New USDA Law For Anyone Who Owns Live Stock!

Look at the new law that the USDA is going to force on everyone that has live stock, even if you raise it just for yourself. And it is going to include everyone who has even 1 horse that they use for transportation (Amish).

Why You Should Oppose the USDA´s Mandatory Property and Animal Surveillance Program

By Mary Zanoni, Ph.D. (Cornell), J.D. (yale), Executive Director of Farm for Life~ P.O. Box 501 · Canton, New York 13617 .´ 315-265-2800 · mlz@slic.com

For several years,´ the USDA has been working with the largest-scale animal industry organizations (for example, the National Pork Producers, Monsanto Company, and Cargill Meat) to develop a mandatory "National Animal Identification System" ("NAIS").

However, most small scale livestock producers, people who raise animals for their own food, and people who keep horses or livestock as companion animals do not know about the USDA´s plans.

The NAIS will drive small producers out of the market, will make people abandon raising animals for their own food, will invade Americans´ personal privacy to a degree never before tolerated, will violate the religious freedom of Americans whose beliefs make it impossible for them to comply, and will erase the last vestiges of animal welfare from the production of animal foods.

The Problem On April 25, 2005, the USDA released "Draft Program Standards" ("St.") and a "Draft Strategic Plan" ("Plan") concerning the NAI8. If you think the description below sounds too bizarre to be true, please go to usda.gov/nais, read the Standards and Plan, ana check the citations.

By January 1, 2008, the NAIS will be mandatory. (Plan, pp. 2, 10, 17.) Every person who owns even one horse, cow, P.ig, chicken, sheep, pigeon, or´virtually any livestock animal, will be forced to register their home, including owner´s name, address, and telephone number, and keyed to Global Positioning System coordinates for satellite monitoring, in a giant federal database under a 7 -digit "premises 10 number." (St., pp. 3-4, 10-12; Plan, p. 5.) Every animal will have to be assigned a 15-digit 10 number, also to be kept in a giant federal database.

The form of 10 will most likely be a tag or microchip containing a Radio Frequency Identification Device, designed to be read from a distance. (Plan, p. 10; St., pp. 6, 12, 20, 27-28.) The plan may also include collecting the DNA of every animal and/or a retinal scan of every animal. (Plan, p.13.)

The owner will be required to report: the birthdate of an animal, the application of every animal´s 10 tag, every time an animal leaves or enters the property, every time an animal loses a tag, every time a tag is replaced, the slaughter or death of an animal, or if any animal is missing. Such events must be reported within 24 hours. (St., pp. 12-13, 17-21.)

Third parties, such as veterinarians, will be required to report "sightings" of animals. (St., p. 25.) In other words, if you call a vet to your property to treat your horse, cow, or any other animal, and the vet finds any animal without the mandatory 15digit computer-readable 10, the vet may be required to report you.

If you do not comply, the USDA will exercise "enforcement" against you. (St., p. 7;
Plan, p. 17.) The USDA has not yet specified the nature of "enforcement," but presumably it will include imposing fines and/or seizing your animals.

There are no exceptions under the USDA plan, you will be forced to register and report even if you raise animals only for your own food or keep horses for draft or for transportation.

The NAIS would actually subject the owner of a chicken to far more surveillance than the owner of a gun. Surveillance of small-scale livestock owners is like the government subjecting people to surveillance for owning a couch, a tv, a lawn-mower.

Burden on Religious Freedom .;... Many adherents of plain (and other) faiths raise their own food animals and use animals in farming and transportation because their beliefs require them to live this way. Such people obviously cannot comply with the USDA´s computerized, technology-dependent system. The NAIS will force these people to violate their religious beliefs.

For those of you who question the authenticity of this law

Here is the link to the NAIS FAQ on the USDA website.
http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais...factsheet.shtml

One of the most interesting commentaries on the page is "Will animals be able to be sold if they are not registered.?"

I immediately thought of the verse from Revelation "No one may buy or sell unless they bear the mark of the beast.

Maybe it really means "unless the beast bears the mark!"

Food for thought.