Lancelot

NAIS legislation

http://www.horsecouncil.org/issues/2005%20summer%20fall%20issues/Federal%20Legislation%20on%20Animal%20ID.htm

Here is a pretty straight-forward article on the NAIS legislation. 

I should say that I agree there should be some sort of trace on animals entering the main food supply and being fed to the public. 

NAIS takes up to 48 hours to catch a discrepancy (sp) in a tagged animal, and by then, the meat could already be on it's way, or actually in the main food supply.

I also don't think NAIS would have caught the 'downer cows' that were recently in the news.  The sellers weren't breaking any rules (animals were tagged and heading to slaughter as planned). 

What I don't agree with, is having to tag my own animals, that will never enter a public food supply.  They are solely for our family and rarely, if ever, leave our yard.  I just don't think homesteaders and small farmers should have to tag their animals.  I think it should be for the larger factory farms and they are the ones getting the break...using one registration number for many animals.

I hope that article helps give a non-biased explanation.  When I googled 'NAIS legislation', most of the hits were for 'anti-NAIS' and 'stop NAIS'. 

I'm not trying to push it on anybody, I just think people should be aware of what it is.

~Lisa

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{ 7:57 PM, Saturday, April 12, 2008 } { Posted by haflinger }

Great topic lisa I'm going to check the link out and do some some reading..

Here in Maine on your horses if you take them somewhere now in state like a fair ground you have to have all vet papers and the list goes on... That is all I know about is horses cause when I had my mine they always were being cleared by the vet to do or go somewhere..
Blessings sister Benda

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{ 8:52 AM, Tuesday, April 15, 2008 } { Posted by Anonymous }

Hey Lisa,
That was much more helpful. I understand your viewpoint. The whole meat industry and their inspection process is so flawed its unreal. I've heard one big problem is the lack of inspectors. I find it interesting that they want to spend millions of $$ to implement a system that is only going to tell us where the contamination came from, not prevent it from entering our foods in the first place. It is such a backwards way to do things. I just shake my head a say, this is exactly why I hate government and politics all together. They miss the real issue by a mile!