Do you want to tell the government

everywhere you take your horse?

Educate yourself as to how the National Animal Identification System will affect owning a horse or any other livestock.

NAIS UPDATE: USDA  plans to use breed registries to register premises for NAIS.

DO NOT REGISTER YOUR PREMISES! THE WORDING USED IN THE NAIS DOCUMENT (STAKEHOLDER, PREMISE)  CLOUDS TITLE TO YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY, ESSENTIALLY MAKING YOU A SHARECROPPER ON YOUR OWN PROPERTY. 

Currently, the USDA says NAIS is voluntary and FREE to sign up.  Yes, free but not cheap, when you figure costs of microchipping, scanners and filing reports and loss of your animals under depopulation. 

  But while the USDA says voluntary, the USDA is pushing money at 4H and FFA to bribe the kids to sign themselves and other up for NAIS. They are also bribing States with your tax dollars to pass regulations to make NAIS mandatory. OVER $100 MILLIION HAS BEEN SPENT ON A PROGRAM NOBODY EXCEPT CORPORATE AG WANTS.

NAIS WAS CREATED SOLELY FOR BENEFIT OF CORPORATE AGRICULTURE!   While we have to chip and track each animal we own, they DO NOT have to tag and track individual animals...they get one lot number per group of animals.  Does that sound fair?  This is supposed to show the world what a safe food supply we have in the US.  That is true, but that is like me having a disease but forcing YOU to take the medicine, or I do a crime but you do the time! 

In January 2006  I found out about National Animal Identification System (NAIS) from a stranger who emailed me, not the normal avenues like newspapers, radio or TV.  Thinking it was a conspiracy theory or urban legend,  I did some research by calling the American Horse Council,  Tx Animal Heath Commission and Tex A/M.  What I found out was mind boggling and like waking up in the Twilight Zone.  I was going to have to register my premises, micro chip my horses and file reports with the government everywhere I took my horses!!!!!  And they could come and "depopulate" my horses if any disease was suspected within a 6 mile radius (about 140 sq. miles!) This insane sounding program was just like something out of Nazi Germany or a communist country!!! Ownership of the horses that I had dreamed so long of having and spend thousands each year to take care of and learn more about, was being threatened by this very program that says they want to "protect" us.  If it were only that.  I got busy calling around sounding the alarm. I asked horse magazine after horse magazine to do articles on NAIS, saying I would support their magazine if they at least told both sides of the NAIS story.  Only one had the courage to do so. Gaited Horse came out with an excellent article that points out the pitfalls and REAL REASONS behind this intrusive program that will, in my opinion, cripple the #5 industry in the US (#2 in TX), horses.  After all, If I no longer own horses, I will have not need to buy hay, saddles, trailers, fencing, go to shows, or buy any other horse products, etc.  My plans for buying another show horse and saddle have been put on hold and I only buy what I need at the moment for my horses.

At my request, Judith Mc Geary, lawyer and founder  of FARFA (Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance, farmandranchfreedom.org/)  met with the new vice president of the app club in their meetings at their National Show in Ok city!   As a result of her outlining what NAIS really is, the negative effects it will have on  the horse industry, the ApHC has recently come out against the National Animal Identification System.  They are the first breed registry to do so! Congrats and bravo to them for their courage to take a stand against the useless, intrusive program.  While they do not protest the use of micro chipping horses on a voluntary basis they have reservations against registering premises with the government and filing reports when a horse is taken to a show or other off property movements.

  Visit the websites that give  info on how NAIS will be detrimental to our freedoms, our pocketbooks and to our animals. (According to the NAIS document, Your critters can be "depopulated" if disease is suspected in a 6 mile radius (approx. 140 sq. miles).

If you want to stop horse slaughter, it is a good idea to begin by stopping the National Animal Identification System.   NAIS is a WTO/USDA program that is made to benefit the mega arms and mega producers (Tyson, Cargill, Monsanto) that want to sell their meat overseas.  Horses are included in this invasive, track-every-movement-your-livestock-makes-and- report-it-to-the-govt-program and are  just another food item to the foreign members of the World Trade Organization which is the impetus behind forcing NAIS on horse/livestock owners of America.

I have many concerns about  the National Animal Identification System. These questions came up because I have researched into NAIS.  Here are a few of the concerns that have me worried since I started researching into NAIS...

Do I want to be part of a program where I register my  premise with the government (and pay yearly fees which of course can go up and up and up)?  Currently only child molesters, sex offenders, arsonist, etc have to register their premises with the govt!

All my information will be kept in databases.  I do not feel safe since the USDA data base was recently hacked into! And the SSN's  of millions  of  the 26 million veterans recently showed up on a website after they were  stolen!

Do I want to file reports to the government whenever my livestock escapes, is born, dies, goes to the vet,  or in my case to every show or ride off my property? Do I want to face $1000 (in Texas) per day fines (which is higher than drug dealers pay) for non-compliance?  I am sure that there will be costs for filing those reports.  Do not believe the misinformation being put out by NAIS saying only some events are reportable.  The NAIS document says all movements off property are reportable, as are births and deaths.  

Do I want to pay $400-$500 for scanners and have every animal  chipped at my cost?  In Australia where this program is going on, $3 per cow went up to $37, wands do not work, it takes forever to count cattle whereas it used  to take just a short time by reading the tag or brand, and somehow in their
database,  11 million extra cattle showed up on the records?

Do I want to lose all my animals when the USDA comes to take my animals if disease is "suspected".  According to their regulations, all animals can be "depopulated" in a 6 mile radius? (about 140 sq. miles.)

Do I want to be part of any program where people are signed up without their knowledge or permission?  (13,904 in Idaho) Texas is doing it too by calling and asking to take a phone poll on how many and what kind of critters you have.

But like 99% of the horse people I have talked with, after you read the facts about and behind NAIS, I think you will see there is no need for this program and how detrimental it will be for those who own even one pony!  

NAIS has *nothing* to do with animal health and would be of little use even if it were. That it is pushed by large Agri-businesses with the idea of eliminating all the small farmers and organic producers along with the businesses associated with the microchips, storage of information, etc.-the ones standing to gain from this costly, unconstitutional, intrusive, boondoggle, and that they have the USDA in their pocket. If you think I am nuts-investigate for yourself at the following websites.

Here are a few websites and organizations fighting NAIS.  nonais.org stopanimalid.org     noanimalid.com          libertyark.net farmandranchfreedom.org/      tofga.org/ (organic gardeners are threatened  by this program also)  http://arkansasanimalproducers.8k.com/