graze-l October 2005: [SPAM] - [SPAM] - Re: [Graze-l] [SPAM] - What is NAIS? - Found word(s) list error
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Thank you Greg.
It and NAIS sound like good ideas the whole world should have.
>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
>----- Original Message ----- 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 the Text body
>
>
>> 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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>> -- Best wishes,
>>
>> Vaughan Jones
>> Hamilton
>> New Zealand
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Best wishes,
Vaughan Jones
Hamilton
New Zealand
