[A number of people have been working on a national storm of the Associated Press. TinyBabeKC sent me these details. Now is the time for all livestock owners to act, to make their voices heard above the grunting of the herd. -WJ]
Dear Walter: Here is the letter that I have written that is being sent on Wed to the Associated Press. We already have several people and even those in groups with hundreds on their emailing lists.
I am hoping you will pass this onto your group and allow people to cut and paste and email the letter on Wed. with the rest of us. We need to get the word out and figured if we send enough letters to the AP, they will finally wake up and make this known to the entire population of this country, who at this time, don’t even know the NAIS exists.
Thanks,
K.C.
Here is the letter to send to the Associated Press. We are aiming for Wednesday. The email addy is info@ap.org. Cut and paste the letter into a new email and send. Be sure to put your name at the bottom as all of the news media will not take anything unsigned seriously.
Thanks again for your support.
K.C.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The NAIS (National Animal Identification System) has been kept a secret from the majority of Americans. Therefore, I ask that you make known what the USDA is doing and the immense harm the NAIS will do to small farming, organic farming, anyone who owns any animal and the economy of this entire country. The USDA claims the NAIS is necessary in order to be able to track animals going into the food chain, thus, making meat safer for the American public. This is not true. The fact is, the NAIS is set up to violate the rights of all Americans who own any animal, not just livestock. Moreover, the NAIS wants to register every property that has animals on it. This is clearly a violation of the right to own personal property without the intrusion of the government. The USDA, many legislators throughout the country and the government in general has not allowed the truth about the NAIS to get to the American public because the USDA knows that it would never be allowed once the people knew how detrimental the NAIS will be, not only for the above stated reasons, but it decimates the Constitutional rights of the people of this country. For example:
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
There are people in this country whose religions dictate certain dietary laws as well as others that dictate the way their food is raised and how it is processed. The NAIS violates their First Amendment right to free exercise. For example, the Old Order Amish believe they are prohibited from registering their farms or animals in the proposed program due to, inter alia, Scriptural prohibitions. There are those who raise and process their animals in the Kosher way and would not be able to comply with their religious rights. Organically raised meats would also become a thing of the past.
More and more we are becoming aware of what the chemicals, hormones and antibiotics that are fed to animals are doing to the consumer. This is why more people are wanting to buy meats from clean animals and/or raise their own. This is why Monsanto, et.al. paid to put the NAIS into law. The mega agricultural and chemical companies want to be in total control of this country’s agricultural business and they can’t do that if people are allowed to raise their own animals free of chemicals, antibiotic and hormones.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The NAIS is another way of stripping away our 4th Amendment rights. It will allow state and federal inspectors to come onto private property in search for animals to register and to identify a person’s property, now called “Premise” for the purpose of tracking animals without reason and without a WARRANT.
The problem is that those who know a little about the NAIS believe it is to track animals that are going into the food chain. Nothing could be further from the truth. This WILL NOT improve the quality of our food and in fact, may destroy a good amount of the food that is grown for personal use and that which is sold in some stores that has no chemicals, hormones or disease in it.
The intent of the USDA is to track every single animal in this country and identify the “Premise” upon which they live and put them into a national data base. This is to include every animal brought to fairs and shows, including 4H projects; every single animal sold, not just those that go through the auctions or slaughter houses. But all animals sold through private stores and off farms for people’s personal use.
Every single animal owner will be expected to report, via a computerized program, the movements of their animals, i.e. every time someone takes a horse off their property to ride on trails, every dog, cat and livestock that go to shows. Every free range chicken that gets through a fence. If these movements are not reported, heavy fines will be mandated against the animal owner.
Moreover, every private butcher will be require to have equipment for scanning tags and microchips and if the animal brought in doesn’t have one, they will be forced to turn business away and allow the animals to go to waste.
If the government really wants to protect our food supply, then this program should only include the mega dairies, feed lots, suppliers of livestock to the mega producers and all of the animals that go into the food chain. The NAIS MUST EXCLUDE people’s personal chickens, cows and goats for the milk they want to drink and meat they want to consume after raising their own animals; llamas, alpacas, other exotics, horses, pocket pets, dogs, cats and all other animals not used for food. The NAIS is outright abuse of government power and an out and out invasion of privacy and the right to own personal property without government intrusion.
The beef industry has already provided proof that the NAIS will cost the individual/small farmer thousands of dollars they can not afford. The NAIS will obliterate the small and individual farms that raise their own food and food for independent stores and restaurants that sell and serve organic and/or grass fed meats.
When the small farmer can’t afford to keep the animals due to the costs involved with the NAIS, this is going to put pet stores/co-ops/feed stores, independent grain mills, western/garden stores out of business.
This is the worse case of intrusion into the privacy of the people in this country and serves absolutely no purpose but to put the little guy out of business and provide unwanted control by the government. Our property will no longer be ours. We may own it, but the government is going to tell us what we can and can’t do with it. Abuse of this system is imminent.
If the NAIS is allowed to become mandatory, people will be fined $1,000 per day if they do not or can not comply.
Amendment XIV
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Senator Larry Craig of Idaho has boasted that he is working closely with Monsanto to push through the NAIS. How many other Senators are involved with the NAIS? Why is the government ignoring the rights of the people under the Constitution? Just how much money has passed from the mega companies like Monsanto to the hands of the legislators in order to undermine the American people’s rights?
The American public has to be alerted as to exactly what the USDA and their elected government officials are doing.
Signed:
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