NoNAIS.org

The Commissioners for the Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) will meet at 8 am Thursday, March 23, in Round Rock at the Marriott North Hotel at 2600 La Frontera Blvd to address proposed regulations for registering sites where livestock, exotic livestock, domestic fowl, and exotic fowl are held, managed or handled. The meeting is open to the public. Go and make yourself heard. If you can’t go, write your representatives and the TAHC.

The USDA has stated that the existing programs are sufficient to protect the American consumer from Mad Cow Disease (BSE) and thus NAIS is unnecessary. The quote below is direct from the USDA’s own web site about BSE they state that there is no need for the proposed National Animal Identification System because the existing protective measures are sufficient. This is very interesting in light of the fact that the USDA has been using BSE as the major argument for NAIS.

Q: Are the protective measures in place sufficient to ensure the safety of the human food supply in light of the June 2005 BSE positive cow?

A: Yes, the protective measures put into place in July 2004 by FDA ensure that cattle materials that carry the highest risk of transmitting the agent that causes BSE are excluded from human food, including dietary supplements, and cosmetics. These measures, along with similar measures established by USDA, provide a uniform national BSE policy and ensure the safety of human food.

Note the use of the past tense “similar measures established“. This document was dated January 15th, 2004 and was up dated September 15th, 2005 so it is current information. All of this is pre-NAIS. NAIS is in the future tense still as it is not even proposed to be established until 2009.

The USDA’s existing measures are sufficient to handle BSE, and other disease for that matter. In otherwords, NAIS is a redundant and unnecessary waste of billions of dollars in tax payer and small farmer monies and time. So why are they doing it you might ask? NAIS is not about disease. NAIS is about increased meat export markets for the large producers and meat packer industry. NAIS is about profits. NAIS should not be a mandatory government program forced down the throats of small farmers, homesteaders and pet owners. It should be strictly voluntary and those who are going to benefit from NAIS should be the ones paying for it, not the American consumers who won’t even be eating that exported meat.

Just so as to make sure the USDA does not try and hide this page, like the shell game they have already played out, I have archived a copy of it and a screen shot. I would suggest that if you find interesting pages on the web you save them to your hard drive as well as bookmarking them. Thus there is a distributed network of backups of important documents so the government can not deny things later.

Mr. John Farmer, running for the District 8 Congressional seat in Tennessee has just posted an article opposing the NAIS on his web blog. He is desperately looking for comments about the NAIS and has a link for anyone to write in. Please go to his site and let him know how NAIS will personally affect you, even if you don’t live in Tennessee. You can be from the city, town or country.