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| AMERICANS ARE BEING FORCED INTO THE "VOLUNTARY" NAIS ALL OVER THE NATION! The Michigan Department of Agriculture at long last force-tested and tagged Greg Niewendorp’s twenty head of cattle today. About twenty supporters and six media representatives were in attendance, Charlevoix County Sheriff George Lasater told me late this afternoon. “It was very peaceful,” he said. As he recounted the events, four MDA representatives—inspectors and vets—showed up at 9 a.m. as the sheriff served the administrative search warrant, which allows the agency to administer the test and RFID (radio frequence identification) tags, and then on Thursday to read the tests. Greg, he said, “didn’t cooperate, but he didn’t get in the way.” The big challenge for the MDA reps was to locate the cattle on Greg’s 160-plus acres of land, much of it heavily wooded. “It took them two to three hours to locate the cattle,” according to the sheriff. “They had to walk the area. Then they had to set up corrals” to administer the test for bovine tuberculosis. I couldn’t reach Greg for his account of the events. He has refused since early this year to cooperate with the MDA, based on his contention that the tests are unnecessary and an infringement on his property rights. He objects to the tagging of his animals because it constitutes implementation of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS), which is supposed to be voluntary. Michigan last March became the first state in the country to require NAIS tagging of cattle, based on new regulations from the MDA, seeking to curry favor with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. When Greg in late February declared his refusal to go along with the testing and tagging, the MDA immediately slapped a quarantine on his farm. According to the sheriff, “I did not anticipate any problem from Greg. He knew what to expect from me, and I knew what to expect from him.” But just in case, the shefiff had two officers waiting in town, if needed. Moreover, the Michigan State Police had two cars with four officers in wait as well. The next step: “I told Greg we’d be there Thursday at 9” for the MDA to read the tests. I'd say Greg made his points about as strongly as one individual can, short of resisting violently. He has demonstrated the state's commitment to forcing farmers to have their cattle tested, even when those farmers are only selling their beef privately to willing consumers. He has also demonstrated the state and federal commitment to packaging NAIS into the bovine TB testing program. I expect there will be additional tests of resolve down the road. These issues won't go away. http://www.thecompletepatient.com/journal/2007/10/8/mda-tests-and-tags-greg-niewendorps-cattle-very-peaceful-say.html#comment1035967****************************************************************************************************************** FOR THE WHOLE STORY, GO TO: http://www.rfidnews.org/weblog/2007/10/02/digital-angel-snaps-up-livestock-order/ The NAIS, a cooperative program between state and federal governments and the livestock industry to help trace, manage and eradicate animal diseases like Mad Cow Disease, Foot and Mouth Disease, Pseudo-Rabies Disease and Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome in pigs, is being run by APHIS. APHIS launched the voluntary NAIS in 2004 with the PREMISES REGISTRATION SYSTEM and is now continuing its advancement by implementing the ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION component. (OUR NOTE: DOES THAT SOUND LIKE IT'S NOT GOING TO BE "MANDATORY"?!) Under the NAIS, electronic ID (EID) devices must be approved by USDA. Digital Angel has approval on its EID and transponder devices for livestock. The Company will be submitting its new sheep and goat EID device for approval shortly. CURRENTLY THE USDA IS ENTERING INTO COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS TO PROMOTE PREMISE REGISTRATIONS AMONG PRODUCERS. To-date approximately 410,000 producer premises are registered. ALTHOUGH IT IS NOT MANDATORY FOR PRODUCERS TO ID THEIR LIVESTOCK, USDA IS UTILIZING PREMISE ID AND ELECTRONIC IDENTIFICATION FOR THEIR NUMEROUS DISEASE CONTROL PROGRAMS (BRUCELLOSIS, TUBERCULOSIS, PSEUDORABIES, CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE, ETC.) THE FIRST USE, WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF THE AWARD FOR THE 630,000 EID TAGS, WILL BE TO CONTROL AND TRACE BRUCELLOSIS AMONG CATTLE." THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE SAYING - THEY WILL USE EXISTING PROGRAMS TO SUCK IN YOUR ANIMALS INTO THE NAIS WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. IF YOU HAVE CATTLE, THEY WILL USE THE BRUCELLOSIS PROGRAM TO FORCE YOU TO PUT THEM IN THE NAIS. IF YOU HAVE GOATS, THEY WILL USE THE SCRAPIE PROGRAM TO FORCE YOU TO PUT THEM IN THE NAIS. IF YOU HAVE HORSES, THEY WILL USE THE COGGINS TESTS. THIS INCLUDES REGISTERING YOUR *PROPERTY* AS *PREMISES* AS WELL AS ID'ING THE ANIMALS! THEY ARE ALREADY DOING THIS! ON OCT. 7, 2007, THEY FORCED THE ABOVE MICHIGAN CATTLE OWNER AGAINST HIS WILL TO PUT HIS 20 HEAD OF COWS AND REGISTER HIS PROPERTY AS PREMISES IN THE NAIS THROUGH THE TUBERCULOSIS TESTING PROGRAM. WE MUST STOP THEM FROM DOING THIS, FOLKS! CALL YOUR CONGRESSMEN AND SCREAM! THE USDA IS TELLING EVERYONE THAT THE NAIS WILL REMAIN VOLUNTARY AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL WHILE AT THE SAME TIME, DOING UNDERHANDED STUNTS LIKE THIS AT THE STATE LEVEL TO FORCE THOSE OF US WHO WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH THE NAIS INTO COMPLYING AND LOSING THE RIGHTS TO OUR PRIVATE PROPERTY! ARE AMERICANS THE BOSS OR IS THE USDA??! THEY ARE NOTHING IF THEY HAVE NO FUNDING FOR THIS! TELL YOUR CONGRESSMEN, NO FUNDING FOR THE NAIS IN THE APHIS OR USDA! |
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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. Every cow – as many as 100 million – must have a unique numbered identification tag, most likely a Radio Frequency Identification Device. More than 500 million chickens must be identified with a similar tag. Every horse, every pig, every goat, every sheep – every livestock animal in the United States will be required to have a unique number loaded into a national database, along with the coordinates of the premises where the animal is housed. And should an animal leave the premises for any reason, the owner would have to report it to the government within 24 hours, or face fines and jail penalties. Illegal aliens bring in drugs, guns, disease and who knows what else. Illegal aliens drive down wages. Illegal aliens commit a disproportionate number of crimes, clog the court system and fill the jails. Illegal aliens drain social services at taxpayer expense, and the government is helpless – or unwilling – to do anything about it. But the government is all hot to trot about tagging all the animals in the country because – they say – it may help locate the source of a disease, should one break out. The National Animal Identification System, or NAIS, is not about an animal disease or potential disease. It's about money. It's about big money for big meat processors and the political campaigns they can fatten. Thanks to the various committees and working groups of the World Trade Organization, the international community has decided global trade in meat products should be traceable and require a "national system" to be in place before products can be imported into certain countries. The National Institute for Animal Agriculture, a not-for-profit collection of the major trade associations and meat processors, developed a plan, along with a willing U.S. Department of Agriculture, to impose the NAIS on farmers and ranchers without their consent and at their expense. In Idaho alone, more than 15,000 ranchers were registered into the program without their knowledge or permission. Opposition exploded across the nation, and the USDA rewrote its plan, saying henceforth the NAIS would be "voluntary." Yeah, right. That's like saying the new immigration bill will solve the illegal-alien problem. While claiming the program is "voluntary," the USDA is paying various state agencies and nonprofit groups to register farmers and ranchers into the program, often using coercive techniques. In Colorado, 4-H students are not allowed to show their animals unless they are registered in the NAIS. In Florida, retired bureaucrats working for the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (largely funded by the USDA), are tracking down private landowners and counting livestock animals – with or without the owner's permission. Now, Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., Chair of the House Agriculture Committee, has decided he doesn't care what the farmers and ranchers want. He has decided to slip the NAIS into the Farm Bill by attaching it to a previously enacted law, the Country of Origin Labeling Act. Peterson is saying: If Americans want to know what foreign country provides the meat in their hamburger, every livestock animal in America is going to be tagged, registered into a national database and all movements reported the USDA. This trade-off has nothing to do with health or safety; it has everything to do with big bucks for the big processors – and their congressional friends. Currently, meat products from anywhere can be imported and incorporated into hamburger, hot dogs and other processed meats now sold as American meat. With Country of Origin Labeling, these meat products would have to disclose the origin of the meat contents – like every other imported product. Have you ever seen the "Made in China" disclosure on almost everything? Why not have your hamburger package say: "30 percent of this product made in Uganda," or some other country? Because it would scare the "sale" out of a lot of people, and the big processors know it. That's precisely why the NIAA, the National Cattle and Beef Association, the American Farm Bureau Federation and the major meat processors do not want Country of Origin Labeling, but do want National Animal Identification. This way, the big guys can keep on selling whatever they import from whatever source – and call it U.S. meat. And with NAIS, they can also export U.S. prime meat into countries that now require an electronic trace-back system – whether the system works or not. The big guys, and their congressional enablers, make out like gangbusters while the farmers and ranchers pay the costs and do the work. BY HENRY LAMB WORLD NET DAILY NEWS http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56200 X X X X X X
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