by Ron Paul
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul326.html
The House of Representatives recently passed funding for a new federal
mandate that threatens to put thousands of small farmers and ranchers
out of business. The National Animal Identification System, known as
NAIS, is an expensive and unnecessary federal program that requires
owners of livestock – cattle, dairy, poultry, and even horses – to tag
animals with electronic tracking devices. The intrusive monitoring
system amounts to nothing more than a tax on livestock owners, allowing
the federal government access to detailed information about their
private property.
In typical Washington-speak, NAIS is “voluntary” – provided USDA
bureaucrats are satisfied with the level of cooperation. Trust me, NAIS
will be mandatory within a few years. When was the last time a new
federal program did not expand once implemented?
As usual, Congress is spending millions of dollars creating a complex
non-solution to a very simple problem. NAIS will cost taxpayers at least
$33 million for starters.
Agribusiness giants support NAIS, because they want the federal
government to create a livestock database and provide free industry
data. But small and independent livestock owners face a costly mandate
if NAIS becomes law.
Larger livestock operations will be able to tag whole groups of animals
with one ID device. Smaller ranchers and farmers, however, will be
forced to tag each individual animal, at a cost of anywhere from $3 to
$20 per head. And NAIS applies to anyone with a single horse, pig,
chicken, or goat in the backyard – no exceptions. NAIS applies to
children in 4-H or FFA. Once NAIS becomes mandatory, any failure to
report and tag an animal subjects the owner to $1,000 per day fines.
NAIS also forces livestock owners to comply with new paperwork and
monitoring regulations. These farmers and ranchers literally will be
paying for an assault on their property and privacy rights, as NAIS
empowers federal agents to enter and seize property without a warrant –
a blatant violation of the 4th amendment.
NAIS is not about preventing mad cow or other diseases. States already
have animal identification systems in place, and virtually all
stockyards issue health certificates. Since most contamination happens
after animals have been sold, tracing them back to the farm or ranch
that sold them won’t help find the sources of disease.
More than anything, NAIS places our family farmers and ranchers at an
economic disadvantage against agribusiness and overseas competition. As
dairy farmer and rancher Bob Parker stated, NAIS is “too intrusive, too
costly, and will be devastating to small farmers and ranchers.”
NAIS means more government, more regulations, more fees, more federal
spending, less privacy, and diminished property rights. It’s exactly the
kind of federal program every conservative, civil libertarian, animal
lover, businessman, farmer, and rancher should oppose. The House has
already acted, but there’s still time to tell the Senate to dump NAIS.
Please call your Senators and tell them you oppose spending even one
dime on the NAIS program in the 2007 agriculture appropriations bill.
May 30, 2006
Dr. Ron Paul is a Republican member of Congress from Texas.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul326.html
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Anti-RFID outfit deflates Mexican VeriChip hype | The Register
Reports that 160 Mexican officials have had RFID chips implanted within
their flesh in some bizarre "security" scheme have been exaggerated,
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"You can run, but you may not be able to hide. Not just from Big
Brother, but Big Business, writes Katherine Albrecht in her book
Spychips, a detailed analysis of how Radio Frequency Identification
technology -- RFID for short -- threatens to erode the last vestiges of
our privacy."
Listen:
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RECENT CASPIAN MEDIA:
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Hackers could deploy rogue RFID tags programmed with a virus to wreak
havoc on associated databases... Countermeasures will "take time,
people, and money to implement."
>> click here to read more!
Spychips RFID Blog
Time to buy a flyswatter
The Pentagon wants to insert RF equipment into insects at the larval
stage, so they'll pupate into hard-shelled surveillance drones,
maneuverable by remote control.
http://www.spychips.com/blog/index.html
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