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The USDA comment period for the National Animal ID System (NAIS) Business Plan closes on 15 April 2008. The Business Plan is a plan for promoting the NAIS program to achieve "100% participation."
 The NAIS is a system for tracking each farm animal in the US and its movements and affects small farmers who own even a single chicken. Even though the USDA (responding to large scale public outcry) keeps stating that NAIS participation is "voluntary" at the "Federal Level," this Business Plan and related documents demonstrate a continued intention to force participation through every back door possible, including automatic "volunteering" through existing disease programs, NAIS registration and tracking required for participation in numerous government, quasi-government, and partly government funded programs such as the 4-H. NAIS requirements and filing costs threaten to bankrupt small, family, and hobby farms nationwide.
A background on NAIS is available at the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance Website and is also covered in our previous article on NAIS-related legislation in Missouri.
Copies of the current official documents are available at the FARFA website. Comments may be submitted by
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or post to NAIS Program Staff, USDA, APHIS, VS, 4700 River Road, Unit 200, Riverdale, MD 20737. Form letters or mass mail responses will not be effective; please submit individualized comments. We will post an annotated/highlighted copy of the Business Plan and related NAIS User Guide as soon as we can, as well as the comments we intend to submit. |
