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Protect The Rights Of Small Farmers

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Our Traditional Rights To Farm

How will it effect me?

In addition to covering all facilities - read that as your farm or home - that house or manage any listed livestock animal, it also includes all boarding facilities, exhibition grounds, veterinary clinics, etc. that house or treat listed animals.

NAIS, if implemented as planned will require you to register your premises if you own even one of any of the listed agricultural animals. For a list please take the link in the menu to the left. This list is comprehensive and covers pretty much any animal you might find on a property in the suburbs and rural areas. Animals not currently covered in the list will probably be added in the future as the draft plan states that all animals that could benefit from tracking will eventually be added to the program. Even if you live in a city where you are allowed to have a small farm animal like a chicken or a rabbit as a pet you will have to register your premises, place a tracking device - microchip/RFID - in the animal and report to the federal government every time your animal leaves the property, whether it be for a trip to the vet, if your child takes the bunny to school for show and tell, etc. If you sell or give away the animal, you'll have to report the transaction to the system, and the person who received the animal will have to register their premises, etc. Note - rabbits, while currently not on the list of covered species/breeds, will probably be added as soon as a species work group can be formed, especially when you consider that rabbits are susceptible to diseases like Snuffles, Tularemia, Rabies, etc..

If you have a horse and the horse is boarded, the manager of the facility will have to report every time you take your horse off the property for any reason and when you brought it back, and you will have to report where you took the horse, when you took it off the property and when you brought it back. If you sell the horse to someone, they will have to register the horse, the transaction will have to be registered, and if they take the horse home, they will have to register their premises other wise they will have to notify the NAIS what boarding facility they took the horse to.

In addition to implanting a chip/RFID device in or on the animal, you may be required to provide a tissue sample for DNA identification.

If you are a holder of large numbers of animals, however, you will not need to chip and register every single animal. You will only need to register the group as a whole, and report the movement of the group.

In addition, this system will cause the increase of veterinary fees due to increased labor in reporting sightings of covered animals, make it more burdensome in respect to labor to produce agricultural animals for small scale farms and breeders, and will have an overall chilling effect on all aspects of small agriculture. This system will probably result in the increase of prices of specialty meats and organic foods also due to the increase of labor in regards to the reporting/registration/inspection requirements of the system.

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