April 11, 2006

Additional Actions

General — walterj 5:49 am

First of all take a deep breath and do not panic. Pace yourself. This is a long distance run. We need to send letters by both email and paper mail to our representatives in the government, newspapers, friends and family. Sending multiple letters over the coming months is a good idea. Getting other people to send letters is also important.

Some specific things you can do to make a difference:

  1. Link to NoNAIS.org to help spread the word. Read this document here about Linking to NoNAIS.org
  2. Tell everyone you know about the National Animal Identification System and how it will hurt consumers, pet owners, homesteaders and small farmers.
  3. Share this web site, NoNAIS.org, with people to help them understand the issues and get to other resources.
  4. Contact the USDA on their contact form in the side bar to express your displeasure with NAIS.
  5. Write to your state representatives, agricultural department and state vet to let them know you do not like NAIS and why.
  6. Contact your congressional representatives in the Senate and House using the contact forms found in the side bar of this page.
  7. Write letters to the editor to your local newspapers.
  8. Write to magazines like Time & Newsweek.
  9. Call into radio shows about NAIS and ask hard questions - suggest that NAIS be kept voluntary for pet owners, homesteaders and small farmers who sell direct to consumers.
  10. Put up fliers telling people about NoNAIS.org so they can get informed.
  11. Stick a NoNAIS.org bumper sticker on your car or truck.
  12. Make signs and put them up like political candidate signs on your lawn by the road.
  13. Write about NAIS on your blog, if you have one, and link back here to NoNAIS.org in your article.
  14. Send articles, links and alerts about NAIS related events and legislation to me, here, at NoNAIS.org so that I may share them with other people.
  15. All of Congress is coming up for reelection. Find out political candidate stands on NAIS and report them to me. I’ll keep a log of that information. Try to get written comments from them showing their stand and views. Email works well. Paper letters are even better.
  16. Volunteer to be a coordinator for your state for NoNAIS to help people in your area fight NAIS. I can provide you with a throw away email address that redirects to your email. Be aware that this is a big job and an important one. No one of us alone will make the difference. Together we can stop NAIS.
  17. Work with your legislature to put through model legislation that will protect and exempt pet owners, small farmers and homesteaders from NAIS in your state.
  18. Help develop a list of your states’ governmental contacts who should be contacted about NAIS.
  19. Do proof reading of the NoNAIS.org web site and email me with errors - again, my contact email address is in the sidebar under “Contacts”.
  20. Print up bumper stickers, fliers, buttons, etc and give them out to spread the word. I don’t care if you make a little profit in the process or do it for free. Just spread the word about how awful NAIS is going to be. I have prepared artwork of the NoNAIS.org logo that appears on these pages in the upper left corner - the NoNAISewe. People may freely use that as long as the purpose is to fight NAIS. (Any big corporations misusing the logo to promote the passage of NAIS will be sued for copyright violations.) The artwork can be found at at this link. It is in PNG, JPG and GIF file formats for all image sizes:
    • 50×50 pixels - great for web buttons.
    • 100×100 pixels - good for small web pictures to accompany blurbs and use as avatars.
    • 200×200 pixels - the size show above.
    • 400×400 pixels - great for articles needing an image.
    • 800×800 pixels - suitable for making bumper stickers, buttons, mugs, hats, T-shirts, etc.
  21. Make suggestions because I won’t think of everything.

“Should I sign electronic petitions?” Yes, but I do not have a lot of faith that they will be much good. I don’t think that the government listens to electronic petitions or puts much weight in them. Still, go ahead and do it because it is easy to do and maybe something good will come of it. However, do not just do that. Also take other actions as outlined above.

“Can I send money to NoNAIS.org?” No, we are not accepting donations at this time. I have some ideas for printing up masses of bumper stickers and decals to get the word out but that project is in the future. Your voice and actions are what count most. Protecting our freedomes is a long haul project so be prepared to write letters every month to keep the ball rolling.

If you would like to get a bumper sticker, mug or T-shirt now then go over to the NoNAIS site at CafePress where you can pickup a few to help spread the word.

Most of all, talk about NAIS. Get other people interested. Spread the word. The government has conspired with big business to keep this quiet too long. We must speak up and be heard. What we need is the power of the voice of the people. The force of people speaking up and rejecting this absurd usurpation of our rights, our freedoms. Take a stand now while you still can. Lets once again make this be “America, the Land of the Free and the Brave!”

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36 Comments »

  1. I’ve been sending all this info to just about everyone I know. When I got hay for my horses this week, I asked the farmer what he thought about it and he’d never heard of it. So where are the folks who are for it? More propaganda? I think the government has enough control (too much, actually) over our individual lives. That isn’t what our founding fathers wanted for this country - and it isn’t what I want for my grandchildren and beyond, either. Let’s get this stopped. If we changed the world in the 60’s & 70’s then we can change it again now!

    Comment Donna Arthur — April 12, 2006 @ 2:43 pm

  2. I just heard about NAIS for the first time today. Someone left a flyer for it on my windsheild at a horse show. I live in Ohio and run horses all over the country. I is simply impossible for me to contact them everytime I move a horse from the property. Also there is no way that I would be able to find all the PIN numbers for all the properties that I would cross in a cross state trip let alone a multi-state trip. I own 20-25 head of horses at any given time and cannot afford to pay 20,000 a day for not reporting. This is rediculous.

    Comment Kim Rickenbacher — April 13, 2006 @ 1:31 pm

  3. Kim,

    Welcome to our humble, though busy, abode :-) If you have questions feels free to ask. This program is sooooo BIG it is difficult to wrap your mind completely around it.

    Let everyone you know about this dreadful program and it’s tentacles.

    Comment Celeste — April 13, 2006 @ 5:47 pm

  4. Dare I admit publicly to being owned by five cats and two horses with plans to expand in the future? This legislation is WRONG in so many ways!

    I board my horses. They live with up to 38 other horses in a somewhat transitional environment (people move out, others move in). We trail ride in a metropark; other people trailer in from everywhere. Tell me, are we supposed to take clipboards with us on the ride so that we can log every squirrel, dog, hiker, deer, and trail rider we pass?

    As a natural horsemanship student, I frequently attend clinics in and out of state. I recently traveled 1200 miles for a week-long course. 60 students there; some brought their horses, some leased program horses. Can you imagine the nightmare this would cause for clinicians?

    Must I call the USDA and report (for a fee) that I have to take Kitty to the vet? Must I tell them when I move? Must I tell them I’m taking the dog to the park to play frisbee?

    NAIS will ruin the world for animals and the people who love them. I’d say what I really feel about the USDA, but it’d be censored for bad language! I’ve already mass-mailed everyone I know who has any kind of animal at all, and I’m crafting letters to send or post to the newspapers, government officials, feedstores, boarding stables, vet’s, etc. WE MUST STOP THIS THING!

    Comment Jeanne Berry — April 24, 2006 @ 12:15 am

  5. The more I learn about NAIS, the more horrified I become. It is like something out of 1984; too much ‘Big Brother”! As the owner-operator of a small horse ranch, the cost would be too prohibitive. The cost of feed, hay and medicine, not to mention general upkeep on barns and fences, already have me dipping into my personal funds. I would have to let all my horses go. Are our family pets next? How do you keep track of free-range animals? Does anyone at the FDA have any idea what implanting RFID chips could do to livestock? I don’t know about cows, but horses are prone to sarcoids, even from horse fly bites. I would imagine the incision used to insert the chips would be somewhat larger and therefore more suseptable to scarring and sarcoids. If you raise chickens for eggs, will we have to start “chipping” them? And if you intend to eat the chicken, (or the egg) how are you supposed to remove the chip before eating Sunday dinner? Thank you for sharing this very vital information. If NAIS regulations are passed into law, where will it end?

    Comment sue moore — April 28, 2006 @ 11:51 am

  6. Hello from Tennessee. I know Tennessee hasn’t been affected by the NAIS-virus yet, but I fear soon it will. I am a current owner of dogs, cats, rabbits, horses, etc and am living on a large farm with my family who cant afford any more than trying to pay a gigantic house off nevertheless 35 bucks a chip per animal. I am also a future farm owner myself with hopes to have kids that will do the same. I dont want this to hang over their heads. As my mom says its none of the governments business if I keep my animals for pets or for food…If we don’t stand up for ourselves and let other unknowing people know then it’ll all end up in the hands of the government. First our land (zoning), then our animals (NAIS), whats to come next??? Chipping our kids??? I’ll do as much in power as I can do, I just hope others will too. Because in the end, this affects everybody…

    Comment Laura Pinell — May 4, 2006 @ 12:39 pm

  7. Laura, Sorry to break the bad news…

    “In corporation with the Tennessee Department of Agriculture (TDA), effective Friday, July 1, 2005 local FSA offices in Tennessee will begin registering premises into the USDA, National Animal Identification System (NAIS). FSA has been designated by
    TDA as the primary source of premises registration in TN.”

    link

    Comment SallyB — May 4, 2006 @ 3:55 pm

  8. Great JOB!!! I assist the clinicians in promoting awesome causes…this is a good one. Most of the equine trainers have other livestock as well and we will surely pass this along!

    Comment Kim — May 13, 2006 @ 9:51 pm

  9. The only solution to this catsastrophe is for EVERYONE, and I DO MEAN EVERYONE, no excxeptions!!, to totally refuse to have anything at all to do with the entire idiotic scheme. This IS NOT A TIME FOR COMPROMISE!! The whole thing is a wedge in the door for bigger and far worse things to come. We’ve been up on this trend for 40 years, waiting for the time to act. THIS IS IT!! Don’t let any of your neighbors who might be tempted to try to make deals with the enemy,or ‘go along to get along’ even go out the door until they see the darkness ahead. NO DEAL!!! Don

    Comment Don Hartley — June 8, 2006 @ 11:29 am

  10. I had never heard of NAIS prior to seeing your newsletter yesterday.
    Keep up the good work

    Comment Richard Clark — July 5, 2006 @ 2:52 pm

  11. Great work!

    Comment Rebecca — July 27, 2006 @ 7:42 am

  12. It’s scarry when I read more and more about the USDA & NAIS. One article said “they” have been planning this since the early 1990’s. I don’t want to be told how many animals I can afford. The vets in my area have said it will be anywhere from $15-$50 per animal, remember the vet visit charge, even when you bring the animals to the clinic. I can’t afford to do my entire herd so the government will be telling me how many animals I can have by how many I can afford to chip. At the moment there are 33 head and the 3 horses, never mind the ducks that fly all over the place, guess they are wild though as I never clip wings, God’s way of giving them protection from vermin, or the government.

    Comment Suzy Minck — August 10, 2006 @ 11:55 am

  13. Hello all, I have recently heard of this, and have begun to send out emails and post in forums in all kinds of horse related groups. I can not imagine the impact that this will have on the horse industry if it is allowed to pass. I believe many people would be forced to give up horse ownership at the prospect of being fined in those amounts. What would happen to the excess horses. I believe the agriculture business would founder utterly. If the horse market falls- it will have a ripple affect like none other. Let’s not even get me started on how this will harm the human spirit over all. Man Kind has always depended on his relationship with animals for SURVIVAL. Our animals provide us with joy and recreation and even as a source of income- that it is hard to imagine having that freedom abollished. I have started a group on myspace.com SAY no to NAIS. I hope that it will help.

    Comment Lynn Brander — August 21, 2006 @ 1:50 pm

  14. I have sent letters and called all my senators and congressmen…but does it really help? I hope so!!! I raise arabian horses have 2 dogs and multiple cats. I hope to have a milk cow and chickens sometime in the near future…My husband and I will fight tooth and nail if anyone tries to microchip our animals!! I’m a peaceful person and don’t care much for guns, but trust me if it comes to that I will be standing beside my husband with a gun before I let anyone chip my animals. NOBODY hurts my animals and steals my privacy that way!!

    Comment Kanette — September 5, 2006 @ 6:30 pm

  15. Dear Sir or Madam, we have “Rights”, mainly the right not to have government interfer with our daily routines of doing business. Unless there is an injuried party of somekind, no crime has taken place. Therefore, no agency has any juristiction to put undue restrictions on grandma’s chicken. Whenever the government comes to you and says: “I am from the government, and I am here to help you.” Hold on to your wallet, and get out of Dodge!
    This protest is a grevence. Grevences have to be addressed in the courts, and according to Thomas Jefferson, “When you cannot get redress in the courts, that is when you take up your arms!” In other words; we have the “Right” to shoot any agent from the government that dares to trespass on our property. According to Article VI or “your” Bill of Rights, no crime is committed without both “nature and cause”. The courts, in the way they are run now, are a travasty. Do not hire an attorney if he had taken an oath to enter the BAR. You will have to go pro se, and make sure you do your homework, before you enter into court. You have to know the what and why for everything you do. I do not expect the government to back down once they have their minds made up. They want you to know in no uncertain terms, that they are in charge. They will use the unwiting police force to enforce their policies, and policy never equals law. If indeed they act unlawfully (they will if they can get away with it) you can file a title 42 lawsuit on any and all persons involved in the police action. This issue is only one of many issues involving our freedoms that our Forefathers gave up their lives, families and fortune for. Let not our efforts become as dead as they are!

    Comment Mark DeBarbieri — September 8, 2006 @ 4:14 pm

  16. I placed the following ad in our weekly shopping newspaper in the Livestock section of Classifieds:

    “Don’t let the USDA erode your rights and way of life. Visit www.noNAIS.org.”

    The cost was $10 for five weeks. I ran the ad every other week in case people were away on vacation and wouldn’t see the paper. The newspaper ended up running it for 10 consecutive weeks at no additional cost to me. Apparently they saw the value in keeping the word out; they get revenue from classified ads advertising livestock for sale, hay for sale, and meat processing.

    Walter, has your cluster map shown an uptick in Web site hits from east central Minnesota, specifically Carlton and northern Pine County?

    Anyone who wants to run the ad in their local paper has my blessing.

    [Susan, I don’t have any easy way to see because the ClustrMaps don’t show enough detail visually. I wish they went down to the state and county level and even the town level. The ads are a great way to spread the word. There are many inexpensive newspapers. In this directory are display classifieds that some people have used. Cheers, -WJ]

    Comment Susan Maricle — September 9, 2006 @ 3:10 pm

  17. Mark DeBarbieri, I have never seen your comments before, so if this is the first, I welcome your insight and obvious research. I would like to know more about your comment, “an oath to enter the BAR”. I think I know what you mean, but if you could expound, I would appreciate it. I do know that I have heard about the correct “handshake” and what that implies. I would like to know your opinion about when lawsuits should occur, and any other info you have. I don’t want to be left in the dark about anything in regard to NAIS, so I am seriously interested in your comments.

    I would want to avoid the alternative at all costs, because the international elite would have at least two charismatic candidates waiting in the wings to run for our leader, just as they do now, and we might actually be, hard as it is to believe, in a worse position. That may even be what what they want us to do.

    Comment Texas Goat Gal — September 10, 2006 @ 9:45 am

  18. If you really want to know, google up sovereign citizen and you can get an edumacation.:) You also will find out interesting things that will destroy your idea that perhaps we can make things right again. They’ve been very wrong since the War Between the States, and it isn’t necessarily pleasant to learn the truth. However, you either love the truth no matter how distasteful it is, or you love a lie. Choice is occasionally a difficult thing to contend with.

    While you are googling you should check into Common Law, which is basically what Mark is referencing above. He’s absolutly right.

    Hope this is helpful.
    David

    Comment David Hannes — September 10, 2006 @ 5:59 pm

  19. Here in my country we have more and more of this type of regulation which has driven the very small farms out of the business because of all the costs and paperwork and regulations that make it intimidating to keep animals. I feel hopeless to change it hear and plan to emigrate to a better nation than the Netherlands soon. I had thought that would be the the United States of American which I always thought of as a people cherishing their freedoms but I am now very sad to see this NAIS and this REAL ID. The United States of American is soon to become another Politie State. I do not know the word. A country where they tell you everything to do. It is very sad. Our whole world is coming undergovernment control. =Yve=

    Comment Yve — September 20, 2006 @ 3:18 am

  20. yve: yes, “police state” is one term. no matter what the perception is, the USA IS a police state–almost every article in the bill of rights and every clause of the constitution (as written by our founders) has been violated.

    “dictatorship” is perhaps the word you thought of..?

    Comment jan — September 20, 2006 @ 9:58 pm

  21. I am just learning about this and am apalled. I am a 24 year old fifth generation farmer and hope to pass it on to my children and their childrens children someday. If anyone could send me more information and suggestions about how I can get the word spread here in rural MI email me at TBigLug@yahoo.com.

    Thank You.

    Comment John — October 5, 2006 @ 8:26 am

  22. I am getting real concerned about this NAIS system. I sure could use specific information, when it comes to Idaho. I have written all of my representatives and the Chairman of the Agriculture committee. I need good Idaho information when they respond.

    Comment John Gentry — March 22, 2007 @ 5:04 pm

  23. Hi,

    I just read somewhere that the Illinois State Fair will be requiring all animls entering the fairgrounds next year have a premises ID - that’s a big setback in my mind.

    I am a small producer of homegrown grass-fed beef and want nothing to do with a mandatory system. I am all for some form of ID - my dogs are microchipped but I elected to do so voluntarily to protect them.

    Jane Cagney
    Willow Mill Farm
    Fredon, NJ

    Comment Jane Cagney — November 16, 2007 @ 8:12 pm

  24. Interesting facts. Re “NO NAIS” stamps on Dollar Bills: I live in Omaha, Nebraska and agricultural politics issues get brought up around here quite often. Some of your supporters are stamping a lot of dollar bills with “NO NAIS”. See comments at: http://forums.wheresgeorge.com/showthread.php?t=101798 I noticed no mention of this type of promotion was mentioned on your “What can I do to help” page: http://nonais.org/index.php/what-can-i-do-to-help/what-can-i-do-to-help-2/ I’ll let your folks research the statutes regarding advertising on US currency. There are quite a few gray areas and many opinions as to if this type of activity actually helps or hurts a cause. It’s not my place to judge, just advising that the practice of stamping dollar bills is taking place. Thank You, Jimmy.

    [Interesting… I wasn’t aware of this sort of thing. I have no idea as to the laws about what we can do with money other than the fact that apparently some merchants are no longer accepting cash as legal tender - heard that one recently, very bizarre. Realize that people aren’t my supporters but rather we are all independent minded people who don’t like being herded and branded by the government - the common link we share. Ergo, I have no control over how people mark up the dollar bills. Still, it is a rather interesting form of protest… -WJ]

    Comment Jim DaLock — January 24, 2008 @ 11:35 am

  25. That thread on wheres goerg is funny. One nut thinks we’re some PETA like group. I wish I could correct him but I cant register or post there. Maybe someone who already can will do it and correct his disinfo.

    [Anyone with a WheresGeorge.com account? I just tried and Mark is right, new registrations are turned off. It would be a good opportunity for someone to post an explanation of what NAIS is really about. -WJ]

    Comment Mark Venton — January 24, 2008 @ 1:29 pm

  26. #22 the best information you can possibly have is reading all the documents. And if you meet with them in person have those documents with you other wise they wont believe you. The documents have USDA all over them, how can they deny that then.. link has the documents posted. Walters site has the docs posted. [See the Tech Docs section of the right sidebar. -WJ] Print them out. The Technical documents list what we have to report. Its in Color and in black & white.

    You requested specific information on Idaho. Here is the 2007 Cooperative Agreement that each state signed. Read it very closely this doc will tell you what the state has to comply with in order to recieve there money from us tax payers. link

    Idaho will receive if they complied and gathered enough premises of $278,000. which it looks like they did.

    The newest premises id report shows Idaho at 97.6 % dated 01-22-08

    link

    Do a search on Idaho NAIS and or try different combinations of search words. link

    Once you read all the documents you can rebutt what they have on there web site such as these answers they have provided link

    So once you get informed you will have the ‘Facts” and the “Truth” and not the mis information they are spouting.

    Comment Gisela — January 24, 2008 @ 2:56 pm

  27. I do!

    I’m on it.

    Comment Henwhisperer — January 24, 2008 @ 5:02 pm

  28. Can you point me to the thread?

    [See link and click on TommyTurtle40’s comment where he says, “I’m sorry but I think this is too funny and also getting stupid, I am tired of people that don’t want to harm animal, i.e. cows, yet they go to burger king and order a burger, I am tired of hearing about global warming by these same people, yet they are driving a SUV and leave all their lights on at home…” TommyTurtle40 needs a clue. -WJ]

    Comment Henwhisperer — January 24, 2008 @ 5:08 pm

  29. Actually the discussion over on that board says, andI quote:

    Received a George today that had “Stop NAIS” on it in small letters in the margin.

    So it wasn’t NoNAIS or even No NAIS but rather Stop NAIS. The right idea but any real NoNAISer would have written NoNAIS.org on the dollar bill so that people would be able to come here and get more information about the issue. :>

    Comment Harold Norton — January 24, 2008 @ 6:12 pm

  30. “Some of your supporters are stamping a lot of dollar bills with “NO NAIS”.”

    Apparently, you didn’t comprehend what was written very well. I visited the site you referred to and it said that there was “a George” that had Stop NAIS handwritten in small print in the margin. Not a lot of dollars and not a stamp. Those of us here at NoNAIS spend a lot of time reading for accuracy and understanding, despite USDA’s disinformation that we don’t know the facts.

    Comment Barbara — January 25, 2008 @ 1:22 am

  31. Good responses on wheres george,Sharon and Walter,as they say you can lead a horse to water but ya cant make em drink…same here all we can do is tell folks the truth,some of them got turned off pretty quickly but some I’m sure got interested….interesting answer to the question “wheresgeorge”,well I can tell you the current george is in his new world order office shredding the last of our liberties,and hoping we keep too busy with our hobbies and such to notice.

    “Live free or die tryin”

    Comment LEE — January 25, 2008 @ 2:01 pm

  32. I have 4 bantam and two regular chickens in my backyard, tucked out of sight. I think I’m not technically allowed to have them, but the law is vague. I will NEVER register these beautiful pets. They’ll have to take me in cuffs before I tag those pets. I agree that NAIS is an infringement of one’s privacy and right to care for, at least, pets. Being able to trace diseases quickly is important, and I understand that speed is essential in understanding epizootics. A backyard chicken, however, poses no threat and doesnt even interact with other people or wild birds. I think that we are being trained by the government to think that tagging is a good thing.

    Comment grad student — February 28, 2008 @ 2:36 pm

  33. Here in the UK our agriculture has already been bolloxed. There is no hope for us with DEFRA. We’ve lost our ability to feed our own people. Don’t let that happen to you in America. It is time to rebel again.

    Comment Andrea Uska — June 8, 2008 @ 2:22 am

  34. Andrea, are there any UK groups opposing DEFRA and the agricultural policies? It would really be helpful if they would share their problems and experiences with us - otherwise all we hear is talking points about how much the UK likes their system. Thanks for posting!

    Comment Ann Nelson — June 8, 2008 @ 10:41 am

  35. Yes,
    Check out Warmwell they have a great site

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    Comment Snazy snezy — June 9, 2008 @ 12:38 pm

  36. As a consumer I am writing my representatives at the state level hanging posters and talking to people. What else can I do? I dont know how to boycot food from nais places. How would I identify them?

    [Your best bet is to buy from local farmers for what you can. Any of the meat produced by the Big Ag places like Tyson and Smithfield are part of the system since they’re the pushers. -WJ]

    Comment Amy Hance — June 24, 2008 @ 9:49 pm

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