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Eric Nelson is R-CALF USA Region VII Director on the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) and Premises ID:

A purely voluntary system can provide the information needed today as it has in the past.

It’s my opinion one of the reasons premise ID and the government ID programs have been so poorly received is that the average producer has little faith that the government can run a program as large as this. I have heard producers say more than once that “the government can’t track illegal aliens, so how in heck will they be able to track hundreds of millions of animals?”

But most producers have confidence in their state (and state veterinarian) to be in charge of a voluntary program. And then let private enterprise do its thing. If there ends up being a premium for cattle with certain identity status, let the market take care of that. But to say to producers that you have to use a certain tag, when the lower-cost tag they already are using allows for traceback, goes in the face of what our country is all about.

I am concerned by those who want there to be just one “North American beef industry.” Those promoting that idea are usually not independent producers, but rather importers and processors profiting hugely from their ability to bring lower priced beef into this country and sell it seamlessly as USA beef.
-CattleNetwork

We need more people to stand up and be heard saying that mandatory is bad, bad, bad. The last thing we need is our government forcing more rules, regulations, costs and violations of our rights. A truly voluntary, market driven, industry maintained system of animal identification is fine but we don’t need the government sticking its nose in everything and micro-managing our lives.

Be heard! Take just an hour today to protect your rights. Write your local newspapers, politicians, state departments of agriculture and the USDA to let them know you won’t accept a mandatory NAIS or a mandatory Premises ID. Protect our traditional rights to farm!

In recent email dispatch it was announced that the Center for Disease Control has discovered 13 cases of human plague in four states leading to the proposal for a new National People Identification System (NPIS) to use implantable, satellite GPS based, active RFID for tracking the movements and interactions of all humans to control the spread of disease.

In an unusually frank interview the chairman Frank-Lee Im Yokin announced that “In the event of a serious disease outbreak in schools or the workplace they would be using a depopulation program to limit the spread of disease to protect the economy.” When asked about the social costs of killing school children Mr. Yokin scoffed and said that “Disease, microbes and viruses know no boundaries. They can strike anywhere. We must be prepared to kill, kill, kill! Blood and gore, maimed little bodies!”

This reporter was unable to get in any further questions before the men in white coats regagged Mr. Yokin and dragged him back to his office. The actual dispatch from the CDC is below:

From: clinicianOutreachcom@CDC.GOV
Subject: CDC Clinician Communication Updates: MMWR Dispatch - Human Plague - Four States, 2006
Date: August 25, 2006 4:05:02 PM EDT
To: CDC-CLINICIANTERRORISMANDEMERGRESPUPDATES@LISTSERV.CDC.GOV

For the full MMWR Report, please see this link.

[Please note, the above dispatch is no joke. NPIS is, I hope, since I just made it up… Of course, it sounds scarily like NAIS and REAL ID. One must wonder, “If they are excusing NAIS on the grounds of some theoretical, far fetched threat like terrorists, BSE or Avian Influenza then what excuse will it take to tag us? After all, it is for our own good.” -WJ]

[UPDATE: All joking asside, someone gave me this link. See page 42, #7:

The next step is to unfold the roadmap that would portray the deployment efforts required in the configuration of a new national people identification system.

Scary… -WJ]