The Nation, December 14, 2007
NAIS, which the US Department of Agriculture has been rolling out in concert with many states since 2003, is stunning in its projected scope. Over the next few years each of the nation’s 1.4 million farms (plus thousands of veterinary facilities, export/import stations, livestock barns and genetic facilities) will be affected, with all their approximately 95 million cattle, 1.8 billion chickens, 60 million pigs, 93 million turkeys, 6.3 million sheep, 2.5 million goats and every other livestock species, including bison, camelids, cervids, horses and llamas. In all, more than twenty-nine species and more than two billion animals are slated to be fitted with the ID tags or be injected with transponders that transmit, to a national network of databases, information as basic as date of birth and as sophisticated as DNA profiles and chemical-residue measurements in the bloodstream.
The complete article at:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071231/pentland_gumpert
Is another Otero County Ordinance in order, one prohibiting National Animal Identification System (NAIS)? I think so in that other counties in New Mexico have followed suit with the Wolf, Jaguar, Grizzly Bear Ordinance. Let’s take the lead again.
Filed under: NAIS, Otero County Ordinance, PREMISE REGISTRATION
Originally the USDA set the number of farmers at about 4 times that many. Then in order to make their goals more obtainable they cut the number of farms thus making it appear that they were more successful in their signup rate than they really are. In their documentation it says any premise with any of the listed livestock including even one horse, a single chicken or a pot bellied pig. This would make the number of ‘farms’ closer to 10 to 20 million rather than the 1.4 million number the USDA is currently using. Read their new book: “How to lie and cheat with numbers”…