't match her plumage!
ATTENTION all owners of livestock.
Please write your state and national congresspersons to make the
National Animal Identification Plan "voluntary," so that small farmers
and backyard farmers won't have to register their properties and their
animals with the USDA. To facilitate selling meat to Japan, USDA
desires to implement a new electronic tracking system (beyond the
systems already in place), as soon as possible,
to be able to locate every single livestock animal in America. The
National Animal Identification System (NAIS) envisions a "National
Herd" and a "National Flock." Your animals will be "theirs." Full
compliance is the goal.
The plan has three stages-- (1)National Registration of Every Premises where livestock animals are
kept. This includes you who has 2 pet chickens, or you who owns one
horse, as well as farmers and ranchers. Included in this first stage is
GLOBAL POSITIONING SATELLITE Co-ordinates of YOUR PROPERTY -- YOUR FARM
OR YOUR BACKYARD, so that inspectors will be able to find the animals
in case of disease outbreak ("depopulation" of your healthy animals would
likely be necessary, without testing) or of owner disobedience. Non-compliance results
in penalty (Fines of up to $1000/per day are possible, plus criminal
penalties.) Several
Constitutional violations occur with this mandatory system (right of
privacy, right to personal property, religious freedom), and no one yet
can explain the COSTS,
which are mandated to be paid by all the animal owners ("the
producers.") The mountain of paperwork and the fees and fines threaten
all small animal farmers, but will be minimal for the corporate concentration camp "farms," whose thousands of animals and birds will be identified with only one number, as they are treated as "lots." (Or, "widgets.") Eventually this harrassment of small producers will lead to centralized unhealthy food
sources (no more local eggs and meat, not even from your own backyard.) All Americans who EAT and value FREEDOM are affected.
What can you do? Write, call every legislator in your state;
legislators in Washington, and the USDA. This tyrannical tax grab
program should be (1) Terminated, (2) Voluntary, or (3) Applicable ONLY to LARGE
producers/"Factory Farms." Please write, as together, we can get this
fixed or at least delayed (maybe they'll wake up!) For more info: www.farmandranchfreedom.org Photos from the March to the Capitol, March 2, 2007 (Texas Independence Day):
(2)Animal Identification Numbers. Each animal will be
tagged with a RFID device that will have a unique number -- chips in
the ear, tags, leg bands which can be scanned by a "reader gun" to
access information. Non-compliance results in penalties.
(3)Tracking of All Animals. The animal owner will be responsible for
reporting to USDA every event in the animal's life: birth, illness,
death, transfer off-premises, return to premises -- within 24 hours of
the event. Non-compliance results in penalties.
www.tofga.org (website of Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners)
www.texasanimalhealthcommissionwatch.com (links to www.grain.org for bird flu research/findings)
http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/welcome.php (to find out who to call/write!)
Rally Photos by Pam Thompson
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Texas Consumers and livestock owners: Learn more about what the National Animal Identification System will mean to you! (Go to "Concerns" page in Menu at left.)
March 2nd, 2 PM, Texas Independence Day: The Tractor Drive/Parade from The Colorado River down Congress
Avenue to the State Capitol Building. Over 2,000 people gathered for speeches and
music and in hopes that the event's message would reach the ears and eyes,
and hearts and minds of our elected Representatives and Senators : "NO NAIS."
The
parade stretched 8 blocks long. Photo by Pam Thompson (Apparently,
Farmer Kim Alexander wanted to keep a clear distance from the woman
farmer driving the tractor!
All
who are concerned about the tagging of farm animals, gps surveillance
of "premises," and boondoggle paperwork and costs should speak out
against NAIS! This plan, to provide 48-hour "trace-back" of
Aunt Phyllis' pet hen or Sharon's horse, solely to please the export
meat market, and the money belts of the chip makers and big animal
corporations, will drive many small meat/egg producers -- the very ones
who treat their grassfed animals with compassion -- out of business.
Eliminating local producers will ensure that our food comes from huge,
centralized, bottom-line corporate "farms." Here, or overseas. If we
allow NAIS to become mandatory, we will eat what we deserve.
For
more information, please contact the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance at
866-687-6452 (toll free) or info@farmandranchfreedom.org Also:
www.tofga.org (Texas Organic Farmers & Gardeners Assoc)
"Remember, those who make the eggs, and those who eat them, are equally affected by this."
---Aunt Penny Barrrock & Tootie J. Tootums, spokeshens for the Hen House at BCF.
For a perspective on NAIS from Hens Aunt Penny and Tootie J. Tootums, go to The News of the Farm Page.
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