Category: HIS/NAIS
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Animal ID
If you have paid any attention to me at all, you know I don't support the governments <acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym> efforts. We don't need the government mandating yet another expensive program that us producers can't afford to implement for them.<br />n<br />nYesterday I worked my replacement heifers, heifer calves that I am keeping…
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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…
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Like It Should Be
I've talked about how an ID system should be voluntary and if it was economically viable should not even be required by the government. The free market will provide it. Starting to see it a little now. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/10/15/news/business/55-tag.txt">This article</a> uses the voluntary use of ID tags as an opening to explain how the <acronym…
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Thoughts
Mary Zanoni, Director Of Farm For Life <a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?ContentId=70500">speaks to cattlemen</a> on <acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>You don’t have to eat whatever slop the government puts in front of you. Send the slop back to the kitchen and demand a better chef.</blockquote><br />n<br />nI like it!
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Stupid Idea
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/17/news/wyoming/50-brand.txt" >Brand inspections for horses debated</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A proposal to make brand inspections optional for horses is being criticized by some horse owners – and by some brand inspectors, as well.<br />n<br />nThe Wyoming Legislative Brand Inspection Task Force voted last week to recommend that brand inspections be made optional for horses.</blockquote><br />n<br />nMaking…
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Get the Story Straight
I think Leo McDonnell, Past President of R-CALF USA, needs to get his story straight. At a recent <a href="http://www.r-calfusa.com/News%20Releases/090506-mississippi.htm">get together in Mississippi</a> he told the gathered crowd;<br />n<br />n<blockquote>“R-CALF USA does not support the proposed Animal ID system,” he said. “It is hypocrisy to put such a costly and burdensome regulation on the U.S.…
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Animal ID Update
<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=62914" title="Who Are These People?">Livestock Industry Panel Favors US Animal ID System</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Livestock and meat industry experts said Wednesday they generally were in favor of having a national animal identification program for disease control, but articulated concerns with the current, developing program.</blockquote><br />n<br />nSo industry leaders are all for animal ID, but are…
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How’s It Working
We keep getting sold the whole bill of goods on <acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym> by the constant chorus that Australia is doing it so we need to. According to the proponents of the system all is working out well Down Under and we should be meek little sheep and follow along. Let's take a…
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Running Scared
It looks like the Government is fighting back against people like me talking about <acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym>. Check out <a href="http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=9439&mode=VIEW"> this grant</a> being offered by the <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> and why it's being offered.<br />n<br />n<blockquote> Document Type: Grants Notice<br…
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Defund NAIS
According to Walter at <a href="http://nonais.org/index.php/2006/05/16/storm-alert-defund-nais/">noNAIS</a> Rep Ron Paul has introduced an amendment to H.R.5384, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007, that would defund National Animal Identification System (<acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym>).<br />n<br />n<blockquote> AMENDMENT TO H.R., AS REPORTED<br />n (AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS, 2007)<br />n OFFERED BY MR.…