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[Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

It's "for your protection". Yeah, right. I guess it's just what a 
controlling, intrusive government does.

Lynn Wigglesworth

bob ford wrote:
> You normally don't participate in our political discussions , Sage.  So, 
> I'll let Lynn , or someone else, give you a non-political reason the gov't 
> needs, for supposed security reason, to identify, and track preactically 
> every animate and inanimate object in the world, including 'me' .
> 
>  I think centralized gov';t simply ,always, demands more and more control.  
> But, I think Lynn is fairly familiar , atleast with the NAIS stuff __ Now 
> both are kind of being combined ....bobford
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> --- On Wed, 10/29/08, eureka AT hctc.net  wrote:
> 
>> From: eureka AT hctc.net 
>> Subject: Re: [Homestead] NAIS, APHIS Over 50% Preemises registerd in 13 
>> states & Customss / APHIS
>> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
>> Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 12:28 PM
>> A botanist friend of mine here has been considering early 
>> retirement. He works for APHIS, checking agricultural 
>> products as they come through, mostly looking for plant 
>> disease, which is his specialty. He used to oversee 14 
>> junior botanists, but *they were all tapped for Homeland 
>> Security* so he is trying to do the work of many and is 
>> stressed out. I cannot understand why the government 
>> wanted that many botanists in Homeland Security. Any 
>> ideas?
>>
>> --Sage
>>
>> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:52:29 -0700 (PDT)
>>   bob ford  wrote:
>>> NAIS, APHIS Over 50% Preemises registerd in 13 states
>>>
>>> "
>>> 10/23/2008 1:04:00 PM 
>>>
>>>
>>> Animal ID: 13 States Now Exceed 50 Percent Premises 
>>> Registered
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, 2008--The U.S. Department of 
>>> Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection
>> Service 
>>> (APHIS) today announced that 487,670 premises are 
>>> registered nationwide as part of the National Animal 
>>> Identification System (NAIS).
>>>  
>>> Producers registered more than 50,000 premises so far
>> in 
>>> 2008 and 13 states now have at least 50 percent of
>> their 
>>> total estimated production premises registered through 
>>> NAIS.  The latest state to go over 50 percent premises 
>>> registration is Iowa.
>>>
>>> “Premises registration is the foundation of the NAIS
>> and 
>>> allows us to better respond to animal health events in 
>>> the United States,” said Bruce Knight, under
>> secretary of 
>>> USDA’s marketing and regulatory programs.  “The
>> growth in 
>>> premises registrations this year demonstrates that 
>>> producers want to work with USDA to protect their 
>>> animals, their livelihood and their communities.  I 
>>> applaud those who have made the choice to register
>> their 
>>> premises.”
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The 13 states that have topped the 50 percent mark are
>>> Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Massachusetts,
>> Nebraska, 
>>> Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Utah,
>> West 
>>> Virginia and Wisconsin.  Illinois is very close to the
>> 50 
>>> percent mark, with 48.3 percent of its estimated 30,046
>>> premises registered.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Delaware now has more than 40 percent of its premises 
>>> registered, while Alaska, Colorado and North Carolina
>> now 
>>> have more than 30 percent of their premises registered.
>>> Several other states have made significant gains in
>> the 
>>> number of premises registered.  During 2008,
>> Mississippi 
>>> tripled the number of registered premises, while Ohio 
>>> more than doubled the number of registered premises in 
>>> the state.  The number of registered premises in
>> Alabama 
>>> and South Carolina increased by more than 150 percent. 
>>> Direct mail and outreach efforts to farmers and
>> ranchers 
>>> continue this fall to encourage additional
>> registrations.
>>>
>>>
>>> USDA is working cooperatively with states, tribes and 
>>> industry partners to implement NAIS, which is a modern,
>>> streamlined information system that helps producers 
>>> respond quickly and effectively to animal disease
>> events. 
>>> It consists of three components:  premises
>> registration, 
>>> animal identification and tracing.  The premises 
>>> registration component of NAIS ensures the availability
>>> of a nationwide communications network to assist 
>>> producers and animal health officials in the event of
>> an 
>>> animal disease event.  There is an estimated 1.4
>> million 
>>> production premises in the United States.  To contact a
>>> partner or find out more about NAIS, go to 
>>> www.usda.gov/NAIS."
>>>
>>>
>> http://www.cattlenetwork.com/Content.asp?ContentID=262959
>>>
>> *******************************************************************
>>> Also;
>>>
>>>
>>> US Customs to start enforcing APHIS
>>>
>>> Starting tomorrow, Sept.30, 2008, US Customs and
>> Border 
>>> Protection will begin to monitor transit movements of 
>>> agricultural commodities going across the border. The 
>>> action is part of a Memorandum of Agreement between the
>>> U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the
>> Department 
>>> of Homeland Security (DHS).
>>>
>>> All shipments of admissible, restricted, and
>> prohibited 
>>> plants and plant products moving as Transportation and 
>>> Exportation (T&E), Immediate Export (IE), and
>> Immediate 
>>> Transfer at the time of entry (with the exception of
>> cut 
>>> flowers under the National Cut Flowers Release
>> Program), 
>>> will require a USDA-APHIS PPQ transit permit.
>>>
>>> In addition, importers will be required to provide 
>>> documentation to include invoices, phytosanitary 
>>> certificates, shipper export declarations, outbound 
>>> manifests, etc. as requested by CBP Agriculture.
>>>
>>> It also requires annotating the APHIS permit number on
>>> the CBP 7512 (or equivalent QP style electronic 
>>> transmission) in the "description and quantity of 
>>> merchandise" block. Additionally, most APHIS
>> transit 
>>> permits will require the movement to be completed
>> within 
>>> 4 days, CBP explains in a notice to the industry.
>>>
>>> Immediate Transportation (IT) shipments are not
>> affected 
>>> by this APHIS announcement and will continue to be 
>>> processed in accordance with existing guidelines. 
>>>
>>>
>>> Source: todaystrucking.com
>>>
>>> http://www.freshplaza.com/news_detail.asp?id=29738
>>>
>>>
>>>
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