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Protect The Rights Of Small Farmers
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Our Traditional Rights To Farm
Our ability to own agricultural animals and farm on a small scale is being threatened, have no doubt about it. If ever we needed to draw a line in the sand and say to government 'This far and no farther' this is it.
The National Animal Identification System is under development right now, and is designed to identify every agriculture/aquaculture animal in the United States of America and to track them from birth to death, on a daily basis if need be.
What does this mean to you, a small holder of these animals? What does this mean to you as a consumer of commercially produced meat, fish or poultry?
Read the questions and answers in the FAQ to the left, and have no doubt at all that you will be affected by this in some way, whether you own animals or not, whether you live in the city, the suburbs, or a truly rural community.
It doesn't matter if you own one animal or many, be you a commercial producer or hobbyist with only one animal for your own enjoyment, you will have to comply with this Federal program.
Scheduled to become a mandatory program in January 2009, the NAIS will require everyone in the USA, even owners of only one animal, to register their premises and animals with the federal government. Not only that, but you will be required to tag the animal(s) with special tags or microchips, and report that animal's movement onto and off of your property or the location where your animal is stabled or pastured. There will be charges for registering and tagging the animals and a stiff fine for not reporting any animal's movement within 24 hours of that movement.
Think I'm kidding? Read the information to the left. This is not a drill people, this is as serious as it gets.
While many of these pages are still under construction, there is still much to read here already. Please bear with me. To receive updates on the efforts against the proposed NAIS draft plan sign up for my free newsletter, and for help in getting the word out please feel free to contact me.
Joanne Rigutto - Mulino, Oregon
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