Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Terry Wereb <frosted-acres@sbcglobal.net>]

Claudia-- you left out the part about the Non Animal
owner who has to report the event of an animal coming
onto his property! You know, Jo Bloes cows break
through the fence to visit farmer Brown's bull.. or
the trail rider who crosses  the properties of three
neighbors going out and back (two events for each
neighbor, 6 for the rider/horseowner) hmm, I have an
idea.....

Terry W

--- Claudia & Linda <dragonhill2@netzero.net> wrote:

> ...."may move toward a requirement for mandatory
> premises and animal
> identification"??  The USDA's timeline calls for
> that part of NAIS to become
> mandatory by January, 2008.
> 
> And you're missing out on one of the biggest
> invasion of privacy.  Every own
> of even one chicken, cow, horse, pig, exotic bird or
> any livestock animal
> will be required to register and receive a Premise
> ID #.  This ID# will be
> linked to a GPS satellite system.  Anytime the
> government suspects farmers
> might not be truthful about reporting how many
> animals they have they can
> just use satellite surveillance to check them out. 
> By 2009, livestock
> owners will be required to fill out a report
> everytime they move an animal
> on or off their place.  That means if you take your
> horse trail riding, you
> have to report where you take it exactly and when
> you bring it back.  Go to
> a show, another report.  Take a lamb to a spinning
> demonstration, don't
> forget to fill out a report.  Failure to do so could
> result in a fine or
> confiscation of the animal.  Farmers and rancher are
> about to become more
> closely watched than sex offenders or other violent
> criminals.  Help us
> fight this outrageous invasion of privacy. Go to
> http://nonais.org/  for more information.
> 
> Claudia
> 
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