Noticed

Thanks to <a href="http://northviewdiary.blogspot.com/2006/11/no-nais-noticed-again.html">Northview Diary</a> for pointing out that my other blog, <a href="http://noanimalid.com">No Mandatory Animal ID</a> made a mention in the USA Today.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-10-26-animal-id_x.htm?csp=34" >Animal ID plan angers some farmers</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A thousand turkeys, 500 cattle, 300 pigs, 1,900 chickens and four generations of the Salatin family share the grassland on this 550-acre farm in the Shenandoah Mountains.<br />n<br />nNow, Joel Salatin is worried the government will make it impossible for his 25-year-old son and his two young grandsons to keep the family business going for the generations to come.<br />n<br />nHe has joined a growing national grass-roots movement against an ambitious new government disease-fighting program that asks every farm in the nation register its animals. The aim of the program, called the National Animal Identification System (<acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym>), is to make it easier to track down animals during a disease outbreak that threatens humans and livestock.<br />n<br />n…….<br />n<br />nUntold numbers of animal owners disagree and their passion against the program is fueled on websites such as non-ais.org, stopanimalid.org and noanimalid.com, as well as in publications such as Countryside and Small Stock Journal.</blockquote><br />n<br />nIt just goes to show you how you can effectively use the Internet to influence opinion and fight the government. I am proud to make such company and we all have the goal of stopping an out of control government program. Go visit my other blog if you are interested in learning more about <acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym> and how to fight it. Fighting it is simple, contact any and all of your elected officials. Also ask the people running for office. I did here in Montana. I either got no response or that they thought <acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym> was a good idea. This is how to fight it.<br />n<br />n<strong>You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices. Deepak Chopra </strong>