Articles of Interest
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Is the meat you buy
safe enough?
By Henry Lamb - November 17, 2007
- The food supply in the United States is, without a doubt, the
safest in the world. But when 21 million pounds of ground beef -
inspected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture - is recalled
because it contains E. coli 0157:H7, the question must be asked: Is
the meat you buy safe enough?
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When "voluntary"
means "mandatory"
By Henry Lamb - November 10, 2007
- When the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced its new National
Animal Identification System in 2005, it was scheduled to become
mandatory in three phases: property registration by 2007; animal
identification and registration by 2008; and reporting - within
24 hours - of animal movement off the registered property by
2009.
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A PIG IS A PIG IS A PIG,
NO MATTER WHAT USDA CALLS IT
By Randy Givens - August 17, 2007
- For several years, the USDA and its corporate allies have been
waging a propaganda war against American farmers, ranchers, and pet
owners. Their goal is to subject us all to one of the most
all-encompassing attacks on our right to farm and keep pets as has
ever been fomented.
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Forget the illegals, track
the cows!
By Henry Lamb - June 16, 2007
- Despite this spectacular failure - the inability to find 20
million illegal aliens - this same government is preparing to locate,
monitor and control the movement of hundreds of millions of livestock
animals.
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Linking COOL With NAIS
Means Trouble
For Consumers and Small Farmers & Ranchers
By Randy Givens - April 9, 2007
- For years, consumers, farmers and ranchers have pushed for the
adoption and implementation of Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) for
agricultural products. COOL will simply require that all agricultural
products sold in the U.S. be labeled as to what country they
originated from.
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NAIS and Horses
A Timeline of the Inclusion of Horses in NAIS
2002 through 2006
By Karen Nowak - March 2007
- The issue of national equine ID has been discussed between animal
health officials since at least 1987 but did NOT involve any
organization representing the actual horse owning public until
2002. The purpose of this lengthy article is to provide a reference
document for the evolution of the plan to include equines in the
National Animal Identification System.
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Sold Out by Farm
Bureau
By Karin Bergener - February 2007
- Farm Bureau members who have asked what their Farm Bureau is doing
to stop the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) are surprised
to learn that Farm Bureau - at least the American Farm Bureau
Foundation - supports the NAIS...
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USDA announces an "opt out"
procedure for NAIS
By Henry Lamb - January 29, 2007
- In a remarkable turnaround, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has
decided to provide an "opt out" procedure for people whose premises
have been registered in the National Animal Identification
System...
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National Animal ID:
What the Feds Can't Do, the States Well Might
By Judith McGeary - January 2007
- The National Animal Identification System: a plan to force
everyone who owns even one animal to register with the government, tag
each animal, and report their movements. Agri-business and technology
companies developed this plan in the late 1980s and 1990s in relative
secrecy...
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Our Tax Dollars at Work:
Chasing a cow over 5 states
By Darol Dickinson - January 2007
- The government keeps repeating that the National Animal
Identification System (NAIS) is necessary to provide 48-hour tracking
to improve animal health. To some people, this sounds plausible. But
even a little scratching under the surface reveals that these claims
have holes a mile wide...
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Beware the agriculture
bureaucrats
By Henry Lamb - January 24, 2007
- Calvin and Carol Whittaker live in one of the most beautiful parts
of Idaho, a little northwest of Idaho Falls, in the community of
Leadore (pronounced "lead ore" because it was a mining town when it
was named). They have lived in the area all their lives...
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USDA's snooping
machine
By Henry Lamb - January 12, 2007
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture is looking more and more like
the Big Brother government that has infected Washington in recent
years. The "2006 Agricultural Identification Survey," recently mailed
to thousands of private landowners, is a good example.
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The USDA Shell Game on
"Voluntary" versus "Mandatory" Participation in NAIS
By Randy Givens - November 16, 2006
- Recently, the USDA changed the National Animal Identification
System (NAIS) web page to infer that it is now USDA policy and
position that NAIS will be a voluntary system instead of the mandatory
system that they have been pushing for several years. However, what
is written and what they intend for you to believe are two entirely
different things.
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How will the National
Animal Identification System Affect Horse Owners?
Report on the American Horse Council's Issues Forum
By Judith McGeary - October, 2006
- The American Horse Council (AHC) has played a key role in the National
Animal Identification System (NAIS). In 2002, the AHC appointed
members to a "task force," which later became the official Equine
Species Working Group. Last month, the AHC held an Issues Forum in
Austin, which included a high-profile panel discussion on the
NAIS. Unfortunately, the event was not aimed at informing the general
horse-owning public; the $100 entry fee discouraged most individuals,
and only about 35 people attended the panel discussion.
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Your Life Under the
National Animal Identification System
By Judith McGeary -
October, 2006
- As people learn more about the National Animal Identification
System, or NAIS, some have asked, "What's so bad about it?" The
arguments against NAIS range from philosophical objections about
property and privacy rights, to pragmatic concerns about cost and
technological problems. Rather than talk about these concerns in the
abstract, let's look at what would happen if NAIS is implemented, some
of the day to day realities.
Grandma is an
outlaw
By Henry Lamb - July 22, 2006 - Way back in 2003, the Wisconsin Legislature enacted the Wisconsin
Premises Registration Act, which became effective in November
2005. Sally, and everyone else in Wisconsin who owned even one
chicken, horse, cow or any other livestock animal, was required to
register her premises with the state by Jan. 1, 2006.
National Animal
ID
By Leo Schwartz - July 9, 2006 The thoughts and actions of unhealthy people - government and
corporate "leaders" bent on hanging a National Animal Identification
System (NAIS) yoke on America's neck - are dominated by
id. With each passing day, their intent to exploit agriculture
becomes more apparent. NAIS Are You Ready?
By
Karin Bergener - June 2006 - This article, with accompanying illustrations, appears by
permission of Karin Bergener and The Gaited Horse magazine.
Feds flip-flop on animal
ID?
By Henry Lamb - June 10, 2006 - For nearly four years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been
developing a National Animal Identification System that conforms with
international guidelines. The Draft Strategic Plan was issued April
25, 2005. The plan called for voluntary registration initially, to
become mandatory on this timeline...
NAIS to deal with BSE not
A-OK
By Henry Lamb - May 6, 2006 - Shortly after another "mad cow" was discovered in Alabama, there
was a rash of articles in the press citing the event as convincing
evidence that the USDA's National Animal Identification System should
move forward as quickly as possible. Nowhere did any of the articles
mention that the NAIS will do nothing to prevent, control or even slow
the disease.
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Fighting the NAIS in
Texas
By Judith McGeary - April 10, 2006
- Texas is the first battleground over NAIS to be joined by both
sides. While the state authorities in Wisconsin, North Carolina, and
Indiana slipped mandatory premises registration through without much
fanfare, the citizens of Texas took action when the Texas Animal
Health Commission attempted to do the same. Texas is home to some
very large industrial agricultural operations, but it is also home to
many small- and medium-size farmers and ranchers, concerned consumers
and landowners, and a spirit of independence...
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NAIS Spawned by
International Entanglements
By Doreen Hannes - April 1, 2006
- If you've been wondering where the insanity masquerading as our
federal government "food safety" and animal health protection
regulations and laws are coming from, you can now say, with certainty,
that they descend from the organizations within, and tied to the
United Nations...
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Backlash building against
animal ID system
By Henry Lamb - March 18, 2006
- Reaction to the National Animal Identification System is shining a
light on a growing problem that independent producers believe is
threatening the entire livestock industry. Vertical marketing
practices in the meat processing industry, combined with the
industry's access to, and influence on, the Department of Agriculture
and Congress, has the small producer against the ropes. The NAIS may
be the final blow that puts independent ranchers and small farmers
down for the count...
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The National Animal
Identification System:
A New Threat to Rural Freedom
By
Mary Zanoni - March 2006
- Small farmers and homesteaders have chosen their way of life
because they love their freedom - the freedom from urban noise and
congestion, the independence from government and corporate
interference, the self-reliance of providing one's own shelter, water,
food. Now the USDA's NAIS - National Animal Identification System -
threatens the traditional freedoms of the rural way of life...
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