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[RC] good book - Anita Messengerhttp://www.freetofarm.com "Farmer's Field Guide to the NAIS" "Your 330-page, independent and authoritative guide to the NAIS, its history and ultimate purpose. In step-by-step fashion, the authors separate fact from fiction, governmental propaganda from what the law and the regulations actually say, and explain the every-day consequences attached to the NAIS." If you want answers, this book has them. Since I last posted on here some months ago, I've had quite an education about this subject. The more I learned, the badder it is, involving international trade treaties signed in 1994, the USDA in profit-making partnership with private agri-corporations that the USDA regulates, and more. In our state, there is now a new organization called the Arkansas Animal Producer's Association that is fighting this. It's to give the non-factory farm animal owners a voice. Legislators are finally waking up and digging into the NAIS themselves, and many are alarmed and publically coming out against it. Our first statewide meeting will be this Sunday in Conway, Arkansas at the Agora starting at 4 p.m., if there are any Arkansans on here who would like to attend. Several candidates for public office and legislators will be there. We now know of three Arkansas equine vets who will no longer be treating equines if this goes through and a fourth one who is thinking about doing the same. Consider this little gem that just came out a few days ago: U.S. PLANS TO RECRUIT ONE IN 24 AMERICANS AS CITIZEN SPIES Millions of U.S. citizens are to be recruited as domestic informants. The program is to use a minimum of 4 per cent of Americans to report "suspicious activity". Highlighting the scope of the surveillance network, TIPS volunteers are being recruited primarily from among those whose work provides access to homes, businesses or transport systems. Letter carriers, utility employees, truck drivers and train conductors are among those named as targeted recruits. It should be noted that on page 27 of the USDA proposed draft for the NAIS it states: Reporting Animal Movement/Sightings Records that provide animal location and movements would be received from various sectors of the industry (producers, animal health officials, service providers, markets and slaughter plants). Such input would be obtained through the integration of the AIN/Animal Transaction file. Translations: Animal Health Officials: Veterinarians, inspectors, humane societies, etc. Service Providers: your friendly electric utility workers, gas delivery drivers, meter readers, postal workers and other members of the public. Markets - Auction houses, retail stores, restaurant buyers. Slaughter Houses - Your local butcher Thanks to Walter for the details. http://nonais.org We have a friend who is in charge of the elec. meter readers for this part of Arkansas. When we gave him this information last week, he was outraged. He is going to his superiors about it. We have a single woman friend who owns a small hardware store. She also sells some feed and hay as a service to us locals. With the feed dealers, they are being required to keep records of anyone who buys feed from them so they are in effect being forced to *spy* involuntarily. Our friend recognized this immediately, and is going to stop selling the feed and hay. She also owns horses - she is looking at not only "spying" for the government on her customers, but being in the position of being "spied on" by her own vet, meter readers, etc. There is more to this thing than just giving numbers to animals and premises, and "tracking diseases". And it does affect *everyone*, not just animal owners. More information can be found at: http://arkansasanimalproducers.8k.com Anita in Arkansas __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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