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A NAIS Opinion

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I stole this off the NoNais.org website...I thought this did a fair job of summing up some of the problems this administration and USDA have been trying to pawn off- at a great cost to the producer...USDA and Mr. Bush need to clean up their own houses before they try to mandate everyone else to...Enforce the laws on the books first, before you go out passing a whole bunch more- rather than the current practice of just ignoring the law if it doesn't fit the biggest paying lobbyists agenda...

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The NAISture of Illegalities
Commentary — walterj 6:09 am July 1, 2006
One of the arguments that I have heard government officials give for the USDA’s proposed National Animal Identification System (NAIS) is to detect and control foreign animal diseases. They have specifically given the example of the Exotic Newcastle’s Disease (END) outbreak in the western United States several years ago stating that the problem was caused by illegal fighting cocks in backyard flocks that then infected the industrial factory poultry ‘farms’. The government officials like to say that “If they had Premises ID and Animal ID back then they could have prevented the problem.”

This off course assumes that the people who had illegal fighting cocks that they had illegally imported from Mexico would have complied with the USDA’s NAIS program. Think about that for a moment… Many of those illegally imported illegal cock fighter owners were illegal aliens. Care to give me odds that they would comply with a mere regulation? They were already breaking plenty of laws. Breaking a regulation here or there just isn’t significant to them. In fact, to comply with NAIS would make them more likely to get caught on their other illegal activities.

Expecting 100% compliance with NAIS is absurd. Wasting hundreds of millions of tax dollars on one more complicated unenforceable program is absurd. Instead the USDA should be focusing on the factory farms, feedlots and processing plants which are the real source of food borne illness and disease with their over crowding and horrible conditions. The USDA should be doing their job of preventing BSE through testing and elimination of the practice of feeding cows to cows. They should be doing their job of proper meat inspection. They should not be burdening small livestock producers with additional costs, invading our privacy and trampling on our constitutional rights.
 

Econ101

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The big boys want complete control no matter what the costs.

Any govt. that gives it to them needs to be handed their pink slip.
 

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