[Homestead] USDA's Mandatory Property and Animal SurveillanceProgram

Rob Walton waltonrp at gmail.com
Wed Oct 19 08:33:55 EDT 2005


> When one wanders within two miles of this homestead, one encounters 
> countless
> pigs, goats, sheep, horses, cows, chickens, rabbits and all sorts of
> livestock that the people depend on for part of their livelihood, have 
> done so for
> many a year, and would not willingly give them up.  The number of personel 
> to
> manage a mandatory NAIS just in this hollow is staggering and the number 
> required
> to enforce it against the people's lack of cooperation defies the 
> imagination.
>

I agree. It cannot be managed and enforced. Something like marijuana. Govt. 
has been warring this for decades and never been able to enforce. Laws are 
one thing, enforcement is another. Still better never to make laws that are 
detrimental or just plain stupid.

Rob 




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