NAIS~~~ on Coon Hunting and Animal ID

The most aspiring raccoon hunter, who demands to be professional, will without fail, go for advice to the voice of experience-- one with coon skins hanging on the wall. Experience is the great teacher. Talk is talk, but skins on the wall is proof of the pudding. To the opposite of this tried and proven procedure, the USDA has blasted off totally cocksure into a 100% animal ID plan for every farm animal in the USA. The Australian National Livestock Identification Scheme (NLIS) has a half dozen years of experience. USDA plans to do a mandatory parallel program called National Animal Identification System (NAIS).

When the House Committee on Agriculture decided to have a hearing on their National Animal Identification System, Chairman David Scott requested USDA staff to testify plus, Dr. Rob Williams, Australian Counselor, and Dean Merrilees, Minister Counselor of Australia. Each gave testimony the new ID system was wonderful, absolutely urgent, and badly needed.

The Australian government considers NLIS a sweet tax generating program and love to force livestock producers to pay-up for government ID computer services.

Beyond the income generated, Aussie leaders have felt the heat from ranchers because US beef without ID mandatory sells higher on the world market than Aussie beef with a 100% enforced scheme. Out back ranchers feel their government has cheated them.

In the last four years Australian livestock producers have been squeezed 350 million dollars to pay the bill for NLIS. Government leaders like NLIS, but livestock producers are against it. Why did Chairman Scott select white shirt bureaucrats to testify and carefully avoided John Carter, President of the Australian Cattleman's Assn.? Was he afraid of the answers he would get?

When the USDA selected sources of affirmation, they picked their own employees who profit from any and all increased opportunity for Congressional funding. Chosen speakers like Dr. John Clifford, Dr. W. Ron DeHaven, and Dr. Jerry Gillespi have lived their whole life with open palms quivering toward Washington DC, and always being generously remunerated.

To ask swivel chair veterinarians if a program that increases funding, grants, or cooperative agreements their direction (NAIS) is a good plan, it is like asking a barber if you need a haircut. The answer is yes! One more clipping is good, but several more are ecstatic.

Australians ranching in the Bush Country watch the USDA and see bureaucratic nightmares beginning to happen. Aussies have the coon skins on the wall and their experience has been a costly one. Why has the leadership of the USA failed to consider the flawed Australian NLIS? Why does the USDA and House Committees select speakers who "tickle their ears?" Do they have any concern about a valid program or is their mind totally cemented toward a mandatory NAIS, come Hell or high water?

The following quotes are from Australian livestock producers:

"By error Australia has generated over 70 million cattle on the NLIS computer data base and we only have 26 million head. The Australian NLIS has degenerated into a farce. The biggest sham is, it has no purpose. NLIS is too slow for disease tracking and too prone to error. Cow traders purchase cows at discount prices without tags and place tags in their ears, with a history of data, increasing their value. I am a Director of the Australian Beef Assn., fighting to have this garbage (NLIS) rescinded. It may take a major disease outbreak to reveal that NLIS is worthless." John Niven

"With full implementation of Australian NLIS cattlemen receive the second lowest price for beef of any major exporting country. Producers are getting 28% of the consumer dollar, whilst the US, UK and NZ producers all get between 45% and 50%. NLIS enforcement has destroyed the profit of livestock production in Australia." Brad Bellinger, Chairman of Australian Beef Assn.

"NLIS has been a total and costly failure in Australia which should never be repeated anywhere in the world." Lee Gerard McNicholl B.V.Sc.,M.SC

The Australian NLIS originally planned to make a computer entry for every movement. Now they know it is hopeless. When an error happens, we get a notice, "This is for your information and no further action is required." They have given up on the system working. Linda

"Our NLIS rates are up 30% this year. NLIS is basically dysfunctional with over 400 staff in just our state. It is riddled with nepotism and incompetence." Jennifer

"It is to the point everybody including bureaucrats know it's not working but we can't get them to scrap it. Over 90% would agree it is crap. It has no purpose and no tangible result after almost 4 years, costing millions." Roger

"The scheme in Australia was supposed to trace every beast property to property the whole of their life. Nonsense, based on fantasy. It has not worked." Helga

"The government database is in such shambles one can simply claim to have complied with regulations, but hint that something must have got lost. They don't know the difference because so much is lost." Meredith

"The filthy enforcement legislation is in place with potential to cause all sorts of problems. The authorities are wanting to assess huge prosecutions, but are afraid of the rebellion of the bloody livestock owners. Currently the fine for non premise enrollment is $4000. They would increase the fines on Aussie farmers to larger bloody fees if they weren't scared to." Simon

"Politicians are so blind and ignorant of the real world scene! If only we could wake them up to the realities we might have a chance of surviving!" Jennifer Bird

"We were told the consumers demand individual ID. We know no one in Korea or Japan who asks for individual ID. The consumer does not want to know personal data about the steak they eat, or even that it was a live animal. This is ludicrous. Fight NAIS to the last person in the USA." John Carter

The You Tube of John Carter's NLIS presentation is http://www.naisstinks.com/index.php?con=videos. Disaster of Cattle ID in Australia #1 and #2. Believe a five generation rancher with coon skins on the wall.

NAIS is a hot political topic in USDA listening sessions all over the USA, yet no one from Australia will be speaking. The facts are easy to locate about animal ID. Over 95% of Australians oppose NLIS, now mandatory with enforcements. The livestock producers speaking in the US listening sessions are 90% to 100% opposed to NAIS. If livestock producers with generations of experience understand their own businesses, why has NAIS continued to survive the USDA trash can?

Truth is illusive at times, but ending the unpopular NAIS is an easy call. If you are seeking valid information on NAIS don't ask an animal health professor or a computer salesman. When asking about coon hunting, don't ask a bureaucrat. As to haircuts----- ask your spouse.

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.

Wes Ishmael, Contributing editor,
BEEF Magazine, Dec. 2007

I work day and night to prevent NAIS!

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.

Henry  Lamb ~~~ Sovereignty International