PLEASE READ~ AMEND NAIS BY MONDAY FOR OUR HEALTH!

Ok, so those who haven't heard or don't know, Nais is the proposed National Animal Identification System... it's website is HERE: animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais/

The site you can pass your piece of mind along to fix this is www.peaceteam.net/nais_hous...ittee.html

What's wrong with implementing this program? It excludes animals on huge unsanitary 'factory farms' {massive stockyards with imprisoned, often sickly animals which are overly medicated and fed poor quality food... imagine prison, in medieval times}! Diseases and ailments run rampant in those situations, and it's ironic that the very system proposed to prevent them from spreading to our food, water and population would give he worst offenders 'Free Range"! Ever wonder whether those huge farms have septic tanks and cleaning facilities for all that waste? Ever see a small farm? They have ponds of excrement! Needless to say, this bill needs some 'cleaning up'.

I've received word that though the deadline for protesting this was last week {3/11/09} The USDA will be reviewing comments and public consensus on this topic! Where do you send your thoughts? This site is a start, they have done most of the work for you... all concerns are automatically forwarded to your state reps and they also have a page of contacts for the house subcommittee reviewing this proposal @ www.peaceteam.net/nais_hous...ittee.html Feel free to call them with a piece of your mind!

The website which you can pass on your feelings about this atrocious oversight is here:

www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum942.php

Thanks a billion to all who read this and support sane solutions, I really appreciate the time and concern fellow mothers here may feel about safety issues which hit home hardest!

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NAIS was designed by NIAA (the National Institute of Animal Agriculture), a corporate consortium consisting of Monsanto, industrial meat producers such as Cargill and Tyson, and surveillance companies such Viatrace, AgInfoLink, and Digital Angel. The NAIS scheme fits agribusiness, biotech, and surveillance companies to a T:

1) They are already computerized, and they engineered a corporate loophole: If an entity owns a vertically integrated, birth-to-death factory system with thousands of animals (as the Cargills and Tysons do), it does not have to tag and track each one but instead a herd is given a single lot number.

2). NAIS will only be burdensome and costly (fees, tags, computer equipment, time) to small farmers which helps push them out of business, thus leaving more market to giant agribusiness.

3) Agribusiness wants to reassure export customers that the US meat industry is finally cleaning up its widespread contamination. NAIS would give that appearance ... without incurring the cost of a real cleanup.

4) NAIS will allow total control over the competition: Owners of even a single chicken would be required to register private information, the Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates of their 'premise' and if any animal leaves its 'premise', the owner will be required to obtain an ID number for it and have the animal microchipped. All information, including 24 hour GPS surveillance would be fed into a vast corporate data bank, allowing for ease of false slaughter to hide true problems or to substitute biotech's genetically engineered animals.

5) NAIS may allow plundering of farmers through required DNA samples: DNA samples would be invaluable to Monsanto and biotech corporations genetically engineering animals. Farmers who raise heritage breeds would have no say in how their distinct DNA would be used and to the sole profit of biotech companies.

6) The advantage for the surveillance companies is obvious: Compulsory tagging of 6 million sheep, 7 million horses, 63 million hogs, 97 million cows, 260 million turkeys, 300 million laying hens, 9 billion chickens, and untold numbers of bison, alpaca, quail, and other animals -- and new animals being born, means a massive self-perpetuating market.

The health claims for NAIS are a sham though fear of disease is used to advance it. NAIS does not touch the contaminated source of E.coli, salmonella, listeria, mad cow, and common meat-borne diseases - the inherently unhealthy practices (mass crowding, growth stimulants, feeding regimens, rushed assembly lines, poor sanitation, etc.) of industrial-scale meat operations. Upton Sinclair's "Jungle" all over again. NAIS will do nothing to stop these practices. Moreover, tracking ends at the time of slaughter, yet it's from slaughter onward that most spoilage occurs. But NAIS does not trace any contamination after slaughter.

The self-serving Agribusiness NAIS plan distracts from their contaminatory practices, while targeting hundreds of thousands of small farms, homesteaders, organic producers, hobbyists ... and maybe even you. NAIS's purpose is to advance corporate monopoly over all food in the US. And with it, they have laid the ground work. Kissinger said if you control food, you can control people. This immense corporate plan to control of our food supply and eliminate our independent farmers is, at it heart, the most severe threat possible to our democracy itself.