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Why You Should Oppose the USDA's Mandatory Property and Animal Surveillance Program
Those who value their freedom will be incensed at the latest intrusion upon basic individual liberties being perpetrated by Big Government. Under the proposed National Animal Identification System (NAIS), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) threatens to make you a criminal if you have a few chickens in your yard for subsistence farming!
The United States Department of Agriculture's proposed National Animal Identification System (NAIS) threatens to make you a criminal if you have a few chickens in your yard for subsistence farming! Under the NAIS, all livestock must be microchipped and tracked via GPS. Owners of animals must register for it or be subject to huge fines and/or having the animals destroyed by the government.
Food Control = People Control
CODEX is about blocking our access to vitamins and minerals within the therapeutic range, a strategy that will harm millions of people and make them ever more reliant on the Big Pharma model of health care, which has everything to do with profit and nothing to do with improving public health.
NAIS is about blocking homesteaders from having their own animals, a move that will also further diminish the self-sufficiency of American citizens. By taking away our ability to be self-reliant, the powers-that-be (i.e. Big Business, Big Government) increase their power and control over us by making us increasingly reliant on them.
NAIS is also about a dry run leading up to the NWO's main agenda: Microchipping each of us and tracking us because they consider us to be their property!
How You Can Help Fight Back!
--Order IAHF's Education Kit & hold public meetings in your area (more on this later)
--Please donate to IAHF to assist us with our health freedom work. We'll be at Expo West in Anaheim CA to work with Kevin Miller at the end of March where we'll be making an expanded, updated version of WE BECOME SILENT
http://www.welltv.com
--Read the following article, please mass forward it, and take the recommended actions to oppose the USDA's NAIS program:
---
Why You Should Oppose the USDA's Mandatory Property and Animal Surveillance Program
by Mary Zanoni, Ph.D., (contact info at end of article)
Poultry fanciers and keepers of small flocks are facing a grave threat from a proposed government intrusion into their innocent choice of pastimes and way of life.
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.
herdsire's diary.
The Problem
On April 25, 2005, the USDA released "Draft Program Standards" ("St.") and a "Draft Strategic Plan" ("Plan") concerning the NAIS. If you think the description below sounds too bizarre to be true, please visit the following links and read them carefully:
NAIS Strategic Plan:
http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais/about/pdf/NAIS_Draft_Strategic_Plan_42505.pdf
and
NAIS Draft Program Standards http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais/about/pdf/NAIS_Draft_Program_Standards_42505.pdf
By January 1, 2008, the NAIS will be mandatory (Strategic Plan, pp. 2, 10, 17.)
Every person who owns even one horse, cow, pig, 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 Identification Number." (Draft Program Standards, pp. 3-4, 10-12; Strategic Plan, p. 5.)
Every animal will have to be assigned a 15-digit ID number, also to be kept in a giant federal database. The form of ID will most likely be a tag or microchip containing a Radio Frequency Identification Device, designed to be read from a distance (Strategic Plan, p. 10; Draft Program Standards, 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 (Strategic Plan, p.13.).
The owner will be required to report: the birthdate of an animal, the application of every animal's ID 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 (Strategic Plan, pp. 12-13, 17-21).
Third parties, such as veterinarians, will be required to report "sightings" of animals. (Draft Program Standards, 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 15-digit computer-readable ID, the vet may be required to report you.
If you do not comply, the USDA will exercise "enforcement" against you (Draft Program Standards, p. 7; Strategic 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 Negative Effects
Eradication of Small Farms - People with just a few meat animals or 40-cow dairies are already living on the edge financially. The USDA plan will force many of them to give up farming.
Loss of the True Security of Organic and Local Foods - The NAIS is touted by the USDA and agricorporations as a way to make our food supply "secure" against diseases or terrorism. However, most people instinctively understand that real food security comes from raising food yourself or buying from a local farmer you actually know. The USDA plan will only kill off more local sources of production and further promote the giant industrial methods which cause many food safety and disease problems.
Extreme Damage to Personal Privacy - Legally, livestock animals are a form of personal property. It is unprecedented for the United States government to conduct large-scale computer-aided surveillance of its citizens simply because they own a common type of property (the only exceptions are registration of motor vehicles and guns, due to their clear inherent dangers - but they are registered at the state level, not by the federal government). 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 lawnmower.
What about non-livestock animals? Will the government next want to register all cats, dogs, and parakeets, and demand the global positioning coordinates of their owners' houses and apartments?
Insult to Animal Welfare - The NAIS is the ultimate objectification of higher, sensitive living creatures, treating individual animals as if they were cans of peas with a bar code. Many people who raise their own animals or buy from small, local producers do so because they are very troubled by industrial-scale production of chickens, cattle, and pigs. These people will be forced either to sacrifice their personal privacy to government surveillance, or to stop raising their own food by humane standards.
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.
What You Can Do
Small-scale keepers of poultry and other livestock can take action to create an effective movement in opposition to the USDA/agricorporate plan. First, small-scale livestock owners should not participate in any so-called "voluntary" state or federal program to register farms or animals. The USDA is using farmers' supposed willingness to enter a "voluntary" program as a justification for making the program mandatory (see Strategic Plan, "Executive Summary" and pp. 7-8).
Small farmers and livestock owners can also help inform and organize others. The USDA presently does not plan to finalize its rules for mandatory ID until the summer of 2006. There is still time to oppose this plan.
Several farmers and other concerned citizens have joined together to form FARM for LIFETM, a public-interest organization to support the rights of small and subsistence farmers and consumers of organic, natural, and local foods. FARM for LIFE's first project is to stop the USDA plan for mandatory animal ID.
The organization will publish a newsletter three times a year (first publication scheduled for November 1, 2005), to inform citizens of developments concerning animal ID and other issues vital to the small farming and natural/organic food communities. Newsletter subscribers will also be sent information at appropriate times on how to contact lawmakers and the USDA to oppose animal ID. In addition, FARM for LIFETM will coordinate with other existing interest groups to mount an effective campaign against animal ID.
Please help STOP animal ID and support FARM for LIFETM by subscribing to the newsletter: $25 Individual Subscription (1 year), $40 Institutional Subscription (1 year), Please help with an additional donation in any amount. Make your check payable to "Farm for Life" and mail to: Farm for Life, PO Box 501, Canton, New York 13617.
Reprinted courtesy of:
Mary Zanoni, Ph.D. (Cornell), J.D. (Yale), Executive Director of Farm for LifeTM
P.O. Box 501, Canton, New York 13617
Email: mlz [at] slic.com
See also the Idaho Observer article:
Going wireless: Govt plans to chip pets, livestock and people
---
HOW YOU CAN HELP IAHF FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS!
Friends, I am one guy sitting in his living room, but the IAHF list has thousands of people on it and there is power in NUMBERS, IF we all ACT. At the end of March, I am going to Expo West vitamin trade show in Anaheim CA where I'll be working closely with Kevin Miller to update his hard hitting 28 min documentary film "We Become Silent" about the CODEX Vitamin issue.
Many of you have contributed towards our efforts, and I deeply thank you all, but there is MUCH remaining to do. IAHF needs ongoing donations for public speaking nationally, and for lobbying trips to Capital Hill. Daily we interract with people on the Hill who are fighting with us, including Ron Paul's Liberty Committee, who I just communicated with today about the dire need to hold congressional oversight of FDA's illegal "Trilateral Cooperation Charter" with Canada & Mexico.
This rogue agency is blatantly harmonizing their regulations with these two countries as part of the planned destruction of America and the effort to destroy DSHEA and harmonize us to CODEX for genocidal purposes.
I don't know about YOU, but this makes me madder than hell and I'm NOT sitting on my butt just taking what they're trying to lay on us, I am working OVERTIME to get the word out in order to slow, interfere with, and STOP their criminal agenda!
Your donation of $1000, $500, $100, or even just the $50 we're asking for our Education Kit tells us that you CARE, you VALUE our efforts to slog through this painful information day after day in an effort to devise workable strategies for OPPOSING it, and that you want to HELP us make the trips we must make to educate more people and to lobby on Capital Hill.
Ask yourselves what you would do if IAHF weren't on the front lines in this battle standing up for YOUR rights, and ASK YOURSELVES what you CAN DO to help us!
You CAN tell your friends, family, neighbors, relatives to sign up for IAHF's alerts at http://www.iahf.com but you can do a lot MORE if you would just TRY!
You CAN organize a local meeting to alert people to the threat posed by CODEX, and related legislation including NAIS, The North American Cooperative Security Act, and OTHER liberty threatening measures.
I will be GLAD to speak at your meeting via speakerphone OR spend the time with you on the phone so that YOU can run the whole meeting yourself without my help.
What Our Kit Contains
1) DVD We Become Silent
2) Hour Long Audio Cassette of John Hammell Speaking on CODEX at the PANLA Conference in PA last summer;
3) Special Anti Codex issue of The Crusader Magazine with interviews of John Hammell and allies by Greg Ciola (you can get extra copies of this magazine to hand out at your meeting for just the price of postage by contacting Greg);
4) An IAHF Bumper Sticker to help get more people to the website and onto the IAHF list since there's SAFETY in numbers;
5) An up-to-the-minute Info Sheet on where we stand NOW with this battle and what you can do to fight back!
Send your best donation (or $50 minimum for Education Kit) to:
IAHF
556 Boundary Bay Rd.
Point Roberts WA 98281 USA
or pay via Paypal at:
http://www.iahf.com (Paypal button located on scrollbar inside site.)
For Health Freedom,
John C. Hammell, President
International Advocates for Health Freedom
556 Boundary Bay Road
Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA
http://www.iahf.com
jham [at] iahf.com
800-333-2553 N.America
360-945-0352 World
Food Control = People Control
CODEX is about blocking our access to vitamins and minerals within the therapeutic range, a strategy that will harm millions of people and make them ever more reliant on the Big Pharma model of health care, which has everything to do with profit and nothing to do with improving public health.
NAIS is about blocking homesteaders from having their own animals, a move that will also further diminish the self-sufficiency of American citizens. By taking away our ability to be self-reliant, the powers-that-be (i.e. Big Business, Big Government) increase their power and control over us by making us increasingly reliant on them.
NAIS is also about a dry run leading up to the NWO's main agenda: Microchipping each of us and tracking us because they consider us to be their property!
How You Can Help Fight Back!
--Order IAHF's Education Kit & hold public meetings in your area (more on this later)
--Please donate to IAHF to assist us with our health freedom work. We'll be at Expo West in Anaheim CA to work with Kevin Miller at the end of March where we'll be making an expanded, updated version of WE BECOME SILENT
http://www.welltv.com
--Read the following article, please mass forward it, and take the recommended actions to oppose the USDA's NAIS program:
---
Why You Should Oppose the USDA's Mandatory Property and Animal Surveillance Program
by Mary Zanoni, Ph.D., (contact info at end of article)
Poultry fanciers and keepers of small flocks are facing a grave threat from a proposed government intrusion into their innocent choice of pastimes and way of life.
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.
herdsire's diary.
The Problem
On April 25, 2005, the USDA released "Draft Program Standards" ("St.") and a "Draft Strategic Plan" ("Plan") concerning the NAIS. If you think the description below sounds too bizarre to be true, please visit the following links and read them carefully:
NAIS Strategic Plan:
http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais/about/pdf/NAIS_Draft_Strategic_Plan_42505.pdf
and
NAIS Draft Program Standards http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais/about/pdf/NAIS_Draft_Program_Standards_42505.pdf
By January 1, 2008, the NAIS will be mandatory (Strategic Plan, pp. 2, 10, 17.)
Every person who owns even one horse, cow, pig, 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 Identification Number." (Draft Program Standards, pp. 3-4, 10-12; Strategic Plan, p. 5.)
Every animal will have to be assigned a 15-digit ID number, also to be kept in a giant federal database. The form of ID will most likely be a tag or microchip containing a Radio Frequency Identification Device, designed to be read from a distance (Strategic Plan, p. 10; Draft Program Standards, 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 (Strategic Plan, p.13.).
The owner will be required to report: the birthdate of an animal, the application of every animal's ID 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 (Strategic Plan, pp. 12-13, 17-21).
Third parties, such as veterinarians, will be required to report "sightings" of animals. (Draft Program Standards, 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 15-digit computer-readable ID, the vet may be required to report you.
If you do not comply, the USDA will exercise "enforcement" against you (Draft Program Standards, p. 7; Strategic 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 Negative Effects
Eradication of Small Farms - People with just a few meat animals or 40-cow dairies are already living on the edge financially. The USDA plan will force many of them to give up farming.
Loss of the True Security of Organic and Local Foods - The NAIS is touted by the USDA and agricorporations as a way to make our food supply "secure" against diseases or terrorism. However, most people instinctively understand that real food security comes from raising food yourself or buying from a local farmer you actually know. The USDA plan will only kill off more local sources of production and further promote the giant industrial methods which cause many food safety and disease problems.
Extreme Damage to Personal Privacy - Legally, livestock animals are a form of personal property. It is unprecedented for the United States government to conduct large-scale computer-aided surveillance of its citizens simply because they own a common type of property (the only exceptions are registration of motor vehicles and guns, due to their clear inherent dangers - but they are registered at the state level, not by the federal government). 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 lawnmower.
What about non-livestock animals? Will the government next want to register all cats, dogs, and parakeets, and demand the global positioning coordinates of their owners' houses and apartments?
Insult to Animal Welfare - The NAIS is the ultimate objectification of higher, sensitive living creatures, treating individual animals as if they were cans of peas with a bar code. Many people who raise their own animals or buy from small, local producers do so because they are very troubled by industrial-scale production of chickens, cattle, and pigs. These people will be forced either to sacrifice their personal privacy to government surveillance, or to stop raising their own food by humane standards.
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.
What You Can Do
Small-scale keepers of poultry and other livestock can take action to create an effective movement in opposition to the USDA/agricorporate plan. First, small-scale livestock owners should not participate in any so-called "voluntary" state or federal program to register farms or animals. The USDA is using farmers' supposed willingness to enter a "voluntary" program as a justification for making the program mandatory (see Strategic Plan, "Executive Summary" and pp. 7-8).
Small farmers and livestock owners can also help inform and organize others. The USDA presently does not plan to finalize its rules for mandatory ID until the summer of 2006. There is still time to oppose this plan.
Several farmers and other concerned citizens have joined together to form FARM for LIFETM, a public-interest organization to support the rights of small and subsistence farmers and consumers of organic, natural, and local foods. FARM for LIFE's first project is to stop the USDA plan for mandatory animal ID.
The organization will publish a newsletter three times a year (first publication scheduled for November 1, 2005), to inform citizens of developments concerning animal ID and other issues vital to the small farming and natural/organic food communities. Newsletter subscribers will also be sent information at appropriate times on how to contact lawmakers and the USDA to oppose animal ID. In addition, FARM for LIFETM will coordinate with other existing interest groups to mount an effective campaign against animal ID.
Please help STOP animal ID and support FARM for LIFETM by subscribing to the newsletter: $25 Individual Subscription (1 year), $40 Institutional Subscription (1 year), Please help with an additional donation in any amount. Make your check payable to "Farm for Life" and mail to: Farm for Life, PO Box 501, Canton, New York 13617.
Reprinted courtesy of:
Mary Zanoni, Ph.D. (Cornell), J.D. (Yale), Executive Director of Farm for LifeTM
P.O. Box 501, Canton, New York 13617
Email: mlz [at] slic.com
See also the Idaho Observer article:
Going wireless: Govt plans to chip pets, livestock and people
---
HOW YOU CAN HELP IAHF FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS!
Friends, I am one guy sitting in his living room, but the IAHF list has thousands of people on it and there is power in NUMBERS, IF we all ACT. At the end of March, I am going to Expo West vitamin trade show in Anaheim CA where I'll be working closely with Kevin Miller to update his hard hitting 28 min documentary film "We Become Silent" about the CODEX Vitamin issue.
Many of you have contributed towards our efforts, and I deeply thank you all, but there is MUCH remaining to do. IAHF needs ongoing donations for public speaking nationally, and for lobbying trips to Capital Hill. Daily we interract with people on the Hill who are fighting with us, including Ron Paul's Liberty Committee, who I just communicated with today about the dire need to hold congressional oversight of FDA's illegal "Trilateral Cooperation Charter" with Canada & Mexico.
This rogue agency is blatantly harmonizing their regulations with these two countries as part of the planned destruction of America and the effort to destroy DSHEA and harmonize us to CODEX for genocidal purposes.
I don't know about YOU, but this makes me madder than hell and I'm NOT sitting on my butt just taking what they're trying to lay on us, I am working OVERTIME to get the word out in order to slow, interfere with, and STOP their criminal agenda!
Your donation of $1000, $500, $100, or even just the $50 we're asking for our Education Kit tells us that you CARE, you VALUE our efforts to slog through this painful information day after day in an effort to devise workable strategies for OPPOSING it, and that you want to HELP us make the trips we must make to educate more people and to lobby on Capital Hill.
Ask yourselves what you would do if IAHF weren't on the front lines in this battle standing up for YOUR rights, and ASK YOURSELVES what you CAN DO to help us!
You CAN tell your friends, family, neighbors, relatives to sign up for IAHF's alerts at http://www.iahf.com but you can do a lot MORE if you would just TRY!
You CAN organize a local meeting to alert people to the threat posed by CODEX, and related legislation including NAIS, The North American Cooperative Security Act, and OTHER liberty threatening measures.
I will be GLAD to speak at your meeting via speakerphone OR spend the time with you on the phone so that YOU can run the whole meeting yourself without my help.
What Our Kit Contains
1) DVD We Become Silent
2) Hour Long Audio Cassette of John Hammell Speaking on CODEX at the PANLA Conference in PA last summer;
3) Special Anti Codex issue of The Crusader Magazine with interviews of John Hammell and allies by Greg Ciola (you can get extra copies of this magazine to hand out at your meeting for just the price of postage by contacting Greg);
4) An IAHF Bumper Sticker to help get more people to the website and onto the IAHF list since there's SAFETY in numbers;
5) An up-to-the-minute Info Sheet on where we stand NOW with this battle and what you can do to fight back!
Send your best donation (or $50 minimum for Education Kit) to:
IAHF
556 Boundary Bay Rd.
Point Roberts WA 98281 USA
or pay via Paypal at:
http://www.iahf.com (Paypal button located on scrollbar inside site.)
For Health Freedom,
John C. Hammell, President
International Advocates for Health Freedom
556 Boundary Bay Road
Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA
http://www.iahf.com
jham [at] iahf.com
800-333-2553 N.America
360-945-0352 World
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