This is more then one bill. NAIS is happening. Currently this is voluntary...but for how much longer??? Already 2/3rds of hog "farms" are registered (if you can even call them farms, I like to call them hog factories... )THOSE (them and meat chicken farms) are the only places that would be allowed to register their animals as a "unit". The only farms that could register as a unit are ones that raise large groups of animals and slaughter large groups of animals at the same time. Unit registering would not apply to Dairy, Fiber or Beef animals, Dairy cattle aren't raised and slaughtered in lots. Fiber animals aren't, how many people raise Llamas, Alpaca sheep or goats in "units"?? Beef cattle may end up in feed lots, but they may start on a small acreage farms. Feed lots don't raise cattle from birth. So actually most animals would need to registered individually.
The thing that some people are missing about the problems of NAIS is that a person like myself would have to report to government each time I sell an animal, go to a show, dispose of an animal or anytime that animal leaves my property. With a government that is in so much deficit already, do we really want or need to pay the amount of money this program is going to cost operate?? The paperwork, the manpower (who are you going to report to, the DMV???) the microchips...that cost money.
NAIS is going to put an end to what little small scale farms their are left. Sorry, but their's no money in dairy farming, I worked on one for 7 years as a kid. How are those people going to afford to ID every new animal?? Like I said earlier a dairy farm couldn't register their animals as a unit because calves/cows and bulls are constantly being born, sold and replaced. Each animal would need to be registered individually. The family i worked for shows their cattle as well. They may go to as many as 15 or 20 shows over the summer/fall and they'd have to report to government each time animals leaves their premises. It's unrealistic, it takes away privacy and as far as I'm concerned the pursuit of happiness. How happy are you really going to be going to a show when you have to spend a week before reporting what you're going to do to the government. Is the government going to send people to individual shows, and auctions to make sure the animals have been reported??
For those who think this is isn't happening...wake up and realize that Big Brother
iswatching you, and you're paying for it.
http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais/index.shtml
Bird flu is bull cookies, so is mad cow. If people paid more attention, they'd realize that the places where bird flu outbreak took place are poor countries without access to good health care and apparently poor sanitation. Mad cow takes place when you feed cows to cows. Duh...new rule...don't feed cows to cows!!!
And I'm actually not sorry for the rant. I believe in a private America, we are a Democratic country, NOT a Communist one. I shouldn't and won't report my animals to the government!