Comments on: Letter about Animal ID

By: esbee

esbee — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:36:45 +0000

I have been researching into NAIS since I found out about it. Besides trampling on constitutional and religious rights and sounding just like something out of communist/fascist ideologies, there are many reasons why I oppose it. Below is just one.

In the NAIS document those who own livestock are called “stakeholder” and the land upon which the livestock presides is “premises”. Contracts use certain words for a reason. The lectric law library(www.lectlaw.com) states that the word premises signifies a formal part of a deed,and is made to designate an estate; to designate is to name or entitle. Therefore a premises has no protection under the United States constitution and has no exclusive rights of the owner tied to it. Stakeholder (the term the USDA is using to identify us) refers to a third party who temporarily holds money or property while its owner is still being determined.
By signing up for NAIS, title to property rights are clouded, basically making the owner little more than a sharecropper.
And Dr. Gardner, the USDA and others who think NAIS is so great, can’t understand why the overwhelming majority oppose NAIS?

My mom always told me be careful what you sign your name to.

By: LEE

LEE — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:38:20 +0000

I also have been involved for a year and a half on almost a daily basis fighting NAIS.

I have met with dozens of senators congressmen and local politicians,as well as literally thousand s of personal contacts.face to face,radio programs,flyers ect,so I am well versed in this NAIS,and it is a SCAM,the folks above have said it as well as can be said,

it is a program of corporate welfare aimed at eliminating the small independent producer in favor of the Cargills and Monsantos of the world,it will do irrepriable damage to our farms and homesteaders and will destroy much ag in third world nations,yes it is that serious,time to stop this foolishness,STOP THE NAIS!

By: Barbara Steever

Barbara Steever — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:44:19 +0000

I think Neal Foley has stated very well what is wrong with NAIS.
I would also like to add that NAIS does not stop with just beef and dairy cattle. It includes horses, llamas, and pets which are not part of the food chain. Horses are expected to be microchipped at the owner’s expense for a lot more than $2.75 and what that gets you is a chip capable of being reprogrammed - so there is no security, a chip that could migrate to another part of the body and which would then need to be replaced and a chip that could cause a sarcoid to develop in some horses.
It does not help to find stolen horses, unless the USDA is planning on making the “private” database available to anyone.
The Equine Working Group is now recommending that horses only be tracked for major events. Since major events for horses already require registration and health certificates, NAIS is redundant and unnecessary.