Contact: Paul Hamby 816 632 0602
Email: info@missouriansagainstnais.com
Press Conference at 10:00 am at Truman Conference Center, Jefferson City, Missouri
Missouri Farmers, Ranchers, and Consumers will hold a protest of the NAIS
June 5, 2009 Jefferson City, Missouri.............
Farmers, Ranchers and Consumers will hold a protest of the NAIS - National Animal ID System on Tuesday June 9 from 8 am to 12 noon. The protest will run concurrently with the USDA NAIS listening session at Truman Hotel & Conference Center in Jefferson City, Missouri. More than a dozen organizations have signed on in support of the peaceful protest and will have members attending to speak out against NAIS. The USDA has been pushing for mandatory NAIS, originally calling for mandatory in January of 2008 and with enforcements in January of 2009, but has delayed implementation due to huge public outcry against the program. USDA is now asking for public input on how to overcome objections to the program. Bob Parker, a southern Missouri farmer, has toured the state speaking out against NAIS, "The USDA does not want to accept that the people are against this program. They are asking how to make it more palatable. Our message to USDA is to end NAIS now."
NAIS is a three phase program designed by the USDA and the Nat'l Institute for Animal Agriculture to advance guidelines for international trade through an agency of the World Trade Organization called the OIE. NAIS will tag and track movements of 33 species of animals worldwide. Phase 1 requires livestock owners to obtain a GPS linked Premise ID number for their property. Phase 2 requires all animals be identified with an international ID device. Phase 3 requires electronic reporting of movements on or off a premises to effectuate 48 hour trace-back to the premises of origin of any and every animal. Each phase is predicated upon the preceding phase. There can be no NAIS animal ID without a NAIS premises ID.
Opposition to NAIS is strongest from independent cattlemen, small farmers and hobbyists.
Doreen Hannes is a researcher, author and public speaker whose family has a small farm and raises much of their own food. She states, "The design of NAIS is effectively a license to farm. This program would cost us at least $4,000 the first year. There is no method for growers to recoup the cost of the program, and the implementation of NAIS will be the destruction of the family farm and rural America. The cost to freedom is simply immeasurable."
"The MissouriLibertarian Party has worked with farmers and ranchers in Missouri for years to prevent implementation of the burdensome regulations of the National Animal Identification System being forced on them by the USDA", Glenn Nielsen, Missouri Libertarian Party Chair.
Paul Hamby, NW Missouri coordinator for Campaign for Liberty, states "NAIS will put an undue burden on non-electric Amish farmers, small hobby farmers, 4-H and FFA members while providing no benefit to them. NAIS will not make our food supply safer. I am against this international livestock ID program run by the same federal government who just bought General Motors."
The following organizations are sending members to Jefferson City to speak against NAIS on June 9:
R-CALF USA
Missouri Campaign for Liberty
Arkansas Animal Producers Association
International Dairy Goat Registry
Missouri Independent Consumers and Farmers Association
Illinois Independent Consumers and Farmers Association
Ozarks Property Rights Congress
Missouri First, Inc.
Liberty Restoration Project
Legislators Against Real ID
Missouri Libertarian Party
Missouri Constitution Party
Missouri Rural Crises Center
Citizens for Private Property
Douglas County Citizens for Liberty
For interviews or talk radio guests call,
Doreen Hannes 417 349 9625/417 962 0030
Bob Parker 417 257 8711
Ray Cunio 314 223 6925
Paul Hamby 816 632 0602
NAIS ~~ over estimated, over promised, over budget, unnecessary, unneeded and unwanted.
Brad Headtel
The NAIS is a years-old concept that has outlived its time and fails to recognize that economic instability is our greatest national hazard, not, if all the animals have a government number.
Mary--Fireworks Farm, CA.
NAIS is not a direct ban on meat or chicken or goat meat or ...
but a slow, complex legal threat entailing loss of more and more
control and then of isolated bankruptcy or of just giving up farming
or ranching completely.
Linn Cohen-Cole, 2008
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State
(Source: New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973)
Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.
Brad Headtel-------On Bruce (USDA) Knight's pandemic
projections
of national livestock catastrophic die-offs.
Bureaucracy never sleeps.
Neil Young
Makes ranchers paw the dirt----like a bull looking forward to the virtues of castration.
on NAIS-------Brad Headtel
Only Jesus loves the stupid. As He looks closer toward the DC Beltway------it's an ever increasing stretch.
Brad Headtel
You are known by the low morals of the bureaucrats you tolerate.
Brad Headtel
Phony science begets phony public policy.
Walter Williams
NAIS~~~~ Mother of all unnecessary federal job creation schemes.
Brad Headtel
The issue is not the issue. Who decides the issue is the issue. If you decide the issue you are a free man. If a politician decides the issue you can un-elect him, but if a bureaucrat decides the issues you are his pawn and practically without recourse.
Harold Hockstatter
It is sad that here in the United States of America we must fight our government to protect our own rights, but fight I will.
Jerry Fennell--From "Shattered Dreams"
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
On NAIS -- H.L. Mencken
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it..
Adolf Hitler
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
Robert Heinlein
If a government program is not worth doing at all, it is not worth doing well.
...on NAIS - Brad Headtel
Communism ~~ the government owns the means and method of production. In fascism the government controls the means and method of production.
We're not happy until you're not happy...
USDA official on the Westland/Hallmark Meat recall of Feb. 17, 08
NAIS is one of those issues that everyone wishes never became an issue. It is a genie that will not go back in the bottle.
Troy Marshall, Seed Stock Digest, 1/7/08
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
on the NAIS program..... - Frederick Douglass
We're out here branding cattle, worrying about our best horse going blind, when all of a sudden the USDA is working at mach speed filling our saddle bags with heavy NAIS rocks.
Michelle Reid
....NAIS matters less than flea sweat. ....producer interest in NAIS is less robust than a paper pig in a barbeque pit.
This is the first time in my life I have had the opportunity to save billions of dollars of wasted government tax for my fellow livestock producers all over the nation. As it was said about Queen Esther of old, from the great palace of Shushan, '...who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this.?'
I feel the NAIS program, as planned, will embezzle from 10 to 60% of the profit from every livestock producer, and that is not an acceptable price to pay for a naive USDA concern about future unknown or previously eradicated diseases.
Every consumer or livestock owner should spend full time to prevent the enforcement of this cost to our nation.
Darol Dickinson
NAIS will not be mandatory under my tenure. I repeat will not!
Mike Johanns on mandatory National Animal Identification Surrender.
Sec. of Agriculture Mike Johanns quit the job two months later.
NAIS will put Livestock owners under closer surveillance than terrorists, illegals aliens, drug
dealers, and convicted sex offenders/child molesters. Currently,
only convicted sex offenders/child molesters have to register their premises.
BSE, bovine spongiform encephalopathy takes five to seven years to develop. It's not actually a disease that you have to rush to trace. You can take about all the time you need. What you want to do is prevent it in the first place.
Reno, Nev. --- 11/29/07 Jay Truitt
NCBA VP for governmental affairs,
on the USDA proposed
48 hour
emergency
disease
trace back.
Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gunna happen.
Will Rogers . . . . on NAIS
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
Mark Twain
What this country needs are more unemployed bureaucrats.
Edward Langley
Each time we give up information about ourselves to the government, we give up some of our freedom. The more the government or any institution knows about us, the more power it has over us. When the government knows all of our private information, we stand naked before official power; stripped of our privacy, we lose our rights and privileges. The Bill of Rights then becomes just so many words.
Senator Sam Ervin, June 1974.
The USDA is a run away agency out of control, with total disregard for U.S. citizens, yet full regard for other countries and free trade at all costs.
Dr. Max Thornsberry, President R-CALF USA
NAIS . . . a program that somewhat resembles an expensive plan to use baseball bats to kill mosquitoes . . . when we haven't found the mosquito---and the plan was proposed by a bat manufacturer.
NAIS . . . when freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.
The urge to save humanity is almost always a fake front for the urge to rule.
H.L. Menchen
Is the USDA run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it?
NAIS is like a fat man in a swim suit - you may not appreciate what you see, but what isn't revealed is even more fearful.
NAIS Employee -- Never argue with a person whose job depends on not being convinced.
Remember - A major animal disease outbreak to a State Veterinarian is like a multi-car wreck to an auto body shop.
NAIS is the very model of how an unresponsive Executive Branch agency can cooperate with a globalist industrial agriculture and a technocratic corporate elite to force an undesired program upon an unwilling populace.
Mary Zanoni
NAIS press releases from USDA could present caviar in such a light we want to run from it like a falling meteorite.
Many associations embrace the NAIS because their paid leadership does so, regardless of what their members truly want.
Marida Favia delCore Borromeo
On NAIS - If USDA comes up with a stupid idea -- If Congress votes to fund it -- If 296,000,000 taxpayers write the check -- I'm sorry, it's still a stupid idea.
NAIS is a disease masquerading as its own cure.
NAIS is the result of looking for trouble, not finding it anywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying costly incorrect remedies.
As the government is doing wrong to us, like with NAIS, you gotta know they are doing wrong to people all over the world, right? Why do all these countries hate the USA?
Linn Cohen-Cole
Once government gets its hands on new power, it is never relinquished.
Farmers, Ranchers and Consumers will hold a protest of the NAIS - National Animal ID System on Tuesday June 9 from 8 am to 12 noon. The protest will run concurrently with the USDA NAIS listening session at Truman Hotel & Conference Center in Jefferson City, Missouri. More than a dozen organizations have signed on in support of the peaceful protest and will have members attending to speak out against NAIS. The USDA has been pushing for mandatory NAIS, originally calling for mandatory in January of 2008 and with enforcements in January of 2009, but has delayed implementation due to huge public outcry against the program. USDA is now asking for public input on how to overcome objections to the program. Bob Parker, a southern Missouri farmer, has toured the state speaking out against NAIS, "The USDA does not want to accept that the people are against this program. They are asking how to make it more palatable. Our message to USDA is to end NAIS now."
NAIS ~~ over estimated, over promised, over budget, unnecessary, unneeded and unwanted.
NAIS is not a direct ban on meat or chicken or goat meat or ...
but a slow, complex legal threat entailing loss of more and more
control and then of isolated bankruptcy or of just giving up farming
or ranching completely.
