Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: HIS/NAIS

  • Fight

    <a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=202624">R-CALF: Fight <acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym> Down To The Last Cowboy: Australia Beef Association</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>R-CALF USA was fortunate to again have former president of the Australia Beef Association (ABA), John Carter, recently speak at its annual convention about the numerous problems with Australia’s mandatory National Livestock Identification System (NLIS). Below is Carter’s…

  • Mandatory Is Back

    <a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=7BA3BAF3-0755-4CAA-321F01F5B69106A8">Peterson again backs mandatory national animal ID</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>mandatory national animal identification system is coming, at least if House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson has anything to say about it. In perhaps one of the underreported stories of the National Farmers Union (NFU) convention, House Ag Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, in a phone call…

  • Wrong Target

    <a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=622E4DEB-BC7E-5C54-61A44BA8E575CD19">Harkin won't rule out mandatory national animal ID</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The farm bill may not be done yet, but that isn't stopping the Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin from looking ahead. And he's looking ahead at a program that's proven controversial in the past.<br />n<br />nDuring a teleconference with reporters Thursday, Harkin said, even…

  • Misleading

    This has to fall into the misleading quote of the year awards.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>"The National Animal Identification System is one of the tougher programs to administer, but we are making progress with the voluntary approach," Knight said. "It doesn't cost anything, it's confidential, it's simple to do and, most importantly, it's the right thing to…

  • Mandatory

    <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=rfid&articleId=279030&taxonomyId=77" >Farmers Fear Livestock ID Mandate</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Independent livestock ranchers last week were quick to criticize signals that the new Congress may soon mandate implementation of the RFID-based National Animal Identification System.<br />n<br />nSigning on to the <acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym> program has been voluntary since it was first proposed in 2003, but…

  • NAIS Feasibility

    A little review to start with. What is the purpose of <acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym> and how is it going to be accomplished and who is the lead agency in it's implementation?<br />n<br />n<acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym> is a program by the <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by…

  • Track It

    I have been waiting for more information before commenting on the latest case of E-coli hitting our food markets. I see a little more information but no answers yet.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061213/ap_on_bi_ge/e_coli_outbreak_taco_bell" >Officials: Lettuce source of E. coli</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Lettuce was the most likely source of an outbreak of E. coli linked to Taco Bell,…

  • A Little Premature

    I think this headline is a little premature.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://enews.prismb2b.com/enews/beef/beef_stocker_trends/current" > National ID Is Dead </a><br />n<br />n<blockquote> <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> effectively and quietly knocked the National Animal Identification System (<acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym>) in the head last Wednesday. It did…

  • NAIS News

    The Government now claims <acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym> will <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1152AP_Animal_ID.html">always be voluntary</a>. <br />n<br />nHA, IN A PIGS EAR!!!<br />n<br />nCheck out my thoughts on this at <a href="http://www.noanimalid.com/archives/84-Government-Vow.html">No Mandatory Animal ID</a>.<br />n<br />n<strong>The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. Niccolo Machiavelli</strong>

  • The Push Is On

    <a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=0640F3ED-046B-B2B9-A179977221356FDD" >NPPC firmly behind mandatory animal ID</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Incoming House Ag Committee Chairman Collin Peterson told farm broadcasters at their national convention again on Friday he backs mandatory national animal identification, because <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> is "screwing up" in implementing a voluntary…