Everything you need to know about NAIS

What is NAIS? National Animal Identification System. Read this Natural News article, NAIS Threatens Access to Organic, Local and Sustainable Food, to find out more about what is happening. From this title, it doesn’t sound too good.

A little blurb:

The NAIS will heavily burden small, organic, and sustainable farmers, which will hurt efforts to develop safer, decentralized, local food systems. As evidenced in the recent peanut butter recalls, having a centralized food processing and distribution system means that contamination in even one plant can lead to deaths and illnesses of thousands all over the country, and create problems very difficult to track and isolate. Consumers clearly support a local, sustainable food supply, which means the agencies need to write rules that work for small independent farmers, instead of rules such as NAIS that were designed for the benefit of vertically integrated centralized animal feeding operations.