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This is a very important subject to alot of people out here. It smacks the small farmer and homesteader down. If you really want to be enlightened..go to the website and read this piece of crap called NAIS.

As you are reading..and it IS repetitive..all of a sudden .. way down in the darned thing..They are talking about the deadlines for the "voluntary" sign up. When it goes mandatory..you will get fined $1000.00 a day and face imprisonment. It also says..if you are not signed in by deadline..'You cannot BUY, SELL, or TRADE. HELLO? Is this registering with anyone out there? You also cannot have a vet come to doctor your animals..if he does come and you are not signed up..they HAVE to turn you in.

Horses, cows, chickens, llamas, goats, pigs..they all gotta be tagged. Oh wait..of course IF you are a big Tyson outfit..you can be tagged by lot and not individual animal like us poor slobs out here minding our own business.

This does NOT stop disease or prevent disease. We already have a good tracking system. So why this? Control maybe? Greed..ie..how dare people raise their own food and food that people want to eat without growth hormones and vaccines up the butt! Or...how about the IRS? IF you read the NAIS..it says that they will "try" to keep all your info confidential..hello...TRY? Oh yeah, that makes me feel better. Think maybe the IRS is trying to pick up lost revenues from the small guy selling a beef off the farm?

And last but not least..the NAIS says..'we will try very hard to be sensitive to people's religious beliefs and practices.' And yet goes on to say that there will be NO exemptions to this mandatory program. Mennonites, Amish, people who think that chipping animals is wrong, and just a prelude to chipping people..hey, they are all out of luck.

Perhaps this doesn't upset you because you are not a producer..well, if you are a consumer you might be nervous. People with allergies or health conditions that require them to eat organic..good luck. After this goes through..IF you can still find the products.. you will pay BIG for it. (Did I mention the small producer will be picking up the tab for the tags, equipment to read the tags..fee for having someone else read the tags. In Australia..the tags/chips started out at three dollars each..last I read..they are up to $37.00 a piece. Gonna run right out and chip a chicken for that kinda money?)

This is wrong. It's unAmerican.It bites on the way I believe..as a Christian and as an American.

Go read more at www.stopanimalid.com

The one big reason this is happening is that monsanto and tyson and similar corporations want to control the food chain exclusively. Monsanto has their genetically engineered seeds that have cross pollinated non engineered seedstock. They then claim the non owned seedstock as their own because it inherited characteristics of it's patented process.
Corporate control of the food chain allows financial control of the product. Look what has happened to the price of gasoline when the supply is limited to a handful of suppliers.

This could also be considered eminent domain by proxy. The dept of agriculture is zoning farmland in an attempt to eliminate the marginal producer. It happened with dairy farms 20 or 30 years ago with the imposition of regulations that made it unprofitable to continue production. This same process is now being attempted to livestock producers. Since farms and ranches are a small segment of the population and the economy the government believes they are easy to manipulate.

Control immigration and importation. America can sufficiently support it's self and manage the food chain just fine under current rules. Back off big brother! Coming next. Regulating gardens and farmers produce markets.