NAIS is a business plan designed to benefit corporate ag, but the rest of us are dragged in to work and fund the program, while corporate ag gets a free ride by having one lot number per groups of animals.

I am not in the same business as big ag, but because I own horses, I am forced against my will to be part of the business plan with none of the benefits nor profits but bearing all the costs and risks. Over 90% of the speakers at the USDA NAIS listening sessions on youtube are telling why they oppose NAIS.

Those for NAIS say we will not lose our property rights nor have the onerous tasks or reporting and very little cost will be incurred under NAIS. But what if I take their advice and find out they are wrong. Can I sue them? Of course not, it is MY responsibility to find out exactly what is says in the NAIS business plan and come to my own conclusions and make my own decisions. Which I have done as have so many others and the USDA is scratching their heads why we don’t blindly follow.

Tracking disease is not new. In 1938-Nazi Germany targeted one segment of society they thought responsible for spreading disease, the JEWS. A law was passed that ALL JEWS had to register their every piece of property they own into a massive database. IT worked. The Gestapo knew exactly who to raid by the value of their art and jewelry. We know the rest of the story, a minor event called the Holocaust!

In the same time period, the Russian Communist Govt under Stalin starved millions of farmers in the most fertile part of the country because the law stated that ALL the grain they grew and their lands belonged to the govt! They were not even allowed to eat what they grew! The reason- Stalin wanted to sell Russian grain on the world market! And the grain was sold while 11 million died from starvation, execution, or prison life!

Several Constitutional rights/religious rights will be broken by NAIS regulations. How can the Amish comply with this program when they feel it will go against what they believe and they do not have electricity. How about the impoverished who keep a few animals yet can barely afford potato chips, let alone microchips. Then there is the Santeria religion, legal in the US, animal sacrifice is practiced (chickens and goats) often in city apartments. Will those animals be reported?

Recite the Names below:

Stowers, Greg Niewendorp, Hixon, Miller, Griepentrog, Palmer

Now add your name.

Don’t shrug aside if you are a businesses that provides goods and services to Livestock owners. If we don’t own Livestock – you have nothing we need or want.

Today, Thursday of course, H.R. 1105 is awaiting assignment to Committee
in the Senate. It stands poised to allocate $289 million to APHIS for the implementation of the National Animal Identification System. It also
outlines the time frame to implement in 2009 the tracking of 33 species.

An example: Poultry – “By July 1, 2009 – achieve 98% traceability in the Commercial Poultry Industry…

That means if Murray McMurray sends you a chick – it had better be traceable from their end and you better trace it when it gets to your homestead. Think the cost of a Broiler is bad now? Think what it will be when every chick that leaves that plant will be accounted for.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HR01105:@@@X

The House managed to pass this “Omnibus 2009” in 24 hours and we have no reason to believe that the Senate will not as well.

What are your going to do? We as living human beings do not go to the polls to elect officials to represent Multi-National Corporations or
Lobbyists paid by groups attempting to get their piece of the pie.

THE LARGEST UNPAID LOBBIEST GROUP IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS SITTING IN THAT CHAIR IN FRONT OF THE KEYBOARD – YOU BELONG TO IT.

Contact the following Organizations – as many as you can this evening.

The first person to contact is AgSec@usda.gov, then your personal Legislator. A partial list of email contacts is below to get you started.

The message is simple :

We don’t want, nor will we comply with the National Animal Identification System. We do not want H.R. 1105 out of Senate Committee.
We want it stopped and stopped Friday 27, 2009.

Tomorrow is Freedom Friday – make it count.

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American Livestock Breeds Conservancy
http://www.albc-usa.org/tellus.php
EquusSurvivalTrust@yahoo.com
Slow Food : info@slowfoodusa.org
Natural Solutions: editor@naturalsolutionsmag.com
One America Rising: Info@oneamericarising.org
Small Farmer’s Journal: agrarian@smallfarmersjournal.com
Country Side: csyeditorial@tds.net
President Obamas Office http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Farm Show mark@farmshow.com
http://www.mynaga.org/
North American Game Birds 800-624-2967 or Email: info@mynaga.org
Center For Rural Affairs:
Chuck Hassebrook chuckh@cfra.org
Executive Director,

GrassFire.org http://grassfire.org/email.asp?ind=2
National Family Farm Coalition:

Executive Director
Katherine Ozer
kozer@nffc.net

Policy Analyst
Irene Lin
irene@nffc.net

FarmAid:
farmhelp@farmaid.org

Cattle Associations Links:
http://www.cattletoday.com/associations.shtml

Llamas and Alpacas:
http://www.gentlespiritllamas.com/html/links.htm

Paragon Foundation:
info@paragonfoundation.org

Freedom 21: Ronnie Merritt
Office: 731.986.0099

Chickens: ****THIS IS A BUSY TIME OF YEAR CALL THEM BUT UNDERSTAND YOU
MAY HAVE TO LEAVE A MESSAGE****************

There is a list here of over 100 sites: just point, click and attach the
message.

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/BRKHatcheries.html

cacklehatchery@cacklehatchery.com

Welp Hatchery :
Either ask to speak to or leave a message for Kurt and Sandy Welp
1-800-458-4473, and let us know how we can help

Murray McMurray: Ask to speak to Mr. McMurray or leave a message
Phone: 515.832.3280
Toll Free Phone: 800.456.3280

Ideal Poultry:
Tel: 254-697-6677

BackYard Poultry:
byp@tds.net