Subject: [Homestead] Attention Gene and other in MO, your law is worthless, Aphis Mandates PIN through veterinary services
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:00:04 -0800
O.K., everyone got comfy when they heard about Mary Zanoni's win in court
against NAIS. NOT! They are going around both the mandate by Congress and
the judicial loss. Vets are now the backdoor. The following is forwarded
with permission.
Lynda
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Hello,
To answer your question of what are they doing with NAIS...Yes, they are
pushing ahead using 'soft law' by making the vets who are licensed by them
do their dirty work. They will roll ANYONE in any of the program disease
control programs into NAIS. Those are TB, Scrapie, Bruce, Swine Health,
Chicken health, Coggins and any infectious horse disease, Scabies, and
Johne's and they will note on the roll in if the person volunteered or not.
Then when it is entered into the database, there will be a notation, just
like the 'N" in those who think they have been removed from the data base,
that they didn't volunteer to be put into NAIS, but are there anyway.
Missouri did pass a law last spring and it will be a conflict with this VS
memorandum. The first section of the law passed here says that the State may
not mandate or otherwise force participation in NAIS. The second part says
that you may get out at any time if you have been in the program and changed
your mind unless you are part of an investigation of a disease or a disease
monitoring program.
The issue at conflict with the law is this, there is nothing that says they
can roll you into NAIS against your wishes if you ARE in a program
disease---Read that twice. It says they can't mandate or otherwise force
participation. Requiring it for all diseases without permission is mandating
it. I told them the second section was going to be a problem, but it was all
they were able to get through the committees due to the power/procedure
structure of the legislature at the Capitol. There will be a problem here as
the USDA may see the second part as authorizing legislation for the program
diseases.
The USDA is again using devious and underhanded tactics to push this very
unpopular program forward and jeapordizing not only people's livelihoods but
the health of animals and possibly even violence. People are going to become
stark raving mad when they find out they are being enrolled by vets into
this program.
Personally, I will NOT have a vet come onto the property. If we can't deal
with it ourselves, we will just trust God alone on it. This is going to take
a directive or a legal injunction to bring this coercion down.
[Homestead] Attention Gene and other in MO, your law is worthless, Aphis Mandates PIN through veterinary services,
Lynda, 11/14/2008