Comments on: HR 814 - Mandatory NAIS for all http://dragonwood.org/2009/03/21/hr-814-mandatory-nais-for-all/ Life in the Garden Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:59:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Susan http://dragonwood.org/2009/03/21/hr-814-mandatory-nais-for-all/#comment-79 Susan Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:03:33 +0000 http://dragonwood.org/?p=334#comment-79 We're not ConAgra, Tyson or Cargill, yet we're a large cattle ranch by US standards running 400 head of mother cows over 15,000 acres. NAIS demands we list our premises, not property mind you, premises! According to The International Court a "premises" has no protection under the law. In other words our property (ranch) is not protected from invasion from the government. US citizens have a right to privacy! Making us sign up our property is a violation of that right. I don't know about others worldwide but tracking our animals and their offspring over open range is timemeconsuming and will cost a bundle especially with fuel prices the way they are. In the 97 years the family has owned the ranch we have had no instances of any disease! Trying to track every animal, horses, included if they happen to get through a fence or hide their calf for a few days will be a disaster. The US government has allowed, encouraged, imports of cattle from countries to have known cases of MadCow. How crazy is this? Our rights are being subverted by a bunch of money grubbing representatives who know nothing about raising an animal. I invite them to come and implement their program and stay awake 24 hours a day to monitor the herd; fill out the paperwork in triplecate...then find the money to pay the bills for the paper, computer, discs, ink, toner, electricty, tags w/GPS, gasoline to run over 15,000 acres every day to make sure the cows are where their supposed to be, pay the phone bill for calling the neighbors and apologizing for making them have to fill out paper work cause one of our cows decided to jump the fence to visit their herd...while they're staying awake 24 hours a day to monitor the herd; fill out the paperwork in triplecate...then find the money to pay the bills for the paper, computer, discs, ink, toner, electricty, tags w/GPS, gasoline to make sure the cows are where their supposed to be, pay the phone bill for calling the neighbors and apologizing for making them have to fill out paper work cause one of their cows decided to jump the fence to visit their herd... etc., etc., etc. ! We’re not ConAgra, Tyson or Cargill, yet we’re a large cattle ranch by US standards running 400 head of mother cows over 15,000 acres. NAIS demands we list our premises, not property mind you, premises! According to The International Court a “premises” has no protection under the law. In other words our property (ranch) is not protected from invasion from the government. US citizens have a right to privacy! Making us sign up our property is a violation of that right. I don’t know about others worldwide but tracking our animals and their offspring over open range is timemeconsuming and will cost a bundle especially with fuel prices the way they are. In the 97 years the family has owned the ranch we have had no instances of any disease! Trying to track every animal, horses, included if they happen to get through a fence or hide their calf for a few days will be a disaster. The US government has allowed, encouraged, imports of cattle from countries to have known cases of MadCow. How crazy is this? Our rights are being subverted by a bunch of money grubbing representatives who know nothing about raising an animal. I invite them to come and implement their program and stay awake 24 hours a day to monitor the herd; fill out the paperwork in triplecate…then find the money to pay the bills for the paper, computer, discs, ink, toner, electricty, tags w/GPS, gasoline to run over 15,000 acres every day to make sure the cows are where their supposed to be, pay the phone bill for calling the neighbors and apologizing for making them have to fill out paper work cause one of our cows decided to jump the fence to visit their herd…while they’re staying awake 24 hours a day to monitor the herd; fill out the paperwork in triplecate…then find the money to pay the bills for the paper, computer, discs, ink, toner, electricty, tags w/GPS, gasoline to make sure the cows are where their supposed to be, pay the phone bill for calling the neighbors and apologizing for making them have to fill out paper work cause one of their cows decided to jump the fence to visit their herd… etc., etc., etc. !

]]> By: michael http://dragonwood.org/2009/03/21/hr-814-mandatory-nais-for-all/#comment-72 michael Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:08:00 +0000 http://dragonwood.org/?p=334#comment-72 Hi, This type of legislation has been in place here in Ireland for years and has had only a positive effect on small farms. Every supermarket shows the originating farm/farmer on the label. A friend of mine only has a couple of cattle and pigs and doesn't resell the produce. I can only assume that it will be much more expensive in the US. I think this cpould benefit small farms if they use it in a positive way. cheers Michael Hi,

This type of legislation has been in place here in Ireland for years and has had only a positive effect on small farms. Every supermarket shows the originating farm/farmer on the label. A friend of mine only has a couple of cattle and pigs and doesn’t resell the produce. I can only assume that it will be much more expensive in the US.

I think this cpould benefit small farms if they use it in a positive way.

cheers

Michael

]]> By: Joan http://dragonwood.org/2009/03/21/hr-814-mandatory-nais-for-all/#comment-56 Joan Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:11:44 +0000 http://dragonwood.org/?p=334#comment-56 This just makes me sad. I know the fight is not over yet, but it does break my heart to read about this right when I feel like people are beginning to pay attention to their food and their farmers. This just makes me sad. I know the fight is not over yet, but it does break my heart to read about this right when I feel like people are beginning to pay attention to their food and their farmers.

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