Crud! I have been snared in the net of NAIS...

[speckledhen]

It isn't paranoia if they're really out to get you. And why "right-wing", anyway? Is caution/skepticism only a condition of conservative people? I think not. And gov't nets are equal opportunity, I do believe. Even left wingers will be required to register their premises if it becomes mandatory. So, this is an equal opportunity issue.

 

[CarriBrown]

Quote:
Took the words right out of my mouth.

 

[SpottedCrow]

Can this be any clearer?

Dear Mr. Tavares,



I am writing to you in regards to the letter that I have received from the Massachusetts Department of Agriculture. I WILL NOT EVER sign up for a "voluntary" data base where whether I do anything or not I will still be placed up on it! How MANDATORY is that?!



If I was really a farm, as I am not, nor am I even close, then maybe if I decided that I wanted to have my animals traced all over the state or country, then I MIGHT sign up, for me and my animals' protection, not any one else's.



I have a whopping 2 whole pet chickens, for which my opinion is that NAIS is ridiculous! I'd have to call or login to a website, if I wanted to take them to the pet store or to the Drive Thru for a treat?! Give me a break!!

 

[nccountrygirl]

Thats about as clear as it can get.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

Can you send the notification back, "Return to Sender", address / person unknown?

 

[SpottedCrow]

I'm giving the letter to Obelisk and Penny to shred for me.

 

[wegotchickens]

Do you think that if they 'force' all the small time owners to sign up for this, they can add you to statistics that force others to sign up for this program?

Legal double-talk: "We have 75% of properties containing livestock involved in this program, so its in the state's best interest to make this an enforced policy and gather in the strays."

How many other households have gotten that letter and are too scared, too alone, or too naive to question it?

 

[SpottedCrow]

To me this is just another way of big brother interfering in the lives of this country's small landholders. If they really wanna stop disease and all the other crud that they're scaring the public with, then go after the big producers. D'uh!
If they keep going after the small ones, the big ones just get more powerful and suck up the small ones.
Then there goes some more of our rights to quiet enjoyment of our lands.
Unfortunately, if anyone gets a sniffle, the small holders' animals will be the first to go, because, WHY? Boys and Girls, because they've signed up voluntarily or not to be put on big brother's list...and they're more easily tracked.
I've been against NAIS and RFID since I first started hearing about it...it's a big fat dumptruck full of chicken splort baked under the sun!

 

[speckledhen]

They bank on the general public not being able to reason logically. Take this hypothetical scenario, for instance:
My small isolated, closed flock of less than 30 chickens is five miles down the road from the commercial chicken farmer with his meat/layer birds housed in the long metal building with huge sliding doors on each end. Said farmer opens the door and in flies a wild bird, loaded with whatever virus he's carrying, and infects a couple of the chickens. Because of the cramped quarters/monoculture of his warehouse operation, said virus travels like wildfire through his bird population. Where is the wild bird who started it all? Dead among his chickens or flying off on its way to South America, if it gets that far. What's the likelihood that that one bird will come in contact with my little flock? Almost nil. What do the Feds do when they get wind of the infected flock? They cull all flocks within a pre-mapped Kill Zone without testing. What do they succeed in doing? Wiping out a bunch of healthy HERITAGE breed chickens for no reason whatsoever. Under NAIS, they are not required to test to see if my birds are infected nor do they have to get a warrant since NAIS is under Homeland Security and no one under the Homeland Security system really has any rights anymore.
How in this case, has my premises being registered with NAIS helped to stop the spread of disease? It hasnt and it can't. It can't. It will however, limit the gene pool and wipe out more of our already endangered heritage breeds. I bet the commercial farmer will have his flock replaced by some gov't subsidy or something. They're just a commidity to him anyway; but will they replace mine? Of course, they wont. And they can't really replace my pets, my girls who each have a personality and I care for deeply, that I raised from day old chicks or that I hatched in my own house.

 

[Frozen Feathers]

Very well said Speckledhen. It is a shame really that you are too honest to be in politics.

I'll sign up for NAIS when I'm dead and gone. Besides isn't NAIS infringing on my right to the pursuit of happiness?? How happy am I going to be when every time I sell a bird or one dies I have fill out a mountain of paperwork? I'm sure we could find something in the constitution (not the current administration gives a hoot about the constitution

) that says forcing people to sign up for a program they didn't ask for is a violation of rights.