Vaughan,
In Northeast Indiana USDA APHIS (Animal Plant and Health Inspection
Service) does animal and premise inspections. We have a poultry processing
plant at the farm so the APHIS vet comes out and inspects our "premise" and
paperwork every six months. Because we are very small they end up never
using our facility for their blood, intestine, or other body part sampling.
So far, it seems like they are actually just there in the event we have a
serious livestock epidemic like Avian Flu, Newcastle, or Foot and Mouth.
Also, so far we could opt out of their identification system on processing
plants if we chose to never process a live animal from anyone that brought
that live animal from out of state. The requirements of the federal law are
basic biosecurity issues (cleaning/sanitizing transport crates/trailers,
etc) and records for a paperwork trail of all the animals with a farm
location. So far, I don't see it as anything that we shouldn't already be
doing anyhow.
Greg
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From: "vaughan jones" <leon@grazinginfo.com>
To: <graze-l@witt.ac.nz>
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 3:11 PM
Subject: [Graze-l] [SPAM] - What is NAIS? - Found word(s) list error farm in
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> Please tell us what NAIS is.
>
>
> I searched and from 2 m found
>
> NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INVESTIGATIVE SPECIALISTS
> P O Box 33244, Austin, Texas, 78764
>
>
> Is there another USA government NAIS?
>
>
>
>>This is an issue that will affect all of us who homestead, who raise our
>>own animals and maybe even occasionally sell some. I have submitted the
>>following letter to my congressional representatives and to my local
>>newspapers. I urge you to think about this issue and communicate with your
>>representatives, write your local papers, talk about this in other
>>discussion lists. Feel free to use any or all of the letter below if you
>>would like.
>>
>>Best wishes,
>>
>>-Walter
>>See my blog at:
>>http://SugarMtnFarm.com/blog/
>>
>>
>>
>>I am concerned that the national animal ID system is too invasive into
>>people's lives. If the real purpose of NAIS is to track the food supply
>>for instances like mad cow disease then:
>>
>>1) NAIS is not necessary for horses, donkeys, guardian animals or other
>>non-food animals - these animals are not going to enter the human food
>>chain in our country and should NOT be tracked by the government.
>>
>>2) NAIS is not necessary for sales direct to the consumer from the farm.
>>In these cases there is already far better tracking of the food chain. I
>>breed and raise my own pigs and sheep. I sell directly to the consumer.
>>The consumer, my customer, knows me. I know the consumer. I know my
>>animals. My customer knows exactly where their food came from - me.
>>
>>3) NAIS should not be at all involved with people who are raising
>>livestock for their own family consumption. They know exactly where the
>>food came from - they raised it. There is no need to have any government
>>involved in our own kitchens and backyard food raising.
>>
>>NAIS is being implemented too broadly. To include the above three groups
>>suggests the government has ulterior motives and is trying to invade
>>people's privacy. There should be exemptions for the above three groups.
>>
>>Thank you,
>>
>>Walter Jeffries
>>Sugar Mtn Farm
>>252 Riddle Pond Road
>>West Topsham, VT 05086
>>(802) 439-6462
>>
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> Vaughan Jones
> Hamilton
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