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I think NAIS resembles NAZI for a reason. It\'s the same tactic they used to divide and conquer.

I will go to jail before I let the USDA tag my animals or register my farm.
This is against the Constitution of the United States and an invasion of my privacy.

Dr. Wiemers stated the NAIS, then USAIP, was intended to placate our \"trading partners\"; in other words, offer them \"safety\" in eating our horses. If the anti-slaughter legislation passes, NAIS will become a moot question since no horsemeat will be exported.

I do not support the NAIS at all - I feel that our own laws & regulations already in effect are sufficient; and I am also against the Real ID Act signed into law by Pres. Bush. I have no inclination to approve of any government interference into my private life. Period.

NAIS implemention is a clear violation of several Constitutional Rights.

New Mexico has mandated that horse rescues and sactuaries follow the 3 facets or we cannot be licensed to operate or receive funding.

NAIS is not about food safety. It\'s an animal tax, pure and simple.

if this becomes law, soon there will be a \"reason\" for microchips in people. Beware your freedoms.

This is a simple issue of American\'s freedoms and should be resisted at all costs.

You must inform the public in CLEAR terms (not vague..\'oh it may or may not effect you..we may or may not need you to register movement...\') before you can legitimately ask these questions to folks. Many of us already own NAERIC registered horses. Our concerns are with the specifics of this registry\'s power over our animals. Please SOMEBODY address that. There is way too many false accusations flying around terrifying people and not enough truth to give people the knowledge they NEED to answer these types of questions you ask, in the first place. Thank you for listening.

well i have heard these id will make the government alot of money.It\'s bad enough that horse slaughtering is still going on.People kill these horse for the money;not because it\'s inhumane;it plain cruetly.

I would euthanize my animals rather than allow them to go to slaughter. Also I would not purchase feed, hay, trucks, trailers, horse equipment, etc.
It would be small impact on market but if enough feel the same way, it might do damage to economy.

I don\'t see the reason or need for registering livestock

Your survey made it too black and white for support or non support of the whole package. I will have a problem with the NAIS if the regulations make it difficult or impossible to haul horses for recreational pleasure without a long paper trail or weeks of preparation. IF THE NAIS INSISTS ON TRACKING HORSES USED FOR RECREATIONAL PURPOSES THAN I WILL OPPOSE THE WHOLE PACKAGE AND I WILL NOT SUPPORT ANY ONE WHO DOES NOT AGREE WITH ME...

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The USDA doesn\'t have the manpower to conduct the business it\'s in today. How on earth will NAIS be carried out effectively? I can imagine paperwork being delayed and lost -- horses being stopped (in travel) or owners questioned for no good reason. It is NOT a proper system for horses, which often move individually and for purposes other than sale or slaughter. It is designed for animals that move in herds a couple of times a year, or in their lives.

We already have more than adequate measures in place to deal with disease. NAIS would simply make it easy for some paper pusher to demand that all animals in a certain radius be put to death, regardless of their susceptibility or level of risk. Surely large farmers with dangerously homogeneous gene pools will emerge unscathed, but their sworn enemies, the small voiceless organic, genetically diverse organic farmer, will be taken out every time.

Big money is always above the rules. Note Iraq, our woodland and mineral rights taken with no recourse for people to own, then huge wells lit up like trees are installed, despite lawsuits to stop them, running 24/7 in peoples\' yards for 6 years straight, pastures and fencing destroyed without a peep of remorse, salt water and sludge pits destroying the land, and not a single bit of the natural gas going to the land owner, plus blatant eminent domain abuses all over the country not for roads, but for country clubs and yacht clubs, and the outright betrayal of our wild animals after years of horrible water resource planning.

When guns are registered, sudden confiscations occur. In Australia, a collector cried as they destroyed his priceless antiques. Crime was not affected, but our history was, the idiots.

NAIS is communistic. If implemented it will change the face of America. If laws are passed to make it only voluntary it will be simple for the law to be ammended to make it mandatory.

Thanks for running this survey. I sure wish we had the equivalent of the Oregon Small Holders Alliance up here in Washington State.

This must be stopped. It is beyond nightmarish in its implications for animal owners, independent food producers, and, whether they know it or not, the entire population of the U.S.

just wrong, too expensive, disease is tracked very well in this country by systems that already exist.invades my personal property rights- I think is just a way to sell chips, make some rich richer, I do not think they can keep info private, will drive many small business out

We have enough steps in place to track livestock. We DO NOT need another one that is more costly than what we already have.

This program has nothing to do with animal health and everything to do with big government.

I believe NAIS should remain completely voluntary so the benefits will remain market driven for those who will profit from it. The idea of complete compliance is so outlandish and such an impossible task that will become so cost prohibitive that small producers such as myself will be driven out of business. Disease control can be handled by notification and quarantine, NAIS will force producers underground and probably contribute to disease outbreaks from smuggled animals. I believe COOL (country of origin labeling) would be a better use of my tax dollars. A cow that was raised in Brazil, eating God knows what and medicated with drugs outlawed in the US, sold and tagged in Texas, and now sporting a NAIS tag, will NOT give me peace of mind about the food I am eating. Besides, most \"disease\" outbreaks are caused by mismanagement at the processing level, ie E coli for example. Frequent and thorough inspections would do more good than trying to keep track of every Grandma\'s backyard egg flock in the country. I hope that this system will be tailored back to fit those who will ultimately profit from it; those who need it to compete in the world market. But to expect EVERY animal in the country to be tagged and tracked, and I\'m sure, TAXED, is an idea that I will continue to fight tooth and nail until this government comes to it\'s senses.

We must stand together to stop mandatory NAIs. If the big producers wish to track everything they raise, so they can sell overseas, fine but a cartel and monopoly they can\'t have.

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