Toni,
First off HR 875 is not NAIS
Second off: From NAIS Myths and Facts
“Myth:
USDA wants to identify and track the movement of all livestock in the United States
for NAIS.”
For
example, the following situations are not applicable to NAIS:
- Livestock that never leave the premises of their
birth, even if they move from pasture to pasture within that premises, do
not need to be identified
- Animals that never leave their premises other
than when they "get out"
- Animals that are only moved directly from their
birth premises to custom slaughter
- The participation of animals in local trail rides
- The movement of animals to small local parades or
fairs “
Numbers 1 and 2
would probably cover your chickens.
I believe point 4
would cover you taking your horse
for a walk.
For more of “myths
and Facts and other information see http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais/faq/faq.shtml#Q18
Naomi
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Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 12:19
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Subject: [NAFEX] Subject: H.R. 875
more trouble from the government for small
You are right to be worried. Since when has the government ever HELPED
you? This is all a part of National Animal Identification System.
Since beef isn't really inspected, how is this program going to trace
back to the origin the contaminated food? Animals are contaminated at the
slaughter house. I will have to file the paperwork if I take my 28 year
old horse for a walk down my gravel
road, giving location and property owner name for every place we go. File that
within 24 hours. And why would she need to be chipped? Are we eating horses here? No, but they are being shipped out of
the country to be eaten there. Do I tag my 17 chicken? Imagine the expense and
time. My chickens free range. Sometimes a wild animal gets one. I don't want
that to happen and I do my best that it doesn't but there are times all I find are
the feathers. If I were a big corporation, I could use one ID number for the
whole herd. Now that's the way to do it, ya think? If I have 1 horse or cow or pig or chicken, I have to track it
for it's entire life. If I have a thousand of them, then one number is good
enough. Think about that. One animal will end up where? And a thousand of them
will end up??????? There are already specific systems in place. USE THEM! Why
duplicate and why punish the small farmer? Could it be so that the big folks
can make some more money. Whoever controls the food controls the people. What
was life like before Monsanto? And now Monsanto is powerful enough that they
can sue and win a case of their contamination of organic food to make the
organic farmer pay Monsanto. DON'T get me started. When they inject that chip
under YOUR skin it will be too late. Do you really want Big Brother following
your every move? You have nothing to hide, you say? Read 1984 more carefully. http://www.stopanimalid.org/
http://nonais.org/ A good and scary
read is The Rise of The Fourth Reich by Jim Marrs.
It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling
into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from
falling into error.
-- Robert Houghwout Jackson,
Chief Judge at the War-Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg
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Toni in zone 4 Iowa USA
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It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into
error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling
into error.
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Chief Judge at the War-Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg
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