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!!!