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A January 09, 2009 article touting the National Animal Identification System, by the USDA, is nothing less than creative advertising meant to sell an unwanted and unneeded product. If the need for such a system was real, it would be an admittance by USDA, the agency which swallows up millions of taxpayer dollars each year, was not capable of performing the tasks assigned to it. Isn’t that fraud?

USDA never alludes to its ignoring of Johnes disease which is the scourge of bovine herds. No attempts by USDA to eradicate the disease or to stop its spread among herds while they attempt to convince livestock producers NAIS is a good and necessary tool.

[In 2004 the USDA estimated the Johne’s infection rate to be at 20%. Today, reliable estimates reveal over 60% of the nation’s dairy herds are co-mingled with Johne’s positive cows, a 300% increase in only four years, but the USDA doesn’t feel this is a problem worth their time. The USDA appears comfortable with this major epidemic, and has no plan for acceleration about the problem.

The USDA, with their own data, estimates an annual financial loss as a result of Johne’s in dairy herds to be $200,000,000. For one year the Johne’s loss is nearly as much as USDA has invested in promoting NAIS during the past 6 years. This annual loss is more than 1000% over the eradication costs of the US Avian Influenza fiasco, a statistic USDA tosses out to tout the serious need of an NAIS mandatory system.]

http://www.naissucks.com/index.php?con=nais_not_about_disease

This one issue alone, because of its scope and financial costs is the clear indicator that the program known as NAIS is NOT about tracking disease in US herds. Its is plainly and simply a tool being used to gain control and access to food production and to the land which is being used as collateral on the debt incurred bailing out Wall Street.

If this claim of protecting the food supply were valid, why would there be any need to register your property with a Premises ID? Simple vet tags now used identify not only the livestock, but also the vet who issued the tag and by extension the farm or ranch that obtained the vet certification. No processor will accept delivery on a non-vet certified shipment of beef. So where is this big national threat of not being able to track it?

According to Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA):

About 15% of all beef consumed in the United States is imported. Imported beef is either processed separately of MIXED WITH DOMESTIC product. (emphasis, mine)

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10528&page=13

As USDA knows all too well, contamination occurs at the point of processing at least 90% of the time, not in production. USDA also knows that countries importing to the US many times either do not have the same health standards, or fail to implement health and sanitation standards, yet the agency has failed to prohibit imports on any level.

USDA with its proclivity for pandering to mega-corporations made sure there were provisions in the NAIS to relieve corporate producers from experiencing any significant costs that might affect their bottom lines. For these special groups, livestock can be registered in lots and fees paid as if there was only one head. The true costs of NAIS will be passed on to the small and independent producers. The only real intent of the USDA is to eradicate these independents and allow corporations to seize control of production.

IF NAIS was simply a disease tracking tool, why do our pets have to be chipped and tracked also? Was someone planning to start slaughtering and selling dogs and cats? USDA wants every domestic animal, of any kind, owned for any reason to be RFID chipped. Now what the hell would domestic pets have to do with stopping contamination or disease in livestock herds meant for human consumption.

The obvious false scenario’s planted wherever anyone will give USDA ink space are indicative of an agency on a mission for which it has neither the constitutional nor lawful authority to impose. NAIS has nothing to do with protecting the food supply or tracking disease. It is simply one more brick in the wall along with REAL ID and the total surveillance society being assembled a piece at a time by various agencies which have neither authority or rights to do so.

NO NAIS…NOT NOW….NOT EVER!