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  • From: Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>
  • To: Permaculture ibiblio <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] You only have until March 16 to speak up against NAIS
  • Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:55:03 -0400

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26665

NAIS will:

Create expensive and time-consuming tagging and reporting requirements for small farms. The requirements are particularly burdensome for those farmers raising sustainable livestock on pasture. Ultimately, this will reduce the availability of grass-fed meats, eggs, and milk.

Give factory confinement farms a loophole through the use of group identification, providing yet another unfair advantage for factory farms.

Not provide any information to the consumer, and does not improve food safety, because the tracking ends with the animal's death.

Replace states' existing, well-functioning disease response and brand inspection programs with an unproven, expensive, and unreliable system.

Impose high costs and government surveillance on every farmer and animal owner for no significant benefits, and will likely force many small producers out of business.

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Keith Johnson
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  • [permaculture] You only have until March 16 to speak up against NAIS, Keith Johnson, 03/10/2009

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