NoNAIS is my effort to spread the word of how harmful the USDA's National Animal Identification System (NAIS) is to small farmers, homesteaders, pet owners & consumers.
Use the comments of this post during this month if you have things you would like to bring to people’s attention and are not sure where else to post them. I’ll make a new Bulletin Board each month for free posting.
Have at it, communicate and keep up the good fight!
Cheers,
-WalterJ
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Beef Magazine doing a poll how people feel about NAIS.
Hat tip to K.
[EDIT: Link fixed. -WJ]
Update: 20090616 7:24 AM ET Results at BeefMagazine.com where they now have a significant sample set:
TOTAL VOTES: 29105
Should USDA’s National Animal Identification System (as currently proposed) be:
mandatory: 20%
voluntary: 4%
scrapped : 75%
Update: 20090618 9:58 AM ET Results at BeefMagazine.com poll:
TOTAL VOTES: 30118
Should USDA’s National Animal Identification System (as currently proposed) be:
mandatory: 19%
voluntary: 4%
scrapped : 75%
Also see: Beef Magazine is Upset
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There’s an article on Slate about the trend of backyard chickens. This is an example of why the USDA is so off the mark with NAIS. The USDA claims there are only 1.4 million premises. They also say that any location with any livestock animals, even a single chicken, is a premise. I would put the number of premises at more like 6 to maybe even 10 million. They will never succeed at getting 100% compliance with a mandatory NAIS. Thus they must design the system to work with partial compliance. Ergo mandatory is not necessary. NAIS is for the benefit of the big producers, primarily for those who want to export. If they want such a system, let them create a private funded voluntary tracking program. That is Constitutional and good basic capitalism.
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