Animals C.L.U.B.- Freedom

"We Have the Right to Bear "FARMS."

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Animal Identification System is Exactly the "Wrong"
Answer!

by Dean A. Ayers

Do you know about the National Animal Identification
System (NAIS) that the government is working on
implementing?

NAIS is a system that the USDA is proposing to identify
all livestock in the United States and also identify all
premises (locations with any livestock or pets).

This includes all birds, sheep, cows, pigs, horses,
llamas and many other animals and birds, like chickens.
The NAIS regulations can also be easily amended by
the USDA to include any and all animals and pets of
any kind, to include your dog or cat, and caged birds
like parrots or cock-a-tiels.

The stated goal is to be able to have 48 hour trace
back of all meats from the consumer to the farm where
the animal originated in case of illness or contamination.
The actual goal appears to be total "control" of the food
chain by the government, all the way from farm
to fork.

1) They are including livestock sold directly from small
farms to the end consumer where there is already
100% track back in much less than 48 hours. If you buy
locally from the source you know exactly where
your food came from.

2) They are snaring homesteaders by including even
livestock you might keep for your own consumption.
The government is implementing huge "non-compliance"
fines if you don't report your backyard flock of chickens,
your summer feeder pig, your lawn mowing sheep, etc.
This will take away your right to raise your own source
of eggs, meat and wool.

3) They are including animals that are not in the food
supply such as pets like horses, llamas, etc that are not
in the food chain. Subsequently this could also include
dogs, cats, etc, by a mear "amendment" to the USDA
regulation of NAIS, due to an alleged "carrier" of
disease potential by dogs, cats. etc.

Under the plan every single animal must be identified.
Any births, deaths and movements on or off the farm
will be required to be logged and reported to the
government. If you take your sheep to a show you
will have to track their location and submit paperwork
to the government. If you go for a trail ride with your
horse you will have to report that to the government.
If your pig has piglets you'll have to report that and
then if some of those piglets die or you eat one
you'll have to report that.

Pretty soon after that the government is going to
want to charge a consumption tax every time you eat
one of your own animals. After all, unless you buy all
your food then you're not paying sales tax, you're not
helping the Gross Domestic Product grow, you're not
paying your share. You think I'm joking? You are
required by law to pay taxes on any barters you do.
It is only a tiny step from that law and NAIS to a tax
on every chicken, every egg, every pig, every sheep,
etc. Then they'll go for your tomatoes and carrots.
(No, I am definitely not paranoid enough.)

All this identification, tattooing, labeling, tagging,
micro-chipping, RFID equipment and paper work is
going to cost money. Who do you think is going to pay?
You! That's who. NAIS will increase the cost of food
both to those who raise it and for consumers at the
farmer's market and at the supermarket. This is going
to require more government bureaucracy to manage
which will eventually lead to more fees and taxes
collected by the government to manage a system
tracking your life and making it ever more expensive.

Under the plan the government requires you to track
the animal movements as well as your premise location
(your home) with GPS and address coordinates.
All animal locations and movements must be
logged and reported under penalty of confiscation
and fines.

Furthermore the USDA will not guarantee to keep
the information confidential because of the Freedom
of Information Act. This means that radical animal
activists and animal  rights groups (PETA, ELF, and the
ASPCA) or others can find out about your pet animals.
These FBI alleged terrorist groups have already
attacked farms and destroyed property killing people
and animals. Now they'll have even more data to use
figuring out who to target. Lovely. On the other
hand, if the government eliminates your access to
the Freedom of Information Act, then you have no
ability to "know" what ID or tracking  information
the government is keeping on you. It's a 
"double edged" sword, all against the citizen
with pets, livestock and animals - (that's you).

Will this give us any better security? No. Almost all
of the cases of food born illness and recalls are
caused by contamination at the slaughter house,
packing plant and further along the chain of supply.
Perhaps this sort of thing is a good idea on the large
scale producers, the factory farms, the big slaughter
houses. It is not needed in our back yards and
homesteads. It is not necessary for small farms
selling direct to the consumer or other end users.
It is certainly beyond reason for non-food pets.

Virtually all of the remaining cases of food born
illness like Mad Cow and the like are the product
of bad practices like feeding animals back to their
own species and over crowding. These are problems
that are not related to the small farms, the
homesteaders and the backyard flocks. NAIS
won't solve these problems. Furthermore,
Mad Cow, to take the government's favorite
scarecrow, is something that takes years to
decades to infect. A 48 hour trace back is going
to do diddley-squat.

At the very least NAIS should allow exemptions
for pets, homesteaders, backyard flocks and
small farms or rural homes who only maintain
"pets" or personal consumption livestock animals
than 48 hour track back and are not the threat.
The threat is big agri-businesses, "factory farms"
that lock millions of animals in cages and generate
ideal conditions for disease to run wild through
animals with suppressed immune systems and
antibiotics in their feed. These are the corporations
that grind up cows and feed them back to the cows.
They are the ones that routinely feed antibiotics to
their livestock producing new strains of drug
resistant super-germs. They are the ones
generating enormous mountains of waste
and pollution the taints the air and the water.
They are the problem. If they are so gung-ho
for NAIS then let them implement it for themselves.

NAIS will lead to more centralization of our food
supply and bigger government. The big corporations
that already control too much of our food supply will
control even more of it. More control over the
system of production by fewer corporations and
individuals is a threat to our nation. This is the last
thing we need. What we need is decentralized local
production to ensure the safety of our food supply.
If all our food comes from a few sources then it is in
great danger for everyone. If our food comes from
many small localized farms then we have
greater national food security.

I Say: "We the People, have a Right to
Bear "FARMS!"

NAIS is exactly the "wrong" answer.

Animals C.L.U.B.- Freedom.org
is fully "AGAINST" the NAIS
in every respect, regarding Pet Owners, and
non-commercial  individuals, or producers.
Additionally, the traditional farmer/producers
should "not" be forced to participate,
and pay for all the expenses of NAIS,
where as the agricultural corporations have a
huge financial advantage to pay for the NAIS
expenses of equipment, RFID chips, readers,etc.
Also the USDA has given the agri-biz corporations
an "unfair" advantage in NAIS, in that, the agri-biz
corporations, only have to maintain ONE ID TAG,
for an entire herd of livestock; the true example:
One TAG, for 1,000 agri-biz corporation cattle.
This is "unfair" and "intentional" regulation
planning for "profiteering" on the part
of the USDA doing this unfair manipulation tactic.

This USDA regulations of NAIS will also eliminate
our U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights protections
regarding your "private property" known in NAIS
as your "premises." This will mean the USDA, can
enter your premises (property) without a legal
search warrant, and "search and seize" your
property, animals, etc. if they are found to be
unregistered with NAIS, or in non-compliance
in reporting, tracking and ID tagging.

Welcome to the world of animal owners
becoming the new generation of "criminals."
Thanks to the USDA writing regulations and
self enforcing them like laws, all with your
50 state Congressional Body Members,
allowing this to occur. This will be the
End of Times, and the beginning of the
Mark of the Beast scenario. Next they
most likely will be RFID "Chipping" humans
for tracking as well. Paranoid? No!
When was the last time, government
intrusion into your life, and criminal
fines, fees, and confiscations, made you
feel all "fuzzy" inside?

NAIS is exactly the "wrong" answer!