This location will tell you why you need to contact your Congressman...

The website is rather unusual in it layout so takes a little effort to read and navigate on...

http://nonais.org/

This is the official Government site...

http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais/index.shtml

Also the site www.libertyark.net has a great deal of information.This is the grass roots organization that was formed when NAIDS was first in the makings.

Well,Rose,that is EXACTLY what the NAIDS proposed as part of their little parcel they were about to dupe the American public/taxpayers with,and saddle American farmers and producers with.

That you notify some unseen Big Brother monitor with a phone call every time you take your animals off of your premises.Thus one reason for the microchips.What next,send helicopters over remote areas where people have been known to ride horses,track the horses,then call in to see if it was reported???

I WOULD NOT DOUBT IT FOR A MINUTE.

It is not only a crock of s***, it is a whole ocean of horsecrap!!! I know that it is some cityfied suit that never gets out of town(we hope) that cooked this junk up!! A friend who lives just outside Kansas City, Missouri,  had a woman show up at his place asking about his horses and representing herself as a federal employee assigned to take inventory there... she was asked to leave and told to get a warrant if she wanted anything there. I don't think there are any "teeth" in this proposed legislation, but we really do need to pay attention. If we had to inventory horses and notify each time we left home we could not show/rodeo/or trailride ever again...fat chance while I'm still breathing.

Jane,you're right.And that's why libertyark.net came into being when all of this first was in the makings by the USDA.

it is  a crock of s---,but,it's most definately not a make-believe story that someone just sat around and cooked up to get a hoax started.I have a good friend whose husband is a Federal meat inspector for the USDA.I asked them point blank if they had heard anything about this.The husband was silent,then,avoiding my eyes,said something about "well,just in passing." And would not comment further.

A year later,SHE told me that he had indeed heard of it,had been in meetings about it,briefings that the USDA was holding and talking of how to go about implementing the NAIDS.They knew what an uproar it would create,so,they wanted to try to go about it in the most silent (sneakiest) way possible so's not to attract a whole lot of attention to it,until it was too late for citizens to do anything about it.

This has a whole lot of support from people that might surprise you.Many of the large equine organizations,including the American Horse Council,are in favor of NSIDS for horses.Go to www.libertyark.net and there find a great deal of useful information and what an individual can do to voice his/her opinion.I have contacted my state government officials and let them know my feelings,you can be sure.

If I answer that...this thread will be closed...

I am personally against ANYTHING the gov't does to restrict my freedoms and lifestyles.  However, in WI, Farm Premise ID is required.

The Wisconsin Livestock Premises Registration Act requires anyone who keeps, houses, or co-mingles livestock to register their premises.  Premises that are not currently licensed by the DATCP are required to register by January 1, 2006. Those premises currently licensed by the Department must register by their annual license renewal date.

And I grudgingly do it.  In addition, if you want to enter anything in the local county fair, you MUST provide a premise ID number.  With Wifey being on the 4H council and our horses being volunteered for the Horseless Horse project, I had no choice but to get my premise ID. 

Here's some fun reading: http://www.wiid.org/resource/1145366259_FAQ%20Prem%20Reg%20%20NOV%20FINAL.pdf

Read the last two paragraphs.  I'm gritting my teeth.

Oh,yeah.Wisconsin was one of the first states to cram this down its' resident's unwitting throats.

The website Paul provided is excellent in that it also points out things of this nature that are being done to American farmers in general,such as by King Monsanto.Because of their dictates,farming and farmers in general as the keepers of farming are no longer able to save seed,a time honored and very effective practice.Another first step in the "state" controlling food production.

I think that was done for many years in a region known as the USSR??

Kind of like the testing of armed services personnel with the smallpox vaccine."OOOPS,that can KILL some folks,Gee Whiz!!!"

From what I've seen of a lot of them,they don't strain themselves anyway.

Nothing personal against you or your job,hope no offense taken.

In a perfect world we could eliminate 50% of the government, and pay the other 50% to sit on thier hands so they wouldn't cost me anything.

The government is there to protect me(strong military). And to serve me(roads, infrastructure). They cannot protect us from ourselves. They cannot provide us with everything to sustain ourselves.

You are guarenteed the pursuit of happieness, not happieness.

We have at least 500% to much government involvement in our lives.

I have no problem nor take any issue with the government workers or those who work for agencies that have to try to enforce some of the silliness that has been legislated.

What I DO take issue with is: the USDA itself cooking up such a blatant invasion of privacy and huge appropriation of taxpayer's money for such a stupid idea.

Well to put it in historical perspective...this originated as an answer to the MAD COW scare...It just was extended to an absurd extreme...

Gee...if we can track cows....why not track EVERYTHING!!!

To your first point, wouldn't it make more sense to eliminate the silliness. Witch would eliminate the need to enforce the silliness, resulting in a smaller government.

To your second point if we don't create it, we don't have to eliminate it.

Well give it long enough and it will come to that.Ever hear of "666"?

Or give each one a cow. 

I'm confused.  Do you support microchipping?  It's too Orwellian for me...Whether or not there is a safe(r) method, it still is infriging on your rights, freedoms, and liberties as a citizen of this country, 'specially if this is mandated by old Uncle Sam.  Hey, if you want to voluntarily register, microchip, and record all of your creatures (humans included), and notify some unnecessary division of the gov't every time you transport your creature, more power to ya. 

"Papers!  Show me your Papers!"

Yes,"comrads" that is exactly right,what Hank is saying.

I'm not in favor of microchipping ANYTHING,myself,or my animals,and reporting to some unseen government agent that has found another way to funnel $$ out of American taxpayers' pockets unnecessarily.Especially when it comes to horses that I'm just keeping in my pasture and trail riding once in a while.For crying out loud!!!! I have a COggins test drawn on them,and they're not used for human consumption in this country anyway,so,what's the big deal?

Same thing going on with the "Right to Ride" bill on the Camp/Trail forum.Here's a bunch of folks,they are usually nature lovers like us,and they  don't ride horses,they ride bikes,or hike.Now they come and use the same trails that we're using,often only horse trails for YEARS before,and all of a sudden,they're trying to appropriate the trails as THEIRS with exclusive rights to them,and keep horseback riders off ..None of US are trying to keep them from biking or hiking,so,why should we cave in and let them shove us off with their "it's MINE" attitudes???

Don't even get me started on this topic.  Well, you can get me started, but let's not hijack this thread. 

In NM if you cross county lines you have to have travel papers from the state (no coggins, no health papers).  You are supposed to have them with you anytime your horse leaves the property, like anyone does that when they are out riding in the desert.  THEN the county charges you a "commercial" horse tax because you wouldn't need the travel papers if you wern't taking your horse places and the only reason to move your horse is for business...... right?     I couldn't believe it when my 6 and 11yr old kids got tax bills! 

It is voluntary right now. Only to show your horse at 4H shows, county fairs, etc in Illinois next year you will have to give them a premises identification number or you will NOT be able to show. So much for voluntary.

I think it is going to be a very unnecessary inconvenience for all those involved.

BTW, I really agree with the unnecessary use of our tax dollars for this BS.

If I remember right, we have never had a problem identifying where a diseased livestock came from in the past with the old system. Why make it more difficult for recreational horse people to recreate. Let's face it, most people who show horses do it for a hobby, not for any kind of monetary/business gain. Makes me glad I have no big show plans in my future, but I'd like to putz around at a schooling show or two every now and again or even a county fair, without any additional hassle to myself or the people I board with.

Hmm, perhaps they are looking for tax revenue from backyard people that board horses, but don't report any income from it?

Then again, I solved the Social Security problem. Dump the politicians private social security fund and healthcare program monies into ours and wah lah, now they have to give a care about it. And should, since they've created the problem by dipping their greedy fingers into SS for so long. They should NOT have a separate program from the people they are supposed to be representing, now should they? If it's fair for me, it's fair for them. Especially since, they can draw from SS as well. I know it won't happen, and perhaps it wouldn't solve the whole problem, but would make them care about it a bit more. Sadly it seems, as once they get elected even the best meaning politicians give into the machine, though perhaps some not as deeply as others. Sad really.

NAIS is apparently is suspension!!!

http://salon.glenrose.net/default.asp?view=plink&id=7644

Amen Frankie.  Think it would be fun to drive a herd of rank horses thru DC.

As I have said before, the feds are not going to be able to enforce NAIS because they do not have the money for the project.  So far, I have not seen a show ask for such information.  This is a good issue for passive resistance....do not register.....there is just no way to enforce this stupid idea.  In the event someone asks me for this information, I intend to ask them how many $$ they will pay for the horse, or in the alternative, where I can get the animal slaughtered.....since the whole deal is "food safety."

I'll give up my horse when they pry it from my cold dead butt. Wait a minute, I've got the wrong legislation here. LOL

That's what they would like everyone to think it's for.It's really another way to intrude in the private lives and business of taxpayers.