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NAIS discussion with Paul Griepentrog on blogtalkradio

Friday, July 24th, 2009

There will be an Internet radio show those of you interested in the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) will want to listen to today at 1 pm EDT. (Interestingly, the local time zone is not posted, but it’s at 5 pm UTC. So check my math: that’s 1 pm EDT and you can take it from there for other time zones.)

Here is the blurb from John Wallace’s website:

My guest on this show will be Paul Griepentrog, a local farmer from Wisconsin. Paul has been fighting the federal government and the Wisconsin government against NAIS and fake food safety. He has successfully filed an AMICUS brief on behalf of an Amish farmer he doesn’t know but who had been targeted by US Dept of Agriculture (USDA).

The USDA has paid the state of Wisconsin $14 million in what they call a cooperative agreement (bribe) to mandate “Premises ID” in Wisconsin and the state has recently announced that it is on the verge of moving to Phase 2: Mandatory NAIS “tagging.” (more…)

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National Animal Identification System (NAIS)

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

An interview with Linda Faillace, author of Mad Sheep

The National Animal Identification System is another of those government ideas that sounds so right on the surface but goes so wrong in the implementation details. Basically, it is a nationwide registration system for animals and the sites where they are kept. It has been causing a major uproar within the farming community, as it is a burden to small farmers, among others.

It will affect you too if you keep any sort of farm animals such as chickens, sheep, goats, horses, etc.—but if you do, you undoubtedly already know this.

We’ve been preparing a piece on this subject, but in the process we came across this video that gives you an excellent summary of what’s involved. So we thought we’d provide a video introduction, then look to converting our investigative reporting to a background article or editorial.

Most of our readers have probably never heard of NAIS. If you fall into that category, the video below will be a real eye-opener. The presenter is Linda Faillace, author of Mad Sheep:The True Story Behind the USDA’s War on a Family Farm, who knows a thing or two about dealing with the USDA as a small farmer.

Don’t forget to click on Leave a Comment (in the grey bar below the video) and let us know what you think about this issue, as with all our posts.

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