" NAIS is like the IRS, no one will vote it in, it will not be legal or consitutional, however it will be the only way the government can tax animals. It will govern the movement of anyone owning an animal, how many animals are produced, what kinds etc. When you control an entire populations food supply, you have real control... Controled famine, controled breeding, taxes like we have never seen. I feel like flying the old English flag and tossing someone or something into the Boston harbor. Yet, they have tacked NAIS onto the Farm bill and if people dont start calling not e-mailing but actually picking up a phone and calling Harkin's Ag secritary and your state reps, we are all going to be living in a prision. We can't complain if we helped place every stone. People have to act soon, 2008 is coming. Jan 2008 was the dead line, nothing has changed. "

" Tracking disease is not new. Other countries have tried tracking their citizens, animals or having lots of govt control over farms/produce. Let me share rwo examples with you; 1. In 1938-Nazi Germany targeted one segment of society they thought responsible for spreading disease, the JEWS. A law was passed that ALL JEWS had to register their property.Every piece of property they own into a massive database. IT worked. The Gestapo knew exactly who to raid by the value of their art and jewelry. We know the rest of the story, a minor event called the Holocaust! 2. In the same time period, the Russian Communist Govt under Stalin starved millions of farmers in the most fertile part of the country because the law stated that ALL the grain they grew belonged to the govt! They were not even allowed to eat what they grew! "

" having read the article then reading all the comments with every single one AGAINST NAIS, why doesn't our govt get it...WE, the people, do not want NAIS This program that will put more surveillance on livestock owners than on illegal aliens/drug dealers/child molesters, etc, It will also usurp property rights. NAIS is trying to be a one-size-fits-all program yet there is a huge difference between granny’s back yard hens, a pot belly pig in suburbia and the multi-billion dollar corporate ag and factory farms, which this program was ultimately made for. (oh by the way, the factory farms get one lot number per groups of animals, but granny has to microchip every animal she has and report their births, deaths and off-property movements.) "

" Hello :) "Bruce Marshall wrote...'I believe the NAIS will not stand up to constitution-al scrutiny. It violates at least three parts of the constitution. They will not make me register!!!'" ANY goverment-mandated registration of private property (guns; motor-vehicles; etc.) is unconstitutional--and all are passively permitted by the people of this country. Yes, if one (or many) were willing to climb the judicial ladder, these outrageous mandates might be overthrown. Yet we continue to voluntarily give goverhment permission to--in effect--seize our property when and if it so suits. "

" I believe the NAIS will not stand up to constitutional scrutiny. It violates at least three parts of the constitution. They will not make me register!!! "

" This is absolutely ludicrous and scary at the same time. Today it's "voluntary" participation geared towards bovine/equine species. My family and most of our close local friends are all homesteaders in a rural part of Arkansas. Not only do we maintain modest ammounts of various livestock for our families, many of us hunt, trap and fish. Of couse the latter activites are regulated by their own govermental authorities. Let's look at those wildlife-as-food regulations under the NAIS microscope. The deer, rabbits, wild turkeys and other creatures that walk or fly on my 30 acres are not capable of realistically being entered into a database until after they've been killed. My family fully intends to consume that which our land produces, or which resides upon it naturally. What's to prevent the governmental overlords to stress us further by legislating that the creatures known to inhabit our property be similarly documented as well before their death, regardless of the manner of the creature's demise? Same applies to births and migration patterns of species within our area. Pre-chip/tag a deer or bunny? How about a fish? I think not! Then there's the very real possibility that widespread acceptance of such technologies can conceivably pave the way for the implementation of mandatory RFID tracking of all private citizens. Legislate to LoJack me or mine? Over my cold, dead body... "

" Yes, they did try to wipe this one under the nose of the American people. We had to speak out in 2004 if we wanted to have a voice. Who knew? They didn't tell anyone. I don't think it was even written on a local bathroom wall. I do know this. We are American's, For the people, by the people and if We the People stand up for what we know to be right and true with laws and freedoms set forth we wish to pass down to our prosparity, Then the law makers will have to listen. Insted of panic on message boards and chat rooms, why not take that energy and motivation to hand. Write and call your state reps. Tell them how you feel. Get the facts so when you talk to them, knowlage is your amunition. Stand up, don't just sound off. This is still our country. We may have an "old America" and new America. What ever is to come is becuse we let it happen or we forced it's hand. As your grandmother probably told you.The right thing is never the easy thing. As we learned in school when we studied our forefathers, there is always a cost to standing up for the right thing. Be ready to pay that price just as we ask those over seas to do. After all what are they fighting for if not our freedoms, If we here at home can not defend those same freedoms we don't have the right to live in such a country, or we diserve what we have become. "

" I have setup a site http://NoNAIS.org to track the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) and fight it. I'll be posting alerts, action items, news and articles there about NAIS as well as linking to additional resources, sites and blogs fighting NAIS. Please spread the word about NAIS so that people know just how bad it is and can fight it. NAIS may be good for the big producers as it will give them more export markets but it is horrible for small farmers, homesteaders and pet horse owners. "

" http://NoNAIS.org "

" REVELATIONS - 13: THE MARK OF THE BEAST, ON YOUR BEASTS. REVELATIONS 13 (NIV): "He (the Beast) also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name." If you can mentally step outside of yourself and the society in which you live, and observe dispassionately the black hole into which you and all of humanity are being drawn, what you will see is the fascinating convergence and culmination of events foreseen more than two thousand years ago and recorded in the Christian Bible. The question is, are you going to stop this march into oblivion? Can you stop or affect this in any way? Should you? If the Bible predicts the Orwellian tragedy now encroaching upon our doorstep, must you passively accept what is coming and be sucked down like a chip of wood entering a whirlpool? The federal government has a new program called the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) now in effect on a 'voluntary' basis and scheduled for full mandatory compliance in January, 2009. Formal, public announcement of the program will be made in April, 2007. NAIS has, of course, a noble stated purpose, which is rapid response to an outbreak of animal disease within these United States. Mad Cow disease and Bird Flu are examples of potentially devastating agricultural animal diseases that need to be discovered, contained and eliminated as quickly as possible to protect the health and food supply of our citizens. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags implanted inside or attached to each animal will enable identifying and tracking every domestic animal within the human food chain. An RFID tag hidden in your purchase is what sometimes triggers the anti-theft alarm as you walk past the security panels when leaving a store. RFID has enough capacity to allow a separate tracking number to be assigned to every individual item of commerce; every shirt, book, box of cereal, roll of photographic film, everything you buy, own and use. RFID can track every animal you eat, all the way from the newly born piglet on the farm to the package of pork chops in the grocery store. RFID can be used to track all property and inventory. Revelations-13 tells us to expect, and research and development of RFID devices now underway will soon enable, the federal government to track all government property and inventory, including the ability to track and control the government’s human property known as “you.” The convergence of NAIS and RFID enables the Beast Computer to place its mark on every item of commerce. If the Beast Computer does not, will not, or is instructed not to recognize its identifying mark, the Beast will not let you buy or sell. Conform, bow down, or starve. Will you let this happen? Almost everyone will allow this. Will you and should you allow this Biblical abomination to happen? Almost all of the sheeple will comply without complaint or dissent. NAIS begins this year, in April, when 25% of all 'premises' where agricultural animals are kept are required to be registered with the federal government. By January, 2008, all premises and all agricultural animals must be registered. By 2009, a fine of up to $1,000 per day, in direct violation of the 8th Amendment to the US Constitution, will be assessed for failure to comply. There is a fee of $10 per year to register your premises. You must provide extensive, detailed information to the federal and state governments about your property and animals. Keeping and submitting those records will be a burden. Registration surely will create eventual authorization for Animal Rights activists and Environmentalists to enter and search your property for violations of animal welfare and environmental regulations. You must report every chicken that hatches, every pig, every horse, every agricultural livestock animal that is born, sold, eaten, escapes, or dies. Currently there are exceptions only for catfish and goldfish. Under current language you must declare and inventory all other animals, even a litter of kittens or puppies or your pet iguana. If you take your animals for veterinary treatment and your registration permit is not current, the vet will be required to turn you in to federal authorities for prosecution including fines and jail. In typical government fashion, driven and crafted by lawyers, bureaucrats and nitpicky Department empire-builders, 'premises' presently includes every place where an animal resides. Not just farms, not just your horse at the boarding stable, but even Grandma's chicken coop, your home where you have a dog, cat and canary, and an apartment building in downtown St. Louis where a child has a pet hamster. All those places and animals must be registered with the federal government or eventually draw up to a $1,000 per day fine for noncompliance. It always is easier to win a game if you can ignore the rules that your opponent must follow. In typical federal agency fashion, that includes ignoring limits placed upon the federal government by the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution does not mention among the enumerated powers granted to the federal government the power to control private property within States, such as the Animal Identification program. "An unconstitutional act is not law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; affords no protection; it creates no office; it is in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed." (Norton vs. Shelby County, 118 US 425 page 442). See also the 9th and 10th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Under NAIS, animal owners still ‘own’ animals and pay for the animals' upkeep, but the federal government controls how animals are produced, kept, sold and used. Private ownership of property, under government control, is Fascism. You will become a criminal if you raise or have animals without government permission, even if you raise livestock only for your own personal consumption and enjoyment. If you become a criminal then your entire life will fall under government control. The animals you thought were yours are yours no longer, but become part of 'the national herd' under supervision and control of the federal government and probably under eventual control of United Nations Global Government. Karl Marx wrote, “Communism can be summarized in one sentence: The abolition of private property.” Marx would be pleased with the folks at NAIS. Your would-be owners in government say NAIS is necessary to protect America's food supply. It isn’t. The confirmed outbreak of Mad Cow disease in Washington state in December, 2003, was discovered and eradicated without recourse to elimination of private property rights and criminalization of livestock owners. NAIS would force you to give up your rights and your private property as security against an animal epidemic that has not happened and may never happen in these United States. Protect yourself against attack by Terrorist Chickens. Remember the comment by William Pitt in the British House of Commons, who said "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." William Pitt could have been talking about NAIS. Texas has enacted, and Tennessee is considering, legislation implementing NAIS. If there is no public outcry for repeal of NAIS and punishment of the NAIS perpetrators, NAIS will spread nationwide, like a Socialist poison gas that expands to fill every space available. States that sell out to NAIS will be richly rewarded with grants of federal money obtained from the same taxpayers that NAIS bureaucrats want the authority to put out of business. Life for the farmer and private citizen will follow Orwell’s book ‘1984’. NAIS can be stopped, but it will take good citizens to notice, to care, and then to act decisively to end this sneak attack on private property and Constitutional rights. For more information, on the Internet go to www.usda.gov/nais. Click on “Draft Strategic Plan” on the right side of the page under the “What’s New” heading and read the 24 page implementation plan for yourself. For comments from the Farm For Life organization and others opposed to NAIS, do a Google search on "Mary Zanoni" + "Farm for Life". William Jud Fredericktown, Missouri "

" I can not believe that I will have to notify the government everytime i move my horse from one property to another or take it to the vet!I have to tell the government each and everytime we go on a trail ride! Every time I let my grandchildren take the horses to go to a friends house down the road because they have horses also!!! This is the most outragious thing I have ever heard of!!!!! "

" The Patriot Act brought the USDA under the umbrella of Homeland Security. Now besides Congress making our laws, as they are supposed to do as representatives of the citizens of the USA, we have USDA creating laws, as well. The USDA using power given to it under Homeland Security, and an initial 33 BILLION dollars is, in fact, usurping power, that was by the Constitution, given to the people, and to those that we elect to represent us in Congress. It is very important to protect our constitution, our Congress, and our Bill of Rights. We did not elect the USDA. All of the following has come about under the Patriot Act; 1.) The whole vast pet/animal/agriculture husbandry industry, that tis nation's economy is based upon, is under attack by our own government. 2.) Homeland Security, as U.S. Customs took part in a raid on a Louisiana dog breeder, 3.) creation of NAIS/NAID/USAIP the invasion of government into the bodies of our animals through mandatory microchipping, and overweaning reporting. 4.) there have been warrantless seizures of medical records, 5.) citizens arrested because they have refused to identify themselves, and many more civil rights violations. 6.) Congress's powers to make laws have been given to a bureaucrocacy, the USDA, thus removing power from the people 7.)Soon every animal, fish, bird, gerbil, dog, cat goat, horse, ox, reptile, every privately held animal will be mandated to be microchipped by the USDA, under the Patriot Act /Homeland Security. I go not want the government in my home, or in my animal. The government has no vested interest in our animals, but it will, and also in our premises. We will all have to obtain USDA Premises ID's in order to be able to show, take our animals to the vet, go for a trail ride, etc. When our animal is taken off our premises we must make a full report as to any or all other animals that our animal has come in contact, or proximity with. We need to stop this from happening! Nicole, a 4-H mom in Nebraska "

" This is the most expensive, massive, useless program ever conceived. At the initial cost of $33 billion, it is nothing more that handing a fortune to chip manufacturers and an overbearing government beaurocracy at the expense of animal owning families. The electronic invasion of homes is a Constititional violation. People should refuse to sign up for this, at least until the lawsuits are filed and heard in court because it seems unlikely that it can withstand legal challenges. Instead of filling out forms that forever register your home as a federal site, send letter of protest to your State and Federal legislators. They can only force this upon the citizens of the United States if we are foolish enough to comply. "

" In no way is the NAIS a plan to "protect" the American people. It is simply a control plan, to make the gevernment bigger, and more intrusive. It took took the USDA 48 hours to track the history of one cow with Mad Cow disease. They say that NAIS will reduce this time to 48 hours. If you ask me, I see no difference. I have birds that friends kids had hatched and raised for 4-H projects, and they aren't going anywhere. How did they all of a sudden become terrorists? "

" NAID and Premise ID will wipe out my ability to feed my family even if an animal never leaves my place and is used for our own consumption. This program is patterned after the the programs in Euroupe which have 600 page books of rules to follow just to meet requirements for the average homestead. Who pays for all this...the little guy and if we loose our ability to farm...the comsumer looses his ability to afford to eat since it will be up to a few to choose who will eat, the quality of their product offered to the consumer and the price. This is a nightmare worse than the IRS rules and reg. and enforcement....even worse the information collected is not confidential at all. It can and will be used to wipe out all freedoms by those who want a monopoly on food supplies. The cost to eat will be out of the reach of the average citizen. Those who want organic foods they grow and raise themselves will be no more. Just look at Germany where one is taxed for saving their own garden vegtable seeds. Here in America it is illegal to save wheat and corn seed by the farmer. The big boys saw to that and is behind this NAID move also. Wake up America or go into slavery where the masters choose who is rewarded with food for the day. "

" NAID is going to eventually be in every home across the United States that owns animals, fish, fowl, birds, reptiles, exotics. All of our animals bodies will be invaded by microchips, and anyone who wants to own an animal will have to register their property, and have a USDA license. This is far more invasive than George Orwell envisioned in his "1984". There will never even be the pretense to privacy in the United States of America again. NAID is not about protecting our food supply, it is about federal government invading our homes, our property, and our animals with electronic devices, and licenses. A license is a temporary, revocable permit that is issued by government that allows the license holder to have something, or to do something that is illegal to have, or to do without the license. licensing removes ownership and use tights from the licensee, and gives those rights to the licensing agency. That agency then is empowered to inspect premises, to confiscate animals or property, to suspend, revoke, or to halt licences all together. Please sign the petition against the United States Animal Identification Program; http://new.PetitionOnline.com/nousaip/petition.html Respectfully, Cherie Graves, chairwoman Responsible Dog Owners of the Western States http://www.povn.com/rdows United Animal Owners Alliance http://www.unitedanimalownersalliance.com 323922 N. Hwy 2 Newport, WA 99156 509-447-2821 "