Since there seem to be several Ron Paul references posted here I’ll keep it brief. Part of his campaign literature actually includes a handout indicating his absolute rejection of NAIS. I have some and plan to post them beside the NONAIS literature I distribute in my travels.
Somehow I just don’t see any other ahem “major” candidate even knowing what NAIS is or if they do know, helping us get rid of it.

Here’s my revised new comments:

We are a small family farm with no outside non-family employees and net annual sales under $100,000. We are already Certified Naturally Grown by the certifying organization which can be found at http://NaturallyGrown.org which has been certifying farms for years for this claim. Our certification and the use of the CNG logo is an important marketing tool that helps us and other small farmers differentiate our products. Our customers have come to recognize our logo and the CNG logo on our meat label as a sign of quality.

Because there is already a certifying organization for Certified Naturally Grown (http://NaturallyGrown.org) this standard should be set to follow the guidelines and rules already established by that organization and followed by farmers who are already certified by that national organization. Duplication of the term, standards, rules and moniker could cause unnecessary confusion for consumers as well as hardship for farmers who are already Certified Naturally Grown.

Specifically regarding the proposed voluntary standards the following changes need to be made:

1. The words “mammalian or avian by-products” should be modified to be “mammalian or avian _slaughter_ by-products” to explicitly allow for the feeding of dairy and eggs to swine. These are natural and good forms of food for pigs. Consumers understand and expect our pigs to eat milk and eggs which are traditional foods for hogs. For example in the proposed standard it says:

“The feeding of mammalian or avian by-products is prohibited. Livestock cannot be fed rations that include components that are mammalian or avian derived.”

needs to be changed to:

“The feeding of mammalian or avian _slaughter_ by-products is prohibited. Livestock cannot be fed rations that include components that are derived from mammalian or avian slaughter.”

Other sections need to be similarly revised. Let me know if you need help rewording it but those examples should get you started.

2. Livestock should specifically be required to free-range outdoors on pasture in order to meat the claim standards. Confinement feeding operations should be explicitly excluded from using the term Naturally Raised or Naturally Grown. Consumers expect that Naturally Grown and Naturally Raised mean the animals are outdoors on pasture. To simply set the standard at the way it is worded in the proposed AMS standard would be both miss-leading and confusing to consumers

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The Fed Reg description calls this part of the ‘voluntary’ AMS program. But I get the impression that this is not so voluntary in practice. Can you explain?

In the end, change is what is needed. Isn’t it funny that the FDA was put in place to protect us. Now the medicines the FDA say are okay kill us! The USDA cuts back on meat inspectors and spend money trying to get NAIS installed in each state. Private meat inspectors and laboratories is what we need. I agree that FDA and USDA gone would save US folks lots of dollars.

I plan on voting for Ron Paul!

Perhaps we should say God Grown to the heathers, they surely would not say that.

Get rid of the FDA, USDA, and all the other thieves in Washington. We need real Americans in office and less offices in America.