USDA Pushes NAIS Via Interstate Blockade

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USDA Pushes NAIS Via Interstate Blockade

News — walterj 6:28 am

The USDA is pushing a mandatory National Animal Identification System (NAIS) by trying to block interstate transport of livestock. They continue to fuel false fears of disease while proposing exemptions for Big Ag. The result is that the burden will fall on small farmers while Big Ag gets a free pass.

The regulations are being drafted six months after the U.S. Department of Agriculture dropped an unpopular voluntary program meant to trace livestock movement, and they are expected to be implemented in 2013. [Get a clue, USDA. Smaller farmers and consumers overwhelmingly do not want NAIS.

“A voluntary system has not worked so far, and that’s why the USDA has gone back to the drawing board and created a system that relies much more strongly on compulsory or mandatory identification instead of voluntary,” said Marty Zaluski, the Montana state veterinarian and a member of the USDA working group drafting the new rule.
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USDA is holding a series of public meetings on the proposed regulations and plans to have a draft rule ready in April 2011. The final rule is expected to be published a year to 15 months after that, with full implementation a year after the final rule is published.
-CNBC

Last year, in 2009, they held listening sessions. Virtually nobody spoke up in favor of NAIS. Thousands of people attended and spoke out against NAIS. Thousands more sent in written comments opposing NAIS. Apparently the unelected government regulators don’t need to actually listen to the people - they just change the name of the game and ram it down our throats again. Prepare to continue fighting.

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
-Thomas Jefferson

http://nonais.org/2010/08/09/usda-pushes...-blockade/