Our Horses and Freedom vs. the USDA's NAIS
- From: rdd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (R. D. Davis)
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:13:56 -0000
Hi,
Please help to publicize the following, which will have a drastic
detrimental effect upon all horse owners and others.
This is just to give everyone the heads up, in case they're not
familiar with the following, about something else that our government
is planning to do to us.
What am I referring to? The USDA's planned National Animal
Identification System, or NAIS, is to become mandatory by 2008, as a
result of executive order; I understand that this will happen even if
legislation supporting the NAIS is not passed, which is hopefully
wrong. Although I mentioned this as being a USDA project, according
to a Government Accounting Office document, the USDA has turned
control of much of this over to the Department of Homeland Security,
DHS. It's DHS agents who will inspect "premises" where the animals
are kept. Such premises will also be monitored via satellite
surveillance.
I realize that some of you on this newsgroup have somehow been
hornswaggled into being for the NAIS, but hopefully you've been doing
more reading lately, in an attempt to become educated about this
matter---beyond the propaganda being dished out by the USDA and groups
such as the AHC (seems like the Anti-Horsepeople Council, or should
that be the Anti-Horse Council?), and are beginning to change your
mind so as to realize the magnitude of problems that we'll be facing
if the NAIS is not stopped.
Those affected the most, at first, will be people with small farms,
self-sufficient households (e.g., those who raise chickens, cows,
etc. for their own milk, meat, eggs, etc.), horse owners and all other
livestock owners. The NAIS is for the benefit of certain large
corporations (e.g., Monsanto, Cargill and even Computer Sciences
Corp.) which will profit greatly from this. All farms and households
owning livestock, and perhaps eventually smaller pets, will have to
receive a "Premise ID" and their property will come under satellite
surveillance by the government. All livestock will have to be ID'd
(e.g., numbered ear tags or RFID chips injected under the skin).
Every movement of the animal is to be tracked from birth to death.
For example, every time that one rides one's horse off of one's
property, a farm, etc., one will be required to notify the government
within 24 hours (note: horses are included in the NAIS primarily for
the protection of foreign horse-meat eaters). All those who come in
contact with the animal are also supposed to be reported to the
government.
The government could easily wipe out small farms since, if a farm in a
nearby area has "contaminated" animals, they'll know how to locate,
and will most likely kill, all livestock susceptible to, or able to
carry, a certain disease within a certain geographic area---even if
the animals aren't sick or contaminated. Destruction of property and
people's ways of life. The government's cold-hearted term for this is
"depopulation." Their preferred way of dealing with any diseased
animals is "slaughter" (again, from the GAO document) since they say
it's unlikely that vaccines will be available. If you stand in the
way of your horses, cows, chickens, or possibly cats and dogs, being
killed, you will most likely be labeled as a terrorist since you'll be
interfering with the DHS.
The government, with the help of various organizations, is leading
many people to believe that this program will help them, when it's
unlikely to prevent either disease or theft as claimed (e.g., a
high-power pulse of the right frequency can wipe out the data on an
RFID chip). The government is also leading people to believe that
this is a voluntary program; while it's voluntary _at this time_, it
will become mandatory in 2008 unless we stop it.
There's much more to this than what I've mentioned here, and it will
violate several constitutional amendments as well. So far, well over
100,000 "premises" have been registered; nearly 900 in Maryland alone
have been registered with the government.
Please visit the following URL's to begin reading additional
information about this; what you read may sound horrific, but we still
have time to stop this horrid monster. The following URL's contain
links to many other sources of information, such as the grassroots
movement that's building in an effort to stop the NAIS.
http://www.rddavis.org/equitation/freedom-vs-id.html
Note, the freedom-vs-id.html page has been greatly expanded and
updated---much new information, so if you've seen it before in weeks
or months past, please take another look. I've been updating it at
least a few times each day during the past several days. This contains
many links to other sources of information.
http://www.stopanimalid.org
stopanimalid.org contains flyers and forums that are helpful.
Thank you for taking the time to read this. If we all work together,
we can put a stop to the NAIS and harm from it that would result.
Please spread the word about this to as many others as possible;
there's much at stake.
--
R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: an
www.rddavis.org 410-744-4900 unnatural belief that we're above Nature & her
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