Gotta love the verbiage when they announced the event:
“When numerous issues in the animal identification arena indicated the need for another ID INFO EXPO, NIAA stepped up to the plate to host the event now slated for Aug. 25-27 in Kansas City, Mo. Hosting the event was a natural move as NIAA is an umbrella organization for all livestock species groups and provides a forum for those involved in or passionate about animal agriculture, including but not limited to producers, state and national association leadership, veterinarians-private practice and government, extension specialists, academia, researchers, state and national government regulatory personnel and allied industry.”
[Inclusion and emphasis by EGN admin]
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Here is the big National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA) convention in Kansas City coming up. They will circle the wagons to mandate NAIS here.
They have been the huge pusher of NAIS for years. They started as LCI and as I understand it, Farm Bureau created them or helped greatly. Then it turned into NIAA. They have been pushing NAIS since before 1994. It was not called NAIS then, but the outline of the program was being put in place then.
And you thought NAIS was because of 911 and terrorists right? Wrong!
You can research on their website, www.AnimalAgriculture.org. Google NIAA National Institute for Animal Agriculture.
Look at their membership list. Big AG, VETS, FARM BUREAU, USDA, STATE AG DEPTS and on and on… no little family farmers here!!!
I held my first protest sign in Kansas City three years ago at their event then. It costs $375 dollars to go inside to the meeting… so much for small farmers going…
This is outrageous, but it always has been…
Who will speak up for the little guys?
by Bob Parker
See my comments about Farm Bureau and NIAA and LCI here…
hmm… let’s see… they want to control the food. They want to control the water. They want to control development. They want to control what people make. They want to control health care. They want to control our automakers. They want to control our money supply and our banks.
Their new carbon taxes and cap and trade will devastate America.
They have destroyed our manufacturing and small farms with imports, regulations and ID programs.
They have taxed everything under the sun and still don’t have enough money.
I want my old American back. God, guts, guns, mom and apple pie.
I need to find a John Wayne re-run to make me feel better….
Anybody else about had enough of this???
The bad thing about socialism is pretty soon they run out of other people’s money… then they want your land, your rights, and your Freedom…
- Bob Parker
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Water is necessary for sustaining life as well as growing food, and should not be something that we are forced to pay for or go without. S 787, introduced by Senator Russ Feingold, attempts to make all waters that fall from the sky onto our land property of the Federal Government. This is unnacceptable.
Let me put it another, more direct way. If water falls out of the sky and into a pool of water on my property, I’ll be damned if I am going to pay the Feds, Corp USA, one red cent to drink it. Do you hear that Senator Feingold? You can take your S 787 and shove it!
With the Democrats having nationalized the financial, banking and automobile industries — bringing a strong layer of socialism to the key portions of the US economy, they are now moving to nationalize the American land and water.
Under the Clean Water Act the Federal government only had the authority to regulate “navigable waters” and control the discharge of pollutants and dredge and fill activities within those navigable waters.
The so-called Clean Water RESTORATION Act restores nothing. That is a hoax. Instead it removes the restrictive and limiting terms “navigable” waters and unconstitutionally extends the Federal regulatory authority over ALL waters of the United States. This includes the driest desert areas that may only hold water for a few weeks a year during summer monsoon rains. And it includes completely isolated prairie potholes (small ponds and marshes) with no connection whatsoever to any other waters.
Furthermore, the bill will now prohibit ALL activities affecting all waters of the United States. This means that anything a landowner, a business, a county roads department, a waterfowl conservation program undertakes that could conceivably affect anything that is wet — will be subject to the discretionary jurisdiction of Army Corps or EPA bureaucrats. They will then be able to make the lives of family farmers, ranchers, tree farmers, home builders — almost anyone and everyone — literally impossible. They will have the total power to force every farmer or rancher or ordinary business owner to run a gauntlet of permits, red tape, delays — that will delay projects long enough and cost so much as to essentially shut down or bankrupt even the most necessary and innocuous projects.
There are copious examples of wetlands horror stories over the last 20 years where people have been imprisoned and fined staggering amounts for simply building their own home, cleaning up dumps, or creating habitat for waterfowl. And that occurred under the CWA restrictions of “navigable waters” and prohibitions only on discharging pollutants and dredge and fill activities.
Once those constraints are removed by the CWRA, life will quickly become a bureaucratic nightmare with no exit — particularly so throughout all of rural America. This bill would be much more honestly named The Rural Cleansing Act of 2009.
This will be a tough battle given that the E&PW Committee make up is 12 Ds and 7 Rs (which includes Senators George Voinovich and Lamar Alexander.)
It is especially important to enlist the help of the agricultural community, especially county and state farm bureaus. Request that they notify not only the members of the Senate E&PW but also the Senate Agriculture Committee.
It is also vital to contact Rep. Collin Peterson Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee and request that he ask for oversight hearings on the impact of the CWRA on America’s farmers and the nation’s food production.
You should also request that the farmers and ranchers you know and your county and state farm bureaus and cattlemen’s associations contact the American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association asking them to strongly oppose the CWRA.
by R.J. Smith
Track the Progress of S.787 Clean Water Restoration Act (CWRA)
Please take time to read the following news release about the horrible NAIS program the USDA is forcing farmers across the county to partake in. This will destroy small farms across America. Our major Media so far has not covered this huge story.
Links to video’s of many Farmers testifying about the horrors of this program!
Many farmers aren’t worried as much about terrorists on foreign lands as they are of the USDA right here in America!
- Bob Parker
Press Release – For immediate release
Contact – Paul Hamby, NW MO Coordinator, Campaign for Liberty, 816 632 0602
On Tuesday, 300 farmers, ranchers, and consumers came to Jefferson City Missouri to voice their opinion on the controversial NAIS Animal ID system.
55 attendees spoke at the USDA microphone. All were against mandatory NAIS, with the exception of one speaker. Concerns ranged from the cost of the program putting small and medium farmers out of business to Constitutional rights being violated. The USDA’s credibility was questioned. USDA called for a mandatory NAIS program in 2005, but backed off due to overwhelming public outcry. Today, the USDA is publicly stating they want a voluntary NAIS. However in Wisconsin and Michigan, a Mandatory NAIS program is being implemented with USDA funds.
USDA is being criticized for not holding listening sessions in those states where Mandatory NAIS is now the law of the farm land.
21 videos are posted from the Jefferson City Missouri listening session here: http://www.youtube.com/user/farmboi64469 [Permission is granted for free use of these audio and video clips for your news stories]
Senator Chuck Purgason reminded the USDA that the Missouri legislature voted last year to ban Mandatory NAIS unless specifically authorized by the Missouri state legislature. Watch Senator Purgason here; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPY6X1kbQt0
Senator Wes Shoemyer told the USDA that Food Safety could be improved by diverting the money they are spending on NAIS to improved inspection services. He referenced a 1998 study with concerns about sanitation at food processing facilities. The USDA has reduced their food inspection program since 1998. Watch Senator Shoemyer’s comments here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA1HJi_cf_U
Galen Bontrager, a young Iowa grass based farmer asked “How is this a voluntary program when 4-H and FFA participants are not allowed to show their livestock unless they sign up for NAIS?” “To the officials of the USDA, my message to you is; Just as our farms have prospered in the past, without your invention, our farms will prosper in the future without your intervention.”
A Wisconsin farmer drove 7 hours to give his 3 minute comment. He asked “Why are Amish in Wisconsin in litigation [with the government] when they are not participating in this program? They say you don’t have to participate if NAIS is against your religious beliefs. It’s not true. They are telling us a bunch of lies.“ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYg_kR2elxo
Rhonda Perry, representing 5600 members of the Missouri Rural Crisis Center said; “NAIS appears to be a solution in search of a problem and does not do anything to improve food safety or animal health. If USDA is sincere in its attempts to protect livestock producers, consumers and animal health then you would look at where the demonstrated problems have actually happened. We’ve seen millions of pounds of meat recalled, that was not the fault of the livestock producers. We’ve seen USDA continue to allow imports from other countries with known disease problems. That also is not the fault of independent family farmers. We see industrial livestock operations that created incredible environmental health and food safety concerns. That also is not the fault of independent family farmers.” “We believe that a program like this could only be implemented by a lack of understanding or ignorance on the part of this administration. That is OK. Ignorance can be overcome by hearing the truth. But if this becomes an all out corporate sell out to corporate agriculture, then that will just be forever wrong”
Only one person, Brent Sandidge, a Saline County Pork Producer spoke in favor of NAIS Mandatory Animal ID. The National Pork Producer Association stands to gain millions of dollars from the NAIS because their association is first in line to manage one of the USDA data bases. You can watch Mr. Sandidge here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ91JF4rSc0